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Warning to those who bougyt Deus ex 3 from Gamestop
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: VIVIsectVI on August 26, 2011, 05:41:24 AM ---Can't you just redownloaded the game digitally using Steam?
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Yes, the better online download client... I mean... people are getting worked up over just Onlive (a service I want to avoid).
EDIT: Gamestop has apologized about the matter and has responded actually quite well.
$50 Gift card AND a Buy 2, Get 1 free used game coupon. Nicely done.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on August 25, 2011, 11:27:25 PM ---You do realize they only removed a code to get a digital copy of the game? If you bought the hard copy... why would you need the digital copy? You put in a promotion in each box that is a direct competitor to the retailer who BOUGHT all those games to sell. If you owned a business, you would remove the coupons for the competition too, especially since it really wouldn't hurt the customer (except the open boxes). Is it wrong? Well it's pretty bad to put in a promotion that a competing company is selling... so I think it's warranted.
If you have a problem with, it's simple to just not buy the game... I mean, why not just buy it on Onlive if people are gonna be so ravenous about it... ::)
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Well, the PS3 version of Portal came with a code to download the game on PC for steam, I'd be pretty pissed if I didn't get a PC copy as well...
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on August 27, 2011, 04:42:27 AM ---Well, the PS3 version of Portal came with a code to download the game on PC for steam, I'd be pretty pissed if I didn't get a PC copy as well...
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*ehem*.... totally sold that code for exactly $40... easiest money I could of ever made.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on August 27, 2011, 04:46:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on August 27, 2011, 04:42:27 AM ---Well, the PS3 version of Portal came with a code to download the game on PC for steam, I'd be pretty pissed if I didn't get a PC copy as well...
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*ehem*.... totally sold that code for exactly $40... easiest money I could of ever made.
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Well, I kept mine, and it's been serving me quite well.
kenshin-dono:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on August 25, 2011, 11:27:25 PM ---You do realize they only removed a code to get a digital copy of the game? If you bought the hard copy... why would you need the digital copy? You put in a promotion in each box that is a direct competitor to the retailer who BOUGHT all those games to sell. If you owned a business, you would remove the coupons for the competition too, especially since it really wouldn't hurt the customer (except the open boxes). Is it wrong? Well it's pretty bad to put in a promotion that a competing company is selling... so I think it's warranted.
If you have a problem with, it's simple to just not buy the game... I mean, why not just buy it on Onlive if people are gonna be so ravenous about it... ::)
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WHy do BD's include a digital copy? Who knows. As i fucking said several times, the point is that they're just taking things out of a brand new item without your consent or knowlege. Thats bullshit. What if Safeway opened up all the cereal boxes and took out the prizes inside? That would be pretty weak, and im sure people wouldn't stand for it. Yeesh man, dunno what your problem is, im just alerting people who may actually care about it. Gamestop has a pretty poor reputiation and this is just the latest shady ass thing they've been called out on. I also llike how in a later post you say you dont care about this and then imediatly say that if they DID do it with a star wars game you would be pissed. The point is a precedence has been established and people should be weary buying things from them. Check your shit when you get it
Gamestop already openes up 'new' games and sells them to you at full retail price. Covered with stickers, possibly missing the manual, ect. Now theyre opening them and removing things. yay
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on August 26, 2011, 12:31:10 AM ---Legally, Gamestop "bought" those games from Square... so now it's their right to remove the promotion. Ultimately, it's the end user (well, PC users... my PS3 copy was intact when I bought it) that will decide whether this is acceptable or not.
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Are you a law student? Do you know if, legally speaking, it really is in their right to remove the promotion without telling the people they are selling it to? If not you shouldn't make baseless asumptions like that. Im not sure if you can sell an item as brand new after youve opened and removed items and content from it. But hell, they do it with display copies all the time so who knows. Turning what you said around, if i buy a retail copy of something brand new, i should be entitled to get everything that a brand new copy of that game should come with.
anyway, as Newy said final outcome was they just pulled the games altogether. HOnestly i pretty much never buy anything from Gamestop anymore anyway, unless its older DS or ps2 games used
^_^x KD
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