Charles Brandon
Member
^^^^ fuck sake!
Can someone PLEASE do a round-up of GAME's fuck ups and evil doings over the years
Can someone PLEASE do a round-up of GAME's fuck ups and evil doings over the years
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GAME UK charging £329 to customers for Mario Maker - Eurogamer
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this clearly was GAME's response to this topic: Why is super mario maker full price?
This isn't really a blunder but more of a scum move, but remember when GAME weren't allowed to sell Mass Effect 3 and instead put all their used copies in the #1 section and stuck the price tag over the '2' on the box to try and fool some people into buying that instead?
That just seems like where they put the price sticker, it's the same place on the other games.
Normally I'd agree it was just coincidental, but that's the same time ME3 was released which they weren't allowed to sell because they couldn't pay for stock or something (iirc?), so they petulantly put all their used copies of ME2 in the #1 section.
I'm literally howling at the people claiming GAME have committed a theft. As unfortunate as this is for everyone involved, this is not a theft, it was a mistake on their system. On top of that, they are refunding everyone and letting them keep the game.
Y'all need to read up your legal definitions.
Each to their own.
Y'all need to read up your legal definitions.
You'd rather have 7 copies of the same game than your money?
Each to their own.
toythatkills
Member
You'd rather have the other six games than your money back?!
They also told all their customers to contact EA because EA couldn't fulfill their orders not GAME, I was gobsmacked when I witnessed this not to mention having a buddy of mine work for EA CS tell me their phones where off the hook due to this...
Maybe there was a bit of flubbing, could just be something they didn't think about also.
Thinking about it though, this sounds like something GAME would do.
Really terrible company.
I'm saying if your gonna charge me for 7 at least send me 7 copies then let me return the 6.
How does this even happen as with how GAME database their items it must have been a clerical error put there from a long time ago, I guess a 7 looks like a 1, sorta
toythatkills
Member
:lol
If I could be bothered to open paint.net I'd edit your avatar to have armfuls of Mario Maker.
Think it would be much easier for GAME to just return the money.
I don't imagine they would be making people any happier saying "Well we won't give you your money back but you can have 7 copies of the same game!"
Saiyan-Rox
Member
From what I remember at the time (I worked there for a good 4 years) this isn't the case. In fact I can't remember us putting ME2 at number 1 when this happened at all and as for the stickers those at the time where the stickers used for sale items and they were in the proper place as per company rules. GAME had a spat with EA and for that they refused to let GAME stock any copies of it and put the price up of all the games. I remember the simpsons movie on 360 going from 19.99 to 49.99 lol
The store in the photo might have indeed figured to do that and there are store out there run by complete fucks who don't give a shit but not every store did this.
By no means is this to defend them. GAME need to go the HO of GAME are just full of twats as are the regional managers who don't give a shit and will do whatever it takes to get money off people that included lying to customers too.
dreamcastmaster
Banned
Has nobody tag quoted this guy yet, or is he just being ironic and coming off as ignorant?
GAME being GAME, they'll probably buy them off you for a fraction of the price you bought them for.
toythatkills
Member
You could read the posts quoted in my tag and see how they absolutely don't apply here, if you want.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Not allowed gives the wrong connotation. It was basically GAME was bust, had sold a lot of new stock at ridiculously low prices to try and get some money (I'm talking Xenoblade with the red classic controller for £10 levels of insanity), couldn't get any loans and so wanted EA to give them the game for free under the premise they would pay them back.
The SSX game released that year had been agreed prior or something so was the final EA game to come out shortly before the great administration saga.
It wasn't just EA holding back stock either as well which accelerated the run to administration. There were some exceptions. I think the 3DS launch went ahead but The Last Story and Boom Street did not. Maybe my timeline is getting muddled though...
CharmingCharlie
Member
This isn't really a blunder but more of a scum move, but remember when GAME weren't allowed to sell Mass Effect 3 and instead put all their used copies in the #1 section and stuck the price tag over the '2' on the box to try and fool some people into buying that instead?
No I don't remember that. I do remember that "Mass Effect 3 - The Collectors Edition" was exclusive to "GAME" you could only get the physical version from GAME (The digital version was purchasable from Origin). Then a couple of weeks before Mass Effect 3 was due for release GAME went tits up making those that pre-ordered do a mad scramble to try and get the collectors edition all over again. It is also the reason why GAME couldn't sell ME 3 in the end, because they didn't have the money for the stock.
Yet despite all these complete fuck ups by GAME we still see publishers constantly giving them exclusive products. Perhaps instead of the consumer boycotting GAME we could get the publishers to get their heads out of their arses and stop giving this two bit retailer a monopoly on some products.
Diablohead
Member
it was a mix of both things, they could have left the 2 partly uncovered but they didn't and then there's why ME2, a two year old game at the time was in the #1 selling spot for that week all of a sudden.
Well if that is the used game chart, and Mass Effect 3 had just come out (or was about to come out) it would make sense that more people would pick up a used copy of 2.
