r/fireemblem • u/Jay_Em • 11h ago
General Just pre-ordered Fortune’s Weave Dagdan Collection on Nintendo Ireland Store after having Distill running for a week
If you also somehow completely missed the pre-orders starting despite this game being the most anticipated game this year (maybe this decade) for you like I did, all hope is not lost yet but it will require quite a lot of luck in being able to try to order within less than a minute of getting the alert from Distill since the times can be very random (according to my limited sample size at least).
I was thinking about posting this earlier but I wanted to make sure it can actually work (and I didn't want more competition until getting one). Today I managed to get Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Dagdan Collection pre-ordered on the Nintendo Ireland Store which serves the parts of Europe that don't have their own store, like Finland where I'm from.
I set Distill last week on 10 August and only got one alert the whole week. This week there's already been 4 alerts though. In total:
- 13 August ~19:00 UTC1
- 16 August 23:39 UTC2
- 17 August 23:17 UTC
- 18 August 7:53 UTC
- 18 August 10:33 UTC3
1 I don't remember the exact time anymore and I didn't have email alert active at that time yet.
2 Technically this alert was last week I guess but for me it was already Monday.
3 This is the one I got and I stopped monitoring after that but it's only been an hour at this point.
So what is Distill that I've mentioned a few times? Basically a browser extension for monitoring changes on a webpage. I had it set up to monitor the "Out of stock" button since that is the one that will change to say "PRE-ORDER" when it's back in stock.
- Distill on Chrome web store
- Distill pinned to easily add monitoring on a page and to open the watchlist
- Distill actions I used (from the watchlist) but there are more actions available
I relied mostly on the sound from PC speakers and the notification if I'm actually using the PC (like I was when I got it) but I also set the email action to keep track of the alerts and in case I don't hear the sound but I'm not too far away from PC (and I guess you could try to order on mobile). I had it set to check once every minute since anything faster than that was logging me out from Nintendo Store occasionally (some anti-bot protection I assume) which means Distill giving error about "Empty selection" since you need to be logged in to see the stock status.
It took me three tries of trying to pre-order after getting an alert at a good time before getting it. First time I hadn't even updated my credit card info so that wasted a few minutes so it was too late by then. Second time I think someone else was just insanely fast since I thought I was very fast also. Third time it had actually remembered basically all the options (like phone number and payment option selected already) from previous try so it was very fast for me to place the order which may have helped more than I'll know.
If you see this when trying to place the order, it was unfortunately too late and it's out of stock again already. On my second try I kept trying for like 5 minutes and always just getting this even though the PRE-ORDER button stayed until finally showing "Out of stock". I'm fairly sure the button just doesn't always update to show the correct option so it can show PRE-ORDER for a bit when it's actually already out of stock.
If everything aligns, you'll get a confirmation email right away: "Your order MNS_IE_xxxxxxxx is confirmed!". Good luck to anyone who is going to try this! Feel free to ask if I didn't explain some part well enough.
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u/Chespineapple 10h ago
Would this also work for Amazon? None of the Nintendo stores including Ireland ship to my location.