white_mog

12 midnight 7/3 was 12 hours ago. They shouldve said 12 midnight 7/4

Um, yeah...... none of my registered games are there anymore. But it still has my old login and my date of 2003. WTF.

they really should keep track of the sales numbers, and adjust their # of servers accordingly, when a bunch get purchased. just automatically assume every single one will sign on the next day.

in RE: to -

"Wtf fuck does it matter, I work at gamestop and no one has ever complained. We do it everyday, because we have to. One game is gutted and put on the shelve, because assholes out there STEAL. If everything was live then not only would the store have to be the size of best buy, but would have to have more security. Gamestop's are in small stores in malls and stripmalls, imagine if every copy of the game was out there in some plastic security window, you'd have to have more employees and a larger store. Game prices would rise, along with strategy guides and used games, much higher than they are now. There is no good way to limit the space on our walls without gutting one copy, and putting it's display out, leaving the other 60+ copies in a cabinet. Your game hasnt been played, and if it is scratched, you don't have to buy it. The whole reason they do this though, besides space, is that people steal, maybe even people who read here. Best buy has a much higher inventory loss than any game stop i'll tell you that. It's the way they are FORCED to do business. Calling them shady is just stupid, it's not like there is this huge conspiracy against gamers where they take out all the games and take dumps on the discs."

well, maybe Gamestop should put out one of those rows of boxes they always have to get you to pre-order, instead of gutting a new copy. also, they could ask for an empty box from the distributor, or they could start making cardboard displays for each game, like a lot of local record stores do for CD's. there are many, many alternatives - but they don't give a shit about the consumer's opinion.