GameStop Pulls PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution From Shelves Following OnLive Debacle

18 responses to “GameStop Pulls PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution From Shelves Following OnLive Debacle”

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   D.C.

   August 25, 2011 at 9:57 am

   That’s all kinds of crazy for launch day. :S (The tampering AND recall.)

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   Chris

   August 25, 2011 at 10:01 am

   Holy balls, what a fiasco.

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   Rod

   August 25, 2011 at 10:16 am

   One can only hope they’re going to lose a small fortune on this whole debacle.

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      Pioneer

      August 25, 2011 at 12:41 pm

      Not to mention they’re not exactly endearing themselves to any future customers of Impulse.

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   Ben

   August 25, 2011 at 10:20 am

   They should have done this from the get go. Sure, they’d lose some sales, but I think it would have mattered to Square Enix far more that they were losing a major retailer’s sales, and as a result they’d probably be in quite a rush to get copies back to Gamestop.

   However, Gamestop taking matters into their own hands is a huge PR disaster. I don’t know about the legality of it, but it doesn’t look good from the consumer’s point of view.

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5. 

   Exaemo

   August 25, 2011 at 10:37 am

   “You’re gonna burn alright”
   –JC Denton

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6. 

   Badger badger badger

   August 25, 2011 at 10:49 am

   Gamestop need to die. Not slowly and painfully, but NOW.

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   John

   August 25, 2011 at 10:53 am

   One of the few times failing to resist the pull of new TF2 items and buying the game on steam turns out to be the best option.

   Then again I haven’t bought a PC game from a shop in ages, so…

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8. 

   Todd

   August 25, 2011 at 10:55 am

   Doesn’t it just boil down to theft? Gamestop is thieving from its customers and profiting from it?

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9. 

   Ohnhai

   August 25, 2011 at 10:57 am

   I can kinda see Game Stop’s point of view. Imagine Hungry Jacks reaction if Coke started affixing vouchers for Chicken McNuggets to it’s bottles.. (assuming they sold coke in bottles. Which they don’t so…. You get the idea).

   The standard retail model is in trouble and they know it. The gaming industry will, more and more be about the digital delivery and as some one said to me the old boxes on shelves thing has got about 10 years left in it at best. Companies realise that they need a digital arm if they are to survive at all. So am I surprised that Game stop took ubrage with these cards, no, and especially not after learning that they are trying to set up their own service..

   But where they got stupid was trying to have their cake and eat it.. They should have just sent the games back to square in the first place un-opened. But no they got greedy.

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10. 

    Jake

    August 25, 2011 at 11:41 am

    This was a dumb PR move. We don’t have Gamestop here in Aus, but if something like this happened with EB, they’d get in HUGE legal trouble.

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       Zico

       August 25, 2011 at 2:24 pm

       EB is owned by Gamestop, so there’s a chance it could happen

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    THXultra

    August 25, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    The exact reason I hate buying unsealed retail games, including the paying $100+ for a game that has scratches and fingerprints already on it scenario. Online is the way to go, the first game I purchased from ozgameshop was brandnew and fully sealed at 1/3 the price – I was very impressed and will buy all my games there from now on! Only thing I’ll buy at retail is limited editions that cant be found online!

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12. 

    Steve

    August 25, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    I can’t speak to the finer points of US consumer protection law, but selling products that don’t match their description is prohibited pretty much everywhere.

    It seems that Gamestop didn’t tell customers the coupon had been removed, but had this been promoted beforehand by Square Enix or anyone else?

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13. 

    LOGic1607

    August 25, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    Ha haha…. Onlive is now a real thing?

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    1. 

       WiseHacker

       August 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm

       Has been for quite some time.

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14. 

    john

    August 26, 2011 at 12:06 am

    Edios went into an agreement with onlive to promote it’s services and was paid for it(companies don’t do those things for free) and then gamestop abritarily decides it doesn’t want to sell edios’s game and tampers with their property.
    I serously doubt the executives at gamestop are idiots. I seriously doubt they were too dumb not to be aware that this major launch title was going to have a promotion attached to it.
    IT was pretty dumb for gamestop to remove the stickers and then refuse to sell Human Revolution. For 1 it’s given Onlive free publicity, now gamestop has probaly opened itself to being sue and now t’s pissed off alot of a customers and lost sales.
    No wonder their stock has become worthless.

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    john

    August 26, 2011 at 12:24 am

    The lawsuit wouldn’t be consumer protection, nobody is going to care enough to sue edios for not including another copy of the game.
    Edios would sue Gamestop because they have lost probaly millions and potentially more considering gamestop is the largest physical outlet for game sales and it was the first week of launch. IT was a very dumb decision by gamestop.

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