Yes! Same here. I'm refreshing my Amazon page frequently so that I can see if it's still there.

I even had amazon send me txt messages to update me about my orders. Kinda annoying cause my family decided to do a shopping spree and my phone is going off the hook, but worth it!

Yeah, I got my pre-order in through Amazon as soon as they went up after the E3 announcement. If my order got cancelled I'd probably lose my mind. I even double-checked my 2 payment methods on Amazon after reading some of these threads.

If you're not going to preload from Steam, then why waste your time pre-ordering with Walmart? When you can just buy it at midnight on release day? When Skyrim came out at midnight 11.11.11, all I did was drive 10 mins to my local Walmart Superstore. Bought my game/game manual and strolled out the store after waiting a mere 5 mins in line. That's how short the line was because everybody was camping out at Gamestop and other gaming store for some illogical reason. Even better because I was playing the game a good 4+ hrs that day while all the pre-order f.a.n.b.o.y.s were still waiting for UPS/FedEx to show up with their Christmas present.

Same deal with over hyped commodities (like the Harry Potter series that I've bought over these years) come to think of it. When B&N sold out of HP, Walmart had hundreds of hardcover copies camping out on the shelves. Just begging for someone to give them a new home. Walmart is far better equipped to buy games (and hard to get commodities like HP) IMO. No surprise there being that it's the largest retailer globally.

so f.a.n.b.o.y.s is a censored word now? Really?

I wouldn't preload from Steam because I'm not playing on a PC. Is the Pip-Boy Edition worth it? To many, yes, it is. I'd agree if it was only the base game that was being discussed; it's not. I've been to plenty of midnight releases myself, including the one for Skyrim. I walked out with my game copy at 12:05am. Again, that isn't what we're talking about here. After most of my anger subsided, I realized that I don't even need the Pip-Boy Edition; it just seemed really cool to have it as a unique second screen experience. It isn't necessary for me to enjoy the game at all. I just don't like the way the pieces are falling into place.

I'm a lifelong gamer. The bells & whistles aren't needed, but they can be pretty cool. In this case, I feel as if an opportunity to have that has been taken without reason. None of it makes sense - the early payment processing, the lack of action to try payment again, the lack of information about what they did to keep the order from being cancelled, the lack of information about options to recover the order. That is what bothers me. I'm still going to get the game from somewhere else.

Just read an article on Gamespot about a situation similar to mine in the UK & the retailer GAME.

Ya there were some threads involving people that said they Preorderssss out of country but were trying to get it shipped to a friend in the country so that they could forward it or some such...

Update on Target canceling my Pip Boy back in late July.

On October 28th I received an email from Target saying they were going to send me a Pip Boy Edition that would be completely on them, free, including the shipping. I had pre-ordered my back on June 24th and had it canceled late July. I think they're going by a deadline and putting those who first got cancelled first grabs.

Game UK did exactly this, asking people to check they had funds.

(and then themselves stuffed up some orders. Ooops....)

I have little hope that Walmart will be that classy. I ordered mine on June 18th, & it got cancelled on November 2nd.

I called Walmart over mine and was told it was the distributors not retailers. Called Bethesda and got the usual "fill out a ticket" jargon. I'm still waiting on a reply.

Not directly on topic, but Best Buy Canada showed stock of Pip-Boy editions the other day and it turned out to be a mistake and they cancelled many (perhaps all) orders. The good news though, they're giving free copies of the regular edition to those people.

In both these cases there's too much nice-ness going on here . Best Buy Canada usually only gives a $5 online coupon for cancelled orders, you can only use on coupon at a time, and it expires within a few weeks of them sending it . Maybe Bethesda is somehow involved in these generous cancellation consolations?

I had an issue with my gamestop orders, I bought 2 pipboys, one for xbox, for my cousins christmas present, and 1 for pc for myself, I didn't have the funds on my card so I went to amazon, bought $300 dollars worth of gamestop gift cards and called Gamestop CS, and was on hold for an hour and a half before I got someone on the line, they were courteous, and helped me apply my gift cards to my 2 orders, and haven't received a cancelation email yet...but there's still 2 more days to go and they haven't shipped either, so I'm sitting here, biting my nails hoping everything is okay with them...I ordered them right as they went on sale on the site, which was 6/23/2015, and I'm really hoping nothing happens to them...should have ordered from amazon, might not have to worry with them, they are usually on the ball with these things.

I too suspect Bethesda somewhere! Considering I had reached out to Gstaff about this issue when it initially happened.

Agreed.

The title of the post made it sound like Walmart was cancelling "Pip-Boy Edition" orders all willy-nilly. You mean they cancelled the order when they processed payment and found no money in the account? How dare they! I'm sorry and feel for you, man, but cmon. Maybe it's better this way, get the regular edition and save some $

I agree, & that's exactly my feelings on it. I'm just going to get the game, take the leftover money, & get another game, maybe Divinity Original Sin. But I think I wasn't clear on my issues with what happened.

On October 29th, 12 days before release, Walmart tried to process payment. That is unusually early. The funds were not in my account. Upon being notified of the attempt & speaking to Walmart, I figured the issue was the lack of sufficient money; Walmart never specifically said that was the problem. All they said was that my card didn't meet "security checks." I deposited the money into my account on October 30th. I notified Walmart on the 30th, 31st, & 1st that the funds were there. I even sent an email on the 31st requesting them to process my payment again in addition to the phone calls. My bank confirmed that there were no holds on my account & that Walmart never did try again, which again is very unusual. My order was canceled on the 2nd. I feel Walmart didn't do anything to keep my order from being cancelled especially since I requested them to try the payment again, & they didn't.

Either way, I'm fine with not getting the Pip-Boy Edition at this point. This kind of situation seems to have affected pre-orders from various retailers - I've communicated with people who have had the same happen to them with Target, Gamestop, GAME in the UK, etc. It is what it is.

It boggles my mind that people still pre-order from Walmart. They've proven so unreliable, especially with special/limited edition content. The average person that works there doesn't know and doesn't care about gaming related things.

Oh, believe me, Walmart was not my top choice to pre-order from. the only reason I did was opportunity - it was selling out everywhere, & Walmart still had some. I didn't want to take a chance on missing it. I had never pre-ordered a game from Walmart before. After this, I'm likely never to again.

Hope it works out for you. Maybe, JUST maybe see if they can throw a Nuka-Cola Quantum because of the situation. Never hurts to try .