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

 

[RickB84]

Took me two hours in the end but I'm not complaining, I think this beauty will be worth the wait. I don't believe in completely boycotting the site tho, that's only hurting yourself in doing so, their steels are gonna sell out regardless with or without you.

At the end of the day for me if they do a steel I want regardless of how their servers are im gonna try, try for as long as I'm available to. If I get it great, if not, yeah I'll be gutted but at least I tried. I don't believe in cancelling all pre orders and rescheduling, that's not fair on the people who managed to get a copy and may not be available on the rescheduled date, they want the steel as much as you do

 

[blu-steel]

Only 150 users? No wonder it was broken.

 

[Real Steel]

I don't believe in cancelling all pre orders and rescheduling, that's not fair on the people who managed to get a copy and may not be available on the rescheduled date, they want the steel as much as you do

What retailers can do once there's a serious site problem is to immediately suspend the pre-order, put out an announcement, fix the problem and reschedule while still honoring the orders already placed.

 

[wjasoncul]

What retailers can do once there's a serious site problem is to immediately suspend the pre-order, put out an announcement, fix the problem and reschedule while still honoring the orders already placed.

Right! And don't make the excuse that it was Late over there either. If you don't have the manpower to make sure everything is working properly, don't schedule Live times at unreasonable hours. That's just common sense...

 

[bixmanj]

I think my body has recovered as much as it ever will after Nov. 4. My damaged eyesight from 2 1/2 hours of unblinkingly refreshing the same page will remain though. At least I'll still be able to feel steelbooks.

 

[lgans316]

A simple performance test with X number of users would have highlighted this issue beforehand. Sounds like lack of QA.

 

[Aw 83]

I was lucky enough to join the GB from Masterblaster so I did not go through the headache that many went through thanks to Masterblaster for the opportunity. ..

 

[Stevieboy]

The 3hrs I spend in front on my PC repeatedly refreshing my screen has had lasting neurological damage, anyone else randomly refreshing their browser since for no apparent reason??

 

[ianb]

Am I suppose to receive a confirmation email when submit the order?? I completed payment but didn't get any confirmation email? Is that ok?

 

[paulboland]

Am I suppose to receive a confirmation email when submit the order?? I completed payment but didn't get any confirmation email? Is that ok?

Its ok
They don't send out confirmation emails with every order only do it sometimes

If you got PayPal email your ok and if your order shows on your NovaMedia account payment method and status is processing all is ok

 

[Marina Blue]

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

I don't think it was a "programmer error". I think that is the service Novemedia requested and paid for. They sell beautiful products, but their business sense is rinky-dink.

 

[Snollygoster]

I think to make things fair, they should cancel all existing orders and provide a new pre-order date and start over from scratch.

 

[Marina Blue]

I think to make things fair, they should cancel all existing orders and provide a new pre-order date and start over from scratch.

They can't, like they said PayPal will kill them. After a lengthy attempt to resolve the problem, and no orders got through, they should have shut it down, resolved the problem, and rescheduled the pre-order.

 

[Lordpercy]

They've put themselves in a difficult position (which, I assume is why they've done nothing other than offer a weak apology.)

If they were to cancel the existing orders, not only would they face they wrath of paypal (and likely a hefty fee) but imagine the outcry from the 3k people who, after 3 and half hours of trying, finally got the elusive steel(s) only to then have them taken away again.

Even worse for Nova reputationally then if those people then missed out on the re-sell!

My opinion (and I know it won't be popular but I think is a fair compromise) would be to put an addition run into production - we know that a ridiculous amount of people missed out, so the demand is there.

I know some people will cry foul, that it's was a limited edition of x amount, but really, unless you've got copy number 0001, what difference does it make if you have copy 2000 odd or copy 4000 odd. The main thing is that you will have a copy. (Or copies depending on your preferences)

Nova will re earn some of the lost respect from collectors who missed out first time around (through no fault of thier own) with no real impact on those that were successful on the botched first sale and Nova will also make an additional wedge.

Additionally it will put extrs copies into the hands of collectors, saving them from evil bay.

I see that as a win for the community and a win for Nova

 

[psyro]

I think to make things fair, they should cancel all existing orders and provide a new pre-order date and start over from scratch.

Fair? Some of us waited for hours to get our order; we were just a little bit more lucky than others, but that doesn't make us responsible for the madness that Novamedia caused. I have missed other releases in the past due to bad servers or technical issues (kimchi's thor 2, kimchi's frozen or novamedia's captain america 2, just to name a few) but I wouldn't have thought it was fair to repeat all the process at the expense of the people who has legitimately earned their copies.

 

[digitalbabe]

I personally think it would be a nightmare for both them, and every customer that was able to order, if every order had to be cancelled-unless they were to significantly increase their capacity, it's not like it would be smoother the second time. Paypal generally punishes companies for refunding, especially en masse, because there are flags that are raised in the system. Hopefully Nova learned they have to increase their capacity for the next item they sell. Sometimes it takes severe errors like this for improvement to take place. I can't imagine any company would aggravate their customers on purpose...or jeopardize their sales, especially not as they are trying to grow. As a customer it's not unreasonable to voice your opinion to the company itself, and as long as criticism remains constructive and focused, there is no good reason a company should not take those comments into consideration.

 

[Sounder]

When I first started collecting steelbooks 3 years ago, I never would have imagined I would have to go though something like this to get something ordered. I feel like steelbook collecting can really help improve a person's perseverance.

 

[SnakeVirus]

amazing what happened the other day

 

[Real Steel]

I personally think it would be a nightmare for both them, and every customer that was able to order, if every order had to be cancelled-unless they were to significantly increase their capacity, it's not like it would be smoother the second time. Paypal generally punishes companies for refunding, especially en masse, because there are flags that are raised in the system. Hopefully Nova learned they have to increase their capacity for the next item they sell. Sometimes it takes severe errors like this for improvement to take place. I can't imagine any company would aggravate their customers on purpose...or jeopardize their sales, especially not as they are trying to grow. As a customer it's not unreasonable to voice your opinion to the company itself, and as long as criticism remains constructive and focused, there is no good reason a company should not take those comments into consideration.

Nova did try to extend their capacity using Amazon web service. Indeed they tried doing so throughout the episode, not knowing the problem lay elsewhere.

Most likely, when Nova scaled up with Amazon service, they overlooked the maximum users parameter in their server program. That was previously set at 350 and it was sufficient for their normal daily demand. Thus, with thousands suddenly swooping in but the parameter still limiting the server to accepting 350 requests at a time only, disaster struck. A thousand requests swell to 10,000 as people frantically repeat their requests.

It is never a good idea to firefight a system problem unless one already knows what the cause of the problem is. Say, if one knows it is a Denial-of-Service attack for example, one can firefight until one wins. But if one is just guessing at the problem, chances are it will be wasting everyone's time. Better to just shut down completely and investigate. Announce, fix, honor the orders already placed, and reschedule the rest.

 

[villadelrefugio]

When I first started collecting steelbooks 3 years ago, I never would have imagined I would have to go though something like this to get something ordered. I feel like steelbook collecting can really help improve a person's perseverance.

Or perspective