KCVocals

If you can find the time and have the patience to put up with eBay for getting your used games, more power to you. There is no need to call people morons because they don't do exactly what YOU do.

I would rather go into my local GS, get the used game I want right then and there, be able to see the product before I buy it to make sure that it's to my liking, and leave happy, knowing that if I don't like it, I can return it within a week for a full refund. I don't remember seeing that guarantee on eBay.

Not to say that I hate eBay, far be it. I have found deals like what you were describing before. I've even turned a profit by finding those deals and trading them in to GS.

Oh look, a dead horse. And me with my baseball bat...

I suppose the auto industry is getting mad that you can buy a 2008 (insert car name here) brand new for $15000 and a used one for $12000 but they are not seeing any rewards from that deal.

It's the same thing.

Ok, nevermind the fact that you did not pay $80 for L4D, I want to know how you can say that you bought a game, played it, returned it THAT DAY and expected a refund? There are two scenarios that could have happened here:

1: You bought the game used. If that is the case, then the GS employee should have given you a refund IF YOU ASKED FOR IT. Or at the least offered you something else, say, L4D which, if it were the same price, should have been an even swap. (The only way this would not have happened is if for some strange reason you did not have your receipt, and also went to a different store, or could not remember which register you bought your game at, the employee you dealt with 15 minutes prior was not there and no one else remembered seeing you...)

2: You bought the game new. I would like you or anyone else, to tell me which retailer of electronic media (games, dvds, music...) will refund your money when you buy a NEW item, open it and return it. (Quick answer NONE!)

GameStop offers a pretty good refund policy on all of their used games. If you are not happy with your used purchase FOR ANY REASON within 7 days of purchase you may return it for a FULL refund.

I work at a game store which has strict regulations as to what we have to do when an M rated game is purchased. We have to tell the parent, right there, what the back label states is in the game. I can tell you right now that I have sold far too many copies of JTs favorite game (Rhymes with ROBOTO) to kids under 12 on the permission of their parents, with the explanation of "It's ok, he plays it at his friend's house..." or some other like shit like that.

This is the same company that will fire not only me, but also my store manager if we sell 1 game to a minor without parental consent. All this without an actual LAW on the books.

With all this talk of self regulation vs. government regulation, take a look at this:

Movies - Self regulated. MPAA
Music - Self regulated. RIAA
Television - Self regulated (sort of) FCC
Alcohol - Government regulation
Tobacco - Government regulation
Firearms - Government regulation
Drugs (both legal and otherwise) - Government regulation

Notice something? All of the government regulated issues are things that can actually KILL you. I'm not talking about things that will kill other people, because an argument could be made that certain slasher flicks cause copy cat crimes in real life... but rather the things that could cause harm to yourself. This should only be an issue if Hack Thompson's argument was "Johnny didn't kill himself, the video game disc he used to slice open his jugular killed him."

The government has a long history of making laws to tell you how to live. Most of those laws we don't give a second thought to anymore, such as the legal age of drinking being 21, or cigarettes not being sold to anyone under 18. Regulating video games by either a Federal or State mandate, should NOT be one of them. The ESRB, while not a regulatory body, does a pretty fine job at telling you what is in said games.

Hell yeah! It's about time Rock Band got some METAL in the mix! Never heard Evile, but At the Gates and The Haunted are/were two GREAT bands.

Truth be told, I NEED to see some more actual progressive metal/rock on here. A ton of Rush is cool, but heavier stuff like Dream Theater, Into Eternity or the all mighty Opeth would be even better. Think of the technicality involved. The switches in not only the guitar/drum lines, but in the case of Opeth or Into Eternity, the vocals pitch-shifting from growls to screams to clear melodic. As a vocalist, I can tell you, it's not as easy as it seems to do that and still remain on pitch...