Current Events > Gamestop buy 2 get 1 free now includes NEW games.

(+) Yeah! (+)

And used games, obviously.

You could buy two new games for $39.99 each and snag another $39.99 new game free.


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Or I could go on Steam and not pay 80$ for just three games.


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very nice

Evening_Dragon posted...

Or I could go on Steam and not pay 80$ for just three games.

...I guess you could.


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You think Gamestop will survive to the next gen of consoles?

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DemonBuffet posted...

You think Gamestop will survive to the next gen of consoles?

I do.

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DemonBuffet posted...

You think Gamestop will survive to the next gen of consoles?

Are there even hardline console gens anymore? There are like 4 different tiers of power for the x1 and ps4 now, no?

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Evening_Dragon posted...

Are there even hardline console gens anymore?

...yes

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Evening_Dragon posted...

Or I could go on Steam and not pay 80$ for just three games.

Where can I buy Switch games on Steam?

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El Mexicano Texano posted...

Where can I buy Switch games on Steam?

In an alternate dimension, where people realized underpowered hardware was bullshit and Nintendo focused on multiplatform dev and publishing.

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DemonBuffet posted...

You think Gamestop will survive to the next gen of consoles?

Are you talking about like, the PS6 and Xbox whatever in 7-8 years?

Probably not unless they completely reinvent themselves.
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Dang, they really need customers

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Evening_Dragon posted...

In an alternate dimension, where people realized underpowered hardware was bullshit and Nintendo focused on multiplatform dev and publishing.

Underpowered hardware means nothing. Countless of SNES, PS1, old consoles games are still good even if they're dated by hardware. They could have released MegaMan 9 and 10 for the NES and still would be good....those games came out in 2008 and 2010


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Obviously the hardware isn't underpowered for games that don't require power. The games were built with those limitations in mind.

Not so with an unfortunate amount of what Nintendo tries to do. God, my poor Pokemon franchise.

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bump for peeps.

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They conveniently excluded all new 1st party Switch games from the sale. What a waste.

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So it still only includes used games, then.

Who tf got time to play 3 games?

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Cuckstop ftw

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Trash company is trash

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Does this deal extend to their line of hand sanitizer products as well?

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They're that desperate now, eh?
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Evening_Dragon posted...

In an alternate dimension, where people realized underpowered hardware was bullshit and Nintendo focused on multiplatform dev and publishing.

Nintendo makes unique hardware. I do not understand how people just act like consoles serve no purpose.

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Just to show how shitty gamestop is with their used game markups
Monster Boy:
New $9.97
Pre-Owned $29.99

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/games/products/monster-boy-and-the-cursed-kingdom/10158867.html
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devilminion posted...

Just to show how shitty gamestop is with their used game markups
Monster Boy:
New $9.97
Pre-Owned $29.99

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/games/products/monster-boy-and-the-cursed-kingdom/10158867.html

GameStop is shitty, but that's probably a publisher sponsored sale.

Kami_no_Kami posted...

So it still only includes used games, then.

lol

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_Rinku_ posted...

GameStop is shitty, but that's probably a publisher sponsored sale.

Not a sale, those are clearly marked with a red price drop, like Borderlands 3
Original 27.99, sale 24.99
https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/games/products/borderlands-3/10175066.html

And in case you think this was some recent price change, the $30 used vs $10 new has been like that since August of last year
https://web.archive.org/web/20190829120739/https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/games/products/monster-boy-and-the-cursed-kingdom/10158867.html
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Too bad a lot of the current gen games are not that great.

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Dark_SilverX posted...

Too bad a lot of the current gen games are not that great.

Lol which ones

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Evening_Dragon posted...

Or I could go on Steam and not pay 80$ for just three games.

Games that I actually own

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DemonBuffet posted...

You think Gamestop will survive to the next gen of consoles?

I doubt it. The ones near me barely sell games anymore. Its basically 60% Funko pops at this point.

Evening_Dragon posted...

Or I could go on Steam and not pay 80$ for just three games.

For three new games? Probably more.

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Thanks for this. Got Splatoon 2, Mario Party and Luigis Mansion. Wanted them new, but new games were excluded.

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Evening_Dragon posted...

In an alternate dimension, where people realized underpowered hardware was bullshit and Nintendo focused on multiplatform dev and publishing.

Guide are you a graphics whore?

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devilminion posted...

Not a sale, those are clearly marked with a red price drop, like Borderlands 3
Original 27.99, sale 24.99
https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/games/products/borderlands-3/10175066.html

And in case you think this was some recent price change, the $30 used vs $10 new has been like that since August of last year
https://web.archive.org/web/20190829120739/https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/games/products/monster-boy-and-the-cursed-kingdom/10158867.html

Do you understand how their used sales work? They're essentially selling new copies for the publisher and the publisher likely set that $10 new price.

Currently, their trade in price for the game is about $12 store credit. You could try flipping copies of it for a miniscule profit.

Hope they open up soon.

