Game Crazy PS2 games i've bought... can anyone tell me if they've been resealed??

[allyourblood]

i bought DDS2 the other day at GC during the whiz-bang sale. i was hoping to trade it for Fatal Frame 3. after i left the store, i was looking it over and noticed that it lacked the barcode/sticker/label thingy that usually seals the top of the case, underneath the shrinkwrap. i thought that was weird because in all my years working at TRU, i'd never encountered a "new" game that was missing that label. i considered that perhaps the game was re-wrapped, but usually when that's the case you end up with that simple shrinkwrap that pulls tight over the entire case. DDS2 still had on that "folded" type of original wrap. what gives?

anyway, i ended up returning DDS2 because i bought FF3 from another CAG (who got it from GC as well) and wanted to refund it before my 7 days was up. the FF3 exhibited the exact same thing: missing that same label but still wrapped up purty in the "original" wrap.

so my question is, do games come without that upper label/sticker nowadays, or were these two games both ingeniously re-wrapped at GC. it kinda seems like the sealant/glue is less than perfect, but that always happens when you start to suspect that somethings wrong -- you read into it.

lastly, i should mention that it's neither here nor there, really, as to whether or not they've been resealed. i'm more curious than anything else.

 

[Rictor]

Neither of those games comes with a sticker on top.

 

[sprintsucks5892]

I ordered Disgaea 2 directly from NISA, and it didn't have the security sticker. I think PS2 games have stopped getting them put on for some reason.
I would check the shrink wrap, is it folded at parts? If not, I would believe it was reasealed.

 

[allyourblood]

[quote name='Rictor']Neither of those games comes with a sticker on top.[/quote]

absolutely wild. when did publishers start ditching the sticker? i've been outta the loop for 2-3 years now, in that respect.

 

[allyourblood]

[quote name='sprintsucks5892']
I would check the shrink wrap, is it folded at parts? If not, I would believe it was reasealed.[/quote]

yeah; they were both folded. that's what i was thinking, that if they were well-folded, they must be original. i remember seeing more than a few bogus glued-down "re-folds" from back in the day, and these were both too good to be that, at least to my eyes.

 

[SinnerChrno]

They stopped with the stickers around June 2005, I remember because Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana was the first game I got without a sticker.

 

[allyourblood]

thanks, folks. puts my mind at ease. i don't mind the game being resealed, since i bought it to play, but it is nice to know i'm first.