The Wii Collecting Thread!

[Matt_B]

Not good news for people who preordered Last Story from Game....

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/0 ... completely

And apparently GAME is going to hell in a handcart too....

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... -35-stores

Yep. Putting two and two together it sounds like someone's expecting them to go belly up very soon.

[greenberet79]

I feel sorry for the people working in those shops. Can't remember the last time I bought anything in GAME though - and I pop in once a week to browse through the PSP/Wii/PC stuff, but there's never anything that appeals to me.

I'm not an expert in this - but GAME comes across to me as a place built solely to prey upon bewildered mums and dads who want to get their kids the latest gadgets/games and GAME are happy to bleed them dry. As I say though, i might be wrong.

[pratty]

I'm not an expert in this - but GAME comes across to me as a place built solely to prey upon bewildered mums and dads who want to get their kids the latest gadgets/games and GAME are happy to bleed them dry. As I say though, i might be wrong.

I get the same impression. Too often I've been annoyed at the fact that Game make it difficult to just pick up a game from the shelf priced at £X, and then take it to the till and pay only £X, instead of being flogged other crap. I get that it's a business and that's their prerogative to do that, but It's also mine to take my business elsewhwere.

I do echo the sympathy for the employees, the majority of them are good people including members of this board who are clearly on the customer's side, but like them I know first hard of Games' upper management's dishonesty and comtempt for it's customers, so i don't have much sympathy for the company itself.

It's all very well saying we wish the employees well and hope they don't lose their jobs, but how many of us are going to support them by going out of our way to shop Game. Game would have to make drastic changes to rebuild the bridges they've burned with a lot of disgruntled customers like me. I hope they plan to do more than just cut costs, don't close the shops, make them better.

I actually think the shopping experience would improve by actually doing less, by dropping that cheesy Game propaganda radio and by stopping the constant needless stock moving. They can make the sale transactions simpler and smoother with less sales crap which only creates conflict and consumes both the customer and staff's time.

[ALK]

Now, who to preorder Street Fighter X Tekken limited Edition from? Hmmm.......

This what i am thinking, im desperate to get my hands on this game, i dunno were to order from tho, on play its about £43 but will not reach me in time for realease, on shopto its £50 but will prob reach me about 3 days before release...

Thanks for mentioning that. I wasnt too keen on Game's price for the limited edition (I mostly use Game for the reward points), but if Play.com is doing it near £20 cheaper, I'll happily wait the extra few days for that.

Looks like Amazon has dispatched my Last Story Limited Ed too today. With any luck, should have it by Saturday if my order for One Piece 3D is anything to go by...

[Rayne]

I feel sorry for the people working in those shops. Can't remember the last time I bought anything in GAME though - and I pop in once a week to browse through the PSP/Wii/PC stuff, but there's never anything that appeals to me.

I'm not an expert in this - but GAME comes across to me as a place built solely to prey upon bewildered mums and dads who want to get their kids the latest gadgets/games and GAME are happy to bleed them dry. As I say though, i might be wrong.

Exactly this, I got into a fight with the idiot at GAME today, my patience finally ran out.

All I went to buy was a case for my Vita, he asked 'Have you bought a system?' ...DUH!!

Then it was him trying up upsell a travel kit over the case I picked

Then it was the games

Then it was pre-ordering games

Then pre-ordering Mass Effect 3

Then memory cards

I put the case on the counter, told him to put it back on the censored shelf and walked out. I've hated GAME for a long time but today was the last straw, utterly ridiculous service, lying customer support (particularly when it comes to network passes & DLC) and rip-off prices, even compared to other retail outlets.

Sorry to the honest joe's that work there (if there are any) but I'll be glad when the chain goes out of business

[ALK]

Sounds like an extreme case there. The ones in my local game only really ask if I know about trading in games and how many days I have to trade in etc, never really anything like "Do you need this? You preowned that? Got this and that?" and never beyond 2 questions.

Don't really want to see em go out of business since I do pop in every time I'm there incase of a bargain or whatever, but hope this is the kick in the balls that need to listen and not pester their main customers, the gamers.

[pratty]

Exactly this, I got into a fight with the idiot at GAME today, my patience finally ran out.

All I went to buy was a case for my Vita, he asked 'Have you bought a system?' ...DUH!!

Then it was him trying up upsell a travel kit over the case I picked

Then it was the games

Then it was pre-ordering games

Then pre-ordering Mass Effect 3

Then memory cards

I put the case on the counter, told him to put it back on the censored shelf and walked out. I've hated GAME for a long time but today was the last straw, utterly ridiculous service, lying customer support (particularly when it comes to network passes & DLC) and rip-off prices, even compared to other retail outlets.

