StrengthGamer.com: "An anonymous fan sent the image you see to the right to us earlier this afternoon. As you can see, GameStop has branded the top of the Assassin's Creed III box art with their logo."
(Assassin's Creed III, PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
Farcry 2 had one too. On the cardboard sleeve boxart it says "exclusive Gamestop preorder edition" or something. That was all the way back in 2008. What's weird is I didn't preorder it and that what they gave me anyway.
i don't think retailers are to blame here, it's Ubisoft and other firms wanting the extra dough from retailers for giving them exclusive DLC.
also i'm surprised this is finally on N4G, this box art has been out for a quite awhile now. i personally hate when a box art is tarnished by some promo and will not be getting these "retailer editions"
GameStop needs to die. Assassins Creed has become the whore of gaming. It's like the bucket the neighborhood hobos jack off in. Assassin's Creed I's ending was beautiful, AC2 was amazing. Then they started doing brotherhood and revelations milking it. It was fun but they made Subject 16 a fruit cup and an idiot. Desmond is too wimpy now, and seeing a native american in European armor Free running in Skyrim's Nordic trees is lame. They should of did only a partial revolutionary Period. This way they wouldn't have to make it four times bigger than it really was in real life....
Looks like its on the plastic wrap but no big deal it's been going on for a while... The bonus item givin to each store is usually not a highly wanted item. Hope they change this model next gen though.
Guys seriously? Do we need another thing to complain about visit cheapassgamer.com and never shop at GameStop
Newegg.com free shipping $-10-15 gift card with each pre order sometimes even 20 Bestbuy just as good deals with gamer unlocked
Than there is used games at gamefly or amazon deals
You actually never have to buy from GameStop because that's where they will rip you off.
If you are a gamer who buys games or regular bases please keep that site on your favorites and now they have a twitter account you will never pay more for games anymore
Generally I'd agree with you, but I haven't seen confirmation that other retailers aren't also getting the same treatment. I won't be surprised at all to see "Amazon Edition" on my copy.
Who the f*ck cares?! I play with the game, not with the box. Secondly, so what? If GameStop struck a deal with the publishers that allows them to offer you exclusive content for pre-orders.....SO THE F-CK WHAT? GAMESTOP IS A BUSINESS IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING MONEY. What hoarder collects VG box art cases? The box is pointless once the game is removed and played. Ask someone how much money they got for Atari box art covers
@Sovereign59, so you think just because you pay $60 for a game you're obligated to say how the company brands it? You are a joke. Publishers don't owe any of you crap. How they plan on marketing it is up to them and only them. Who cares how they box it. The box isn't going to stop people from buying the game. Black Ops 2 could say Walmart Special Edition in purple and people are still going to buy it. If you dont, then who's the moron?
This is Gamestops Last Hoo-rah before Next Console Gen and the Cloud kills them off!!!
if you own Game Stop stock I suggest you sell now cause Next Gen Game Stop will rapidly decline cause Microsoft/Sony DO NOT like seeing game Stop make money from used game sales and have plans to end that once and for all.
More Digital Downloads, More Cloud Games, More Games that activate only to ONE Console, Games that Only activate to ONE Live/PSN account!
So Game Stop beware cause it's coming.....I have seen it!
sigh....they did this for Assassin's Creed 2, which I later returned to get it exchanged. They can call it "Gamestop Edition" if they like, but the Gamestop logo on the left....I was never really a big fan of their logos.
I guess you can say this is passable, but AC2 was just plain ridiculous; it's like the logo was just there. My other problem is that big red dot, whose bright mind was it? Not sure if Gamestop or Ubisoft did it.
We should be able to be slightly picky when it comes to something we are paying $60 for. It isn't a real disaster, no, but I would prefer it if it were not on the cover. The only reason I ever buy a game from Gamestop is so I can get it at midnight. I just can't stand to wait those extra 7-9 hours until the other stores open up to start playing my new games. If the local Wal Mart or any other store around here held a midnight release for half the games my local Gamestop does, I'd be ordering them there, but sadly this is not the case.
Walmart and other 24-hour stores have a legal obligation to sell you a game the midnight it is released. If you don't see the game on the shelves, ask a clerk. If they say they can't sell it to you yet or that they don't have it in stock yet, they're probably bullshitting and are just typical, lazy 3rd shift walmart employees.. ask the manager if you have to.
Ugh, that GameStop branding is hideous. And here I was, thinking their stupid price stickers that leave residue on the game case plastic was bad enough.
