So, The Announcement has come at last: Double Fine has opened a company store. Or, more specifically, a company Shop, containing tons and tons of goodies for you to buy. Most importantly: the Psychonauts soundtrack by Peter McConnell, and Psychonauts, the game, for all 3 platforms, available for shipping to a gigantic unfathomably long list of countries.
But there's more: Basically any clothing item or accessory you could ever desire has been stylishly adorned with the Two-Headed Baby, or some sort of Psychonauts-ish thing. Shirts, hoodies, posters, artwork, postcards, floaty pens, stickers, patches: it is good.<:MORENEWS:> From the mouth of Tim Schafer:
Is there any part of your life that wouldn't be better with the official Double Fine Two-headed Baby slapped on it, sewn to it, or zipped all around it? We have things in this store to keep you warm, to make beautiful music, to write with, to wear tightly and attract mates... Basically, to help you find love and happiness in this world.So, why are you still here? Go buy things.
And we also have the Excellent Game Psychonauts in many, many forms. If you steal a credit card with a high enough limit, you could buy enough copies to play it simultaneously on every appliance in your house, except for your toaster. Or Gamecube.
Yay! Maybe I'll even pick up a copy of the game too! :D
Probably going to get soundtrack, poster, pen, some stickers, and a Whispering Rock shirt. It probably makes sense to get Psychonauts-related stuff first of all. I would guess the 2HB shirts should be around forever.
One thing of note: the signed strategy guides that were there before the announcement have gone.
It's great that now all those countries can definitely get a copy of the game itself. If I'd waited, I'd have probably got a signed one, but I'll leave my pre-order and get that crazy tie-dyed T-shirt dealie.
Please Select Your Shipping Method:
FedEx - International Economy $43.31
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck... fuck.
That's over 25% more than the cost of the bloody game. :-(
Ahh well, I've got plan B. Getting one of my friends in the US to buy it and just post it to me good old normal airmail.
I wrote:
"Please forward this to our excellent friend, Tim Schafer:
Tim! I have discovered that the cost of shipping the most excellent
game psychonauts doubles the price of the game. The game price is
indeed fine but strangely enough, unlike baby heads, twice the price
is not double fine. Infact if babies heads were made of "the price of
the excellent game psychonauts" you would want only part of a baby
head for it to be double fine.
I'd really like to order Pyschonauts directly from your store, but
your international shipping is just unreasonably high! I really want
to support you guys, and I'm asuming that me purchasing from your
store will mean you'll see more of my money, but US$40 for shipping to
Australia is just too much. I've had quite a few things shipped from
overseas (and yes, those are games i've had shipped), and nothing has
come close to costing me that much.
Let's make a deal, you guys give me a reasonable price on shipping,
and I'll buy not one, but TWO copies of your most excellent game, an
awesome badge, probably a sticker and a poster and maybe even a copy of the
soundtrack!
Come on guys, I want to help support you!"
Kelli wrote:
"Hi!
This is Kelli, and I'm kind of running the shop here at DF.
This is excellent feedback! The international orders thing is a bit messy right now. We *really* want to ship internationally, but it's hard to determine what a "fair" rate is. Can you tell me who you usually use for the shipping? Maybe I can set something up with them and we can see if it seems more reasonable?
Thanks! :D
kelli"
Then she wrote:
"Hello Again!
I've added a few new international shipping options via USPS and it appears to be much more reasonable.
Would you mind trying your order again?"
Then I wrote:
"Most excellent! I just put an order through. Thankyou very much for
your ultra quick help and support. I'm super happy to support such a
super excellent company!
James out"
Doublefine is the best company ever.
Did you buy all the stuff you promised, in the end?
This was for my friend and myself. The total each came to about AU$90, which is cheaper than buying a new title over here anyway... and this game super early and with a metric shit-tonne of swag!
Just finished ordering the soundtrack and poster - and with the game (hopefully) arriving tomorrow things can't get much better!