Games Plus Suck

I don’t buy games very often, and when I do I make sure I get the best deal I can. I’ve discovered that GP Store normally has the best prices before postage. But EB (what is with THAT site??) will match their competitors price, so…

I normally look online, then go to EB and get if for the GP price, minus the postage. Trouble is on Saturday EB had sold out of Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood, so I decided to try my luck at the new Games Plus store. They had heaps of copies of the game, but the price was $89.95 not the $82.95 advertised by GP. So I grabbed a copy of the game and took it up to the counter. I asked the guy if that was as low as they could go. He said that they’d already taken $10 of the recommended price. When I told him that GP had it for $82.95 he said that there was nothing he could do.

Nothing he could do? So this new gaming store, raised out of the ashes of Central Park doesn’t have the ability to be competitive? I wonder how long they will last?

So what was I to do? My wife wanted to go to The Warehouse, so I figured I could get it there, and fortunately they had one copy left, at a staggering $78.98!

Now I don’t like buying games at the Warehouse, in fact this was the first time, as I like to support the small specialist stores like EB who help bring gaming to the masses and keep the price lower.

So what’s the moral of this story? It has none; I just wanted to rant about how much Games Plus suck!

And to say what a friggen awesome game Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood is. It’s a step up, nay, a friggen leap up from the original, especially in enemy AI and difficulty, but it’s just as much fun and just as addictive.

That’s all, end of rant.