And once again people are extremely pissed.
Which is understandable considering this is EB Games’ second attempt at running a functional pre-order system for the Mini NES.
EB Games’ social media feed is on fire, and I’m getting a real sense of Deja Vu here…
It all started with this:
UPDATE: Please do not attempt to log in to your EB World profile, please check out as a guest.
Preorder here: https://t.co/M6q5SwfzDc pic.twitter.com/3g6ruKrarN
— EB Games Australia (@EBGamesAus) November 15, 2016
Then two minutes later it devolved into this:
https://twitter.com/kurisubrooks/status/798330061619269632
https://twitter.com/femcams69/status/798330088760569857
https://twitter.com/jmauciello/status/798330126391877632
Just do a lottery, you’re site clearly isn’t hosted or designed to respond to the demand…
— Grizzly (@grizzly9178) November 15, 2016
Did @EBGamesAus crash again? pic.twitter.com/SyOuo5QeiS
— Physician Spice (@Prowln_) November 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/Mookman241/status/798330293706854401
crashed again you flogs…
— JS (@YEAHH_JOSH) November 15, 2016
Oh cool, @EBGamesAus site is completely dead…. oh well
— urbaer (@urbaer@aus.social) (@urbaer) November 15, 2016
So much effort went in over 24 hours to handle the expected demand, they said. @EBGamesAus 🙂 pic.twitter.com/CbqaDqBvWU
— Trevor Long 💻 📱 📺 📻 (@trevorlong) November 15, 2016
@EBGamesAus crashed again. THANKS pic.twitter.com/kiekT4CnBf
— Yas Hamd (@yascorpian) November 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/jwplato84/status/798330607470186496
EB have spruced up their home page since I was last there (about 1 min ago): pic.twitter.com/CC8N3IJK38
— Stacey Borg (@DrCurlytek) November 15, 2016
Facebook is also looking pretty familiar…
Yeah, really not a good look considering this is EB’s second go round at this.
We’ll update when we hear more.