VGW: GameStop made the conscious decision to interject their agenda into an agreement made by OnLive and Square Enix. If they didn’t want to sell the complete package to their customers, they had two ethical options: a) remove the coupon, inform the customer of the discrepancy, and possibly sell it at a lower price, or b) ship the games back to Square Enix and tell them they refuse to sell the title with a coupon from a future competitor.
"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.
If they did then collectors wouldn’t be getting f***** over with discless collectors editions
No shock, GameStop is alive because of trading. If they don't have used games on their shelves they are absolutely donezo.
Well of course the GS boss thinks this... that's their bread and butter business. That and funco pops and clothing, though those two were added as a means to supplement the decline in people buying used games or even new games. GS just sucks overall when it comes to gaming. I buy my physical stuff on Amazon or Best Buy.
As for "requiring" disc drives... nah. Not anymore, but i like having them as an option. They had a means back when games actually ran off the discs and were more/less complete. Now they are incomplete and the disc is really an installer with a license to play. If you want to change games you have to take out the disc and put in another. Its more convenient to just use digital. I have been into digital for years now and when the PSPortal comes along i wont even have to go into my game room. I will just play my PS5 from my couch downstairs. I have a bunch of digital installed games to my 5... I'm all set.
Gamingbible writes: "Luckily, if you’re living in the US you can trade your Xbox into Gamestop, where you’ll receive a hefty amount of cash as well as a $50 bonus for certain customers, just short of enough to buy the PS5."
At this point in time If I didn't own a PS5 I would have done this in a heartbeat but I had already acquired a PS5 first before I acquired an XBSX.
I'll stick to keeping both. Gamestop though... seems kind of desperate to take in Series X units. What could they be plotting???
I just want some games for my series X I have both since release and after weighing the offerings in PS Essentials to Gamepass I quickly realized I Owned anything of worth in both catalogs. And, the things I didn't I didn't see as justifiable for maintaining both subs.
Since then my series X is a legacy machine that I play my old games on and that's it. 3 years ago I really thought from that Xbox showcase we were going to have some great games by now. Instead, it's just been a lot of meh
GameStop’s chief financial officer is resigning, in the latest of several executive departures from the video game retailer.
Wow what a ripoff. I would go back to gamestop and demand my money back and buy the game elsewhere.
This is actually quite bad. I understand taking the game and manual out of the box to stop people stealing them but for them to be played is outrageous and the thing about removing the onlive is awful.
I never buy anything at Gamestop and this is more reason not to. Shady business practices smh
Wow....that's really not fair, does this apply to the UK Gamestop aswell (if they have stores anyway)
I don't really gamestop that much, I bought the Uncharted 3 Explorer edition from Gamestop UK and they took my money out straight away, does this happen to the American gamestop aswell with all their purchases ?
This action basically serves only one purpose -- it damages the potential revenue stream of OnLive, by not giving consumers this "sample" to entice them.
Without the ability to advertise themselves, OnLive may cease being competition to GameStop... or at least that's GameStop's hope.
Say... isn't that against the anti-competitive practice laws, in the US? It sure was when MS was accused of it...
GameStop also refuses to sell games which are sold digitally via Steam, again, because they desire to dissuade companies from working with their competitors, thus wounding their competition through anti-competitive practices, as opposed to competitive pricing and services. Kinda sounds like the US government (since GameStop is a US company) needs to step in...