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| pre-orders by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/29/2004, 4:43pm PDT | ||||
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Mood: Perplexed wrote: I was surprised to see as much support for day-one pre-orders over there. My observation is that there are a lot more people into order on Quarter to Three than there are here. Nothing wrong with that, either way, just different. It appeals to some people to put down money and have the game guaranteed to be there waiting for them upon its release. And I don't even have a problem with that -- just don't purport to be a video game store if you're not selling copies of the big new game to walk-ins the first day. It's utterly unacceptable elsewhere, in so much as you can pick up the new Radiohead release everywhere regardless of whether or not you put money down on it months before it came out. In my opinion, it's unacceptable with games. But I get the impression that Gamestop and EB don't give a shit if people go there for new games anyway. They'd rather sell used games to people where their profit is more significant and I don't think the people in charge of that company would really give a shit if they were exclusively made to be a used game shop. My uneducated take on running a video game business is that you don't want to antagonize the guy who will buy two new games a month (like they did with me) but they obviously feel differently. They may prove to even be in the right. Who can tell, who can tell. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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Buncha dumb fucks come out in support of EB's pre-order policy by 10/28/2004, 1:37pm PDT  I enjoy pre-ordering. by 10/28/2004, 2:08pm PDT Re: Buncha dumb fucks come out in support of EB's pre-order policy by 10/28/2004, 3:37pm PDT I'm a fan of post-ordering by 10/29/2004, 4:37am PDT Re: I'm a fan of post-ordering by 10/30/2004, 2:23am PDT Re: Buncha dumb fucks come out in support of EB's pre-order policy by 10/29/2004, 3:50pm PDT pre-orders by 10/29/2004, 4:43pm PDT |