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Nice just got a new xbox one. Gonna check it out.
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_Rinku_ posted...

Do you understand how their used sales work? They're essentially selling new copies for the publisher and the publisher likely set that $10 new price.

Currently, their trade in price for the game is about $12 store credit. You could try flipping copies of it for a miniscule profit.

i dont think he understands how it works


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I'm trying to get Persona 5 R, Lion King/Aladdin, and Mega Man Zero collection but it keeps removing Persona from my cart....

I've ordered many many M rated games from GameStop online, so idk what's going on

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SuperExcitebike posted...

I'm trying to get Persona 5 R, Lion King/Aladdin, and Mega Man Zero collection but it keeps removing Persona from my cart....

I just tried this (all PS4 versions) and didn't have that issue. Try Incog. mode, maybe?

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Simon_Petrikov posted...

I just tried this (all PS4 versions) and didn't have that issue. Try Incog. mode, maybe?

I ordered successfully. I either wasn't logged in or I may have accidentally clicked the under 17 option before

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*thumbs up*
I dont know why Im on my alt

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_Rinku_ posted...

Do you understand how their used sales work? They're essentially selling new copies for the publisher and the publisher likely set that $10 new price.

Currently, their trade in price for the game is about $12 store credit. You could try flipping copies of it for a miniscule profit.

Don't know about that specific example but Gamestop has definitely done shady things on the Used price in the past. I remember back when Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii was going for $60 New $110 Used. The game got a second reprint and Gamestop opened all the new cases so they could all be sold for the Used price

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Nice, just got Persona 5 Royal Steel Book Edition, Overwatch Legendary Edition and Marvels Spider-Man Game Of The Year Edition for $90 total, shipping was also free since it was over $35.
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Kuuko posted...

Don't know about that specific example but Gamestop has definitely done shady things on the Used price in the past. I remember back when Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii was going for $60 New $110 Used. The game got a second reprint and Gamestop opened all the new cases so they could all be sold for the Used price

Now that doesn't surprise me. They've also been caught opening new copies to remove advertisements for a digital game service that was competing with their own.

_Rinku_ posted...

Do you understand how their used sales work? They're essentially selling new copies for the publisher and the publisher likely set that $10 new price.

Currently, their trade in price for the game is about $12 store credit. You could try flipping copies of it for a miniscule profit.

First off, that $12 trade in is for the switch version, which is $20 new. They aren't even accepting copies of the PS4 version, so no, you couldn't flip 'em

And second, yes I know how their pricing works, I just assumed that when you said "publisher sponsored sale", you were saying it was only $10 due to some sale that discounted most/all of a specific publisher's products, much like the publisher sales that Steam does every weekend.

And as Kuuko said, this isn't the first time they have done this. It just happens that in this case, Monster Boy isn't as popular as Xenoblade, so not too many eyes have been on this example.
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devilminion posted...

First off, that $12 trade in is for the switch version, which is $20 new. They aren't even accepting copies of the PS4 version, so no, you couldn't flip 'em

And second, yes I know how their pricing works, I just assumed that when you said "publisher sponsored sale", you were saying it was only $10 due to some sale that discounted most/all of a specific publisher's products, much like the publisher sales that Steam does every weekend.

And as Kuuko said, this isn't the first time they have done this. It just happens that in this case, Monster Boy isn't as popular as Xenoblade, so not too many eyes have been on this example.

I guess they learned their lesson after that legendary trade in deal a few years ago. People were buying copies of games for like $20 at Walmart and flipping them for double that at GameStop.

Personally, I just take advantage of this kind of deal if it's for a game I want; got a copy of Tetris Effect for like twenty bucks when it was brand new that way.

I doubt they're making big bucks selling used copies of Monster Boy instead of new.

Kuuko posted...

Don't know about that specific example but Gamestop has definitely done shady things on the Used price in the past. I remember back when Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii was going for $60 New $110 Used. The game got a second reprint and Gamestop opened all the new cases so they could all be sold for the Used price

This is wrong or misleading in multiple ways, namely the reprint copies were never sealed (and thus couldn't be "opened"), it was $89.99 Used (I'm not saying this is better, just be accurate here), and it wasn't "going" for $60 New at the time because there were no fricken copies left.
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Bio1590 posted...

This is wrong or misleading in multiple ways, namely the reprint copies were never sealed (and thus couldn't be "opened"), it was $89.99 Used (I'm not saying this is better, just be accurate here), and it wasn't "going" for $60 New at the time because there were no fricken copies left.

I may be confusing the $89.99 Used price with what the going-rate on Amazon climbed to. The supply and demand for the game was clearly intense before the reprint came around. People were buying the game, playing it for a few hundred hours, and then selling it to someone else for a profit.

If I'm using the wrong terminology on "sealed" and "opened" then by all means correct me. At the end of the day what I mean to point out is new copies of the game were printed and then sold as pre-owned to everyone. That's how I got scammed into buying my copy of the game actually.

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