Or even downloaded it! It's good for your roommate that he's not even slightly clever. On a college connection you have no reason to not download til your hard drives fill up.
My friend did that. Got his 360 played it on a standard definition TV then got an HDTV. He IM'd me and started raving about how awesome it was. I went over and I took one look at the screen. I immediately noticed jagged edges and not-so stellar clarity.
I grabbed the controller, went to the dashboard, and changed the resolution to 720p. He'd been running at the standard 480i resolution. Freakin' idiot.
That makes me wonder, how many other XBOX360 owners haven't even enabled HD resolutions on their HDTV and are just fooling themselves into thinking the image is 'so much better'??
Who are you to tell him what problems he personally does or does not experience?!
And you really get your point across with the foul language! Thanks for contributing to the general crappiness that is the Slashdot Audience, AC!!
I work at an EBGames when I go back home for breaks and whatnot. Your experience working for or shopping at an EBGames really depends on the Store Manager. There are some which will take the easy road and tell their employees to lie and steal their customers' money. There are others - thankfully I have one like this - which cut you a little more slack as far as numbers go and let you be fair and honest with your customers. Most of my store's customers leave well informed about the different services we offer, and many are repeat customers. I personally tell - I never push, a happy customer is a better customer in my opinion - every customer about extended warranties and gameplay guarantees. Personally, I don't buy them, but that's because I take good care of my stuff, but there some people don't and for them 3 bucks isn't all that much to protect their game discs from their greasy fingers and grimy console drive trays. I don't have some kind of huge ego because I have a crummy job at a videogame store. I don't pretend to know everything about videogames - because I don't - I'm just telling it how it is at my store. Chances are there are others like mine.
As for 360 preorders...at my store, we make sure every preorder customer knows that their money is refundable, we're not out to 'get' anyone. After we got about 30 preorders we made sure every customer know that there was a big chance they wouldn't get one on release, and after about 50, we told them not to expect theirs until after the holidays. You know what, people kept on buying. I can't give you an exact number - because I don't know - but we're a strip mall store next to a grocery store in suburban NJ, yet we still got 120ish preorders. And last week we had about 60 to go. I don't see how Gamestop seems to think they'll pull this off by the end of February, because as far as I know, M$ controls the shipments.
Seems like an empty promise to me, but what do I care? I preordered mine in May. When you're supposed to.
That's certainly not the case at every store. While it is true that we "gut" some of the games we receive and leave the discs in envelopes behind the counter, EBGames does not [currently] have the return policy of which you speak and I do not think they ever did. Yes, we do have the 7 day return policy on preplayed games, but for new games - if you've opened it - it's yours, buddy. I don't know what kind of store you guys ran when you worked there, I guess you didn't care about even the simplest of things - such as following a return policy.
To those EB/Gamestop customers reading, always ask for a shrink wrapped copy if you would rather not have a gutted copy; in most cases, this is easier for us, too, because we won't to open yet another copy to fill in the now-empty slot on the shelf. If they don't have a shrinkwrapped copy, ask to see the disc before they pop it into the case. If it doesn't look new to you, ask for a different disc. Excercise your right as the customer to get what you want. Take it somewhere else if your needs aren't met.
Would you still be happy with your purchase of a new car if the dealer sold it to you with a Club on the steering wheel? How about a new car with square wheels? Both wouldn't be driveable in their original purchase state.
That's essentially what Dell is doing to its customers. They have to go out of their way to fix Dell's screwups before they can fully utilize the product they've purchased.
Or you could give them no money and have 0 chance to get it on launch...
It's one thing to say that about games. If you preorder a game, you are 99% guaranteed to get that game on or before the official day of release. It is another thing to say that about a system who's manufacturer is delibrately limiting the supply of their system.
Pre-ordering is a smart thing to do. Go ahead, take your chance at a Wal-Mart or Best Buy. Set up a tent and waste your time. Chances are that 100 other people have the same idea as you. And if you do happen to get one at a competitor, fine, come back and get your money back or pick up a game. It's no loss to you or us - we have no problem selling systems.
In re: to the GP, my store is a medium traffic stripmall store with a sister store only 1.5 miles down the road at the mall. We have 115 preorders for the $400 SKU, 13 the first day. I'm not sure about the core system, but nobody really wants that anyway.
I've taken out Helis by myself as an Anti Tank infantry...
Then again, I haven't played since August because I got back into WoW, so I have no idea what the latest patch is like.
Besides MXC, I have yet to see any quality programming on that network, and even MXC is getting a little old. There are only so many underwear and fart jokes you can make.
That said, it is no suprise that an award show on Spike is nothing more than a glorified ad.
