Steelyuhas
Member
Gamestop strikes again!
Worst business
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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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Do you remember the name of the guy who told you this?
ElzarTheBam
Member
Welcome to the family, brother Squid.
You need to call the local DM or corporate and report him first of all for giving you false info that you learn the first day on the job. Complain enough and they should be able to work out something for you. Guy wont get fired unless he has had several complaints on him before and it gets him re-trained to better do his job.
If you go there again and someone tries to pull a fast one on you like that, cancel any pre-order you made with them, buy a pack a batteries and give them a bad review on the receipt.
Steelyuhas
Member
lol
Someone has a bad experience with a store and you're suggesting purchasing more from them. wat
At some point you will need batteries, you'll thank me when your remote dies!
But to the point of what I was saying, GameStop usually works around when an employee knowingly or unknowingly screws you over if you call and complain. The employee is then retrained on the thing he fucked up on.
If you know an employee is trying to pull one on you, like say reserving a game without you knowing, you should then cancel the reserves you have with that employee, buy something cheap that you will need from the store that's cheaper than a reserve which is usually batteries and then leave them a bad review so they will get retrained as well. You can then either go reserve at a new store, amazon or come back when someone new is working.
Steelyuhas
Member
Speak with management about your experience instead of feeding more money into the place that's trying to jerk you around.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Elzar
"And while you're here, have you heard the good word on Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea Part 2?"
ElzarTheBam
Member
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That works too. I just do the battery thing personally because my family goes through a hell of a lot of them and the DM and Manager read all the negative reviews and the DM has more power.
Be warned though, sometimes the manager isn't there and a SGA can't really do anything if its like a price fix. They can however do a write up but its up to them if they really want to tell the manager about it or not. They usually will if you make a big enough fuss over it.
I guess I should feel lucky, I've never had any kind of bad history with Gamestop and the employees at mine have always been pretty "real" about things.
l Zealot l
Member
Agreed, whilst most sounded okay the sword was a massive step back.
Hopefully old school infection returns and not flood in H2A.
This is the norm, GAF nerds just like to over play it because, reasons.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Never got the GS hate either. In all my years going to Funcoland/Software Etc/EBGames/Gamestop whatever its called, its been "you want to pre-order this thing?" "no" "you want to pay $3 extra bucks because reasons" "no" "ok have a good day"
Steelyuhas
Member
This isn't about Gamestop, it's about the absurd idea of spending more money at a place in order to tell them you're unhappy with the service they provided.
I used to work there and while I never pressured anyone into pre-ordering things there are plenty of employees who were pretty awful. My friend has had someone try to sneak in a pre-order if his trade-ins had $5 extra. He had to go back after he saw it was on his receipt to cancel it because the clerk never told him.
Now these are rare cases but they do happen.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I'm sure Xand has told me about various GS horror stories, but then again Xands' a ratchet.
Don't you have to still install disc games? Is there any HDD space saving to having a disc?
Steelyuhas
Member
Same size
RowdyReverb
Member
How long have you been a member of NeoGAF? How long have you lurked?
I've been approved today, so my lurking can finally come to an end. I've lurked NeoGAF since Dec 2012 and HaloGAF since May of this year or so.
How old are you? What country or state are you posting from?
Nearing 25. I'm living in Houston, TX.
How long have you been a Halo fan? Have you played all the games?
Since I played a Halo: CE demo at a kiosk in Best Buy in 2001. I've played them all except Halo Wars.
What mode do you spend most of your time in?
Multiplayer, followed by Campaign.
What is your favorite playlist?
Team Objective, but I mostly preferred Action Sack in Halo 4.
AR or BR?
BR (a DMR is fine too)
Highest Halo 3 level and what playlist?
35 in SWAT, I think. I mostly played social.
Favorite Halo 2 map?
Lockout. Not an original answer, but it's the truth.
Favorite all-time Halo map?
Big Team CTF on Sidewinder/Avalanche. It just resonates with me for some reason.
Other Halo sites/forums you have been a member of.
Just bungie.net and the Halo subreddit.
Any other games you spend a lot of time playing.
I try to play most big-name titles that come out. Lately it's been Metro Redux. I'm very much looking forward to MCC.
Personal bio stuff. (occupation/hobbies/etc.)
I'm a medical student. In my progressively more seldom free time, I enjoy movies, TV, sci-fi novels, and gaming. XBL name is the same as my username.
I've been approved today, so my lurking can finally come to an end. I've lurked NeoGAF since Dec 2012 and HaloGAF since May of this year or so.
How old are you? What country or state are you posting from?
