HDgaming42
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Bingo. Listen to the ninja. Remember how niche we really are here to begin with...
thankfully you not understanding or relating to something != insane
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Amazon selling re-sealed games as new or cost-cutting shrink-wrap the new norm?
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Bingo. Listen to the ninja. Remember how niche we really are here to begin with...
thankfully you not understanding or relating to something != insane
friskykillface
Banned
Look at all those poor sealed games...
...Wait, is that Smash sealed?! SMASH?! OP WHY
His amiibos are probably sealed too, free them diggeh
My copy of monster hunter 4 was like that , really confused me at first but I saw other copies and they were like that , same with ducktales remastered with pin
Oh capcom
chrominance
Member
I think they just indicate which games have the tuck-and-fold wrapping versus the two shrinkwrapped copies.
I have some games that are still shrink wrapped because I bought them on sale (like ~$10 or less). It's not that weird.
As for OP's issue, I'm pretty sure that I have bought some games from Best Buy that had funny shrink wrapping like that. I never thought anything of it at the time. As a useist gamer, I am now sickened by what might have snuck into my collection.
As for OP's issue, I'm pretty sure that I have bought some games from Best Buy that had funny shrink wrapping like that. I never thought anything of it at the time. As a useist gamer, I am now sickened by what might have snuck into my collection.
HDgaming42
Member
*clears throat*
OK, so back in the era of 360 and only certain Xbox Original games being compatible, I took a pack of multi-colored stickers to place on the spines of the games I knew I could play in my 360 and revel in the additional AA.
Why didn't I just lump all those games together in a pile of their own? Certainly that could have worked, but hey--free stickers. Why not put them to use? Easy to spot on the shelf which ones worked and which didn't.
Then I used another color to denote which games were actually 240p (ummm, ICO?) and would be mangled by my new LCD. Another color for games that couldn't be forced into 480p and should receive proper deinterlacing.
I had a bunch of yellow stickers left over and figured I'd give them a use. Yellow became "still sealed".
Still have plenty of stickers to burn...
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
It might be worth $20 more than it currently is in 5 years!!1
HDgaming42
Member
His amiibos are probably sealed too, free them diggeh
TBH, I never got the appeal of amiibos. ¯_(ツ
_/¯Is this regional? Could people mention which region they've received these awful shit-seals in? US, Canada, Germany?
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Ignore the haters OP, shrinkwrap concern is more commonplace than people think. I don't buy games/movies anymore if they don't have the Y-Fold real factory sealed wrap. It's no coincidence that most of the games/blu ray movies I've had to exchange or return over the years due to scratches/fingerprints right out of the box have had that nasty sandwich wrap packaging.
I don't understand your strange habit of keeping games sealed though? Like, if something was wrong with the disc you'd want to know during the return window when you could still replace it, wouldn't you?
I don't understand your strange habit of keeping games sealed though? Like, if something was wrong with the disc you'd want to know during the return window when you could still replace it, wouldn't you?
Goodacre0081
Member
i think this is the correct answer. bilingual sleeves/manuals probably need to be added after the normal manufacturing process. I assume some don't need to be resealed because they simply don't have anything else in them while a game like monster hunter comes with a decent sized manual.
OP should open it up and see what's inside.
From US
Haha, I love the fact that the shrink wrap around the game is not enough to show that it is still sealed.
HDgaming42
Member
I just checked the remainder of all my sealed games, and low and behold--I found one and only one other shit-seal.
Care to guess the title?
None other than Monster Hunter Tri.
I guess my memory is as shot as I'd feared. Thanks parenthood!
I'll chalk this up to Capcom + Canadian bilingual laws = cost-cutting sandwich wrap.
One goes back to Amazon, while the other takes it's place of shame next to its brother.
Suggestions on which one to return?
Care to guess the title?
None other than Monster Hunter Tri.
I guess my memory is as shot as I'd feared. Thanks parenthood!
I'll chalk this up to Capcom + Canadian bilingual laws = cost-cutting sandwich wrap.
