Once I went into a Gamestop and the person behind the counter asked if I wanted to preorder a game. Being courteous (it's part of the scout law, man) I replied, "No thanks, I would rather decide if I want a game after it comes out and get it then." The man told me that, "Dude that is the stupidest thing I've heard, how the hell are you going to get a copy of Halo 3 when it comes out." I responded, a bit more tersely, "I am sure that you will have plenty of copies, I think it would be dumb to not order enough of the biggest game coming out this year." His idea of a witty response was to imitate a crying baby, smashing his fists into the counter and screaming (really, yelling), "Whaaaahhh I am such a baby! I am too scared to pre order a game and I cry when I can't find it when it comes out!" As people turned their heads, he continued his show. I walked out, disgusted.
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Yet another time, I purchased a brand new copy of the PC game Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Not having seen one in stores for a while, I bought it. Turns out, when I went to buy some deodorant (or something) at the Target that shared a parking lot I found a copy of the game a full twenty dollars cheaper. Needless to say, I bought that version and went to return the more expensive copy I had bought at Gamestop. The person working there refused my return, saying they had the right to do so. I don't look like a criminal, at least I hope not, and there was no way in hell that I had copied the game within fifteen minutes and managed to do so without even breaking the seal on the game. So I was stuck with that copy and had to drive to two cities away to return it, because the guy had called his friend at the closer gamestop to warn him of the "thief".
Wow thats the saddest thing I've ever heard and I'm sorry you had to go through that. Just.. wow.
Yes, i agree with this sentiment about Game Stop. I favor Play-N-Trade. I f-ing hate that there's always the chance that going into Game Stop that I'm going to run into this clique of arrogant insensitive assholes who arent interested in helping me, answering questions, nor have any patience for anyone "not at their level".
Has anyone filled out those customer serveys?
I forgot there's a Play-n-trade in my town, but i haven't been to it yet. It's in a really crappy location with no parking.
As for the survey, I actually completed TWO yesterday; one for each receipt I had from pre-ordering Fragile Dreams and from picking it up. I've already written about that experience in the Gamestop thread in another part of the forums, so I won't go in to detail, but basically I gave them my brutally honest opinion ever chance I could. At first I thought I'd only do the one survey, but when i remembered I had two seperate receipts with two seperate validation codes, I figured I might as well comment on my experience trying to obtain the MHT demo.
Like the lot of you, I too had trouble obtaining the demo and haven't bothered trying to get a copy since, and probably won't even be buying the game now* (Sorry Capcom, blame GS). The kicker for my story? The clerk who tried getting me to pre-order the game in order to receive the demo was someone I've known since 2nd grade. He's a pretty informed gamer, as I am, and probably plays more video games than I too because he has more free time (Me having a full time job and steady girlfriend, him being part-time employed by GS and combing the local highschool for girls dumb enough to find him impressive), so I just KNOW this bullshit is happening from a corporate level, and this is something Capcom should be investigating. Sad.
One thing I've learned over the years is that freedom isn't free, it costs folks like you and me, and if you don't throw in your buck o' five who will?
*slow-building-clap*
Topic: EDITORIALS: At GameStop, Freedom Has a Price (Read 20114 times)
