Author Topic: Is Blockbuster Wiitarded . . . . (Read 13182 times)

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #25 on:** January 02, 2007, 06:40:17 AM »

Referral, if you're interested.

I love the damn thing. It allows me and my boys from the Medacast to review games without having to even spend the $6 at BB to rent them.

It's also ideal for renting additional copies of a multiplayer DS game to try it multiplayer without buying more copies.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 02, 2007, 07:52:52 AM »

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Not every Hollywood Video has a Game Crazy, but that's besides the point. HV is also the most poorly run, ass backward company ever. For example, corporate geniuses decided that being able to connect phone calls between both stores was too convenient and made too much sense. I could go on and on.....

.....and please do.

Shorty McNostril · « **Reply #27 on:** January 02, 2007, 09:50:26 AM »

Our blockbusters have no nintendo stuff in them at all. I have never seen a cube game in any, and none of them carry wii games, even though they do get write-ups and reviews in their little magazine. There is no renting games for me. I either have to hope someone i know buys it and get a lend of it off them or take the risk and buy it myself, (which unfortunatly has burned me before and $100 straight out the window)

segagamer12 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 02, 2007, 09:52:59 AM »

as stated already blockbuster here sucks, the only other store that rent games are holywood video whcih I have 80 dollar late fee and cant rent anymore, and hastings which I do not shop anymore. But I never liked renting games since nes days anyways so I guess I am good.

IceCold · « **Reply #29 on:** January 02, 2007, 11:46:22 AM »

Jon, I rarely go to Blockbuster. I guess it's harder for you since the BB is close to your house, but I've found that Rogers is very good for renting Nintendo games. We usually rent multiplayer games for the weekend or whatever, and I remember we rented both Mario Baseball and Strikers only a week or two after they were released.

JonLeung · « **Reply #30 on:** January 02, 2007, 12:00:08 PM »

If I wasn't such a lazybum I'd have a car, but Blockbuster is walking distance (it's like, behind my house, and diagonally across two intersections) so I get pissed at their selection but don't really have much choice.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that they didn't have any handheld games. Then when the GBA was new, they got some GBA games, and surprisingly, some GBC games. Then they stopped carrying handheld games shortly after, so we never saw any DS or PSP games. Their logic was that "kids kept losing the handheld games". If there's any truth at all to that, I think kids are stupid for perpetuating the "handhelds are for kids" thing and doing something dumb like losing them. >_< But really I think it's just BBV making a big case out of a few GBA games lost - I'm sure someone could lose several PS2 games and it wouldn't shut down the whole section. And even after games like Brain Age made handhelds more common among non-kids, the DS doesn't even register on their radar.

Blockbuster's presence killed off another video rental place in the same shopping complex because they couldn't compete. I think the other store (it kept changing names and ownership, I don't know what it was before it finally died) might've lasted longer simply by having all the games that Blockbuster didn't. Or at the very least I would be going there. But that store, last I saw, still had N64 games and didn't have any GameCube games. I'm sure some people rent them (it's not like video stores don't have old movies) but I think it's really bad when they can't keep up with new stuff.

Michael_82 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 02, 2007, 12:00:23 PM »

I've never understood why back in the day you could rent gameboy games anywhere. But now, nothing for it or the DS. I didn't realize you could rent PSP games though, that makes no sense.

And as for the game manual thing, I used to hate when the game came with that photo-copied thing. Or some places you had to ask for the manual or you didn't get anything.

UncleBob · « **Reply #32 on:** January 02, 2007, 12:11:55 PM »

I've *never* seen a store that rents GameBoy Games. Ever.

Michael_82 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 02, 2007, 02:09:58 PM »

wow. i must have been quite the lucky little boy then.

