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Offline Darkheart

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Is Blockbuster Wiitarded . . . .
« on: January 02, 2007, 02:22:14 AM »
I rarely make rant threads but this is becoming ridiculous. . . . .

So I decide since I just own Zelda and Trauma Center that I would go  out and rent some games at the nearby Blockbuster.  I walk in and I have to walk past the 3 ailes of Ps2 games the 1 ailse of Xbox games the 2 ailses of Xbox 360 games the aisle of PSP games (seriously what the hell they are always stocked no one even rents them . . . .)  and shoved WAY WAY WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY in the back is the Wii/GC section.   GET THIS THO, each ailse is divided into 4 sectons each one with 4 shelves.   The Wii/GC was sqeezed into one division of ONE AILSE~!  The rest of the Aile was yes you guessed it CHILDRENS MOVIES. . . . . Oh I forgot to mention that the Psp and the PS3 section was one Ailse that they shared 50/50.

So here I am bummed to hell looking at my selection of Wii games. . . . . .

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Rayman

-Redsteel



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THATS IT~!  No Zelda No Trauma Center No ELEBITS NO SUPER LOLI GOLF NO NOTHING~!  I immediately went up to the cashier and asked what was this crap in the Wii section and a kid about 19 said "Blockbuster refuses to carry Wii games until the Wii system sells a lot . . . . "  

That blew my cork off, here they are with a PSP section larger than OREGON and a Ps3 section that was made of every single damn launch game available.  I stormed out of the store and another Blockbuster coworker was outside smoking a cigarette and said, "I heard ya inside buddy, I know it sucks. . . . I have been tryin to sell my Ps3 on ebay to buy me a Wii myself, it just won't sell."  He then started to talk about Zelda and how he had been waiting out to get a Wii so he could settle down with Link's new adventure.   Our conversation eventually came back to Nintendo and Blockbuster.  He talked about it for a lil while before stating that he believed Blockbuster just didnt like Nintendo at all.   He said whenever the store redoes its layout floorplan all nintendo products are always pushed towards the back and always paired next to the childrens movies.  He also mentioned that his boss was just letting the Gamecube games slowly dissappear by letting empoyees take them home.   That would explain why the gamecube and wii section were sharing one stupid 4 shelved little division. . . .


Blah Im just so mad if renting has come down to this, I'll just wait out and just purchase my games. . . . or borrow them~!

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RE: Is Blockbuster Wiitarded . . . .
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2007, 02:44:39 AM »
The blockbuster by my place has the Wii games right next to the PS3 games. It's getting 2 shelves on one rack section. The PS3 is getting 1 whole section to itself.  I still think that rental stores didn't think the wii would sell half of what it did. As soon as more games start coming out, the rental stores will give us some wii-love.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2007, 02:46:58 AM »
Yeah, I don't think some of these stores really "get it" yet.  This is one more reason why Wii becoming highly popular will benefit us even though popularity does not equal a good system.
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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2007, 02:48:23 AM »
Oh Blockbuster...Well, you reap what you sow!
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RE: Is Blockbuster Wiitarded . . . .
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2007, 02:51:53 AM »
The ones here are worse. None of them rent any Wii games. The shelf for wii games (to buy!) at my local store is no wider than my desktop monitor.  

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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2007, 03:31:33 AM »
Hmm odd at the Blockbuster I work at our Wii section is hefty, its located after the Xbox section and right before the Gamecube section.  Our PS3 section is very small and its located before the PSP section, people barely rent out any PS3 games but the a lot of people are renting out Wii games. For what games blockbuster has it really depends on the location since if you have any experiance working for any franchise you will learn that not every store will get a fair share of distributed games,movies or ect.  
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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2007, 03:35:40 AM »
Blockbuster probably doesn't like Nintendo after Nintendo sued their butts and won.
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2007, 03:43:39 AM »
Who knows Im still bummed out that blockbusters aren't renting out any GBA and DS games. And the reason why Wii games are stuck all the way next to the gamecube section is because each store essentially has to pair console brands together so the PS3 section will be next to the PS2 and PSP sections, the 360 section will be next to the xbox and the wii will be next to the gamecube section. And when I was talking about the hefty section of the Wii section at the blockbuster I work at we have about every Wii game thats available (except for Wii sports since thats a auto include in every Wii).
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RE:Is Blockbuster Wiitarded . . . .
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2007, 03:52:38 AM »
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Blockbuster probably doesn't like Nintendo after Nintendo sued their butts and won.

Sued them over what? I would like to know what happened.

