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[Pixel Fist]

Might be worth mentioning...
Xbox owners you can get £25 for trading in PvZ Garden Warfare 2 at shopto just now.
It goes in to the EA Access vault at the end of August.
Might as well get rid of it now if you have the disc, get most of your money back and still be able to play it next month

Good shout, posting mine off in the morning!

 

[Auctopus]

Cheapest place for SFV on PS4?

 

[zaphod79]

Cheapest place for SFV on PS4?

Its been in various PSN offers over the last month or so but normally £30 (so with discounted PSN cash mid 20's)

£25 at game for the steelbook edition seems the cheapest physical at the moment

http://www.game.co.uk/en/street-fig...-914762?pageSize=20&searchTerm=street fighter

£27 - £31 for most other places (amazon / shopto / thegamecollection / Base / Tesco)

 

[Auctopus]

Its been in various PSN offers over the last month or so but normally £30 (so with discounted PSN cash mid 20's)

£25 at game for the steelbook edition seems the cheapest physical at the moment

http://www.game.co.uk/en/street-fig...-914762?pageSize=20&searchTerm=street fighter

£27 - £31 for most other places (amazon / shopto / thegamecollection / Base / Tesco)

Thanks

 

[basic_text]

Tempted to get Project X Zone 2 for less than 18£ (on base and other websites). Doubt it'll get any lower before some time, right?

Grainger games have had it for £15 for a while!

 

[Tony Iron Man Stark]

Is there a Neogaf thread like Cheap Arse Gaffer, but for NA?

 

[YianGaruga]

Is there a Neogaf thread like Cheap Arse Gaffer, but for NA?

no, good deals are usually posted as individual threads

Good source for NA deals is Wario64 on twitter

 

[XP_version2]

Grainger games have had it for £15 for a while!

Though be warned, their 'new' copies are usually pre-owned copies that look reasonable enough....or not reasonable enough occasionally.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

May have already been mentioned before but the witcher 3 is only £19.99 on digital download on PS4. I jut bit as its not really my type of game but just looks so good for exploring that at that price I must get my money's worth?!

 

[Hutchie]

Odin sphere vita deals anywhere?

 

[foobarry81]

Odin sphere vita deals anywhere?

The American release is in Play-Asia's weekly sale: http://www.play-asia.com/odin-sphere-leifthrasir/13/709hbv

Not sure how good a deal it is though.

 

[Eolz]

Grainger games have had it for £15 for a while!

Yeah, missed that deal when it was there

 

[Saoshyant]

I can't find any remotely discounted deal anywhere, but I guess it's worth asking: is anyone aware if there's a discount of any sort for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE anywhere in the EU? Every place is either charging MSRP or apparently increasing the prices slowly but steadly. I'm talking the standard version, not even the LE.

 

[Southcott]

I can't find any remotely discounted deal anywhere, but I guess it's worth asking: is anyone aware if there's a discount of any sort for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE anywhere in the EU? Every place is either charging MSRP or apparently increasing the prices slowly but steadly. I'm talking the standard version, not even the LE.

Always the way with titles like that, I wouldn't expect to find it for much less than £39.99, and once the copies start dwindling expect it to slowly rise.

 

[Hasney]

I can't find any remotely discounted deal anywhere, but I guess it's worth asking: is anyone aware if there's a discount of any sort for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE anywhere in the EU? Every place is either charging MSRP or apparently increasing the prices slowly but steadly. I'm talking the standard version, not even the LE.

Sounds about right. Probably got a single print run since it's a Japanese ass JRPG by Atlus and published by Nintendo.

Best chance is probably an eShop sale unless Nintendo ever decides to put it in their budget line.

 

[Saoshyant]

Dang. It's amusing that even in my tiny country, I can find not one but two copies of the LE in our biggest classified ads site -- from what are clearly scalper sellers, but they aren't even charging that much surprisingly -- while I cannot find a single copy of the standard edition, new or preowned. Importing's always more expensive due to shipping and without a discount anywhere I will have to discard that as an option for now (currently hurting for money).

Well, thanks for the replies either way.

 

[E_Darkness]

I can't find any remotely discounted deal anywhere, but I guess it's worth asking: is anyone aware if there's a discount of any sort for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE anywhere in the EU? Every place is either charging MSRP or apparently increasing the prices slowly but steadly. I'm talking the standard version, not even the LE.