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #34 on:** January 02, 2007, 04:30:15 PM »

Rental outlets are only going to stock what their corporate head office sees as being a profitable catalog. Nintendo system owners tend to buy more games than rent them in a severe way when compared to Sony system owners so that's one strike against Nintendo. The other would be it's past history. The N64 and GCN didn't exactly set the market on fire. At least not for any extended period of time. This results of course in less titles available for our Nintendo platforms and less rental money being spent on the titles the stores DO carry.

If the Wii continues on it's current path I'm sure that the Wii section in nearly everyone's local rental outlet will have an appropriate amount of titles in stock. Okay I'm not really SURE but I'd bet money on it, we'll put it that way. It's just too soon for any stores to have really adjusted their fiscal perceptions of what the Wii can/could do for their business.

JonLeung · « **Reply #35 on:** January 03, 2007, 02:06:04 AM »

I hate to cite my examples again so just refer to my big post earlier about BBV. Mine supports Nintendo systems, it's just that their choices are questionable. If they're only going to get a few games, why not get something more likely to rent out (like a Mario game) than nearly a dozen Ribbit Kings (and other similarly crappy games)? The crappy games tend to not be available soon enough and the obviously better ones are still rentable a year later so they must see some pattern, yet they don't seem to.

If they're all about money (which most businesses are) how cheap is Ribbit King for it to be worth to stock up so many that are all going to end up in the used game bin in two weeks than a few of the first-party games? Even if first-party games tend to be owned by Nintendo fans (as is the case for me) they must certainly be rented at a high rate for Nintendo fans on the fence about certain games (I still don't know if I would buy Chibi-Robo or Odama, and my Blockbuster won't give me a chance to try them - again, if I was the "trying" type and didn't end up finishing the game on a rental...maybe I'm not a good example of a renter after all, actually).

Sure, head office makes decisions. But sometimes they're silly decisions and often it seems like stores don't follow them - except when it means more inconvenience for me. >_<

MLS_man_64 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 03, 2007, 02:58:22 AM »

At movie gallery, 10 PS3 games for rent, 18 Wii games for rent, Texas store.

More games for the PS3 were rented out though, I guess since their systems were financed and they need to save money :/

Adrock · « **Reply #37 on:** January 03, 2007, 03:06:06 AM »

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Rental outlets are only going to stock what their corporate head office sees as being a profitable catalog.

You'd think so...

Hollywood Video has games I've never even heard of.... Amazing Island on Gamecube, for example. What the crap?

JonLeung · « **Reply #38 on:** January 03, 2007, 03:25:25 AM »

Actually, I'd heard of Amazing Island, if only because of the Nintendo Power ads, and rented it, too. My brother really liked the customizeability in that game.

But like I mentioned earlier, my few trips to Rogers Video were an eye-opener, even if there wasn't anything I would want to rent. Scaler, Bad Boys, some other strange games that even I haven't heard of. It's like Rogers Video was almost seeking out games not advertised or mentioned in Nintendo Power, IGN, Planet GameCube (or NWR now, I guess), or any other publication that I might stumble upon. Seriously. But they did have Mario Superstar Baseball which Blockbuster didn't.

Maybe in some cities there's an exclusivity agreement that says that they can't carry a certain number of the same games? I don't know how else to explain it.

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #39 on:** January 03, 2007, 03:53:47 AM »

Blockbuster has let their whole collection go to crap in recent times, including movies. I'm fairly certain they are getting killed by their online competition and piracy and as a result just don't have that extra money to stock more product. If you were a blockbuster would you stock crappy PS2 games or fantastic Gamecube games? Comparing the fanbase, I would say the terrible PS2 game would get rented first, though I could be wrong. I'm guessing that Blockbuster follows the numbers and not the customers. It sees most Gamecube owners are children so they stock Bionicle and Flushed Away, and they see that there aren't too many systems out there compared to Sony stuff and as a result stock their stuff. Plus I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some moneyhats from Sony, considering the vast collection of Sony products they carry (including movies).

segagamer12 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 03, 2007, 03:54:50 AM »

Hastings still rents GBA games and has DS games too. But they are the only one I have ever seen rent portable games.