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I think its safe to say that Sony's proverbial finger is far from the pulse of society.
Or even downloaded it! It's good for your roommate that he's not even slightly clever. On a college connection you have no reason to not download til your hard drives fill up.
The page was down for me; if you can't see the site, view the Coral Distributed Site.
That might require them to actually expend energy! Shh!
My friend did that. Got his 360 played it on a standard definition TV then got an HDTV. He IM'd me and started raving about how awesome it was. I went over and I took one look at the screen. I immediately noticed jagged edges and not-so stellar clarity. I grabbed the controller, went to the dashboard, and changed the resolution to 720p. He'd been running at the standard 480i resolution. Freakin' idiot. That makes me wonder, how many other XBOX360 owners haven't even enabled HD resolutions on their HDTV and are just fooling themselves into thinking the image is 'so much better'??
Who are you to tell him what problems he personally does or does not experience?! And you really get your point across with the foul language! Thanks for contributing to the general crappiness that is the Slashdot Audience, AC!!
I work at an EBGames when I go back home for breaks and whatnot. Your experience working for or shopping at an EBGames really depends on the Store Manager. There are some which will take the easy road and tell their employees to lie and steal their customers' money. There are others - thankfully I have one like this - which cut you a little more slack as far as numbers go and let you be fair and honest with your customers. Most of my store's customers leave well informed about the different services we offer, and many are repeat customers. I personally tell - I never push, a happy customer is a better customer in my opinion - every customer about extended warranties and gameplay guarantees. Personally, I don't buy them, but that's because I take good care of my stuff, but there some people don't and for them 3 bucks isn't all that much to protect their game discs from their greasy fingers and grimy console drive trays. I don't have some kind of huge ego because I have a crummy job at a videogame store. I don't pretend to know everything about videogames - because I don't - I'm just telling it how it is at my store. Chances are there are others like mine.
As for 360 preorders...at my store, we make sure every preorder customer knows that their money is refundable, we're not out to 'get' anyone. After we got about 30 preorders we made sure every customer know that there was a big chance they wouldn't get one on release, and after about 50, we told them not to expect theirs until after the holidays. You know what, people kept on buying. I can't give you an exact number - because I don't know - but we're a strip mall store next to a grocery store in suburban NJ, yet we still got 120ish preorders. And last week we had about 60 to go. I don't see how Gamestop seems to think they'll pull this off by the end of February, because as far as I know, M$ controls the shipments.
Seems like an empty promise to me, but what do I care? I preordered mine in May. When you're supposed to.
Well, I stand corrected. I'm very suprised about that policy, but I'll take your word for it.
To those EB/Gamestop customers reading, always ask for a shrink wrapped copy if you would rather not have a gutted copy; in most cases, this is easier for us, too, because we won't to open yet another copy to fill in the now-empty slot on the shelf. If they don't have a shrinkwrapped copy, ask to see the disc before they pop it into the case. If it doesn't look new to you, ask for a different disc. Excercise your right as the customer to get what you want. Take it somewhere else if your needs aren't met.
Would you still be happy with your purchase of a new car if the dealer sold it to you with a Club on the steering wheel? How about a new car with square wheels? Both wouldn't be driveable in their original purchase state. That's essentially what Dell is doing to its customers. They have to go out of their way to fix Dell's screwups before they can fully utilize the product they've purchased.
This is one of those situations where you really hope the parent is joking. You just can't be too sure...
Or you could give them no money and have 0 chance to get it on launch... It's one thing to say that about games. If you preorder a game, you are 99% guaranteed to get that game on or before the official day of release. It is another thing to say that about a system who's manufacturer is delibrately limiting the supply of their system. Pre-ordering is a smart thing to do. Go ahead, take your chance at a Wal-Mart or Best Buy. Set up a tent and waste your time. Chances are that 100 other people have the same idea as you. And if you do happen to get one at a competitor, fine, come back and get your money back or pick up a game. It's no loss to you or us - we have no problem selling systems. In re: to the GP, my store is a medium traffic stripmall store with a sister store only 1.5 miles down the road at the mall. We have 115 preorders for the $400 SKU, 13 the first day. I'm not sure about the core system, but nobody really wants that anyway.
I've taken out Helis by myself as an Anti Tank infantry... Then again, I haven't played since August because I got back into WoW, so I have no idea what the latest patch is like.
Nope, not forgetting it. Not a trekky, sorry.
Besides MXC, I have yet to see any quality programming on that network, and even MXC is getting a little old. There are only so many underwear and fart jokes you can make. That said, it is no suprise that an award show on Spike is nothing more than a glorified ad.
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