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GameStops in Northeastern states such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 early, granted special dispensation from Activision due to street-breaking mom-and-pop stores.

Here in Atlanta we still have to wait until Monday's midnight launch to pick up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but lucky folks in several Northeastern states are getting their copies earlier. According to a GameStop employee I spoke to in Bowling Green, Ohio, Activision granted certain area stores special permission to sell the game early, in order to stem the tide of lost customers picking their copies up early from local mom and pop stores.

The employee actually greeted me with "Thank you for calling GameStop, where you can pick up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2." Calls to my local GameStop stores were greeted with claims of jealousy and invitations to come by Monday night to pick up my copy. Dammit.

Thanks to C & C Games for sending us a copy of their receipt, and everyone in New York and Pennsylvania who sent in tips. Lucky bastards.

The comment section would be an excellent place for you to *^&$% about the general unfairness of all of this.

Update: Activision says this was not the case. Activision contacted Kotaku today with an official statement regarding the situation in Bowling Green and surrounding areas: "Activision has not given any retailer permission to sell Modern Warfare 2 prior to the Nov. 10 street date. The company fully supports the Nov.10 street date."

Second Update: GameStop corporate responded to Kotaku late Sunday afternoon, confirming that the decision to break the street date was made corporately. "This past weekend, GameStop made the decision to break street date and sell reserved copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in select markets where other retailers had broken street date," said Chris Olivera, GameStop's vice president for corporate communications. "Our decision followed many conversations with Activision and was an effort to protect our customer base."

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yea i just went and got mine earlier. All my friends had it since thursday buying from mom-and pop shops. Im in NY so look around a bit youll find it

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@PinoyJ: Northeast U.S. GameStops. Not Northwest. Look at your title.

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whoo i live in ohio. yet i still aint got money for the damn game

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#517777 PinoyJ :

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#517765 DJhero :
@PinoyJ: Northeast U.S. GameStops. Not Northwest. Look at your title.

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opps, i fixed it, thnx for telling me.

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No problem, and don't worry about it, everyone makes mistakes.

@Kyubi: That's what I'm wondering.. Something to do with burglary maybe?

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A mom and pop store would be a shop that isn't a big chain store.

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My friend has it already.

P.S. we live in NY

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well, I can wait 2 more days ^_^

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#517833 Thomas :
I got mine yesterday early in the post. apparently the leaderboards are being reset soon. Patch 1.01 also disables trophies. It's a awesome game!

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What!?

 

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a friend on my list was playing earlyer, lucky devil

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Yeah its good but not much different from the first MW

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getting it tuesday woooooohoooooo

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my friend got it on friday but he sed that all online ranks r gna get reset on the 10th - wen the game is officialy out

and does any1 else lyk that u can c exactly wat ur friend is doing on cod e.g instead of it jst saying -playin cod mw2 it shows wat game ther in (like search and destroy on wasteland<<<yh thats a real map on mw2)