Personally, I hate gamestop and game stores in general. I use to shop at Best Buy but now I find that amazon has everything for MUCH cheaper.
Brand new, Lost Planet 2 is 40 bucks, still 60 in stores.
[QUOTE=Tudd Fudders;22503516]I got 3d dot game heroes for 35$ when it was only out for a week.
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watch it stay at $35 for the next year or two.
[QUOTE=Makol;22503542]watch it stay at $35 for the next year or two.[/QUOTE]
Still better than gamestop, and amazon beats both.
Amazon beats almost everything at everything.
[QUOTE=Tudd Fudders;22503563]Still better than gamestop, and amazon beats both.[/QUOTE]
Actually GameStop just had a weekend deal where 3D Dot Game Heroes was only $30 and they gave you $10 credit toward a future purchase when you bought it. :eng101:
[QUOTE=Makol;22503542]watch it stay at $35 for the next year or two.[/QUOTE]
It was $30 at Gamestop last week, ended on Sunday I guess.
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I go to Gamestop for my console games, which I don't buy very often. I will say that they have incredible deals at times.
I was talking about Frys but ok.
[QUOTE=Shugo;22502479]I only use GameStop if they have a great deal (like when I was able to get 20% off Super Mario Galaxy 2 AND they gave me $20 toward a future purchase) or if they have an exclusive pre-order bonus.
Otherwise they can sod off. I hate how they shove their shit in my face every time I walk into their store and ALL the clerks at the many GameStops around my area are assholes. And trust me, there are a lot; one of the roads around here has [b]four fucking GameStops within a few miles from each other[/b]. The only good part of GameStop is their online store, and that's only when they have good deals.
Otherwise I usually support the superior store Game Crazy, but now GameStop has run the only Game Crazy in my area out of business. I'm pissed. The clerks there were super nice.[/QUOTE]
That sucks! The only reason I continue to go to Gamestop is because the clerks have always been very nice/understanding. So, the opposite of your experiences.
Gamestop: Where they take a used game, tell you it's a shelf copy, and sell it to you for new price.
GameStop are alright, the store closest to me has some really cool workers!
I got Medieval 2: Total War Gold for $20!... but the cd key doesn't work for multiplayer unless you capitalize the letters with regedit.
Here's the fix for anyone that has bought the game from them and can't get past the login.
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You're getting the error message:
"Login failed - invalid CD-key"
Right this is how to resolve (with thanks to various posters)
You cannot change the cd-key ingame anymore (most likely for the protection against illegal games), so you have to do other things.
Open Start
Click Run
Type: regedit
Now go to this: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/SEGA/Medieval II Total War"
Now you'll see a value representing the CD-key. Change it to what it should be. You could have done the following wrong:
-Don't type spaces
-Do type the "-"s
-Don't use "o"s use "0"s
-Type everything (except for the numbers obviously) in capital letters
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This thread scares me with all the weirdly scaled images.
[QUOTE=Cyan_Husky;22505664]Gamestop: Where they take a used game, tell you it's a shelf copy, and sell it to you for new price.[/QUOTE]
Bull. Report the employees.
I've read many people's opinions on Gamestop, and it sounds the exact opposite of the Gamestops I go to. The employees there are cool, and they're not constantly shoving deals and preorder special in my face like everyone says they do. As for game trade-in value, I'm not sure if it's just the stores I go to, but trade-in values are pretty reasonable. Whenever I go to buy a brand new $60 game, I only need to save up to about $40, since the credit from a couple games I trade in cover up the rest of the cost. I never really felt ripped off from trade-in value, I always look at the receipt to see what I got for them and they're some pretty good bargains.
[QUOTE=flamester;22501879]Alienware the best? To be honest I think it's overpriced, you can make a desktop just as good as what they have for a lot cheaper.[/QUOTE]
I think that they look cool and if you can afford one then you probably don't care about saving money.
Here in Florida the gamestop clerks are pretty cool, and the trade in value is decent as well
ewww a black wii.
Would anyone recommend a used PS3? I've been planning on buying one but I'm pretty cheap and most stores seem to only sell 120GB PS3s which I don't think I need at all.
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Also wow I thought Compaq went out of business a while ago
Who wants me to post the essay I wrote about me trying to buy Dragon Age from Gamestop? It's pretty meaty though, about 1300 words.
[QUOTE=OutOfExile;22526280]Also wow I thought Compaq went out of business a while ago[/QUOTE]
Compaq is owned by HP. It's basically their budget line of PCs.
[QUOTE=Xyzzy;22526381]Who wants me to post the essay I wrote about me trying to buy Dragon Age from Gamestop? It's pretty meaty though, about 1300 words.[/QUOTE]
Post it please.
[QUOTE=Stupideye;22526398]Post it please.[/QUOTE]
[quote=me]So I had a $20 gift card to a little known establishment called Gamestop. I had gotten it for my birthday, and since I was out and about recently I decided to see what the local Gamestop had in stock so I could purchase some stuff.
I had researched what I wanted previously (which was a copy of Persona 3 or 4, whichever was available) and Gamestop unfortunately had be best prices on a used copy. I couldn’t buy either of those new, because the Playstation 2 has gone out a style very recently and no one wants to sell games for it anymore. But Persona 3 was recommended for me and I needed to fulfill my odd urges to buy lengthy eighty-hour RPGs that I would never finish, so I sought those two out.
