Blizzard Comes to Aid of Diablo III Fans Scorned by GAME

<p>As we <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;game-australia-enters-administration-refunding-preorder&sol;">reported yesterday<&sol;a>&comma; GAME Australia has entered administration and fans who pre-ordered the game lost their money &lpar;and game&rpar;&comma; Blizzard has stepped up to provide assistance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company issued a statement that states &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;if you kept your receipt&comma; buy the game again and we’ll give you your lost money back&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We&&num;8217&semi;re aware that some Australian GAME customers have been left out in the cold on what should be the hottest night of the year — the launch of Diablo III&period; To help with this situation and get these players into the game as soon as possible&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve put the following process in place&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Australian GAME customers with a valid preorder&sol;prepurchase receipt dated before May 15&comma; 2012 can do the following&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>1&period; Purchase the digital version of Diablo III from http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;diablo3&period;com now or anytime before May 21&comma; 2012&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>2&period; Download and start playing when the servers go live&excl;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>3&period; Submit your GAME Australia preorder&sol;pre-purchase receipt to us before June 30&comma; 2012&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>4&period; Receive a credit from Blizzard&comma; for the amount you paid in advance to GAME Australia for Diablo III&period; This credit will be applied to the payment method used for the digital purchase&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Blizzard is essentially handing out a free game&period; As soon as GAME entered administration&comma; the original pre-orders&comma; and the money that was used to pay for it&comma; was gone&period; Blizzard didn’t receive any money for the pre-orders and is in essence handing out copies for the game for free&period;  Even those who paid a fraction of the cost of the game for pre-order will be getting that money back&period; All in all&comma; not a bad deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&lpar;Via <&sol;em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5910302&sol;blizzard-shouts-unlucky-diablo-iii-fans-a-free-copy-of-diablo-iii&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;socialflow&lowbar;kotaku&lowbar;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;kotaku&lowbar;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;socialflow">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;