HunterZero
New member
OK, just need to rant on this...
I completely HATE it when games stores gut all the new sealed original packages to put the empty boxes on the shelves for other people to wipe their fingers all over, throw the disk and manual in a drawer, and don't have any stock of sealed games.
Then 9 times out of 10, the disk and manual they give you is marked/scuffed or fingerprinted, the packaging is scratched from other people handling it and store staff using their fingernails to get manuals and discs out, and the original packaging seals are torn to shreds/nowhere to be seen.
Not to mention games that have special promo codes/unlock keys that sometimes are left in the open boxes on the shelves. I saw a copy of Far Cry 2 for PC on the shelves of one store, and it still had all the keys in it for anyone to pinch!
I have expressed my disgust to the store staff, they just say, "Oh, it's because people shoplift if we put the sealed product out." So put dummy cases out that look exactly like the real thing! How hard is that? Or use security boxes and door sensors (a couple of stores do this).
I just wasted an hour trying three stores to find a sealed copy of a game, and none of them had one, they'd butchered their copies.
I am SICK OF IT! I will NEVER buy unsealed games again! An unsealed game is not new to me.
</rant>
- James
I completely HATE it when games stores gut all the new sealed original packages to put the empty boxes on the shelves for other people to wipe their fingers all over, throw the disk and manual in a drawer, and don't have any stock of sealed games.
Then 9 times out of 10, the disk and manual they give you is marked/scuffed or fingerprinted, the packaging is scratched from other people handling it and store staff using their fingernails to get manuals and discs out, and the original packaging seals are torn to shreds/nowhere to be seen.
Not to mention games that have special promo codes/unlock keys that sometimes are left in the open boxes on the shelves. I saw a copy of Far Cry 2 for PC on the shelves of one store, and it still had all the keys in it for anyone to pinch!
I have expressed my disgust to the store staff, they just say, "Oh, it's because people shoplift if we put the sealed product out." So put dummy cases out that look exactly like the real thing! How hard is that? Or use security boxes and door sensors (a couple of stores do this).
I just wasted an hour trying three stores to find a sealed copy of a game, and none of them had one, they'd butchered their copies.
I am SICK OF IT! I will NEVER buy unsealed games again! An unsealed game is not new to me.
</rant>
- James