Sadly this isn't the kind of game to have a deal. And if it does it means that they're likely trying to get rid of stock. They probably shipped just enough of the game to keep it at full price. If you really want it cheaper then waiting for an eShop sale is your best bet.

 

[YianGaruga]

welp my CC was compromised again. Nothing happened but my bank detected it and will send me a new one.

Anyone else had problems recently?

Now my OTHER CC I had as a backup was also compromised. I haven't used it for 6 months and only used it on thegamecollection and VGP while my other card was canceled. Now 5 days later it was also cancelled because of suspicious activity

Fucking great

I was still willing to give VGP the benefit of the doubt but there's almost no way it wasn't them

 

[The Red Wizard]

Did you used PayPal or just the card?

 

[Scavenger]

In 2014 my credit card was compromised and I suspected either VGP or Screenarchives. Looks like it was VGP all along and last month I ordered something from VGP with my credit card for the first time since 2014. :-(

 

[Famassu]

Now my OTHER CC I had as a backup was also compromised. I haven't used it for 6 months and only used it on thegamecollection and VGP while my other card was canceled. Now 5 days later it was also cancelled because of suspicious activity

Fucking great

I was still willing to give VGP the benefit of the doubt but there's almost no way it wasn't them

Hmm? They failed to take any money on your account? I also had my card compromised and got a call last friday from my bank, but I actually had some Hernandez Mrcios Attorney charge a whopping 0,59€ from my account (good luck with that >_>;;. I do have an account on VG+, so I guess it might be time to stop giving them my card info and start using PayPal.

 

[Auctopus]

I've used TGC plenty and never had an issue. Not to say it makes it fact but by what the other user said, sounds like it might be VGP. Their website does not look great imo.

 

[GetDigitized]

Hmm? They failed to take any money on your account? I also had my card compromised and got a call last friday from my bank, but I actually had some Hernandez Mrcios Attorney charge a whopping 0,59€ from my account (good luck with that >_>;;. I do have an account on VG+, so I guess it might be time to stop giving them my card info and start using PayPal.

Probably a test charge to see if the details still work etc. Paypal is safe on VGP if anyone else is wondering - that's what I've used in my 4-5 orders with them and haven't had any issues with Paypal.
Might want to change your passwords if they're the same for other websites, if they can get cc details passwords isn't a huge stretch is it?

EDIT- Also, what's the best place to buy a vita memory card, want one for my PSTV , already have a 64gb in my vita...No where is selling them at RRP by themselves, even the game packs are OOS, except for a 4gb pack for £15 @ Amazon.

 

[FlyStarJay]

Kingdoms of amalur on grainger for PS3. £3.99. 😋 Bought this morning

 

[Saoshyant]

I just received an email from VGP (about Shiren 5) and immediately remembered this thread's constantly bringing it up how shoddy VGP's security is (like today). Let me give you an example.

This is the URL address that the email message listed for me with some parts censored with "YYY":

http://www.videogamesplus.ca/account_history_info.php?order_id=YYY&email_address=YYY

Basically, it's a page that tells everything about your order: your real name, your home address, your payment method, the things you bought, etc. Here's the catch: you don't even need to be logged to see this. All you need to know is a combination of an existing order number and the associated user's email address to find out a gigantic leak of information about someone. And I found this out by simply clicking on the link on my work's browser (which had never logged into VGP), so if I realized this, consider it public knowledge for any of the maaaany phishers out there.

If you don't understand the seriousness of this issue, let me spell it for you: a bot can try a tremendous amount of order number/email combinations per second until it finds a valid receipt with all its information to leak, probably including credit card information. I've contacted VGP regarding this (from their site), but more people seriously need to give them a hard time for this mess. It is not acceptable in any way.

 

[Benedict]

I just received an email from VGP (about Shiren 5) and immediately remembered this thread's constantly bringing it up how shoddy VGP's security is (like today). Let me give you an example.

