Remember those cool lighting kits you could get for your gameboy advances, I believe the original name of the product was called Portable Monopoly until the makers of Monopoly had something to say about it. That whole thing wasn't even about a game (or even a game clone!), just some hardware to make your gameboy cooler.
Had a friend that worked at one and then the other. According to him: apparently GameStop is owned by Barnes and Noble. However, it appears that Barnes and Noble treat their employees way better (guess because there's always more people willing to be abused by gamestop). Working at Barnes and Noble both your book/game reservations and magazine subscription numbers can be lower (which probably makes it nicer to buy stuff at Barnes and Noble). Also, you get a higher percentage off of items AT GAMESTOP then if you work at gamestop. I think the difference was a good 10% of the cost too. Guess you don't get check out privileges though.
Our local gamestop used to keep all of it's reservation records in a little file folder, there were no computer records. They had this great policy that if THEY lost their half of the reservation ticket, yours was worthless. Over a couple years a few of my buddies lost there deposit money because gamestop had misplaced their reservation slip and said that the customer side alone was worthless. Thanks guys, that was the end of reserves for me.
Also, it's not the opening of games that I hate so much it's the tons of stickers they stick on the game. And not even on the plastic on the outside. I bought Touch Detectives 2.5 last week and demanded a new one. Their floor copy had 3 large 'new' stickers on the paper cover for the game. That's just a pain in the ass and sounds way more prone to messing up a nice new game cover when removing.
When I was little, I remember that gamestop was always the cool place that had the semi obscure games that they wouldn't stock at the bigger department stores. But now, most of their stock is used games and it's pretty rare that they have what I want. I've got a much better chance looking at Fred Meyer while I'm there to pick up milk!
they stopped stocking more then just new release movies in their stores, and not many cases of 'guaranteed to be in stock' new titles. Back before I called it quits for them, I'd make a list of movies I'd wanted to watch. The list would be maybe 8 movies with new releases, old ones, different genera's and NONE of them would be in stock. I'd leave the store empty handed, and for some reason very angry.
Now a days, even if you find the movie you want it's probably only for sale and not to rent.! You're blockbuster, you're telling me I can't rent the used movies you have in stock!
ha. you can't even get a PSP for under $100 yet... that thing is long over do for a price cut. With a price of $150 it would be a lot more attractive when compared to the ds. At least its starting to get a library of decent games though
Having a special section for adult only games seems like it would be a large burdon for stores (espeically small stores). Setting up a special area for these games and making sure that someone will insure that people who go in get carded. Not to mention, that stores like gamestop are normally shoved into a space way to small for them to begin with, and this would only make space tighter.
Seems so crazy that video games shouldn't be held to the same sorts of standards as other things not intended for children. A small kid can go into sun coast or block buster browse through R rated movies but can't buy them without parental consent. Anyone can go down isles in a grocery store that sell beer, but they'll get carded when they try to buy them.
Unless video games are some kind of danger to kids by them just looking at the boxes, forcing stores to set of special areas is a lot of crap. Isn't their point that its the playing of them games that some how corrupts the kids, not seeing a still image on a box?
Yea, I second that. I bought the game quite a while ago and hated it so much I sold it on ebay. The whole game was having to put up with one bad thing after another: bad targeting system, loosing life if you ran around on the map. and just when they give you your third character (though they start at level 1) and I start to think the game might pick up they disable your main damage dealer.. that was the final straw for me. Every other game i've picked up for the ds i've liked (though with a few minor complaints here and there), I normally try to do a little bit of research before I buy one, though.
Ebay fees are actually pretty high, especially on an expensive item like this. You're looking at about $25 in ebay fees (5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the remaining + initial listing price). If the person pays through paypal (depending on where the money is comming from) you are probably looking at another $24 in paypal fees (1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 for non-credit cards). Basically there goes half your profit.
30 does seem like one hell of a lot. I also own quite a few consoles (nes, snes, n64, ps1, ps2, gamecube, gameboy.. and some others). But the only one I have over 30 games for is my gameboy which I have about 60(if you lump together gameboy + color + advance + ds games together), but a gameboy game costs about 1/2 the price of a ps3 game. I love my gameboy (its been my favorite forever and I've had one since I was probably 8) but a big part of the reason I have so many games for it is because of the large number of short fun titles that only cost about $20 (like brain age or cooking mama). I just wouldn't consider buying those kind of games at a higher price.
ebgames updated their website sometime in the last few days, saying that they're not even going to be taking online pre-orders till the in store ones are all taken care of. http://www.ebgames.com/gs/ps3/ps3_signup.asp It sounds to me like they might not be getting as many as they expected, or maybe just being careful.
