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arkarian: 2016-02-17 09:22:01 pm

2016-02-17 09:20:23 pm

red chamber dream

but i mean yeah, it's not the kid's fault but he does indeed represent the company at point of sale, so tough shit for him. he's getting paid. could go find a better job if he wanted

Toozin

2016-02-17 09:26:18 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

If you went to a toy store to buy the new collectable toy and they handed you something out of it's package, you would rightfully call bullshit on that. It doesn't matter if the toy never left the store, that's not new anymore. No reason to treat a videogame differently.

arkarian

2016-02-17 09:31:59 pm

red chamber dream

on a related note i just got my copy of xenoblade chronicles x and it does have an insert - a 5-page foldout explaining how to access the electronic manual

way to save trees, nintendo

Toozin

2016-02-17 09:34:49 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Haha, love those inserts.

DJGrenola

2016-02-17 10:56:52 pm

nice ark, I've played that for like an hour which is basically only when the game actually starts, I should be playing it more

DJGrenola

2016-02-17 10:57:43 pm

I sort of want to restart actually, I think restarting after an hour might be some sort of JRPG player trope actually

arkarian

2016-02-17 11:28:58 pm

red chamber dream

hah yeah i've certainly done it several times

did you play the first one? gotta be one of my favorite rpgs ever

DJGrenola

2016-02-17 11:30:32 pm

no, I didn't, I dunno why

Toozin

2016-02-17 11:32:00 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

If you like XCX you'll probably like XC, although they are surprisingly different in terms of structure.

arkarian

2016-02-18 12:07:52 am

red chamber dream

the first was kind of like final fantasy + majora's mask + mmo combat and exploration

DJGrenola

2016-02-18 12:10:38 am

not that this is your fault, but I've never played any of those so that description couldn't be more useless lol

Poision Envy

2016-02-18 12:12:45 am

Club 27 Goals

Quote from arkarian:

i like how poision is reciting the gamestop standard line lol

I have, on my life, never once worked for gamestop. I don't even like shopping at gamestop.

But thinking they're trying to trick you or are lying to you about a game being new is silly.

Quote from arkarian:

amazon doesn't need to take new games out of their shrinkwrap. nor does any other store. there's no reason gamestop needs to either. it's bullshit.

I mean, the reason gamestop does it is largely security and organization. Best Buy does the exact same thing with new game releases, unless it's a small best buy.

Quote from Toozin:

If you went to a toy store to buy the new collectable toy and they handed you something out of it's package, you would rightfully call bullshit on that. It doesn't matter if the toy never left the store, that's not new anymore. No reason to treat a videogame differently.

They don't open the collector's editions of games, and if you pre-order a game they won't open it.

But, hey, spoiler alert, all these stores have a shrink-wrap machine in them. when you ask for a sealed copy, you wanna know what that kid does? Take it to the back and wrap it up. Or at least that used to be the case.

[quote="arkarian"]i like how poision is reciting the gamestop standard line lol[/quote]
I have, on my life, never once worked for gamestop. I don't even like shopping at gamestop.

But thinking they're trying to trick you or are lying to you about a game being new is silly.

[quote="arkarian"]amazon doesn't need to take new games out of their shrinkwrap. nor does any other store. there's no reason gamestop needs to either. it's bullshit.[/quote]
I mean, the reason gamestop does it is largely security and organization. Best Buy does the exact same thing with new game releases, unless it's a small best buy.

[quote="Toozin"]If you went to a toy store to buy the new collectable toy and they handed you something out of it's package, you would rightfully call bullshit on that. It doesn't matter if the toy never left the store, that's not new anymore. No reason to treat a videogame differently.[/quote]
They don't open the collector's editions of games, and if you pre-order a game they won't open it.

But, hey, spoiler alert, all these stores have a shrink-wrap machine in them. when you ask for a sealed copy, you wanna know what that kid does? Take it to the back and wrap it up. Or at least that used to be the case.

