Well, maybe it`s because Canada is a peaceful country :rofl:Nottingham said:
A real mistake in the marketing strategy if you ask me
Canada Eh?
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A real mistake in the marketing strategy if you ask me
I can't imagine that Paradox left Canada out intentionally. Something likely fell through the cracks somewhere. I recall reading that 23-Jan-07 was also a North American release. Last time I checked, Canada was within that continent. 
EU3 needs a passport by air and land by 2009 to enter the Canadian border from the US according to a law passed in the US
To increase homeland security.
To increase homeland security.
Is it no longer available from the paradoxshop? If it is still available, what is wrong with ordering from there?
Update
It seems like several shops wanted to postpone the release of some titles during January due to the focus on the Windows Vista launch in Canada the same week. Our distributor decided to ship the game out later in the territory. It should be reaching stores this week.
Tomorrow I will have more information after meeting with our distribution partner.
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It seems like several shops wanted to postpone the release of some titles during January due to the focus on the Windows Vista launch in Canada the same week. Our distributor decided to ship the game out later in the territory. It should be reaching stores this week.
Tomorrow I will have more information after meeting with our distribution partner.
F
Fredrik II said:
Seems odd, doesn't Vista launch in US the same timeframe? They didn't postpone. And if postponed, why doesn't it even show up on their database of upcoming games, which stretches months? *Sigh*
oh well. We are beating a dead horse here.It's really a credit to you guys at Paradox that we are so passionate to want to play your game right now. If this was another Doom clone I really wouldn't care. Paradoxer for life.
Fredrik II said:
Feel free to crap all over them for screwing this up... "the focus on the Windows Vista launch in Canada?" - that is 100% BS, as Vista was released to the American market at the same time as EU3 and there wasnt a hitch. As well, as far as I can tell through conversations with retailers and others, Canada is not that hot a market for Vista, as most seem to be preferring to wait until the expected patches on Vista come out...
This was just a clusterf**k by the North American distributor who forgot to look at a damn atlas and notice that "North America" includes those states above the 49th parallel - the fact that they completely disregarded a market the size of California (30m population in each) means that your distribution rep for North America should no longer have that job...
But kudos and props to you for taking care of the problem in a reasonable timeframe. For the future, I would suggest you get a North American distributor who actually understands what the term "North America" means...
dag231 said:But kudos and props to you for taking care of the problem in a reasonable timeframe. For the future, I would suggest you get a North American distributor who actually understands what the term "North America" means...
In an hour I'm going into a meeting with our distributor. Thanks to everyone in this thread for updating us on these issues so that we can give feedback directly.
Ordering from the Paradox webshop makes sure that Paradox gets a few extra bucks into their own pockets. Always a good thing.
Varyar said:
True in the short run, but in the long run shelf space means more money for Paradox. If the retail outlets stop carrying the product then Paradox will lose a lot of impulse or casual sales. Who knows what is best?
It will be interesting to see what Fredrick II finds out.
Fredrik II said:
Thanks Fredrik, finally after several weeks someone recognizes there's a problem with distribution and might be doing something about it.
If I were the boss at Paradox heads would be rolling because of something this incompetent.
Seeing how we can't buy EU3 in Canada I tried to buy EU2
guess what......
can't buy that either.
Paradox does however make awesome strategy games so when they finally do figure out how to ship stuff to Canada again I will look forward to buying it.
Did anyone think of calling UPS ?
I bet they could solve this problem in a hurry.
Guys relax about the whole how important Canada is. Its not an issue. Canada (or just Toronto where i live) gets everything big cities like New York get so it was just strange that we were left out. Thank you to paradox for addressing the issuse so quickly, i honestly never thought this whole blog thing would work. I cant wait to get my hands on eu3 and i dont plan on getting it from an retailer in America, so plz ship it soon. Also for people agrueing uselessly plz read the start of the trend before posting nosense and wasteing memory on the server (alothugh i am sure it really doesnt affect it).
Finding any game 5 years after their release date is usually hard, except maybe for monster titles like DiabloII or the likes, so it's not really a surprise that EU2 is sold out.Adm. Torrey said:
Try looking for the later titles, like HoI2: Doomsday or Diplomacy instead.
Adm. Torrey said:
First off this is not the first thread about not having the game in Canada. Trust me Paradox was aware of the problem very early on and was active in trying to find out what had happened. So i recommend you retract your statement as it is false.
And just so that you dont think i am directly bashing you -- EU2 can be bought at the Paradox Plaza website in the Strategy Six Pack for 19.99 US. A hell of a deal if i ever saw one.
Corey
coreymas said:
Yepp, they were looking into this on day 1, I started the original thread in which it became apparent that something was amiss with the game being in stores here.
Besides I doubt its Pdox's fault, most likely explanation is the distributor didn't realize that North America actually has two countries
Piggy said:Besides I doubt its Pdox's fault, most likely explanation is the distributor didn't realize that North America actually has two countries
North America includes Mexico and all of the Central American countries......
Corey
coreymas said:
I am well aware that EU2 & 3 can be purchased outside of Canada and then shipped to Canada.
That's not what this thread is about.
I was probably a little hard on Paradox for forgetting to market their product in Canada....but rightly so.
And now it appears (as of 2 hours ago) that some action is happening......17 days after it was supposed to be available and a lot of complaints.
Without customers Paradox would be dead in the water and the best place for their customers to comunicate with Paradox is here in this forum.
If it took me more than 2 weeks to respond to a very serious customer problem I'd have an even bigger problem.
I still don't understand how you forget about a market of 33 million with the highest internet & computer usage rate in the world.
Adm. Torrey said:
I dont believe Paradox markets their products directly. Thats the distributor's job. In this case the distributor (I believe) didn't think to market it in Canada, or didnt think period.
Either way its not like someone at Paradox just forgot about Canada as the games have always been available here. So that leaves the distributor as the one in question. Didn't they go with a new company in North America for this release? If so then that's who should be blamed.
They are looking into it, and Im sure it will be fixed ASAP. These things take time, especially if the said distributor didn't plan on ever marketing the game in Canada.
IE: they shipped ALL the copies to US stores and there's going to be a waiting period before we see them here.
It didnt take them two weeks to respond, as has already been mentioned there is another thread about this that started on day one. Paradox responded in it as well, the difference being there is now a "real" meeting taking place instead of them saying "were looking into it".
They didnt ignore us at all.
Just my $0.02
When I say respond to this problem I don't mean recognize that it exists but actually respond to it, and to let your customers know that your doing something about it.
Sh*t runs downhill and when you want action on a problem you go the one that is ultimately responsable......Paradox.
There the ones who dictate how their product is to be marketed.
And there the ones who one way or another have to make sure the problem's fixed.
Sh*t runs downhill and when you want action on a problem you go the one that is ultimately responsable......Paradox.
There the ones who dictate how their product is to be marketed.
And there the ones who one way or another have to make sure the problem's fixed.
Adm. Torrey said:
Okay, Ill say this again, for the 3rd time.
They did respond to the problem, here is the thread started by me in which they said they were looking into it, notice the dates. Looking into it means just what it says, its the start of fixing any problem like this = action
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=282707
I dont know what you expect from them, to fly across the globe and bring the game to your local store the next day? These things take time to work out.
You need some patience, nothing is going to happen overnight and frankly to expect anything to happen this fast is not realistic. (like seeing it in the stores within 2 weeks of discovering the problem, nope)