GameStop Re-lists Dawn of War II, Signs Peace Treaty with Steam
GameStop Re-lists Dawn of War II, Signs Peace Treaty with Steam
Posted 02/09/2009 at 9:37pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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Well, kinda. GameStop has reopened its palace doors to Dawn of War II and – by virtue of its inclusion with the game -- would-be assassin Steam, but THQ’s Saints Row II and 2K’s NBA 2K9 remain conspicuously absent.
Upon its removal from GameStop’s pre-order list, Dawn of War II was thought to be the opening volley in a scuff between storefronts – retail vs. online, to be specific. GameStop employees, however, insisted that the retail giant merely exhausted its pre-order supply for a short period of time.
Certainly, GameStop’s passive refusal to slow its waterfalls of boiling oil for Saints Row II and NBA 2K9 seems a little odd, but re-stocking Dawn of War II – PC gaming’s first heavy-hitter of 2009 – pretty much puts the kibosh on any sort of cold war between GameStop and Steam.
For now.
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Keith E. Whisman
February 10, 2009 at 11:48am
If it's not at WalMart or Steam then I won't be getting it. Gamestop has games if you like games that were released 3years ago. That's been my experience here in Phoenix. What happened to Babages? They used to have the latest releases. Life sux.
Caboose
February 10, 2009 at 5:41am
Even buying used accessories from them is kinda iffy too. I bought a used PS3 guitar hero guitar, and they didn't even include the USB dongle. So it's kinda useless now! And now I gotta either try and return it, or try and get them to give me the rest of the guitar.
This should be fun... /sarcasm
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
I Jedi
February 09, 2009 at 10:50pm
I wonder if they just started doing what Steam is doing and opened up a like Steam platform. What do you guy's think?
xs0u1x
February 10, 2009 at 1:48am
i think i still wouldnt buy anything from them. i have had too many problems with greasy salesman and dirty business tactics from gamestop. they stopped getting my business a long time ago after an incident where i had gotten the insurance on a game that i had to get for them to stfu about it after telling them no several times. the disc they gave me was scratched to hell and back, so i take it back and im like i want a bran new one, (since i had purchased a "brand new" copy to begin with, and they didnt want to give me one, so i had to emberass them politely infront of their customers by mentioning loudly that i had purchased a brand new game, i had not recieved a brand new game, and by their policy i was entitled to a new disc as i had not recieved what was advertised. and i told them either that or i call the BBB.
needless to say now i go to an independant chain of gamestores that is owned by a friend of mine.
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