Nearing 25. I'm living in Houston, TX.
How long have you been a Halo fan? Have you played all the games?
Since I played a Halo: CE demo at a kiosk in Best Buy in 2001. I've played them all except Halo Wars.
What mode do you spend most of your time in?
Multiplayer, followed by Campaign.
What is your favorite playlist?
Team Objective, but I mostly preferred Action Sack in Halo 4.
AR or BR?
BR (a DMR is fine too)
Highest Halo 3 level and what playlist?
35 in SWAT, I think. I mostly played social.
Favorite Halo 2 map?
Lockout. Not an original answer, but it's the truth.
Favorite all-time Halo map?
Big Team CTF on Sidewinder/Avalanche. It just resonates with me for some reason.
Other Halo sites/forums you have been a member of.
Just bungie.net and the Halo subreddit.
Any other games you spend a lot of time playing.
I try to play most big-name titles that come out. Lately it's been Metro Redux. I'm very much looking forward to MCC.
Personal bio stuff. (occupation/hobbies/etc.)
I'm a medical student. In my progressively more seldom free time, I enjoy movies, TV, sci-fi novels, and gaming. XBL name is the same as my username.
Tha Robbertster
Member
RowdyReverb
Member
3rd year, internal medicine rotation. The hours are longer, but it sure beats basic sciences! Sadly, MCC comes out during my surgical rotation, so my play time will be hampered for a while. Hope year 1 goes well for you
Gabotron ES
Member
Never forget.
Hopefully the rumors of Coag Anniversary becoming a Forge World 2.0 become true.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Get a real job, hippy!
Steelyuhas
Member
Get a job, all of Europe!
Jellycrackers
Member
Halo Waypoint on youtube uploaded every video from the PAX Panel except for the Halo Channel one with the awesome arrangement of Never Forget as the music track...
Deputy Moonman
Member
I've never been a fan of gamestop, but I shamelessly traded in a bunch of games to the local store where I live to mitigate the cost of getting an Xbox One bundle. I was too lazy to try and sell everything individually online.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Gamestop is cool with me. The worst they ever do is try to talk me into pre-ordering a bunch of games I don't want.
GringoSuave89
Banned
That's been my only issue as well. As much as I hate preorder bonuses, if they're offering a good one I'll buy from them. But I also try to keep my business with them as simple as possible.
If you're some 18-year-old who's going to sign up for a 25% interest credit card from GameStop, I kind of feel like GameStop is doing you the favor of making you realize how much an idiot you are before the rest of the world figures it out.
Still, I'm happy that digital games means I can cut somewhat scummy retailers out of the equation.
Still, I'm happy that digital games means I can cut somewhat scummy retailers out of the equation.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Altered Juice
Member
they pulled that on me last year when i traded in over $100 worth of games. i told him cash back and he said "oh. i already turned them into credits. my bad but hey, at least you can pre order game a couple of games." the guy was very smug about it. that's why i bought the amazon gift cards they had concealed behind the burger king cards.
NobleGundam
Banned
Wat. But how?!
Poodlestrike
Banned
They sell Kindle gift cards, which are actually just Amazon gift cards in disguise, which (at this point) is really just about as good as cash.
Altered Juice
Member
Onikaan
Member
IGN did but the quality is awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st9bCJZCYDk
Or did you mean the Halo: Legends OST? (Sacred icon Suite 2) With the Halo Channel preview?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqG-jvmdZuQ
NobleGundam
Banned
No I meant the part about getting Reach LE for free!here's what they look like
In Canada, they're still EB Games. They're not so bad, a lot of guys are just ordinary gamers like us. Beyond the odd pressure to pre-order a certain game or get replacement protection, they don't really bother me. They always give less cash than store credit, but I rarely trade in games as it is.
Gamestop had this giveaway before launch at every store (I think), had to sit through this 20 minute Tsquared video at Bungie and they picked 1 winner for each store, gf number got called and gave it to me since she doesn't play.
Nope.
Dude, the point of this whole anniversary edition is that the original is untouched. Nothing was changed. Something new was made. The original form of everything is untouched and accessible.
NobleGundam
Banned
Oh wow that's so cool of her to give it to you!
I think Kittens called it
Yup agreed.
l Zealot l
Member
I'm more concerned that it may carry over to 5 (or something like it), I like the original sounds and find them easy to identify during gameplay (such as the sound the sword emits when it is activated).
Poodlestrike
Banned
I'd say give it a chance first; the new sound is different, but still fairly distinctive IMO. It doesn't produce the same sort of "oh crap, sword!" reaction, but that's because nobody's been playing it long enough.