[https://www.engadget.com/nintendo-delays-advance-wars-1-2-over-ukraine-164417915.html?\_fsig=4W7HVNOY4qloAheb29RE2Q–\~A](https://www.engadget.com/nintendo-delays-advance-wars-1-2-over-ukraine-164417915.html?_fsig=4W7HVNOY4qloAheb29RE2Q–~A)
[https://kotaku.com/nintendo-advance-wars-1-2-release-date-russian-ukraine-1850089169](https://kotaku.com/nintendo-advance-wars-1-2-release-date-russian-ukraine-1850089169)
>Advance Wars: 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is finally coming to Switch after a year-long delay
I had pre-ordered Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp Nintendo Switch Game from shop4jp as soon as the pre-orders went up.
I had been a reoccurring customer for this small game shop due to the fact that they often had games at a discount of 400 yen or more price difference from Amazon Japan, and they also had a generous points accumulation system that would allow me to further discount my future purchases. All in all, I was satisfied with this establishment.
I pre-ordered Advanced Wars 1+2 RE;Make or w/e it’s called because it reminded me of Fire Emblem, and I love those types of games.
I had even ordered multiple games afterwards that were already physically on-hand at the shop, and received them no questions asked.
I thought that the website had great service, it notified you when the games had processed, then had shipped, and even issued a tracking number.
Several times, no problem. I grew to love this website, and felt good because I was supporting a small local business during the harsh times of the economic crisis linked to the mysterious upper respiratory flu that originated in a biochem lab, somewhere.
Seeing small businesses drop left, and right, I could justify my loyalty to this small shop.
Then it happened : Nintendo decided to delay the game because of virtue signaling, claiming that their very own game paralleled the situation in Russia, and did not want to promote war.
Me being the absolute cynic, thought that Nintendo was being too ‘head up the ass’, and that their virtue signaling was a waste of time that only leads to delaying a time-frame, and inevitable setbacks among the audience of the game.
They had not done this when Georgia and Russia went at it in the past, heck they didn’t even do it when the occupiers of Palestine had layed waste to Gaza just a few months prior in 2021.
So why? Why do this now? Jump on the bandwagon, and collectively punish your own customers, even going as far as turning off the E-Shop in Russia, and making the lives of their Russian fans who are 4-12 years of age, more miserable. Unethically associating their child client base to war.
At the moment, I had my strong opinions of Nintendo because I had just recently began to rekindle my relationship with the company after a few letdowns with their services, bad hardware joycons, buggy software, and uncreative game development. Fire Emblem : Three Houses had changed my heart about the company, but that was short-lived as the new flagship Fire Emblem w/e was a 180 from the game that made me come back to the company. Lacking heart, story, and simplified gameplay, OUUUF.
A hit to the heart.
So, now I had to deal with delays, defective joycons, a shitty fire emblem flagship game, and tension that began to build up due to an unfulfilled order.
I had periodically checked for the release date, and the days were longer, and longer.
Today, I was playing Fate : Grand Order, and somehow remembered I had a pre-order from Shop4Jp for Advanced Wars, I go through my emails, check to see if it had shipped without my prior knowledge, and then I see it (or don’t see it), it never shipped, the last e-mail I received was:
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Item Status: Processing
It turns out that Shop4JP had quietly gone out of business, where their website no longer works, and their facebook community had been locked, obviously due to the plethora of unfulfilled orders, and angry clients wanting to get their monies back.
The first dilemma is Paypal only has a 180 days coverage policy, and because Nintendo decided to delay the game too far into the future, it does not cover the pre-order. The second dilemma is the original owner of the Website has cut contact with everyone. The third dilemma is would doing a chargeback put me at odds with Paypal?
I think the liability lies 100% with Nintendo for virtue signaling.
by RotaryRevolution
3 comments
My first question is what does this have to do with Japan News.
Your situation sucks and it was strange that Nintendo delayed the game due to the Russian-Ukraine war, but the main problem is that the store you used went out of business and PayPal’s policy doesn’t go far back enough to cover the purchase. You can call it “virtue-signalling” if you want, but I just call it capitalism – Nintendo made the decision to delay the game because they thought it would sell better later.
You could accept some responsibility for your part in the situation. Is there a way for you to remember what games you pre-ordered so this doesn’t happen again? Have you tried contacting PayPal support?
>_At the moment, I had my strong opinions of Nintendo because I had just recently began to rekindle my relationship with the company after a few letdowns with their services, bad hardware joycons, buggy software, and uncreative game development._
Who talks like this in real life?!
There are games. Sometimes games are exclusive to a single gaming system. If you like the game so much you wanna play, then you buy the system and buy the game. If you didn’t like the game, or it was delayed for whatever reason, well 残念.
Nintendo doesn’t care, nor do they even know about your strong opinions or intentions of ‘rekindling a relationship’. It’s like trying to have a relationship with a brick. The brick don’t know, and it don’t care. It’s all in your head, mate.
1. Not news.
2. Not “virtue signaling” just because you happen to dislike the decision.