This is the URL address that the email message listed for me with some parts censored with "YYY":

http://www.videogamesplus.ca/account_history_info.php?order_id=YYY&email_address=YYY

Basically, it's a page that tells everything about your order: your real name, your home address, your payment method, the things you bought, etc. Here's the catch: you don't even need to be logged to see this. All you need to know is a combination of an existing order number and the associated user's email address to find out a gigantic leak of information about someone. And I found this out by simply clicking on the link on my work's browser (which had never logged into VGP), so if I realized this, consider it public knowledge for any of the maaaany phishers out there.

If you don't understand the seriousness of this issue, let me spell it for you: a bot can try a tremendous amount of order number/email combinations per second until it finds a valid receipt with all its information to leak, probably including credit card information. I've contacted VGP regarding this (from their site), but more people seriously need to give them a hard time for this mess. It is not acceptable in any way.

That's thread-worthy. Make a new thread about it. That's a serious issue that need to be fixed.

 

[Saoshyant]

I think I may just do that when I get home. I'm currently so mad about this I was trying to figure out Twitter to pester them there, too.

 

[Moze]

Is the 500gb Xbox One S Halo bundle available anywhere? Are we even getting it? Is the 500gb even coming out on the 23rd in Europe?

 

[Saoshyant]

That's thread-worthy. Make a new thread about it. That's a serious issue that need to be fixed.

I've decided against it for the moment. Before this gets too much attention I think it would be better to give them a day to see if they are willing to fix it. I've contacted them through their web site and now through their twitter. If they don't reply saying they will fix it or ask for more information or whatever until tomorrow I'm going to raise a whole lot of hell. This isn't even on the level of "oh, I think I may have gotten my credit card info stolen from maybe that store" -- there's no maybe here, it happened. And it will continue to happen and anyone who has ever ordered anything from VGP probably has all of their information on some phishers database, including me!

 

[oldmario]

to add to the VG+ suspicion, the only time i used my card there i got an alert from my bank a couple weeks after i had made an order saying someone else had used my card to buy some expensive stuff online

 

[GetDigitized]

The order url thing is actually an order tracking tool on their website, if you click order status on the left on any page other than the homepage you can see the tool... Not saying that it's ok... Just that they know it's a thing & isn't an oversight.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

Alright cheap arse GAF. I'm going to be getting a white PS Vita 2000 from Play-Asia, any recommendations for a good/cheap place to pick up a 64GB card from? I found one on eBay for £72.90, looks like the cheapest. It's a similar price on Play-Asia, but this eBay one is from Ireland and would mean no import tax if my Play-Asia package gets stopped by customs. Any recommendations for a carry case, also? Ideally not a soft one which wouldn't be able to withstand drops/being squashed against things in a rucksack.

Please don't say Nippon Yassan. Their customer service is total, utter shit and I'd rather pay more elsewhere.

Thanks.

P.S. I'm in the UK, but don't mind importing.

 

[GetDigitized]

Alright cheap arse GAF. I'm going to be getting a white PS Vita 2000 from Play-Asia, any recommendations for a good/cheap place to pick up a 64GB card from? I found one on eBay for £72.90, looks like the cheapest. It's a similar price on Play-Asia, but this eBay one is from Ireland and would mean no import tax if my Play-Asia package gets stopped by customs. Any recommendations for a carry case, also? Ideally not a soft one which wouldn't be able to withstand drops/being squashed against things in a rucksack.

Please don't say Nippon Yassan. Their customer service is total, utter shit and I'd rather pay more elsewhere.

Thanks.

P.S. I'm in the UK, but don't mind importing.

Like 2 years ago, super-ufo was being recommended on the vita subreddit, their site looks crappy af but they're trustworthy.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

Like 2 years ago, super-ufo was being recommended on the vita subreddit, their site looks crappy af but they're trustworthy.

Thanks. You're right about the website looking horrible. Looks like something from the late 90s.

 

[Scavenger]

Alright cheap arse GAF. I'm going to be getting a white PS Vita 2000 from Play-Asia, any recommendations for a good/cheap place to pick up a 64GB card from? I found one on eBay for £72.90, looks like the cheapest. It's a similar price on Play-Asia, but this eBay one is from Ireland and would mean no import tax if my Play-Asia package gets stopped by customs. Any recommendations for a carry case, also? Ideally not a soft one which wouldn't be able to withstand drops/being squashed against things in a rucksack.

