A report from a Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun says that in advance of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Earlier this month, two men were given contract jobs at Amazon – in isolated cases – with the express aim of getting their hands on a copy of the game early.
The message came from an unnamed Amazon employee, called “Mr. A” in the story, who worked in the same warehouse as the two men. The first perpetrator, a 21-year-old man, was hired as a delivery worker about a month before the game’s May 12 release. A few days before Tears of the Kingdom However, he was supposed to drop out, but simply stopped coming to work.
When Mr. A called his home, the man’s mother answered and told him directly that her son was at home playing video games. As Mr. A later found out, the game was zeldaand that neither the physical nor digital copy of the game had been released yet, he confronted the employee, who immediately confessed that he was only given the job to get his hands on it zelda early and had picked up a specimen from storage when she arrived.
After being caught, the man returned the game, paid for it, and was fired. The second worker, a 24-year-old man, had slightly different plans. When it turned out that he too had recently stopped coming to work TOTK’s Release Date (just posted)Mr. A. again suspected a “Zelda vacation”, only that the perpetrator – who also immediately confessed – had stolen a lot zelda-related goods, including Amiibo and zelda-Themed pro controllers with the aim of reselling them on sites like Mercari. He too was fired.
The whole story here Shukan Bunshun uses these two men—both employed at a warehouse in Kanagawa Prefecture—only as a case study; It is alleged that this type of theft is widespread within the company and Mr A. takes the interview as an opportunity to complain that one of the reasons for this is that Amazon Japan has allegedly swept these cases under the rug, And he feels it too. If employees were accused of criminal offenses, the situation would be taken more seriously.
(The site contacted the Amazon warehouse mentioned in the story and was only told that all of the game’s shipments had been successfully completed and that two employees were actually fired in May without disclosing the reasons.)
