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Under the Table Game Sales

Submitted by on February 26, 2007 – 2:41 pm3 Comments

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Add this to the list of things that piss me off about game stores.

Here in Utah, according to my source, an employee of a local indie handheld developer was able to swing a deal with a local games retailer (who he refused to name) where the store gave him a copy of Crackdown a week before it’s release date. The employee then brought it into his office and demoed it for the other developers. The store employees arranged to take cash for the transaction and then simply ringup the purchases once the game’s release date arrived. I’m sure this kind of grey market transaction completely breaks all kinds of corporate rules and contracts, but…

Is this right or wrong? It kind of pisses me off, but if I was the person getting a hot game a week before release date, I’m not sure I could resist such a temptation. Any thoughts, guys?

  • http://www.cephyn.com cephyn

    Please. I’m sure publishers know about this and encourage it by not discouraging it. It builds pre-release buzz, it’s free word of mouth advertising, and it works ridiculously well. If release dates were really serious, the game stores wouldn’t have the games any more than a day in advance.

    Your issue isn’t with the game stores. It’s with the publishers who love this.

  • Subnet6

    a WEEK before release? Who even cares?

  • http://www.farbot.com/ Paul

    Humans are endlessly creative in ways to break the artificial, non-legally-binding things like street dates. If you think this little scam was dirty, I really hope you don’t read about any of the stock market shenanigans that are legal but far more destructive and dirtier.

    I wouldn’t worry, though. I doubt the boutique gaming stores will survive. The boutique toy stores were all but destroyed by the super-retailers, and I expect the same retailers and electronics vendors to do the same to the little guys.