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08-18-08, 10:40 AM | #1 |
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How Lame is This
So a week and half before it came out
I went into my local EB games and confirmed that they would be getting in copies of the new release of silent hunter iv gold editions when It came out. the dude says yeah we have a half dozen on order and they should be in around the 13th, naturally I assumed with a release date of the 12th that this kind of followed a certain sort of logic in the universe. The kid says would you like to pay the extra to reserve one. I said kid you have my number call me if you want the sale when it comes in. so release date came and went and no phone call. but as it turned out maybe he didnt call on purpose because he may have realized what I just did this morning and and wanted to save himself the embarrasement of trying to explain it. Today I went in and there on the shelf sat six brand spanking new copies of silent hunter iv original release just like the two already on my shelf. nowhere to be found is Gold edition w/ubm my wife says ask the guy I says "I can read and these six werent here last week were moving on. screw em we will go to the other one instead where hopefully the manager/proprieter has evolved something beyond a lizard brain. So we go to the other EB games and there on the shelf sit six brand spanky new copies of the previous not the current edition of silent hunter iv and I come to realize that somewhere either at the regional or national level someone has a badly displaced and extremely dyspeptic liver for a brain. I have bought my last game at EB Games after this and a few other previous impossibities I find most of the time the service I get at EB games is completely sub standard. She says talk to the dood. I says screw it we just became bestbuy customers. M (just my rant) |
08-18-08, 10:44 AM | #2 |
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Ah, just a bad experience. I like EB Games for my kids. They turn in console games for new ones all the time. Just a revolving account really. In that respect, they are great. As far as PC games, not so good anymore.
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08-18-08, 01:35 PM | #4 |
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I get the same kind of thing at my local EB, granted it's better since they were taken over my Gamestop, but most of the kids that work in there only know what there precious sales terminal tells them.
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08-18-08, 02:19 PM | #5 |
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I am too lazy too look
What is the difference between standard, and gold edition?
What prompted ubi to make a gold edition. Microsoft Flight simulator doesn't even have a "gold" edition. Did SH3 get a "state color here" edition. Perhaps GWX4 should be called sh3 black edition (a mickey off of black albums |
08-18-08, 06:10 PM | #7 | |
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Slacker!! :rotfl: |
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08-18-08, 08:13 PM | #9 |
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I was try to be discreet. You think I failed? |
08-19-08, 10:17 AM | #10 |
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Frankly I dont know why EB's retail outlets even bother with PC games anymore.
Its as if their second rate citizens or something. |
08-19-08, 10:43 AM | #11 |
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its like its a dying market but to me its a better format because
I can mod on PC, so is PC gaming soon to be a thing of the past? I cant imagine it. How many pc gamers worldwide all stripes? that buy discs etc as opposed to dl'ing a flash game for breaks at work. |
08-20-08, 12:23 AM | #12 |
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I for one FAR prefer having the disk, than downloading.
Computers have a bad tendency to well, destroy themselves spontaniously and when that happens you lose all your downloaded stuff, including games. (unless you burned them to disk). I like the idea of the gold edition, and will most likely get it, seeing that my version of UBM is downloaded. |
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Torpedo your local game shop. That'll teach them.
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08-20-08, 05:59 AM | #14 |
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Salt for the wound so with no copy available locally
I decided to buy flags of our fathers and letters from Iwo jima I havent seen letters from Iwo yet, but as the english subtitles arent working at all on the disc I have given up on media and will go read a book like we used to in the olden days before air. |
08-20-08, 08:23 AM | #15 |
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Letters from Iwo is great! I have an issue with the subtitle as well. Windows Media does not display them but I have another DVD program that does. My DVD player displays them also. You really miss the feeling with dubbed in English. Same with Das Boot.
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