I for one, don't really care too much. I'm not actually getting a ps3 (not till the price drops by half), but as for the wii... I'd rather just be able to get into a line so that when my number comes up they'll send me one. My time is too valuable to wait in line for something I MIGHT get and I really don't mind having to wait a little while to get what I want.
Wow. I didn't know sony fixed any ps2's after the warrenty expired without requiring quite a bit of money in return. My current roomate's first one that died (this was a few years back) cost him $120 to get fixed (1 new lens and a new power supply). My old neighbors just ended up buying a new one after they contacted sony and found out it would cost them over $100 to get their current one replaced, they ended up giving it to me. I opened it up and played with the lazor a bit and got it working much better but not perfect, that kept it going for a bit longer but eventually it pretty much stopped reading disks all together.
Happened to me as well (pretty recently too), in fact I hardly know anyone who's had a PS2 for more then a couple years and hasn't had to get a new ones (for a few people they've had 2 break). It sucks when your shit breaks, having to spend $130 on a new ps2 that I paid $200 for a few years back sucks. But now with the PS3, the cost of replacement will be much higher, that's a risk I a nervious to take.
I guess question is: "are you circumventing encryption to get your movie on your ipod?"
The answer: yes. And that's something you're not supposed to do. However, in my mind, the movies I buy are mine and if I want to rip them I will. Truthfully I'm just too lazy to rip things to my harddrive (plus I don't have the harddrive space, even with compressing them), but if I knew that I couldn't make a back up or rip my dvd's to another device, I'd probably own a LOT less dvd's.
Yea... I'm sure they're replacement plan will be very fair... Just like it was fair to make people spend $100+ to fix broken lazers on their PS2s. Before I buy another sony console they're going to have to prove to me that they can make products that will last. I own over 10 consoles and the only one that has ever totally broken was my poor little playstation2 (the other was a nes but that just needed some new pins). $600 for a console that might break, no thanks.
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Remember those cool lighting kits you could get for your gameboy advances, I believe the original name of the product was called Portable Monopoly until the makers of Monopoly had something to say about it. That whole thing wasn't even about a game (or even a game clone!), just some hardware to make your gameboy cooler.
Had a friend that worked at one and then the other. According to him: apparently GameStop is owned by Barnes and Noble. However, it appears that Barnes and Noble treat their employees way better (guess because there's always more people willing to be abused by gamestop). Working at Barnes and Noble both your book/game reservations and magazine subscription numbers can be lower (which probably makes it nicer to buy stuff at Barnes and Noble). Also, you get a higher percentage off of items AT GAMESTOP then if you work at gamestop. I think the difference was a good 10% of the cost too. Guess you don't get check out privileges though.
Our local gamestop used to keep all of it's reservation records in a little file folder, there were no computer records. They had this great policy that if THEY lost their half of the reservation ticket, yours was worthless. Over a couple years a few of my buddies lost there deposit money because gamestop had misplaced their reservation slip and said that the customer side alone was worthless. Thanks guys, that was the end of reserves for me. Also, it's not the opening of games that I hate so much it's the tons of stickers they stick on the game. And not even on the plastic on the outside. I bought Touch Detectives 2.5 last week and demanded a new one. Their floor copy had 3 large 'new' stickers on the paper cover for the game. That's just a pain in the ass and sounds way more prone to messing up a nice new game cover when removing. When I was little, I remember that gamestop was always the cool place that had the semi obscure games that they wouldn't stock at the bigger department stores. But now, most of their stock is used games and it's pretty rare that they have what I want. I've got a much better chance looking at Fred Meyer while I'm there to pick up milk!
they stopped stocking more then just new release movies in their stores, and not many cases of 'guaranteed to be in stock' new titles. Back before I called it quits for them, I'd make a list of movies I'd wanted to watch. The list would be maybe 8 movies with new releases, old ones, different genera's and NONE of them would be in stock. I'd leave the store empty handed, and for some reason very angry.