It wouldnt matter if Block buster, hastings, or Hollywood had the games to rent or not, they are a 100 mile round trip distance from me and when you add cost of gas and cost of game I rather just buy the game used at GS and trade it back in if it is crap or sell online.

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #41 on:** January 03, 2007, 05:16:45 PM »

All I'm saying is that the way things are going so far for the Wii this will all be a non-issue in 12 months time. If the Wii is pwning the world next Christmas just like it did this past one than I'd say all of our respective local stores will be stocking plenty of Wii titles for rent in response. This will say nothing of course for how good the selection is on a quality basis because hey, some store managers and retail chains in general are fairly retarded.

If this is not the case though and for some reason the Wii still feels no love from rental outlets despite the huge amount of success it might have then I suggest we all make like villagers in an old horror flick and go rampaging with lit torches.

...or we could just like, make an online petition or something...those work right?

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #42 on:** January 03, 2007, 06:29:59 PM »

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...or we could just like, make an online petition or something...those work right?

Yeah, but I already took the initiative and bought the torches, pitchforks and sickles.

Do you know how hard it is to get decent sickles in this day and age? No WAY we're stopping now...

JonLeung · « **Reply #43 on:** January 04, 2007, 01:47:00 AM »

Saw a commercial for it last night...maybe I'm behind the times but apparently Blockbuster has a movie rental service through the mail (not sure if this applies to games yet) similar to Netflix. Blockbuster's probably afraid of the competition now so they're doing the same thing.

Supposedly the big difference that they make a big deal about is that if you want another movie, instead of putting it in the mail and waiting, you can go to a Blockbuster location and swap it for another one.

Though I guess where games are concerned, and with a mail service I don't have to be loyal to anyone by default - just as long as they operate in Canada - I would guess that even with this service, even if it includes games, Gamefly sounds like a better choice since they'll probably still have a better selection as that is their focus. But I'm still on the fence because of the whole time/value issue. If I subscribe I'm going to feel like I'm obligated to play all of the games that I want practically constantly.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #44 on:** January 04, 2007, 02:05:21 AM »

Blockbuster online/total access has been out for a good 2 months now its just that Blockbuster corp has started spamming commercials about it now. And I remember that in the month of December the Blockbuster stores accepted Netflix mailers so customers could exchange them for free rentals but the catch was they had to cancel the Netflix account on the store's laptop and make a Blockbuster Total Access account (online). And for Blockbuster Total Access right now its movies only but I hope it will be extended to games in the future.

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #45 on:** January 04, 2007, 10:24:41 AM »

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...or we could just like, make an online petition or something...those work right?

Yeah, but I already took the initiative and bought the torches, pitchforks and sickles.

Do you know how hard it is to get decent sickles in this day and age? No WAY we're stopping now...

Oh totally! Why just the other day I was at Sickle Surplus looking at the new models and I tell you brother, they just don't make old fashioned mob/rioting villager gear like they used to. And the PRICES they ask for torches these days! What am I? A shoe cobbler or a black smith?

JonLeung · « **Reply #46 on:** January 05, 2007, 07:56:18 AM »

So the woman at Blockbuster who told me Wii rentals were two weeks must be wrong. She definitely made it sound like two weeks was the regular rental, anyway - I know it's for a week and then you own it after you don't return it after another week, and that's probably what she meant, but that's not how she worded it. The store called my house asking for Trauma Center back - the two weeks would've been over by this upcoming Sunday, but I guess the "real" due date was last Sunday. >_<

I finished the game Christmas Day (I rented it on Christmas Eve but my brother played it that day) and I certainly would've returned it much earlier. But the girl I like wanted to try Trauma Center and she's coming over this weekend, maybe. That's what frustrates me. >_<

I could still hold onto it 'til Sunday, but I won't take a chance with ending up having to purchase it. Not that it's a bad game...

Just another example of another annoying BBV experience.

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