Comments on: Many UK Retailers Refuse To Stock Muramasa: The Demon Blade

By: 1234asdf4321

1234asdf4321 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:30:21 +0000

This is nothing new. And this is the reason why i avoid video retail chains like the pest. They just stock on the bland mega hype titles. As if these couldnt be purchased anywhere anyway.

By: 1234asdf4321

1234asdf4321 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:30:21 +0000

This is nothing new. And this is the reason why i avoid video retail chains like the pest. They just stock on the bland mega hype titles. As if these couldnt be purchased anywhere anyway.

By: Chris Taran

Chris Taran — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:40:06 +0000

Digital Distribution will be the worst anti-consumer move in the history of mankind. It truly saddens me to see people support such a thing.

Just buy the game through on online retailer and don't give your money to these brick and mortars. I agree that these physical stores need to stop existing, but packaged disc based media can not die out for the sake of the consumer.

By: Gringovic

Gringovic — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:51:51 +0000

Region lock, dude… :(

By: mooncalf

mooncalf — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:53:47 +0000

I came in here expecting a story about stores getting scared of the anti-hentai lobby, what with the “tentacle rape” magazine cover.
The Wii area in my local EB is enormous, but it contains so little of interest, with the few worthy titles being tough to spot or absent. Muramasa's cover would definitely draw my eye.

By: suto_vu

suto_vu — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:19:49 +0000

Import from the US, done.

By: Slashlen

Slashlen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:01:45 +0000

I really think we may be heading there, but instead of either hits or obscure we will probably have brick & mortars which will only stock the hits, and online stores which will stock everything.

Used will always be an exception because they make a killing on them.

By: ElTopo

ElTopo — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:32:16 +0000

Thats because retail stores kinda picked up on the fact that the PSP Go is a pile of trash. Really, just pick it up online, send your money to Amazon, they run their business pretty well.

By: ElTopo

ElTopo — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:30:27 +0000

Yeah theres about a million reasons why its not better for anyone.

By: matty

matty — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:19:01 +0000

True. They may not be hurting themselves now if the sales of Madden and other brand titles are doing this well for them. On the the long run, who knows? It could be a entirely different landscape or pretty much the same as far as expectations goes.

It would be interesting if video games took a path that music in the late 60s/early 70s took. It came to the point of having only your MAJOR hit-makers or underground and obscure acts. Both came with good and bad aspects, but its funny thinking about the ABBA and Stooges of video games.

By: matty

matty — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:15:56 +0000

Maybe he thought you meant you were going to pirate it :P

I don't know why some sales rep. do that. When someone says to me they'll take their business elsewhere I still give them a wink and smile. I understand they're doing their job, but quality serv-wait, never mind. Still, they shouldn't have to care that much. :/

By: Slashlen

Slashlen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:58:01 +0000

The retail games industry has become more and more hit driven. If something doesn't sell a million copies, they don't care. It doesn't even seem to be an issue about not making a profit, those stores could have stocked a few copies each and made money. It's not like it's not selling at all.

It's greed, but it's greed to the point where they're actually hurting themselves. Not only are they leaving money on the table, but they're driving some customers away. If you're focing people to go somewhere else for something, they may find a place they like better than yours.

I can understand not selling the PSP Go, it's actually against their interests to sell it. It's like a cable company selling satelite dishes. Why would they?

By: Tofuuu

Tofuuu — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:49:34 +0000

there was one experience i had at GameStop where the person at the desk gave pretty good service for most of the purchase until he asked if i had any games i wanted to reserve like Left 4 Dead 2 and i told him “nah… i'm probably going to download the game instead of buy a hard copy…” and the service plummeted on the spot… he wasn't very friendly with me after that X3

Actually, i can say this about most Gamestops… service quality tends to decline if you decline to reserve games O.o;;

By: perron

perron — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:41:08 +0000

But with Amazon and other online megastores anybody who wants the game can easily order it.

By: wildarms

wildarms — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:28:08 +0000

And tomorrow they are mad and crying because they dont want digital releases? fuckers