Thats pretty understandable. This is not any kind of scam. Like Depths of Oddworld said everything nowadays is on computers. The stores know that this game is scheduled for this year some time. But OWI hasn't officially released a date yet. But the stores need to start advirtiseing something to prep for the big announcement when ever that happens. Word is from what I heard from the clerk is that May is the key month theres going to be a lot of big things happening in the next few months starting in May not only with OWI but with IGN and other verous sites. I asked the clerk why they are advirtiseing the new game as being MO 2? He was telling me the reason being is because they don't have any official title yet only the name Stranger or Oddworld 4 or MO 2. They know OWI is keeping things very secret now but they also know the game is officially suppose to come out some time this year. They are allowing us reserve a spot in their computer so when it does come out we are guaranteed that there will be a game for each of us in stock with our name on it.
This is exactly the same thing they did with Munch. The difference is they knew the title because of all the info OWI released in the following years before. But they dident know the release date. They only knew it would be sometime in Fall of 2001 and it was in November. With Oddworld 4 they know its going to sometime this Fall and I agree we are probabally going to see it just before Christmas. My guess November. But thats what I am going by.
It seems for me at least everytime an Oddworld game is released its always released eather in the Fall of that year or near the Holydays around Thanksgiveing. That is something Ive noticed of all the Oddworld games thus far. Everyone has in the fall or before Christmas. AO was in September October, AE was around Thanksgiveing, MO was the same around Thanksgiveing. I have no doubt its going to be the same deal with OW4. So in finnish I reserved it just to be assured that when it does come out my name is in the computer and that they will altimatically save the game for me when I come in and pick it up and pay the rest.
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