Sorry to the honest joe's that work there (if there are any) but I'll be glad when the chain goes out of business

As I said in another Game thread, they shoot themselves in the foot with their own greed sometimes. Seems they haven't learned, as said in the Eurogamer comments, they'll probably blame piracy and the economy before they blame themselves.

Also in the comments somebody suggested Nintendo buys so litle shelf space at Game due to the way they push pre-owned over new. It made me wonder if it was Nintendo that pulled Last Story from them.

As I've said before I've never understood why only the consumer seems to be blamed for the the pre-owned market, and are "punished" with online/DLC codes etc. Are Nintendo turning the screws on the retailers now by with withholding certain games? But then again Nintendo are working closely with Gamestop to release Xenoblade in NA so maybe not?

[Megamixer]

HMV have posted my copy of last story ltd ed today

also Pandora's Tower is getting a Limited edition release in the UK with a Steelbook case & Art book, its out on 13th April

edit: also project zero 2 is heading for the UK aswell!

PZ2? That came out ages ago on the PS2/Xbox unless I'm missing something.

Ugh...all these Ltd Editions...why must they all come at once?

Its Project Zero 2 remade for the Wii, utilising the motion controls presumably.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/22/proje ... ii-owners/

Does seem like an idea out of nowhere doesnt it? More interested in the spin off Project Zero game "Spirit Camera" headed to the 3DS which i can assume will use the gyroscopic controls to move the camera. Could be unwise to have a game that terrifies you on a portable console with the way i tend to drop the controller when im suddenly scared

Does anybody else find it strange (and annoying) that an old PS2/Xbox-era PZ game is being remade for a system that is arguably almost dead over here and yet during the height of the Wii, Europe wasn't allowed PZ4? What's up with that?

[Fightersmegamix]

Yeah the project zero 2 thing is daft, just release PZ4 and we'd all be happy. I'm guessing it will be more cheap cash in than remake.

[ShadowNeku]

Does anybody else find it strange (and annoying) that an old PS2/Xbox-era PZ game is being remade for a system that is arguably almost dead over here and yet during the height of the Wii, Europe wasn't allowed PZ4? What's up with that?

This is what i meant with the idea out of nowhere. If it was early into the Wii's life id have understood but considering the console is on its last legs...
And to choose PZ2 rather than the first might confuse Wii owners that are unaware of the series PS2/XBOX beginnings. Really strange.

[Flint]

My HMV order didn't arrive today, they sent it Wednesday but then added that it might take upto 5 days which makes you wonder what the point of pre-ordering is. Oh well at least it's on the way.

Shame about GAME, I got sick of their shops but their website was pretty good for a while, hopefully that will stay around even without the shops (like Zavvi).

This video summed up the GAME customer expereince even if it's juvenille, full of bad language and for Gamestop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onEfmC6HRF4

Their idea of a "customer journey" is interesting* too.
http://nomorefpss.blogspot.com/2011/08/ ... urney.html

*Well Sort of.

[Black Ridge]

My copy of The Last Story is 'out for delivery'....

having internet tracking like that has me watching the door all day.

[Megamixer]

Does anybody else find it strange (and annoying) that an old PS2/Xbox-era PZ game is being remade for a system that is arguably almost dead over here and yet during the height of the Wii, Europe wasn't allowed PZ4? What's up with that?

This is what i meant with the idea out of nowhere. If it was early into the Wii's life id have understood but considering the console is on its last legs...
And to choose PZ2 rather than the first might confuse Wii owners that are unaware of the series PS2/XBOX beginnings. Really strange.

I'd have preferred the fourth by a long way. I know the patch is out but I hear a Japanese copy of the game is really expensive to import.

My Last Story CE was dispatched from Play.com today. Might have had it sooner but I only realised yesterday that my pre-order had been rejected because I hadn't updated my card details (got a new one very recently) . Good job I checked!

Shame about GAME, I got sick of their shops but their website was pretty good for a while, hopefully that will stay around even without the shops (like Zavvi).

I've never really enjoyed GAME as store. The other day for instance, employees kept coming up to me asking if I "had heard about the Vita". Quickly found that by telling them it was currently too expensive for me, they soon cleared off . The website has always been decent to me though to be fair. Got my Soul Calibur V LE from them on launch day and I used to buy the more harder-to-find PS2 games from their online store before I started using Play.com. I remember getting the original Persona 3 from them for example.

If they go then I won't miss their stores and the shopping experience but I do feel bad for staff who will be laid off because the top brass couldn't adapt and move with the times or 'get' their customers. The current family-friendly, 'treat everyone like a noob' attitude worked really well for them at the height of the Wii's popularity but the Wii doesn't have that same impact anymore yet GAME have failed to keep up-to-date and bin that approach.

[Fightersmegamix]

My last story didn't arrive today. Too many other games to play anyway but I wanted to give it a quick go

[ToxieDogg]

I would comment more on The Last Story, but...I'm too busy playing it at the moment.