@Tanir: that's why you check before you purchase...

@newn4gguy

You're the one being ridiculous here . If role were reversed and you were selling a game , they'll act accordingly weither the game is opened or not . WHy shouldnt customers do the same ?

It's a used game period . I shouldnt have to wonder if some fatso dipped his fingers into some nugget sauce before opening my game , hence i wont .

"how shady square enix and onlive were front to slip this one in. Had they notified Gamestop ahead of time, this would bag been headed off. "

For starters they have no business even looking inside the boxes and deciding what to sell from it .

If they have an issue , they could just have blocked the sales of deus ex games instead of tampering with it , while discussing it with square enix .

Every conversation goes right back to this. No, I don't like that they open games. They can purchase copies for their emplyees to play. Its not a huge deal to me but it also isn't the issue here. They were Blindsided! They had a code to their competitor in a product theyvwere selling. Normally they could nav sent them back and got new ones without the codes. Here's the problem they also had a responsibility to deliver games that were laid for w pre order bonus codes. And don't tell me gamers would b patient while they waited a week for a sealed copy without an onlive code in it. Give me a break. They were basically screwed over by square enix but no one talks about that. We just want our games now and we don't care about any of that business crap and since Gamestop is the company that handed me my game, it must b there fault. No, Gaming is a huge business w shareholders to answer to & no court would rule that they had to sell copies w onlive codes in them.

@joab777

Blindsided by Square Enix???
I think you're giving Gamestop too much importance, they aren't the only retailer in the world(or US in this case) and I doubt SE took the time to consider every single retailer and whether onlive was for a rival company.

SE actually gave customers a nice bonus with the onlive game and Gamestop then decided unilaterally that they don't have the right and kept it from the customers. That's tampering with a product and I don't like it.

You open a game, remove some of the content and then smile and sell me it for full price without even telling me what you did, then you only say something and apologize AFTER you were caught. How exactly can you defend that??

Why should anyone trust Gamestop after this and should we wonder if they have done this in the past and not been caught or if they will do it again? To say SE was at fault for giving gamers more is ridiculous.

Like what was said above. When Gamestop found out about the Onlive code in the copies, the first thing they do is take it out and lie to customers???(withholding the opening and removal is equivalent to lying). How the hell can you defend that?

??? where the hell is anyone claiming that gamers "would be patient" ? .

For starters the behind the scenes arent their problem , if there are issues it's up to gamestop and to deal with it internally .

It's not my problem that you can't have a competitor advertised within a game . Tough sh*t you deal with it between you and square or anyone else , dont touch my game or dotn sell it .

Gamespot is a party that does nothing of interest here gamewise , it merely hands you goods you fully paid for new or used . Its a bloated delivery service , and if they can't do it without handming themselves professionally , then tought sh*t i'm gone .

There is no argument justifying their attitude nor way to land it on square or whomever .

Let's sto being hypocrite and pretend the behind the scenes matter ... the're not our pals , they are paid , and can't even do the job in this instance without screwing their customers . It's 100% their fault for badly handling the situation , and worse making more advertizing than needed to the mediocre onlive service

I don't have to gov them importance; they simply are a major player in the industry. U r right that I don't think square enix did it on purpose but it was done and they are responsible of the outcome

Technically taking codes out of box = stealing.

Simply refusing to sell the PC edition would of been less troublesome. Its not like every gamestop has a PC section anyway. My local one does not.