What did you order? I bought vinyl collection and shipping cost to Russia is 40$.Y'all think $30 shipping is tough? Heheh, babies talk. $50 to Canada
What did you order? I bought vinyl collection and shipping cost to Russia is 40$.Y'all think $30 shipping is tough? Heheh, babies talk. $50 to Canada
Similar situation. I will be buying the 6 CD set, but since it's open for a 4 week period I'm going to wait until pay day.I snagged the 6 CD set, but seriously can’t justify anything else! My partner would actually kill me haha. Gotta save for a house and nice holidays, I’m afraid. I echo some of your mixed reactions to this, how much longer can they milk this game? If it’s all to fund Shenmue IV, fine, but it’s frustrating when we are currently in limbo..
Ah, I bought the bailu vinyl collection and the collectors edition lolWhat did you order? I bought vinyl collection and shipping cost to Russia is 40$.
Y'all think $30 shipping is tough? Heheh, babies talk. $50 to Canada
With regards to the vinyl, there aren't many pressing plants in the world anymore and the recent resurgance in vinyl wrong footed many people, so you often have a long backlog of vinyl being pressed in very few places. With Record Store Day and the pandemic among other things, there is a huge lead in time. In a way that's a shame, because one small record label I follow is being shunted to make way for labels with bigger orders. This label is home run and the guy is at major financial risk having paid for the pressing in advance, but with nothing to show for it. That's pretty sad. (Also, I might have cut off some of your quote, so I apologise!)I saw that too! What the hell is the point of holding a pre-order for something that is highly limited and not out for 4 - 5 months. The whole point of pre-ordering is allowing consumers the opportunity to make sure they secure a copy and also so they can monitor demand. There's no point in doing a pre-order for something that will only have 3,000 copies and is a special limited release. Just do that a couple of weeks before it's due to ship.
Pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. By the time 2021 shows up, Shenmue 3 should be put to rest. All future efforts should be put towards the Shenmue Anime and Shenmue 4With regards to the vinyl, there aren't many pressing plants in the world anymore and the recent resurgance in vinyl wrong footed many people, so you often have a long backlog of vinyl being pressed in very few places. With Record Store Day and the pandemic among other things, there is a huge lead in time. In a way that's a shame, because one small record label I follow is being shunted to make way for labels with bigger orders. This label is home run and the guy is at major financial risk having paid for the pressing in advance, but with nothing to show for it. That's pretty sad. (Also, I might have cut off some of your quote, so I apologise!)
So anyway, I got the CD soundtrack from Bigwax and the Collectors edition from Limited Run. I hope that was the right thing to do. I figured that postage from France to England would be better and I have never been hit with customs from a Bigwax purchase (I've made 3 prior to this). I did think of combining the CD & Collectors edition off Limited Run, but worked on the assumption that it would sell out instantly and that putting another item in the cart would make me lose out.
I do kinda hate myself, but considering a month ago, I was planning to spend near £400 and I ended up spending half that is good enough for me. I really need to take advantage of my living situation and ramp up my savings. That said, i've saved £2k more than I would've normally, so I think i'm allowed a moment of weakness like this.
I'm going to give the 2nd collectors edition the benefit of the doubt that it was done for the love of Shenmue, but this has to be the last time, because anything beyond this will truly take the piss. I think because the game has a 2nd lease of life, it's nice to celebrate it, but we are not a money pit and whilst I have put my money where my mouth is, I also refuse to buy something for the sake of it. I used to do that with Sonic the Hedgehog. I would collect anything and everything and back in the day, the merch was nice and there was just enough of it, but around 10-15 years ago, there was an explosion of merch and lots of it was crap. I'd buy it all and then i'd end up feeling miserable buying something that didn't make me happy.
The 2nd collectors edition is walking on thin ice in this respect, because I can't say I liked the surprise aspect whereas at least with the soundtrack, there was lots of time for me to work out the feasibility of my finances etc. Any further merch has to be either for the anime, Shenmue IV or to a lesser extent Shenmue I & II.
Good news is there are still about 1100 copies left. You should hopefully be ok for the weekend and maybe first half of next week.Well I got the CD set off BigWax but that Collectors Edition, I want it but I just don't know. I'm in the UK so I'm going to be hit with increased shipping and a customs fee and it's already kinda pricey. Kind of wish they had a European distributor like with the CD so the extra fees wouldn't be as high I wish there was more time to think about it.