I got the following e-mail from gamestop

Dear Customer,

You have signed up to receive release date changes for:

Vendetta Online with Bonus!

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=646014&affid=1

Old Release Date - 11/8/2004
New Release Date - 11/3/2004

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same.

Hello, anybody there?

The game is coming out Nov 1st, 2004.

Your box does not ship until Nov 3rd, 2004. Thats what is believed by that message.

GameStop is doing all sorts of exciting things with our release date, for no apparent reason. Take 2 (distributer) confirmed shipment of their Vendetta Online order and that it will arrive on MONDAY the 1st. Strategy First has no idea why they changed the supposed "release date" and is working on them to get it back to the 1st.

If I had to take a wild guess, they're probably swamped with GTA4 and other recent releases, and are creatively pushing back "release dates" on lesser-known games to try and cover their lack of personnel. Sucks to be a lesser-known game, like us.

Grrr, i'll show then lesser known(floods gamestop e-mail with e-mails about vendetta)
Just kidding, but they should get their Sh*t together!
Oh well, still waiting for pre order key, i've heard the woman we're supposed to emai(as I did) is off for the weekend.