Drive (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Novamedia Exclusive #1) [Korea]

[teddyjun]

Release Date: End of November, 2014
Pre-order date & time: 4th November, 23:00 Korea time (UTC+9)

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Price: $35.99, one click option as $105.97
Purchase Links :
One Click (all 3 steelbooks/slips) Sold out
Full Slip Sold out
Lenticular Cover Slip Sold out
1/4 Slip Sold out
Notes: 1st Novamedia collection. KD Media & Plain Archive makes it. It will be Full Glossy.
Group Buy: Masterblaster, apsmith21 (USA ONLY)

Package type
- Lenticular 600 coopies for overseas customers
- Full slip 600 copies for overseas customers
- 1/4 slip 100 copies for overseas and domestic customers on novamnm.com/co.kr
- One click option (including all 3 versions and same number from 1 to 300) 300 copies (Order limit: 2 copies per order)

Spoiler: Package Shots

Full Slip

Lenticular Slip Cover

1/4 Slip

Spoiler: Previous update

From Novamedia facebook :
Finally, we announce Novamedia exclusive No.1 title <Drive> steelbook(CA is Nova Choice No.1 title). Plain Archive designed this artwork. I appreciate their awesome works!

The steelbook is Full Gloss / The scorpion artwork of back side is debossed.

We will inform to you detail information, soon. Be patient.

And I inform to you bad news. Our web site faced little problem. So, we're fixing that. Please, be patient. I'm so sorry inform that.

Thanks in advance.

Spoiler: Full Slip

Spoiler: lenticular

 

[spass]

Did NovaMedia ever post what happen during the Go-live ?

They didn't and still haven't afaik.

 

[Futurhythm]

Did NovaMedia ever post what happen during the Go-live ?

They didn't and still haven't afaik.

https://www.facebook.com/NOVAMEDIA/posts/515381428565634
They just did 2 minutes ago. A bit late at this point I think. The damage has already been done.

 

[Starling]

A completely fictitious statement from Nova... "Its not the whining but the taking part that matters...right? Now STFU."

No further fictitious people were available to add any further fictitious comment at this stage.

 

[Scott]

We would like to Apologise for the Poor service you received when purchasing "Drive Nova exclusive #1" on our online store last night.

We know how frustrating it is to have plans for an elegant night or morning unexpectedly be taken away.

Last night, both us and our service provider had investigated the problem.

We thought the problem had been caused by the capacity of the amazon web service. So we tried to extend but this had failed continuously.

On further investigation we have now found the main root to the problem. The maximum allowance parameter was set at 150 users.

We have now fixed the issue to allow more people to buy our product during the pre-order peak time.

We are 100% sure that the situation that happened yesterday will never happen again.

Your comments regarding the service you received at our store in facebook & hidefninja are very important to us. We want customers to enjoy shopping atNovamnm.com, so your report of a disrupted experience with us is very important to rectify.

Once again, let us express our deepest apologies. You deserve only the best service, especially when you visit our store.

We hope you will accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience you had experienced.

To avoid such problems in the future, we are doing our best and allowing more time between scheduled events to not let this terrible situation happen again.

Sincerely
All nova media staff.
Nova Media
Nova Media
novamnm.com

 

[frankfish44]

A completely fictitious statement from Nova... "Its not the whining but the taking part that matters...right? Now STFU."

No further fictitious people were available to add any further fictitious comment at this stage.

Its not a bad apology IMO. They went as far as explaining the problem. Compared to others like Zavvi who never bothered to explain the change of artwork on Maleficent for example. Despite all the turmoil the other day, I would rather support them understanding as a new retailer at times the learning curve is steep

 

[paulboland]

They just posted this on Facebook

We would like to Apologise for the Poor service you received when purchasing "Drive Nova exclusive #1" on our online store last night.

We know how frustrating it is to have plans for an elegant night or morning unexpectedly be taken away.

Last night, both us and our service provider had investigated the problem.
We thought the problem had been caused by the capacity of the amazon web service. So we tried to extend but this had failed continuously.

On further investigation we have now found the main root to the problem. The maximum allowance parameter was set at 150 users.

We have now fixed the issue to allow more people to buy our product during the pre-order peak time.
We are 100% sure that the situation that happened yesterday will never happen again.

Your comments regarding the service you received at our store in facebook & hidefninja are very important to us.

We want customers to enjoy shopping at Novamnm.com, so your report of a disrupted experience with us is very important to rectify.

Once again, let us express our deepest apologies. You deserve only the best service, especially when you visit our store.