One goes back to Amazon, while the other takes it's place of shame next to its brother.
Suggestions on which one to return?
HDgaming42
Member
No, you see it makes sense when you know the whole system at work here. *wink*
When I finish a game, I put it in a re-sealable bag for safe-keeping. (Picked up that quirk in Japan). Not sure whether to thank or curse my oni-san for that one.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
I'm in Canada and both Monster Hunter Tri and the Wii U version were sealed with the correct factory wrap for me so it's not a French manual thing unless you're in Quebec or something. What a mess just return them both and open your other games for crying out loud.
Ok you've lost me that's..... odd...
Ok you've lost me that's..... odd...
SatoAilDarko
Member
Don't worry OP I have over two dozen sealed games for various platforms including like six seven for Wii U. In total between systems I have over 200 unplayed games (at the end of the Gamecube, PlayStation 2 Wii and PS3 generations I got some great discounts on used games.
I also have to keep buying Nintendo games (particularly Wii U) at the slightest discount because they'll probably raise on price like several games of the last generation.
Are you telling me you also have a sealed copy of the Wii Monster Hunter Tri you never touched?
Wow.
I also have to keep buying Nintendo games (particularly Wii U) at the slightest discount because they'll probably raise on price like several games of the last generation.
I just checked the remainder of all my sealed games, and low and behold--I found one and only one other shit-seal.
Care to guess the title?
None other than Monster Hunter Tri.
I guess my memory is as shot as I'd feared. Thanks parenthood!
I'll chalk this up to Capcom + Canadian bilingual laws = cost-cutting sandwich wrap.
One goes back to Amazon, while the other takes it's place of shame next to its brother.
Suggestions on which one to return?
Are you telling me you also have a sealed copy of the Wii Monster Hunter Tri you never touched?
Wow.
lazer_bean
Member
Have you seen the shrink wrap on the other games. It's stellar. Why the the hell would you unwrap it ?
HDgaming42
Member
No, I'm telling you I have two copies of Monster Hunter Tri sealed--one with a controller and one without.
To paraphrase Raul Julia, "For you, the day Monster Hunter Tri came out was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
I jest, I jest. =)
Is something that has been done for years. Sometimes it was because they had to open them to add something else, others because they received them without wrapping; and so on.
Having worked across multiple retailers, it was quite common. Is why I always found...weird people in here accusing Gamestop as if they were the only ones or the sole responsibles. Sometimes even Gamestop received games without wrapping, shocking!
If anything, whenever you open a similar sized game, (like a friend of mine does): unwrap it carefully, unfolding it at the bottom (using a blower to provide some heat if needed), then just remove it carefully and insert the Monster Hunter case inside it. Use some direct heat (like an iron at the lowest temperature) and put the opened-side, so that it glues back together.
Having worked across multiple retailers, it was quite common. Is why I always found...weird people in here accusing Gamestop as if they were the only ones or the sole responsibles. Sometimes even Gamestop received games without wrapping, shocking!
If anything, whenever you open a similar sized game, (like a friend of mine does): unwrap it carefully, unfolding it at the bottom (using a blower to provide some heat if needed), then just remove it carefully and insert the Monster Hunter case inside it. Use some direct heat (like an iron at the lowest temperature) and put the opened-side, so that it glues back together.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
I bet it is this.
Ah now that makes sense. It's hard to tell which games are new if even the old ones are sealed.
Leon Belmont
Member
I used to be like you, I bought two copies from games that I really liked a lot (like MGS4, Devil May Cry 4, Dragon Quest VIII, etc.) and I remember that I was so meticulous looking for scratches on the shrink wrap or if it was factory sealed or just rewrapped, but to be honest I get tired of being like that, so I prefer digital stuff, games, music, etc....
Syph Medwes
Member
underrated post
Forsythia
Member
Amazon shipped a replacement just because the shrink wrapping looks iffy to you? So it's not like the disc is scratched, or there is no disc at all, but just the wrapping? Kudos for Amazon, but really? I feel for the Amazon customer service guy having to deal with this sort of thing each day.