Upon approaching the Used Playstation Games section of Gamestop, which is little more than a cart in the center of the building, stacked full of a games, I saw to my dismay that not only was Persona not in this cart, but no other games starting with the letter P. I was slightly saddened, partially because the game was not there and partially because I was sure that I would spend the next half-hour trying to decide what I should buy with my Gamestop FunBux.
I did the only thing I could do: I scooted over to the PC games section. The PC games section was also a small cart on the side of the building, and it seemed shabby in comparison to the wall-length spreads dedicated to the other, more illustrious systems. But I was determined to get rid of this festering plague of a plastic card, so I looked through it. I didn’t see much that was in my price range of $30 or less, so I wandered around for a bit until I saw something that caught my eye. What ended up doing just that was the displayed copy of Dragon Age: Origins.
Now, I was interested in Dragon Age because of recommendations and also because of my two-hour, forcibly terminated and confused love affair with Neverwinter Nights 2. I ended up ignoring my unhelpful brother’s recommendations of Fallout 3 (since I didn’t need another copy of Oblivion, hyuck hyuck) and went ahead and took it up to the counter.
Unfortunately, my definitely-not-under-the-age-of-seventeen appearance and school-issued ID wasn’t enough to convince the skeptical clerk of my age (because he had something called the RULEZ (apparently RULEZ is a word, according to spell-check) that he needed to follow). I waved Ian over and he vouched for my identity by flashing his driver’s license. How that keeps kids away from buying M rated games baffles me but whatever.
I handed the clerk my Gamestop Magic Money and some extra to cover the difference, and he took my empty display box, put the disc in and used a plastic sticker to seal it shut. I had seen another card filled with PS2 games, but alas, no Persona could be found. So I accepted the bag with my new video game in it, and walked gleefully out of the store waiting to start installing.
I did what I normally do when opening games. I ripped the indestructo-pricetag off, tore off the plastic sealing sticker, and popped open the box. Much to my delight I saw the red-on-white Dragon Age: Origins disc gleaming up at me. Much to my horror I noticed the absence of a manual. Now, when Bioware releases a game, they generally include a manual the size of a small novel in alongside the game in order to help new players try it out. However, even as much as I enjoy reading manuals, that wasn’t why I was unhappy about the missing manual. I was more worried about the CD key, which you need to install the game. Without it, my glorious fun-filled disc was simply a piece of plastic, unable to be installed. Also, I was missing my free voucher for a downloadable quest, which peeved me a little. By this time, we were already on East Avenue.
Fortunately, my traveling compatriots were unopposed to the idea of turning around and confronting the cashiers at Gamestop. So we went back. And I walked up to the counter with the game and confronted them in my characteristically mildly annoyed manner. They searched the drawers behind the counter for a manual (which there should have been one, seeing as there were two copies on the shelf) and ignored the shrink-wrapped copy on top of the counter. I’m not annoyed by that, because it was probably the expansion pack.
But their search proved to be in vain, so they called the other Gamestop in [That city I live in]. Nothing. They didn’t even sell PC games, the terrible people. So the cashier, who were nice enough all things considered, offered to return my game as defective. I did, and he handed me back my Gamestop Wonder Card.
I was kind of annoyed by this. The entire purpose of my journey was to get rid of this foul tormentor, and now I was stuck with it. Again. The only thing I could really do was to walk out of the store. I was kind of amused by the forty-something woman wander in asking about the “Modern Warfares” and then try to figure out what system she had, because it was obvious she was going to purchase it for her offspring or something, so the trip wasn’t really in vain.
I guess I can’t really complain about any of the stuff that Gamestop does, even though this is the third time (out of four) I’ve had problems purchasing from them. I can’t complain about the cashiers, since they were simply doing their jobs and they were nice anyway. I can complain about their practice of opening games, taking the discs out, inserting them into terrible plastic sleeves then selling them as new. I know it deters theft, but it seems to cause more problems than it solves honestly. It makes the disadvantages of buying from retail stores, well, this one in particular, outweigh the advantages honestly.
PREVIOUSLY:
I walked in to buy a copy of Counter-strike. They had it. They carded my dad (since I was just turning sixteen). I walked out of the store. I entered my key into Steam. It installed. I played it for a bit, never online. Success.
EVEN MORE PREVIOUSLY:
I walk into Gamestop. I think I was about thirteen or something, a wonderful time when all games were NEW and EXCITING and I had a greater tolerance for TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE GAMES compared to now. I walked over to the PC game aisle and see, much to my everlasting joy, a copy of Battlefield 1942: Complete Edition! What happiness! It’s a PC game in stunning THREE DEES! That’s one more DEES than TWO DEES. It was at that moment when I knew that I needed to have it. So I dragged my mom in and she purchased it for me, since I had no moneys. I opened the box in the car, and much to my dismay, there was only two discs in the box. It normally contained eight. What.
EVEN MORE PREVIOUSLIER (THIS IS NOW A WORD)
I bought a used Gamecube game. There was a gigantic gouge in the top and it didn’t work. Nice work, Gamestop.[/quote]
Bam, there it is.
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