We hope you will accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience you had experienced.
To avoid such problems in the future, we are doing our best and allowing more time between scheduled events to not let this terrible situation happen again.


Sincerely
All nova media staff.

Hidefninja
They mention they read all our complaints we posted that's good to see if it improves how they operate for future orders

 

[Real Steel]

So it wasn't server issue but a damn human error?! Some programmer setting the maximum allowance parameter to 150 users!! OMG.

 

[HUBMUSWELL]

The spooky thing is when the One Click Option went OOS, there was no problem ordering...

 

[mnementh]

The spooky thing is when the One Click Option went OOS, there was no problem ordering...

That's because people saw it was out of stock and gave up.

Thats what happened to me. 3+ hours of constantly clicking refresh for the 1 Click option, and trapped in the loop of trying to check out only to be directed back to the cart. Then I get the message "Items in your cart are out of stock" so gave up and went home.

I'm lucky in that I have managed to get what I want via another route, but I'm sure others had the same experience and haven't been so fortunate

 

[jitstark]

After what happened with the Captain America Exclusive I was sure that Nova would have learnt to communicate out as soon as problems were discovered (I don't know how well the Lone Survivor Pr-order went). I was willing to try my luck at the announced time but luckily I had a meeting when this went live so I joined @Masterblaster GB. Looks like this might be my preferred way forward for these type of exclusives now (Thanks John and HDN for the GB). Without that I know I would be pretty peeved right now and I feel for you guys that have been mucked about.

As for Nova's apology, I don't think it's too bad as they do specify what went wrong but I guess the real problem lies with the speed of the apology and why they just didn't pull it for another day like they did with Captain America.

 

[BradG1984]

I didn't go for this so wasn't affected, but it's nice to see a retailer apologising in such a way, and referencing the true collectors on here - AKA their most loyal customers

PS - it'd be nice to see Zavvi do this once in a while for their constant damaged steel issues

 

[Devildog151]

I accept their apology and hope it never happens again. I was able to get my copies but what a pain.

I'm curious, can any one answer how a group buy works? I don't understand how copies are secured. Do they call them on the phone and tell them to set aside copies? Is there a group of people with insanely fast Internet ordering in bulk? It seems like the people on here who ordered on the gb assume they're guaranteed a copy.

 

[Sigill]

I accept their apology and hope it never happens again. I was able to get my copies but what a pain.

I'm curious, can any one answer how a group buy works? I don't understand how copies are secured. Do they call them on the phone and tell them to set aside copies? Is there a group of people with insanely fast Internet ordering in bulk? It seems like the people on here who ordered on the gb assume they're guaranteed a copy.

Group buys will have been ordered in advance. They won't be trying to buy all the copies when it goes live!

 

[Graphic_Delusions]

No wonder why it was a disaster.

Would be interesting to know how many users attempted to gain access to those 150 placements.

 

[paulboland]

No wonder why it was a disaster.

Would be interesting to know how many users attempted to gain access to those 150 placements.

Thousands of traffic requests especially with refresh been done as in f5 would have been attempting to gain access and would explain why it was near to impossible to get to complete checkout and the site crashing and we all getting this

Spoiler

Until you got lucky to be one of the 150

When lot of people gave up it would have increased the chances of been in that 150
and then eventually get sold out it was luck if you got in

 

[tridon]

Ridiculous. For one, it still took over 40 MINUTES after the scheduled time for it to go live. Secondly, they should have realized immediately after it went live that something was wrong. They should've then went and cancelled the pre-order, looked into the problem and then rescheduled it for a later date. The fact that it took some people 3+ hours to place an order and then took Nova nearly two days to respond is absolutely unacceptable in this day and age. Very, very sad.

 

[tridon]

I'm happy @Noodles and @spass were able to get their copies. At least some diehard Drive fans can be happy.

 

[fg2wil]

"We are 100% sure that the situation that happened yesterday will never happen again."

That's an extremely bold statement - hope they can follow through on their promise for future releases. What a nightmare this was.

 

[villadelrefugio]

I can't believe they actually set themselves up by stating "this will never happen again."

Oh boy.

 

[Real Steel]

"We are 100% sure that the situation that happened yesterday will never happen again."

That's an extremely bold statement - hope they can follow through on their promise for future releases. What a nightmare this was.

They are 100% sure that the situation that happened yesterday will never happen again because they know now what was the cause of yesterday's problem. That does not mean there will never be some other situations happening due to some other yet unknown causes, me think.