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« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2007, 03:56:04 AM »
It was quite some time ago, and it's possible I'm thinking of the wrong movie chain, but there was some various chain that was photo copying game manuals and giving them out with the rental games...  Nintendo (and, if I'm correct, some other 3rd Parties) sued and won.
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« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2007, 04:21:41 AM »
thats kinda messed up if you think about it cause they let you download and print off some of their game manuals off the internet, and I called them one time to ask if I could copy the cover of my games incase the ever got ruined I would have a back-up.  They said they don't give out permission to do it but at the same time they didn't care if I did it.
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2007, 04:46:57 AM »
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It was quite some time ago, and it's possible I'm thinking of the wrong movie chain, but there was some various chain that was photo copying game manuals and giving them out with the rental games...  Nintendo (and, if I'm correct, some other 3rd Parties) sued and won.


I'm pretty sure it was Blockbuster. About 10 years ago, I rented 1080 and Star Wars: Pod Racer for the N64 and both cartridges came with text instructions printed out from a word processor on a sheet of white paper.
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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2007, 04:48:42 AM »
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thats kinda messed up if you think about it cause they let you download and print off some of their game manuals off the internet, and I called them one time to ask if I could copy the cover of my games incase the ever got ruined I would have a back-up.  They said they don't give out permission to do it but at the same time they didn't care if I did it.


There is a big difference between you making a copy for your own personal use and a corporate entity such as Viacom (which owns Blockbuster) copying these manuals for their rental profits.
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RE: Is Blockbuster Wiitarded . . . .
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2007, 04:52:31 AM »
"-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Licensed Childrens movie

-Rayman

-Redsteel"

To be fair isn't this pretty much half of the entire Wii library.

This actually seems quite different from what Blockbuster usually does, or at least the ones in my area do.  Usually all they get are the big titles like Mario and skimp on the more minor games.  But the problem is that the big titles are rarely the games I want to rent.  Why rent Zelda?  It's f*cking Zelda!  I'm going to buy it the second I get a chance unless there was some hugely negative reviews coming in which thus far has never happened.  The games I want to rent are the more obscure titles that everyone doesn't buy.  Some people won't like them.  It's a game that sounds promising but you really want to try first.  On the Cube I rented games like Ikaruga and Skies of Arcadia.  I heard they were good games but they weren't necessarily something I knew I would like without trying first.  If I had a Wii I would want to rent Elebits.  That seems like a rent-first type of game.  Usually Blockbuster doesn't have titles like that.

Still this is a crap selection.  Let's hope it's because the Wii is so new.  I wouldn't really expect many places to rent any Wii games right now.

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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2007, 04:56:30 AM »
My Blockbuster had an OK sized section for wii games.  Last time I went was a week or so after launch to get call of duty 3.  They had it, but I will not rent games for 6.99 -7.99.  I will stick with online rental and blockbuster can just let the games go, since it doesnt seem like they give a crap anyway.
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« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2007, 05:04:48 AM »
Actually, I can't even remember the last time I've seen a Blockbuster. Hollywood Video has pretty much taken over around here, and Blockbusters have been closing down. But since I rent my movies through Netflix I don't really have a reason to goto Hollywood Video to see what kind of selection they have for anything, and since every Hollywood video has a Game Crazy*, I would assume they have all the games.

*game Crazy is like a EB Games inside of the Rental Store, it has its own walled off/self enclosed area and its own outside entrance too.

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« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2007, 05:23:26 AM »
Game Crazy is nothing like an EB Games.

Game Crazy is actually good.  Perhaps it's just because my local Game Crazy is so well ran, but I actually make a point to go into the store just to browse, as opposed to going for a reason...
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« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2007, 05:33:05 AM »
Nothing Wii related at my Blockbuster.  Not a damn thing.
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« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2007, 05:37:06 AM »
My BB has plenty of Wii games and the clerk (looked 17ish) was looking forward to playing more Red Steel at his friend's house and informed me that they had rented out quite a few Wii games but not a single PS3 game yet.
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« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2007, 05:41:56 AM »
I work at Hollywood Video, we have almost every Wii game available since launch including Excite Truck, Elebits, Zelda, Trauma Center, and Tony Hawk. No one is really renting Wii games. I know at least 24 Wiis were sold at Game Crazy, including mine, and that many of those people rent at Hollywood. My guess is that they just bought their games. To my knowledge (and I'll check tonight at work), GC is sold out of Elebits and Excite Truck.

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.....

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« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2007, 05:59:03 AM »
oh yeah well our blockbnuster still rents N64 games and didnt even bother acknowledgin GC or Wii existance. take that mister rant.


