A report from Japanese journal Shūkan Bunshun says that within the leadup to the discharge of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom earlier this month two males—in remoted instances—received contract jobs at Amazon for the categorical function of getting their palms on a duplicate of the sport early.
The information comes courtesy of an unnamed Amazon subcontractor, known as Mr. A within the story, who had labored in the identical warehouse as each males. The primary offender, a 21-year-old man, was employed round a month earlier than the game’s Might 12 launch date as a supply employee. A number of days earlier than Tears of the Kingdom was as a result of drop, nonetheless, he merely stopped coming into work.
When Mr. A known as his house, the person’s mom answered, and straight up instructed him her son was at house enjoying video video games. When Mr. A later came upon the sport was Zelda, and that neither the bodily or digital copy of the sport had been launched but, he confronted the worker, who immediately confessed that he had solely received the job to get his palms on Zelda early, and had lifted a duplicate from the warehouse after they arrived.
Having been caught the person returned the sport, paid for it and was fired. The second employee, a 24-year-old man, had barely completely different plans. When he too was discovered to have stopped coming into work simply earlier than TOTK’s launch date (having solely simply been employed), Mr. A once more suspected a “Zelda trip”, solely this time the perpetrator—who additionally immediately confessed—had stolen a bunch of Zelda-related merchandise, together with Amiibo and Zelda-themed Professional Controllers with the purpose of reselling them on websites like Mercari. He was additionally dismissed.
The total story on Shūkan Bunshun is barely utilizing these two males—each employed at a Kanagawa Prefecturea warehouse—as a case research; it’s alleged that this sort of theft is widespread on the firm, and Mr. A is utilizing the interview as a possibility to complain that one of many causes for that is that Amazon Japan has allegedly been sweeping these instances below the rug, and feels that had been the staff charged with felony offences the state of affairs could be taken extra significantly.
(The positioning contacted the Amazon warehouse featured within the story, and had been solely instructed that each one deliveries of the sport had been efficiently made, and that two staff had been certainly terminated in Might, with out disclosing the the explanation why).
