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pc games down here at gamestop are few and far between. out of 10 stores that i go to every so often, i think 4 of them carry pc games. the others say we either stopped selling them or never carried them to begin with. i usually go to browse for a bargain slash, as down here almost everything is console console console mentality. so sometimes ill see a fairly new pc game for $10-$15. but thats pretty rare that its a game i wanted. i get some at best buy or target or big lots, compusa and walmart are always overpriced on games now. i had read walmart was going to drop new release pc games by $10 but ive not seen it happen, not sure if they were talked out of it or not. so most purchases i do online mainly at various places including the hard forum.
gamestop runs the business how they want to, not how the customers would like. corporate american greed, what else is new.
were you going to open the box when you got home? If so i don't see the problem. cry more
awesome
can i test drive your significant other? What's that you don't like sloppy seconds?
I actually love my Gamestop. There is an Asian chick that works there that is great. She knows what type of games I like and don't like. Sure she is making a sales pitch to preorder, but I like to preorder anyway. She knows what games I am going to preorder before I even say anything. Its great. Its like I have a personal shopper. I can actually trust the games she recommends when I ask.
All the other people who work there are tards and if she stopped working there then I would probably just go to Walmart; but as long as she works there Gamestop will continue to be the only place I get my games at.
I normally just buy the game online or go to bestbuy.
So you're cool if I sell something to you as BRAND NEW but take it for a test-drive first, allowing other customers to touch and prod the box leaving you with no idea if it was already used. SWEET!
You just went through the exact steps of buying a 'new' car LOL
really after you install the game and start playing it, you want give a crap that it was opened beforehand.
A videogame however is supposed to be shrinkwrapped and untouched, with no risk of the cdkey being stolen by an employee .
then back to the store I go I guess. I dont like the fact that it is open but of all the crap I have to worry about I find that pretty low on my list. they know me pretty well there so if I ever had a problem they would take care of me. I dont normally buy pc games there but I did buy a used Gamecube and all the RE games from them and always get friendly service. I think the only pc games I have bought there were Red Faction Guerrilla because I had a trade in, Dead Space because I had 10 bucks off, and Far Cry 2 because of some code. learned my leason on Far Cry 2 and will never pay full price for a new release game again. anyway thats pretty much my Gamestop history. lolHow about if they Key Code is already in use or missing? It may not be a problem for ME2, but it could be for other games.
Although I do sympathize...who cares? It's not like you're buying used Cheetos or something. Long as the CD key registers and the game installs, that's really all that matters
Is she cute?
Why don't you ask her out?
A cute girl into gaming. Those are a rare find, and are usually taken.
While I logically agree with you, in the real world there's something about used items that inherently devalues them. All second hand markets sell things cheaper than store prices, it's just a basic expectation.
I think i grabbed CoH in a store with a display copy and I paid less for it, I wouldn't have paid full price *shrug*, that was a GAME store in the UK though.
yea well, it's mostly due to the idiots/assholes that work there. They've sold my CE pre-orders multiple times. Most of the people that work there are generally clueless about games in general as well.
I just buy from Amazon or steam now..
Correction: The 5 dollar preorder deposit does not go up in smoke if you do not pick up the game. It queues and they will let you apply it to another preorder. Personal experience buying Mass Effect 2. They've been calling me for a month or so because I didn't pick up my Modern Warfare 2.
They ate my 5 dollars on my pre-orderfor MW2, said I had no proof of throwing down the 5 bucks, even though I had a receipt in hand.
FTL.
never preordered, never had trouble finding a game I didnt preorder
I suppose, but Gamestop really only drops the prices of used games by $5. To me that's not worth the hassle of driving to another store, hunting for the game, standing in line *again*, just to be able to say "I broke the plastic seal myself!"
While I logically agree with you, in the real world there's something about used items that inherently devalues them. All second hand markets sell things cheaper than store prices, it's just a basic expectation.
Computer games don't sell that well in stores, what do you want them to do about it?
Most Japanese game stores don't stock PC games, either. Except maybe H games.