Please don't say Nippon Yassan. Their customer service is total, utter shit and I'd rather pay more elsewhere.

Thanks.

P.S. I'm in the UK, but don't mind importing.

I'd say avoid Play-Asia and buy both the memory card and the Vita console from Amazon.co.jp. The Vita is considerably cheaper at Amazon.co.jp, and you pay import tax in advance, so no hassle.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

Alright cheap arse GAF. I'm going to be getting a white PS Vita 2000 from Play-Asia, any recommendations for a good/cheap place to pick up a 64GB card from? I found one on eBay for £72.90, looks like the cheapest. It's a similar price on Play-Asia, but this eBay one is from Ireland and would mean no import tax if my Play-Asia package gets stopped by customs. Any recommendations for a carry case, also? Ideally not a soft one which wouldn't be able to withstand drops/being squashed against things in a rucksack.

Please don't say Nippon Yassan. Their customer service is total, utter shit and I'd rather pay more elsewhere.

Thanks.

P.S. I'm in the UK, but don't mind importing.

I'm never using Play-Asia again. I ordered a couple of games from them a few months ago and got stung really badly on import tax.

 

[foobarry81]

I'm never using Play-Asia again. I ordered a couple of games from them a few months ago and got stung really badly on import tax.

Well, they put the actual value on their packages, so naturally you will have to pay VAT when they enter your country and the value of your games/hardware exceeds £15/€22.

You can however

Spoiler

contact Play-Asia CS and ask them to mark your package down. They will do that, but you have to ask them.

 

[GetDigitized]

So I haven't used GAME's website to shop since the redesign... IS there a way to sort by things sold by GAME, their marketplace sellers are pretty shit and only have high prices.

Also, my playstation VR order is now for DNU playstation vr, any idea what that means? And how do i check if I'm getting mine on release?

 

[EmiPrime]

I just received an email from VGP (about Shiren 5) and immediately remembered this thread's constantly bringing it up how shoddy VGP's security is (like today). Let me give you an example.

This is the URL address that the email message listed for me with some parts censored with "YYY":

http://www.videogamesplus.ca/account_history_info.php?order_id=YYY&email_address=YYY

Basically, it's a page that tells everything about your order: your real name, your home address, your payment method, the things you bought, etc. Here's the catch: you don't even need to be logged to see this. All you need to know is a combination of an existing order number and the associated user's email address to find out a gigantic leak of information about someone. And I found this out by simply clicking on the link on my work's browser (which had never logged into VGP), so if I realized this, consider it public knowledge for any of the maaaany phishers out there.

If you don't understand the seriousness of this issue, let me spell it for you: a bot can try a tremendous amount of order number/email combinations per second until it finds a valid receipt with all its information to leak, probably including credit card information. I've contacted VGP regarding this (from their site), but more people seriously need to give them a hard time for this mess. It is not acceptable in any way.

I have been boycotting VGP since their first breach as it was laughably easy for anyone to gain access to their customer database. They deserved to go under for that.

That said when I copy and pasted the URL of one of my old orders from one browser to another, I got a login prompt. Not that email addresses appearing in order URLs isn't stupid.

 

[YianGaruga]

I have been boycotting VGP since their first breach as it was laughably easy for anyone to gain access to their customer database. They deserved to go under for that.

That said when I copy and pasted the URL of one of my old orders from one browser to another, I got a login prompt. Not that email addresses appearing in order URLs isn't stupid.

VGP has this weird thing where it randomly redirects you to a login page every now and then. The link should work if you paste it a second time

 

[EmiPrime]

VGP has this weird thing where it randomly redirets you to a login page every now and then. The link should work if you paste it a second time

Oh my god you're right! This is nuts.

I really want VGP to out of business. They are a disgrace.

 

[YianGaruga]

Oh my god you're right! This is nuts.

I really want VGP to out of business. They are a disgrace.

I understand the frustration, this is a big problem, but I want them to improve, not go out of business.

For importing NA games there is no comparable alternative

The site needs a complete redesign

 

[EmiPrime]

I understand the frustration, this is a big problem, but I want them to improve, not go out of business.

For importing NA games there is no comparable alternative

They are never going to improve, they've learned nothing since their last breach when their entire database was dumped. Any company that is that reckless with customer information deserves to go bust.

