The newest one won't.
Pikmin?
Actually, they did raise the price on "used" copies of Pikmin 2 Wii. The game released for $20 MSRP and now "pre-owned" copies are $30. If Pikmin 3 were as big a hit as Fire Emblem and Metroid Prime, you can be damn sure they'd have raised the price to $40 or $50.
ing liar if you said you were going to sell it for less than MSRP just to be a good guy. Gamestop is just doing what EVERY SINGLE ONE of you would do if you had this rare game.
up and stop just jumping on the "I hate X comapny for X" bandwagons and get a mind of your own.
But you see, that's just the thing. You didn't use logic. You defended a slimy corporation in the most illogical manner ever. If you think what you said was logical then you must think that slidgecage and pepsiman use logic too.
I know Gamestop isn't stupid and I'm not asking for them to get stupid. I'm asking them to get reasonable. If they had priced these games decently, around $40-45, it would have been fine. I myself would have bought a copy since I don't have one and a lot of people who share my mindset would have bought a copy instead of refusing and cursing Gamestop for their greed. They would have had many more people buying the game and being happy with Gamestop if they had done that. But no, they had to Gamestop it up again.
fine I wish gamestop didn't reprint this game.....you know why? so all you clowns whining that want the game couldn't get it. so sorry the game isn't 3 dollars or less.....just be glad its magically available suddenly because gamestop was able to work out a deal. I imagine this deal entailed buying these games, shipping, paying for the printing, and of course the labor of having to ship this game from gamestops warehouse to all over the country. to expect this game to be dirt cheap is ridiculous. also since these are preowned chances are they just flat out bought the games so you are paying for gamestops profit as opposed to new games where gamestop makes little to nothing and bank on a flood of used copies.
This reply is textbook shilling, right down to the poor grammar. Thank you for proving my point for me. All the classic signs of shilling. "You should thank Gamestop for getting you this deal. You'd be better off not getting this reprint. The price is dirt cheap. How could you expect to get it for $3 or $5 or free." Who the hell even said it should be $5? Nobody. Nobody said any of that. It's just you.
Well actually, I think it was due to the poor sales and not the lack of availability. Fire Emblem games have had a hard time reaching the mass market.
Honestly, your posts in this thread are textbook entitlement and bitching. Yes, it sucks that the price is over the msrp, but look at the current prices of the game elsewhere, it's lower than you'll find on Amazon. Look at what happened to Xenoblade and Metroid Trilogy, over time the price at Gamestop dropped like a rock. If this is indeed a reprint, it'll hit sub-$50 soon enough once more copies get out there. Gamestop sets their prices by supply-and-demand, they can have a high price for these games because the market decided the games are priced high. I'd rather put up with this crap in the short term and see prices eventually bottom out than not have the games available at all. The only people who are truly hurt by this are those who purchased the games originally as investments to sell later, and I honestly don't give a damn about speculators who buy out stock just to profit later. If it hurts their bottom line, all the better.
WTF does it matter? Only the most hardcore "gotta have 'em all" kind of collector would even begin to care about a little "2nd printing" stamp on the disc.
Ebay/Amazon rule #1: Just because they are asking for obscene amounts of money for something doesn't mean they are gonna get it. At least not anytime soon. I really wish there was a simple way to track sales on these sites, without such a thing it's hard to call out a specific title like Pikmin 2. But I'd bet they are moving next to nothing at those prices, and unless they lower it may take forever for even this "Van Marwell" to sell the 3 copies he has. I do know that often these toys/games/ect sit in a warehouse for months, oftentimes years, before a single person buys.
^^^^@rcerboss
usually reprints wii game are full color discs and the original are blue and white discs. So if the disc is in full color then it is a reprint. That the easiest way to tell
Have any of lamestops reprinted games been discounted? I guess you could argue Cave Story 3DS and Dokapon Kingdom were below MSRP but they were disc/cart only. MPT and Xenoblade were both above MSRP.
They had both Metroid Prime Trilogy and Xenoblade Chronicles for $39.99 each during Black Friday last year. They were also running a B2G1 at the same time with that sale price.
Yeah I did the same thing. I could have bought MPT for whatever it was but instead I waited and got 2 MPTs and Xenoblade for a bit less than $90 (I dont have PUR).
Hobby, eh? That must explain all the discussion regarding flipping and the going rate on sites like ebay that are all over forums like Gamefaqs, and which have even been brought up here. Why even the two gents right above me are recollecting the deals they got buying two copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy, so they must be super serious collectors!
Your logic: If some talk about buying and flipping games on a website, then all must want to buy and flip games.
It's so expensive because people pay their prices. It's not GameStop's fault. Blame all the people that buy this stuff. And laugh at the people who expect GameStop to be anything but a business.
How is that my logic? I never once said that everyone here flips games. I know I don't and I know plenty of others here don't either. So WTF are you trying to put words into my mouth for? Quote me anything where I said anything remotely like that.
It's OOS online as well again. My local don't have any copies, but a few other stores a little farther away do have it suddenly and my local may still be waiting on shipments.
Hello there Gamestop employee of the month.
I hardly like GS, but this is absurd. Cancer and rape are not words to throw around lightly.
I love how people expect Gamestop, or any other company for that matter, to be looking out for everyone elses best interest. Gamestop it a business and conducts itself as such. They need to turn out a profit and they are capitalizing on Supply and Demand. If you owned a business, would you do it any other way?
Give me a break. Nobody's saying companies can't be bastards and price gouge people. Gamestop knows how to play the game, good for them. But don't tell us we can't hate the company for it. Gamestop deserves our hate and scorn and other people need to stop defending them.
Exactly, in that sense publishers should be more proactive at marketing reprints, It'd help steer users on the fence toward legitimate channels for buying games.
