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So much for, "power to the players." In recent news in the gaming world, GameStop has earned itself a lot of flack for their recent scandal. GameStop has been removing the OnLive coupons from the new release Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The coupon for OnLive would offer the customer who bought the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution a free digital copy if they subscribe with OnLive. A cloud gaming service that has been gaining popularity over the course of this year. This means GameStop is opening brand new copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for PC and simply closing them back up as if nothing ever happened. They are attempting to do a shawty cover up job because GameStop has major plans to expand to the digital gaming market, and couldn't stand giving OnLive any exposure.

If you ask me, that's a high risk move to do, to rapidly pull all coupons from a brand new game so that you don't lose a few people to OnLive's service rather than your own. GameStop should expect to see a lot of flack and their PR Team to be doing a lot of PR over the next few weeks. The memo, oiriginally written by Josh Ivanoff, Field Operations Manager, has hid behind the PR Team and has refused to comment on the matter, after telling employees to yank the coupons from brand new games. Here is an image of the memo:

Here are a few quick quotes from one of the GameStop Reps.

"We pulled the coupons because, like all retailers, we prefer not to promote our competitors and their competing offerings and services in our stores," a Gamestop representative wrote. "Unfortunately, the coupon was packed without our prior knowledge."

GameStop said that the OnLive service competes against Spawn Labs and Impulse, which Gamestop acquired in April, if digital distribution channels are compared. "As OnLive is, at its core, a source for games (as GameStop is), it truly competes against all of our distribution channels."

People can understand where GameStop is coming from, but if there is a miscommunication with your distributor for a game, and it has something wrong with it, you don't open the product and sell it as new. If anything, GameStop should be taking a hit from their actions, offering the game at a lower price in exchange for opening the customers product. Can corporate game distributors such as GameStop be able to do this type of thing? I'm sure we all understand everyone has to make their money, but at what cost?

UPDATE:

GameStop gave in and has decided to start recalling Deus Ex: Human Revolution and honoring all returns with a receipt! Check it out here: http://videogamewriters.com/exclusiv...troversy-21768

SOURCES:
http://onlivespot.blogspot.com/2011/08/gamestop-is-afraid-of-onlive-plays.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391755,00.asp
Thanks to DeMoN for Links

2 Comments

DeMoN - 08-24-2011
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Dumpster divers should keep an eye on their local Gamestop dumpsters for the next few days to see if these codes actually make it to the cans. Retail value is $49.99 per code and mucho respect & love if someone ends up scoring one for me! As of 8/24/11 they have not made their way to any of the 3 Gamestop dumpsters near me .

here is an image of what the coupon will look like

pictured left

GL and happy diving
-DeMoN