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Consumer Reports: Microsoft is Nice, GameStop is Naughty

Uh oh! Looks like one popular games retailer may be getting a lump of coal in its stocking this Christmas.

Consumer Reports has released its 2011 Naughty & Nice Holiday List. First introduced last year, the list examines various companies’ shopping policies and gives them a thumbs up or thumbs down depending on how consumer friendly they are. Consumer Reports notes that the list merely comments on specific policies, not “everything else the company does or how it treats its customers.”

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klecser5303d ago

None of the Nice or Naughty surprise me. I avoid most of the Naughty companies like the plague and only shop at Gamestop out of necessity.

gamingdroid5303d ago

Look at that, I buy Microsoft products, shop at Costco and amazon.com, while have an American Express card.

Those are go to... while the avoid list gets none of my business!

princejb1345302d ago

i like how radioshack is on the naughty list
i guess this explains why that company is about to become bankrupt soon also

gypsygib5302d ago

Gamestop should be like a bar and only hire attractive women, then people would love gamestop.

Noticeably_FAT5303d ago

Nice to see Microsoft get props again, though I never trade in games at Gamestop, I like their rewards programs and their buy 2 get 1 free deals.

Goozex5303d ago

Sure, with the right moolah.

Goozex5303d ago

Lol, how much Did m$ convince consumer reports to slip them in the 'nice' section?

gnb20035302d ago

More than Sony did?

I kid, I kid.

Focus5302d ago

Maybe consumers consider not letting some low life hacker get access to their personal details nice.
What? Don't look at me like that, I said maybe.
This site is so retarded, what exactly has microsoft done this year to make you imply that they need to buy people to say they are nice? I'll wait.

BitbyDeath5302d ago

Here's one of the evil things that came out from them this year -

"Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis explained that Microsoft policy states that non-exclusive titles have to launch at exactly the same time, and with exactly the same content, as the versions for other platforms, if they don't, Microsoft can decide to simply not release them."

http://www.escapistmagazine...

And lets not forget about all the things Steve Jobs revealed about them before he died this year.

It goes on and on. MS usually like to cheat to win, it is just who they are.

ApocalypseShadow5302d ago (Edited 5302d ago )

CA$H!

starts with M and ends with $

M$

Focus5302d ago

Retarded!
starts with: that was

death2smoochie5302d ago (Edited 5302d ago )

"Lol, how much Did m$ convince consumer reports to slip them in the 'nice' section?"

...about the same as Sony did give or take a few dollars because Sony is still in financial restructure LOL...

Remember this is N4G.COM...

M$ is viewed as pure EVIL on this site and Sony are viewed as Mother Teresa with a mix of Ghandi and Jesus with a splash of Mohammad and the main character in the Green Mile for added measure as the holy cherry on top.
Anything else said is blasphemy on this site.
You have been warned...........

It is reference not to Tom Hanks....

GarandShooter5302d ago

What does Tom Hanks' character in the Green Mile have to do with this?

Now if you had said Michael Clarke Duncan's character it may have made a little sense...

Nah, probably not...

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gypsygib5302d ago

I can understand why gamestop employees aren't that nice.

It must be hard actually coming face-to-face with all the trolls that most people only experience on the internet.

Hicken5302d ago

Extremely. And it's not like we get paid much for the hassle, either. AND corporate is dumb as shit.

I invite everyone to AT LEAST write letters to GameStop saying they don't want to buy opened copies of games because corporate decided we should have FOUR of them out on the shelf.

No, really. No matter what game it is or how many copies we have, they want four actual cases from new games on the shelf.

Godchild10205302d ago

I work at gamestop and we just use the boxart from the marketing kit. We only put one game case on the wall for each game and console, not four. Each GameStop is different, I guess.

Hicken5302d ago

Usually, it'd be just one... except that they wanted two for the top 20 new games. Now they want four cases for everything on the new wall, and four for everything in the "New Release" section, which often means we have to use actual cases or face consequences.

Godchild10205302d ago

For the prep for Black friday? We had to do that, but we had a lot of boxarts from the previous marking kit(s), so we used those and not actual cases.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot31d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle31d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7731d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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FuRyu's Exstetra RPG Gets HD Remaster on Steam in English This Summer

FuRyu revealed on Friday its Exstetra fantasy role-playing game is getting an HD remaster that will launch this summer on Steam.

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg37d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree36d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai36d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.