I replaced all my customer information with fake entries 5 years ago but it's meaningless as the data is still all there in the order invoices.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

I'd say avoid Play-Asia and buy both the memory card and the Vita console from Amazon.co.jp. The Vita is considerably cheaper at Amazon.co.jp, and you pay import tax in advance, so no hassle.

I'm never using Play-Asia again. I ordered a couple of games from them a few months ago and got stung really badly on import tax.

Interesting. I've not orders from Play-Asia for s few years, but never had any issues with them. I'll check out the Amazon Japan prices, as Play-Asia offers a shipping option where you can pay customs fees beforehand. I take it with Amazon Japan I need a new account and can't use my UK account like I can on the European and US stores? Is it relatively easy to use the Japanese website, and is there an English language option?

Thanks.

 

[MikeHattsu]

Is it relatively easy to use the Japanese website, and is there an English language option?

Thanks.

Yes. Switch to English here:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/customer-preferences/select-language/

 

[EmiPrime]

Using Amazon Japan is a great experience. Packages usually show up 4 or 5 days later.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

Yes. Switch to English here:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/customer-preferences/select-language/

Using Amazon Japan is a great experience. Packages usually show up 4 or 5 days later.

Thanks. Looks like Amazon is selling st the same price as Play Asia when I convert to GBP. Have you guys had any dealing with Amazon Japan's customer service dept? They're really easy to deal with here in the UK, so concerned about being able to communicate with them in English if I have any issues.

 

[FantasticMrSnake]

Where is the cheapest place to buy No man sky in the UK?
I want it for ~£30, but I think I'll have to wait a little to get it at that price.

You did not mention PS4 or PC ?
.

Sorry, PS4

 

[zaphod79]

Where is the cheapest place to buy No man sky in the UK?
I want it for ~£30, but I think I'll have to wait a little to get it at that price.

You did not mention PS4 or PC ?

For PS4
Given that its not launched yet and the RRP is £49.99 i think you may need a little while for it to drop to 30

Even for pre-release offers the cheapest is only around £40 (http://savygamer.co.uk/2016/03/05/no-mans-sky-ps4-39-66/ but this expired months ago)

Simplygames still have it at £39.85 for now : http://deals.simplygames.com/p/no-mans-sky-ps4

but cant see anywhere with much of a discount for now.

 

[foobarry81]

I just received an email from VGP (about Shiren 5) and immediately remembered this thread's constantly bringing it up how shoddy VGP's security is (like today). Let me give you an example.

This is the URL address that the email message listed for me with some parts censored with "YYY":

http://www.videogamesplus.ca/account_history_info.php?order_id=YYY&email_address=YYY

Basically, it's a page that tells everything about your order: your real name, your home address, your payment method, the things you bought, etc. Here's the catch: you don't even need to be logged to see this. All you need to know is a combination of an existing order number and the associated user's email address to find out a gigantic leak of information about someone. And I found this out by simply clicking on the link on my work's browser (which had never logged into VGP), so if I realized this, consider it public knowledge for any of the maaaany phishers out there.

If you don't understand the seriousness of this issue, let me spell it for you: a bot can try a tremendous amount of order number/email combinations per second until it finds a valid receipt with all its information to leak, probably including credit card information. I've contacted VGP regarding this (from their site), but more people seriously need to give them a hard time for this mess. It is not acceptable in any way.

Don't want to minimize this issue, because it is pretty bad.

But how is it different from having to log into someone else's account using email and password?
Depending on how long the order number in this case is vs depending on how strong someone's password is, it might even be easier to log into someone's account using scripts, if the forms aren't protected against it. And then you have complete access to everything. Even placing orders in someone else's name.
Of course, in the case of your login credentials it's up to you to make a strong enough password, whereas this is out of your control as a customer. That is definitely true.
But rest assured plenty of people out there have VERY easy-to-crack passwords, which they use across multiple accounts too. I know quite a bit of sites too that don't even allow longer than 12 character passwords, so yeah....

So I'd say: don't leave your credit card information anywhere. Strictly use a service such as Paypal (which has its flaws, but it's safer). Hire a P.O. box if you don't want to risk getting your real address exposed. Use different passwords everywhere. Use strong passwords only.