When I’m at work, trying to tell someone about P4 Arena and why they should reserve it, and they don’t.

Like, it’s always a regular customer who likes Atlus games, or rare games, or kinda weird games, and I absolutely KNOW they’re going to come in day one, looking for the game, wanting the free soundtrack.  And I try to stress that, you know, as a company, GameStop isn’t really thinking about games like P4 Arena.  Sure, we have cover art for it, but it’s a small section of the front counter.  And I mean, yeah, it’ll make money as a whole, but not nearly as much as something like Call of Duty, which we’ve been reserving since forever, and have goo-gobs of bonuses with.  Or the giant Resident Evil 6 shrine, or Assassin’s Creed, or Borderlands (nothing wrong with these games, I’m excited too)  

I try to stress that, you know, as far as extra copies go?  Yeah… probably not very many, or we’ll get copies without the soundtrack that you KNOW is going to be GOOD because its Atlus.  

But for some reason I get the, “Eh, I can wait,” when you know, Atlus fan customer, you can’t!  Same thing happened with Persona 4, when we had artbooks.  Guy didn’t reserve, didn’t get an artbook, game was suddenly hard to find.  And then I get that look, you know, the, “How could you sell out of copies,” look when WE JUST HAD THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE THE GAME CAME OUT!  

*sigh*

A day in the life of me  ^^;;;  I just have to get ready to deal with the, “You guys got that new Persona fighting game,” on launch day where I’ll probably be like, “Uh… no, sold out, we didn’t get that many copies,” and then the, “Oh really?”  Yeah… really.  Didn’t we talk about this?