Now a days, even if you find the movie you want it's probably only for sale and not to rent.! You're blockbuster, you're telling me I can't rent the used movies you have in stock!
ha. you can't even get a PSP for under $100 yet... that thing is long over do for a price cut. With a price of $150 it would be a lot more attractive when compared to the ds. At least its starting to get a library of decent games though
Having a special section for adult only games seems like it would be a large burdon for stores (espeically small stores). Setting up a special area for these games and making sure that someone will insure that people who go in get carded. Not to mention, that stores like gamestop are normally shoved into a space way to small for them to begin with, and this would only make space tighter. Seems so crazy that video games shouldn't be held to the same sorts of standards as other things not intended for children. A small kid can go into sun coast or block buster browse through R rated movies but can't buy them without parental consent. Anyone can go down isles in a grocery store that sell beer, but they'll get carded when they try to buy them. Unless video games are some kind of danger to kids by them just looking at the boxes, forcing stores to set of special areas is a lot of crap. Isn't their point that its the playing of them games that some how corrupts the kids, not seeing a still image on a box?
Yea, I second that. I bought the game quite a while ago and hated it so much I sold it on ebay. The whole game was having to put up with one bad thing after another: bad targeting system, loosing life if you ran around on the map. and just when they give you your third character (though they start at level 1) and I start to think the game might pick up they disable your main damage dealer.. that was the final straw for me. Every other game i've picked up for the ds i've liked (though with a few minor complaints here and there), I normally try to do a little bit of research before I buy one, though.
Ebay fees are actually pretty high, especially on an expensive item like this. You're looking at about $25 in ebay fees (5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the remaining + initial listing price). If the person pays through paypal (depending on where the money is comming from) you are probably looking at another $24 in paypal fees (1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 for non-credit cards). Basically there goes half your profit.
30 does seem like one hell of a lot. I also own quite a few consoles (nes, snes, n64, ps1, ps2, gamecube, gameboy.. and some others). But the only one I have over 30 games for is my gameboy which I have about 60(if you lump together gameboy + color + advance + ds games together), but a gameboy game costs about 1/2 the price of a ps3 game. I love my gameboy (its been my favorite forever and I've had one since I was probably 8) but a big part of the reason I have so many games for it is because of the large number of short fun titles that only cost about $20 (like brain age or cooking mama). I just wouldn't consider buying those kind of games at a higher price.
ebgames updated their website sometime in the last few days, saying that they're not even going to be taking online pre-orders till the in store ones are all taken care of. http://www.ebgames.com/gs/ps3/ps3_signup.asp It sounds to me like they might not be getting as many as they expected, or maybe just being careful.
I for one, don't really care too much. I'm not actually getting a ps3 (not till the price drops by half), but as for the wii... I'd rather just be able to get into a line so that when my number comes up they'll send me one. My time is too valuable to wait in line for something I MIGHT get and I really don't mind having to wait a little while to get what I want.
Wow. I didn't know sony fixed any ps2's after the warrenty expired without requiring quite a bit of money in return. My current roomate's first one that died (this was a few years back) cost him $120 to get fixed (1 new lens and a new power supply). My old neighbors just ended up buying a new one after they contacted sony and found out it would cost them over $100 to get their current one replaced, they ended up giving it to me. I opened it up and played with the lazor a bit and got it working much better but not perfect, that kept it going for a bit longer but eventually it pretty much stopped reading disks all together.
Happened to me as well (pretty recently too), in fact I hardly know anyone who's had a PS2 for more then a couple years and hasn't had to get a new ones (for a few people they've had 2 break). It sucks when your shit breaks, having to spend $130 on a new ps2 that I paid $200 for a few years back sucks. But now with the PS3, the cost of replacement will be much higher, that's a risk I a nervious to take.
I guess question is: "are you circumventing encryption to get your movie on your ipod?" The answer: yes. And that's something you're not supposed to do. However, in my mind, the movies I buy are mine and if I want to rip them I will. Truthfully I'm just too lazy to rip things to my harddrive (plus I don't have the harddrive space, even with compressing them), but if I knew that I couldn't make a back up or rip my dvd's to another device, I'd probably own a LOT less dvd's.
Yea... I'm sure they're replacement plan will be very fair... Just like it was fair to make people spend $100+ to fix broken lazers on their PS2s. Before I buy another sony console they're going to have to prove to me that they can make products that will last. I own over 10 consoles and the only one that has ever totally broken was my poor little playstation2 (the other was a nes but that just needed some new pins). $600 for a console that might break, no thanks.