Gamestop's shenanigans.

It was an answer to the discussion on the top of the page, that's all.

edited 24th Aug '11 10:01:04 PM by AceofSpades

Oh.

Spain Sun: girl gamers are brave pioneers in a male dominated field, show some respect!

The only gamer friends I have are women, so....yeah.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Hadn't been fully educated about Gamestop aside from the fact that it is a video game retailer and that there are questionable policies occuring there, and just now I am officially pissed about their practices.

I mean it's one thing if a publisher doesn't let you know, but knowingly and intentionally altering a new product prior to sale while still labeling it as new? Makes me increasingly grateful that I've primarily bought through digital distribution these past couple years.

edited 25th Aug '11 12:53:35 AM by EarlOfSandvich

Console sluts..

I miss Software Et Cetera!

So, I've read that Square Enix/OnLive may be able to sue Gamestop for tortious interference (the deliberate sabotage by one party of a contractual or business relationship between two or more seperate parties).

edited 25th Aug '11 1:35:41 AM by Sivartis

This kind of thing makes me glad that I live in the UK and therefore don't have to use gamestop.

Doesn't look like Square Enix is doing much in regards to this controversy, especially not through their response. I guess Gamestop does have a really firm grip on the games industry but...

I still hope that a class-action lawsuit will result from this, and the action fully justifies that.

I never did like Gamestop. Their customer service (at least at the two near me) is shoddy and I don't like the fact that they don't sell anything older than Playstation 2 games. I rarely ever go there, instead opting for the other video game store in my area that has better customer service, workers that are actually gamers and thus can answer my questions and help me find new games, and actually sell games for the GBC, PS 1, Genesis, etc.

Is there actually any reason to buy from them over just getting a game from Steam or whatever? Sincere question. Unless it's a console game of course.

edited 26th Aug '11 11:30:33 AM by Exploder

The majority of their customers are console gamers.

True for me.

To be fair, I hear a lot of horror stories about crappy customer service, and current topic aside I don't recall ever having the slightest of problems with their employees.

edited 26th Aug '11 11:33:06 AM by Pykrete

Consoles have online stores too.

PS 3 even has Steam.

ITT: Someone does something that makes decent business sense, and everyone bitches about it.

Aren't we living in a capitalist society?

edited 26th Aug '11 12:13:43 PM by DrunkGirlfriend

Because what they are doing is like Wal-Mart opening every bag of chips they receive, dumping half and charging full price for the bag on the grounds that otherwise their costumers would share with their friends and thus their friends wouldn't buy chips.

But we already have stuff like this in the form of regulating what media can be on what platform (eg, don't copy that CD to your computer!) and other anti-piracy measures, and it's not uncommon to buy stuff that has items missing (eg, they're starting to put special features in the "collector's edition" not the regular box set like they used to).

This isn't any different.

But the ability to give your friends a single copy was specifically included by the manufacture. This a shop actively removing a feature put in by the company making the product. This is equivalent to removing the store removing the bonus content in the Collector's or Game of the Year Edition so the store can sell me separate disks with the same content I was promised in the version I bought.

edited 26th Aug '11 12:52:10 PM by BigMadDraco

Eh, that's capitalism for you. Something cutting into your profit margin? Find a way to get rid of it!

It's also precisely why a lot of people (specifically people around my age) tend to hate capitalism and latch on to a poor interpretation of anarchism or communism instead.

I don't see why we have to be super-capitalist if it's harming consumers. Which here, it is.

By your logic Game Stop should launch denial of service attacks on Steam and sneak in to peoples houses in the middle of the night to break uninsured games and consoles.

Nah, they just let unassociated people do it for them.

It's like you are preaching the kind of capitalism that would normally only be in soviet propaganda films.