I thought publishers hated Gamestop and they complain about them selling used games, yet they allow them to sell an edition tailor made for the store that is "killing their profits."
I noticed it as well, so it isn't just you that saw it. The lines just don't add up in the photo. It makes me question the validity of the picture, but I don't know why someone would spoof it.
pre-ordering has become such an asinine thing. it went from "here's a poster or tee shirt" to "here's the rest of the game and weapons and characters that you wouldn't otherwise get unless you pre-order''.
While I agree with you. It actually from being able to walk into a store and by a game to, well...... We're gonn take pre-orders and then we know we'll sell this amount of said game. I don't care about " branding " get over it people. I'm sure some of you drive a car? That's a brand. You wear sneakers, buy food, your phone.... Everything is " branded "
This is hardly the first time this has ever happened. I just traded NeverDead and Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City into Gamestop and both had "Best Buy Exclusive Edition" on the package. Pretty sure there was just a "Walmart Edition" of Medal Of Honor: Warfighter, too...
Horrible that they allow these stores to do this. Never mind my disdain for Gamestop, this is no different than the discussion of ads in-game. Glad I don't buy from there.
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Wal Mart, Bestbuy and the other stores with their own pre orders are doing the same thing
They are calling it the wal mart/ best buy edition
Its even worse on PS3 because of the EXCLUSIVE MISSIONS label is printed on the box, and is not a sticker
also i'm surprised this is finally on N4G, this box art has been out for a quite awhile now. i personally hate when a box art is tarnished by some promo and will not be getting these "retailer editions"
I would miss dedicated stores with just a big load of games...wouldnt you?
I remember when they released the updated Uncharted 2 with all the awards on the box. It was ridiculous! Things were stamped all over the place.
Reminds me of the video game "10 out of 10"....
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*shudders*
At least they tailored the cover art for the awards, rather than painting over everything.
Newegg.com free shipping $-10-15 gift card with each pre order sometimes even 20
Bestbuy just as good deals with gamer unlocked
Than there is used games at gamefly or amazon deals
You actually never have to buy from GameStop because that's where they will rip you off.
If you are a gamer who buys games or regular bases please keep that site on your favorites and now they have a twitter account you will never pay more for games anymore
GameStop can go to hell
I play with the game, not with the box. Secondly, so what? If GameStop struck a deal with the publishers that allows them to offer you exclusive content for pre-orders.....SO THE F-CK WHAT? GAMESTOP IS A BUSINESS IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING MONEY. What hoarder collects VG box art cases? The box is pointless once the game is removed and played. Ask someone how much money they got for Atari box art covers
@Sovereign59, so you think just because you pay $60 for a game you're obligated to say how the company brands it? You are a joke. Publishers don't owe any of you crap. How they plan on marketing it is up to them and only them. Who cares how they box it. The box isn't going to stop people from buying the game. Black Ops 2 could say Walmart Special Edition in purple and people are still going to buy it. If you dont, then who's the moron?
if you own Game Stop stock I suggest you sell now cause Next Gen Game Stop will rapidly decline cause Microsoft/Sony DO NOT like seeing game Stop make money from used game sales and have plans to end that once and for all.
More Digital Downloads, More Cloud Games, More Games that activate only to ONE Console, Games that Only activate to ONE Live/PSN account!
So Game Stop beware cause it's coming.....I have seen it!
1) Let digital distribution pass you by!
2) Make physical-copy box art uglier!
3) Do not profit!
It isn't a real disaster, no, but I would prefer it if it were not on the cover.
The only reason I ever buy a game from Gamestop is so I can get it at midnight. I just can't stand to wait those extra 7-9 hours until the other stores open up to start playing my new games. If the local Wal Mart or any other store around here held a midnight release for half the games my local Gamestop does, I'd be ordering them there, but sadly this is not the case.
Walmart and other 24-hour stores have a legal obligation to sell you a game the midnight it is released. If you don't see the game on the shelves, ask a clerk. If they say they can't sell it to you yet or that they don't have it in stock yet, they're probably bullshitting and are just typical, lazy 3rd shift walmart employees.. ask the manager if you have to.
My local Wal Mart closes at 11PM and I only know of 2 occasions where it has held a midnight release.
Although the greater annoyance is each stores 'exclusive' content. I'd have yo buy the game about 6 times to have a 'Complete' game.
Probably the trolliest of all troll comments I've read in a long time. Still funny though.