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GameStop Stops Selling Physical Copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution

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GameStop has stopped selling the copies of the standard edition of Deus Ex: Human Revolution they opened to in order to remove OnLive codes from Eidos Montreal's action/RPG prequel, reports CNN Money. The article says the game retailer is also refusing to sell sealed copies either, as they are seemingly insisting that Square Enix send them copies of the game without the code to play the game on the cloud-based service, and Kotaku has a copy of the mail telling GameStop store managers to pull the game from the shelves which states: "As GameStop is developing a streaming service in our Spawn Labs Cloud Gaming Division, the coupon that was included is for a competitive service. We are returning all copies of the regular edition to the vendor in agreement with Square Enix." They are, however, continuing to sell the game via digital distribution. There has been speculation about the legality of removing these codes, and articles on IndustryGamers and Wired (thanks Mike Martinez) each quote lawyers on the topic, saying that it is possible that this could result in lawsuits, but in each case speculating that such litigation would probably not be successful.

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Re: GameStop Stops Selling Physical Copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Aug 24, 2011, 22:02

PropheT

Dev wrote on Aug 24, 2011, 21:19: Gamestop VP: ZOMG! That first bad decision I made to pull the coupons was a bad one, so lets follow it up with a worse one! I don't know, they've written off their pc games retail business so much over the years that I doubt it matters much for their bottom line.

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Comment [quote="PropheT"Aug 24, 2011, 22:02][quote="Dev"Aug 24, 2011, 21:19]Gamestop VP: ZOMG! That first bad decision I made to pull the coupons was a bad one, so lets follow it up with a worse one! [/quote] I don't know, they've written off their pc games retail business so much over the years that I doubt it matters much for their bottom line. [/quote]

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