Could be the wrong discs in there too.
hurricanes
Member
Launch day buyer here. Capcom is cheap.
Pancakes R Us
Member
I bought the game directly from Amazon US, and not from a wholesaler. I thought all games in the U.S. now have bilingual text on the coverart? I've bought Pikmin3 , NSMB U etc. and they all seem to have a bilingual ESRB logo on the front and multilingual text on the back.
Normally I'd prefer to have just English text, but I let this slide because I assumed that all US games now have multiple languages.
U.S. Wii U gamers: do your games have bilingual covers?
this made me laugh way, way too hard
sixteen-bit
Member
depends on where the game was manufactured
prag16
Banned
Most important question in the thread, by far.
randomengine
Banned
I got Wolfeinstein for PS4 for a friend for Christmas. I ordered it online from Walmart.com and I picked it up locally. The game was only $20.
When I got to the store, I went to the layaway area (where you pick up your online orders) and the copy they gave me was a shink-wrapped, used-looking copy. Before, I went to the layaway desk, I had went to electronics and saw they had actual, real New copies, that did not look shrink-wrapped. So, I went to the electronics department with my shitty-looking used-looking copy and had them replace it with another one. My explanation was that it was a gift (it was) and the person I was gifting this to would think it is a used copy and be disappointed.
They exchanged copies, but they told me an interesting story. Apparently, they got a huge shipment of those shitty-looking shrink-wrapped copies from <somewhere> and they were shipped-in specifically for that sale. They were considered sale copies, while the version I exchanged it for were not consider sale-copies.
What the hell is going on? Either these are a shitton of used copies coming from <somewhere> or they are shitty-made new copies. But, where are they coming from? I cannot imagine that so many used copies of the game could be compiled on such short notice and I cannot imagine that the publisher is specifically making shittier-looking copies for use in sales.
Any idea what could explain this situation?
When I got to the store, I went to the layaway area (where you pick up your online orders) and the copy they gave me was a shink-wrapped, used-looking copy. Before, I went to the layaway desk, I had went to electronics and saw they had actual, real New copies, that did not look shrink-wrapped. So, I went to the electronics department with my shitty-looking used-looking copy and had them replace it with another one. My explanation was that it was a gift (it was) and the person I was gifting this to would think it is a used copy and be disappointed.
They exchanged copies, but they told me an interesting story. Apparently, they got a huge shipment of those shitty-looking shrink-wrapped copies from <somewhere> and they were shipped-in specifically for that sale. They were considered sale copies, while the version I exchanged it for were not consider sale-copies.
What the hell is going on? Either these are a shitton of used copies coming from <somewhere> or they are shitty-made new copies. But, where are they coming from? I cannot imagine that so many used copies of the game could be compiled on such short notice and I cannot imagine that the publisher is specifically making shittier-looking copies for use in sales.
Any idea what could explain this situation?
Snkfanatic
Banned
What is so ridiculous about the OP wanting to know if he bought a game that was opened and resealed?
hey. why are u a super member?
Also OP please stop buying games when you don't even play them. Get the games that get rare immediately and all the other games when they are cheap as fuck. It's just stupid OCD and doesn't help you. Waste of time and money.
Edit: And please play Bayonetta
I worked at a local used game store in my youth and we had a shrink wrap machine. It was very simple. You just put stuff in the wrap, cut it with a hot guillotine thing, and then -- and I'm not joking here -- used a hair dryer to shrink down the wrapping around the item. When we did it to boxy items like games, it would end up looking like what OP posted.
And not that anyone cares, but we didn't do this to sell used games as new. We just classed up select items and would also shrink wrap used systems to keep all of the controllers, etc. together, which was kind of a pain.
Bar81
Member
ReddishGUI
Member
My day 1 copy had a proper seal but capcom has a tendency to use this cheapass seal for reprints.
i don't understand how a sticker would keep you from making the mistake again
you should have an open games party dude. ill come over. i got nothing going on