Poision Envy

2016-02-18 12:13:12 am

Club 27 Goals

but seriously fuck gamestop

but if you think they're scamming you by taking the CD out and putting it back in, lol.

arkarian

2016-02-18 12:16:02 am

red chamber dream

yeah it's not a scam, it's just scummy

i'll gladly buy from amazon who always has shrink wrapped copies and for less

Poision Envy

2016-02-18 12:16:20 am

Club 27 Goals

yeah for sure, I totally agree with that and do the same lol

Poision Envy

2016-02-18 12:17:59 am

Club 27 Goals

I just wouldn't accuse a gamestop employee of lying, being full of shit, and tricking me by offering a new game without shrinkwrap. Especially if my intentions of going into gamestop were to buy the game used to begin with.

arkarian

2016-02-18 12:18:36 am

red chamber dream

lol that much is true

Opium

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Opium: 2016-02-18 10:24:49 am

Opium: 2016-02-18 10:23:54 am

Opium: 2016-02-18 10:23:30 am

2016-02-18 10:03:16 am

Quote from Poision Envy:

I just wouldn't accuse a gamestop employee of lying, being full of shit, and tricking me by offering a new game without shrinkwrap. Especially if my intentions of going into gamestop were to buy the game used to begin with.

Just to be clear, I don't fault the employee for gamestop's policy. And I'm not going back in there and saying he didn't put the sticker on there because I have no idea if he would get in trouble for something like that, and retail employees already have shitty enough jobs. I wouldn't tell him that he was personally full of shit, don't take that so literally. If I could go back, I would say something like 'Is that really 'new' according to the return policy, or just 'new' when you determine how much to sell it for?" And then he probably would have put the sticker on it and told me 'Now it's new according to the return policy if you don't fuck with this sticker.'

Yeah, I went in there to buy a used game, and he offered me a 'new' one that was not 'new' according to the return policy. It's an upsell minus one of the assumed benefits of said upsell. How can you not see this as shitty?

[quote="Poision Envy"]I just wouldn't accuse a gamestop employee of lying, being full of shit, and tricking me by offering a new game without shrinkwrap. Especially if my intentions of going into gamestop were to buy the game used to begin with.[/quote]

Just to be clear, I don't fault the employee for gamestop's policy.  And I'm not going back in there and saying he didn't put the sticker on there because I have no idea if he would get in trouble for something like that, and retail employees already have shitty enough jobs. I wouldn't tell him that he was personally full of shit, don't take that so literally.  If I could go back, I would say something like 'Is that really 'new' according to the return policy, or just 'new' when you determine how much to sell it for?" And then he probably would have put the sticker on it and told me 'Now it's new according to the return policy if you don't fuck with this sticker.'

Yeah, I went in there to buy a used game, and he offered me a 'new' one that was not 'new' according to the return policy. It's an upsell minus one of the assumed benefits of said upsell.  How can you not see this as shitty?

ryu

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ryu: 2016-02-18 10:36:13 am

2016-02-18 10:36:01 am

fucking gamestop.

for what system did you get DaSII? And was it Scholar of the first sin or classic?

Opium

2016-02-18 10:46:14 am

Scholar of the First Sin for PS3. Then I learned in here that it's available on PS4 and it's much better. I paid $20 for it and will trade it in for probably $3. Lesson learned.

ryu

2016-02-18 02:28:43 pm

Should have looked the game up on amazon. And then asked us which version to get. >_>

The PS4 version isn't exactly worlds better, so it's fine. Just darker in some areas and the increase in framerate and resolution doesn't help making the game look super awesome or anything.

ryu

2016-02-18 02:29:19 pm

At least you got SOTFS.

Serris

2016-02-18 02:38:56 pm

Quote from ryu:

The PS4 version isn't exactly worlds better, so it's fine. Just darker in some areas and the increase in framerate and resolution doesn't help making the game look super awesome or anything.

Dear reader,

this opinion is very wrong and can be safely dismissed. No one in their right mind would recommend playing the PS3 version of DS2.

Yours truly,

the Quality Souls Experience Force

ryu

2016-02-18 02:42:27 pm

I'm not recommending it, just saying it's not a great loss.

The game looks kind of shitty anyways.

Serris

2016-02-18 02:43:45 pm

That's what a PS3 player would think! Ha!