Charles Brandon
Member
I think that was the new chart though
Drama Zed Nod
Member
I called them, AGAIN!
I was assured AGAIN, that no more transactions will happen and the money will be back tomorrow.
The funny part was , to fix it apparently they "turned it off and on again" then noticed it was still charging people so they turned it off again.
Can't make this shit up.
I was assured AGAIN, that no more transactions will happen and the money will be back tomorrow.
The funny part was , to fix it apparently they "turned it off and on again" then noticed it was still charging people so they turned it off again.
Can't make this shit up.
My word only, but I bought the Mario Golf game for the Gamecube new and later found the previous owners receipt in the manual.
Classy!
Charles Brandon
Member
I've got the opposite problem, they haven't taken the money at all. Paid with Paypal, not sure if that makes any odds.
Goddam they better send me my Limited Edition plus badges or I'm going to whine like a little bitch all over the internet.
Goddam they better send me my Limited Edition plus badges or I'm going to whine like a little bitch all over the internet.
Ask them if they tried unplugging it,
Drama Zed Nod
Member
If that's the case then that is a really shitty thing to do.
SuicidalSteve
Member
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Scene recorded in the GAME Head office
toythatkills
Member
Just out of shot is 7x as many copies of Mario Maker as they had pre-orders for.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Just 'shop in Laughing King Homer on Moss and we have a winner.
Miles Quaritch
Member
They are the only viable retail store for gaming. Supermarkets aren't as interested in gaming any more now.
I bought a pre owned Dreamcast from them and found a pirated copy of Silent Scope in the disc drive
RazielCuts
Member
If we're telling stories of the absurdity of GAME, I think it was the release of Dragon Age 2. Before the game had even been released GAME had on their site a pre-order for a preowned version for about a £5 cheaper, right next to the sealed price. How you have a preowned version of a game for sale when it hasn't even been released yet is beyond me, specifically designed to incentivise buying used copies at launch instead of a sealed version. That's just nasty business.
Cosmonaut X
Member
No shit - I knew it was declining, but I hadn't realised how badly until I visited a few of my local ones recently. Morrisons have been trying to ditch games for ages and held out for the X1/PS4 launches, but they've scrapped their shelving for those now and the only games presence in my local is their budget 3DS/DS/360/PS3 stand (5ft tall by 2ft wide!). Tesco are cutting back hard, and while Wii U/3DS are getting hit worst - combined into one "Nintendo" block now in my local - PS4/X1 have seen some reductions too.
It's a far cry from the height of the Wii/360/PS3 generation when supermarkets - and Woolworths, before its collapse - were the best place to get games, with good selections and cheap prices, as well as big opening day offers (Wii Fit launched at my local Woolies with stands outside the building!). Looking back, although the supermarkets playing hardball with Nintendo over Wii U shelving and allocations was seen as an isolated thing, it was just that they were most vulnerable to ongoing cutbacks in supermarket involvement in gaming.
Charles Brandon
Member
Who needs retail really?
GAME to me is an online store. I have no reason to visit their stores.
GAME to me is an online store. I have no reason to visit their stores.
CharmingCharlie
Member
Not that bothered about "retail" myself. I order everything online. As a matter of fact my copy of fallout 4 - pipboy edition was ordered online from GAME. I would have preferred to have made that order with another online retailer. This is especially true since the last time I ordered online from GAME (Mass Effect 3 - CE) they fucked that up royally.
However I have to buy the pipboy edition from GAME because they have exclusivity over this product. I would happily use my "consumer voice" to declare how bad GAME is. Unfortunately these backroom deals with publishers (at the expense of consumer choice) prevents me from doing so.
On a side not I am actually contemplating cancelling my pipboy order now. There is no way I can afford to have £700 to £1000 go out of my bank just for a bloody game and no I don't trust them to fix this issue in less than 2 months time.
Frankie Faison
Member
Online, you'll need a reserve available to the value of the price *7 the order you're making!
ZorpAttacks
Neo Member
I'm glad I used PayPal. They sent me a PayPal refund and then I got 5 emails; 4 saying there was a payment problem and 1 saying Mario Maker had shipped. My PayPal account still shows the transaction as a refund so I have no idea if they'll charge me again or if the game was actually shipped. The shit we have to go through for a badge set!
aygomyownroad
Member
Ordered Pipboy edition Fallout 4... Better not do this to me
Phillips455
Member
Heres the email GAME sent out to 'help' peole understand the situation:
Not that helpful is it?
Game.co.uk said:
Not that helpful is it?
Heh I didn't even get it
IdreamofHIME
Member
Guaranteed #1 in the charts this week!
Congrats Nintendo!
Congrats Nintendo!
Zomba13
Member
Same.
Fattony12000
Member
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OverBlood 3
Banned
And there's still no sign of that email...
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
This is not what I expected on my bank account this morning fucks sake why I did order from Game.