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A lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District of California against GameStop, citing deceptive practices relating to used game sales. IGN has details on the suit, which stems from a customer buying a used copy of Dragon Age: Origins with the belief that additional DLC was available for free based on the cover blurb. Of course this DLC is part of the new trend intended to impede used-game sales, which the customer learned when they tried to get the DLC, which set them back an additional $15.00, making their final purchase price for the used game $10.00 more than the cost of a brand-new copy (that sound you hear is EA execs exchanging high-fives). IGN has a copy of the complaint in Adobe Acrobat-format, and an article on this on Gamasutra offers thoughts from an analyst saying that GameStop will probably be able to remedy this problem by affixing stickers to used games clarifying DLC availability.
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Mar 26, 2010, 12:34 |
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Lorcin wrote on Mar 26, 2010, 12:30: It may be mildly annoying if that's what you mean by legitimate beef but to SUE - I mean come on.
I don't care whether their well informed or not - in any other country the most this would ammount to would be a phone call followed by the person thinking "oh well still saved some cash on the game anyway - and the dlc is probably crap anyway".
Not a lawsuit. The law isn't based on scale, otherwise people could continually rip you off for $5 here and there and never be punished for it. Besides, this will go before a court who will determine whether it's worthy or not.
I find it hard to believe you really think this is frivolous, have you considered that this company sells millions of similar products every year? If the entire industry continues to trend towards post-launch DLC pack-ins then this is a serious issue in terms of money for the industry. Decisions on cases like this help determine how that will be handled going forward. |
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Mar 26, 12:41 |
Let's burn down the libraries too! |
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Mar 26, 12:45 |
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Mar 26, 12:46 |
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Mar 26, 12:55 |
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Mar 26, 13:06 |
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Mar 26, 13:12 |
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Mar 26, 13:16 |
The plaintiff is a shill but who for? |
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Mar 26, 13:23 |
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Mar 26, 22:28 |
The used game market is just capitalism at work. |
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Mar 26, 22:32 |
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Mar 27, 00:12 |
Steam forbids resale of games. |
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Mar 27, 00:27 |
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Mar 26, 23:26 |
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Mar 27, 00:01 |
Your reasoning is flawed. |
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That price is too high! |
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Class Action Nonsense |
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Mar 26, 16:17 |
There's still room left for Godwin's law. |
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