God Of War Ragnarok's Jotnar Edition Sells Out In 5 Minutes, Being Scalped For £600

God of War Ragnarok's Jotnar Edition sold out in five minutes and is now being scalped online for prices up to £600.

[-Foxtrot]

Feel really sorry for those going for this

My friend was on at 10:00am and they were literally all gone, apparently GAME were selling them 10 mins before

[darkrider]

I don't understand how. They had 15, 50, 100 to reserve?

[-Foxtrot]

Bots I’m guessing

GAME are known for this happening

[Extermin8or3_]

Lol what I was on at about 10:12 am and could have bought one if I wanted... preordered collectors edition instead.

[ModsDoBetter]

Yeah was on from 09:45am and there were no listings until 10am, for me at least. Managed to snag a Jotnar edition but by a few mins past they were OOS with the CE still available for a good while.

[Killa78]

How did they know today was the pre order date?

[-Foxtrot]

GAME told people a week ago on Twitter when they were going to drop it

https://twitter.com/GAMEdig...

[ModsDoBetter]

Got an email through from GAME, always handy to sign up to some marketing emails if you don’t use social media.

[Extermin8or3_]

PlayStation blog told everyone the date and GAME repeatedly told everyone the time....

[Lifexline]

Yeah it makes no sense god of war doesn’t sell like grand theft auto why would it run out. I feel publishers do this to garner hype that’s it.

[neutralgamer1992]

Is this sarcasm?

Last GOW sold 20 plus million and this one will break TLOU2 record of fastest selling in PlayStation history

Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if this game has the highest attach rate of any PlayStation exclusive. The first month we will see it so 5-7 million

It wouldn't surprise me if million haven't already pre order

BTW you brought up GTA before GTA5 most GTA games sold 25-30 million but GTA 5 has sold 120+ million so take two and R* are both scared to release GTA6 simply because there is absolutely no way it will sell 100+ million copies unless we see them release it towards the end of this generation than release another update for PS6/XSX-2

[darkrider]

This is just crazy. Damn. Gamers really want this.

[CrimsonWing69]

Scalpers.

[CobraKai]

Such BS. They take the fun out of gaming and collecting. Companies are powerless to do anything about it

[CrimsonWing69]

@CobraKai

1st off, bad ass user name!

2nd, I’m with you on that… I can’t tell you how frustrated I was trying to get things like the Metroid Dread CE and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 CE. It’s honestly impossible for some reason.

I will say getting this CE was not that bad in NA.

[ALMGNOON]

Scalpers will only scalp things with high demand 🤷🏻‍♂️

[CrimsonWing69]

@ALMGNOON

Yes… but that doesn’t mean the reason these are selling out so fast is due to GAMERS purchasing them. It’s usually due to scalpers setting up bots and forcing desperate consumers to buy from them for double or triple the price.

Let’s not act like this is reasonable or a fair circumstance here. I know you know better than that… or I’d hope so 🤷‍♂️

[P4rrot]

@CobraKai
Game and similar retail outlets are not powerless to do anything about it, they just choose not too as ensuring bots don't take them all requires time and effort. And these company's just don't care as long as they get their money.

[AmUnRa]

Retailers dont care if it is a scalper, for them a sale is a sale

[sourOG]

God dammit! Oh England I haven’t missed it. Yet…

[Hellcat2020]

It’s available on Playstation direct in the US
I just got the Jotnar Edition

[Eonjay]

Jotnar Edition is now sold out lol.
Nevermind they are back in stock lol.

[Tacoboto]

Me too!

If the search listing is showing Out of Stock for anyone in the next five minutes - Add to Cart becomes an option once you load the full page

[akurtz]

Its still available but i just went with the collectors edition. Heres to hoping the push back leads to them adding a physical disc

[Tacoboto]

Nope. Sony just made $720 between you, me, and Hellcat alone. We voted with our wallets and discless won this battle

[darthv72]

I got the regular CE as well. The cloth map and different dice werent really worth the extra $ to me. I'll just end up getting a cheap 2nd hand disc later on to put in the steelbook.

[The_Hooligan]

Yup got mine from PlayStation Direct as well. Got the email receipt so I am glad I didn't wait for BestBuy or anything because right now it says coming soon for the Jotnar edition.

[thornh]

Got the Jotnar edition in the US on the PlayStation store. Went back 2 minutes later just to double check my order went through and it was out of stock already.

Still waiting for all of the major US retailers to do their drops. It's currently 10:35 am on the east coast.

[Aloymetal]

No doubt this game will sell even more than gow2018.

[sourOG]

Missed it… god dammit

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Good luck recouping your investment…. I’ll be the guy buying two things from the pack from ya for $50.

[Hellcat2020]

It’s only a couple hundred bucks dude.
It’s not like we’re buying a car or house..lol

[sourOG]

He’s talking about the scalpers buying a pallet of them and losing their ass when nobody buys them. He’s going to buy 2 for 50 dollars when they give up.

[dogmanx23]

I was able to get one. That thing sold out in 30 seconds at the playstation direct store.

[sourOG]

Does anyone think they are going to do another wave or is that it?

[Hellcat2020]

Supposed to be another round coming but haven’t said when exactly

[sourOG]

Cool Ty

[Neonridr]

I grabbed a collector's edition off Amazon and Gamestop. I'll cancel one of them once I know the order has been approved

[Hellcat2020]

Amazon isn’t selling the collector editions, only the day one disc version only
Gamestop hasn’t put up preorders yet either

[Neonridr]

this is in Canada, sorry.

[darthv72]

i bought my CE off Amazon. they might be sold out now but they had em.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B...

[Elda]

Personally for me the regular copy will do just fine.

[Orchard]

Scalpers being scalpers. Hopefully no one is silly enough to pay 600 for this.

[Watchyabackbai84]

No luck in Canada only Gamestop.ca had the God of War Ragnarök Jötnar and it was gone in less than a minute. Really wanted one :(.

[Orchard]

It looks like they're flooding most stock into the US. Walmart US keeps getting it in stock - not sure if they ship to Canada though (or what the exchange rate is like).

[Star51]

Yea the hammer is just not that appealing for me. Good with the launch edition

[Lionsguard]

I woke up on time to try and snag one and failed on all sites. I went to my local Gamestop as a last resort expecting a line and just going home but there was just one guy outside and managed to my Jotnar edition the old fashioned way.

[Exvalos]

Really sucks for us actuall collectors i got off work at 1 pm happy to go reserve my copy and its all sold out. Scalpers are eating good this generation.

[spambot0815]

don't care, will buy digital anyway, only problem still getting ps5.

[Einhander1971]

The bottom line is gamers just don't buy from these assholes £600 yeah right forget it!! If no one bought these editions they would be stuck with em and eventually have to sell for realistic price.

[Smitty2020]

That’s why they shouldn’t do it online first maybe day 1 store only then online to give people a chance

[Extermin8or3_]

Is there any actual evidence it was dnapped up by acalpers or is it possible stick was always limited abd it was simply very popular.