And Unclebob is quit correct,  Nintendo sued them twice and lost one and won one and cost Blockbuster tons of money.  
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« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2007, 05:59:55 AM »
damn people still rent games....  

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« Reply #22 on: January 02, 2007, 06:26:07 AM »
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damn people still rent games....


And why not?  I finish games, typically to 100%, even when game rentals were just three days.  Some RPGs might take a little longer, like closer to a week, but it'd still save a lot of money comparing to owning every game I'd want to play.

Here's my Blockbuster rant.  Blockbuster is really close to my house, so I love it for its convenience, but in the past couple years they made questionable choices about games.

They had a dozen Ribbit Kings.  WTF.  And then they didn't get Mario Superstar Baseball, even when I made a big stink about how idiotic it was that it's a MARIO game, a guaranteed good rental - I probably should've pointed out the ridiculousness of stocking up on Ribbit King.  I asked them if any other Blockbuster had Mario Superstar Baseball, and the manager made some calls and told me there were only eight copies - for ALL OF CANADA.  None in Edmonton.  I'm thinking this is some kind of BS because I know our store alone has like that many copies of every Mario Party game that comes out, so why not Mario Superstar Baseball?  The idiocy was that it was featured on the web site as the GameCube game of the month back in September 2005, so that really should mean that most if not all stores should have at least one copy!  >_<  They told me to go to Rogers Video (their competition!) which I eventually did, like a year later, just for that game.

On a related note, the Blockbuster employees knew how frustrated I was and felt really bad the first night they got Super Mario Strikers, another Mario sports game.  I took it to the till and said they couldn't rent it out because it "wasn't received properly".  So first you don't get baseball, and now that you get soccer, you wait until I make it to the front of the line to tell me I can't get it.  Thanks a lot.  Sure, it's not any individual's fault but you'd think they'd give me something for my trouble since they knew they were frustrating my brains out over the same series of games.  They used to give me things like $15 in credit when disputing late games (I never return games late) but now all I get are weak apologies.  Not even like a free rental or a bag of popcorn or even a dollar off coupon or SOMETHING.

This year, they didn't get Chibi-Robo, and they didn't get Odama.  I thought they gave up on GameCube games but they recently got copies of Flushed Away and after the Wii came out, some copies of a recent LEGO Bionicle game.  So they won't get Nintendo's own last GameCube games, but they'll get some third-party and licensed crap (though I may be wrong about assuming Bionicle is crap, the LEGO Star Wars games were good).  Oh, yeah, they also didn't get Baten Kaitos Origins.  Pac-Man World Rally was actually the best of the last few GameCube games I rented.

The Wii?  Sure, they've got it.  It's a small section, and it cuts into the former GameCube section, but at least it's not as tiny as some of you guys say.  They've got a few copies of Zelda (though I do own that, actually) so it's not like they snub Nintendo's own games.  However, they charge more for Wii and PS3 games now.  It's like $10 (Canadian) to rent a game now.  Why?  It's not like next-gen games are actually longer or anything.  Sure, they tell me I can keep it for two weeks now but Trauma Center and RRR are collecting dust at home, I should probably return them...

If they come out with Wii Player's Choice games, if and when Blockbuster charges any more, owning more games will become a likely prospect.  Or Gamefly.  Sheesh.

That Rogers Video I mentioned, where I started up a membership JUST for Mario Superstar Baseball?  I've never rented anything else since.  Their selection and Blockbuster's is like night and day.  What is this crap?  I've never heard of some of these games, and I'm sure there's a reason why.  Scaler?  Bad Boys II?  Blockbuster is still smarter in this regard but it boggles the mind how and why they can be oblivious to certain titles.  

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« Reply #23 on: January 02, 2007, 06:28:56 AM »
I prefer Gamefly for renting the games which I was moderately curious about yet don't want to pay $6 to rent.
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« Reply #24 on: January 02, 2007, 06:36:02 AM »
Gamefly sounds to me like they would have a better selection than my Blockbuster.  The thing that bothers me is paying a little over $20 a month for a constant flow of games.

I don't have that much time on my hands.  Okay, maybe I do but I spend too much time playing games as it is.  If I get some games from Gamefly, I can take my time with them without worrying about late fees, however, it's more worth my money to finish a game ASAP and get the next game on my queue and then try to finish that ASAP.  The constant flow of games means that I'll be more addicted to video games than I already am.  I may save money, but I'll be spending too much time.  And if I take my time with the games, I'll feel like the subscription isn't worth it.

As I said, it's always looking more and more like a better alternative to Blockbuster, but still not yet.