Sunday 14 June 2009

Fucking hate GAME shops so much it hurts

How can I express my anger and frustration with GAME in a constructive manner? They're a bunch of shitting cock nipples, the lot of them, and I strongly feel they ought to go out of business as soon as possible.

In bullet-pointed form here are my main issues
  • No cheap X-Box360's in stock despite boxes on shelves
  • Tried to sell us one that was £60 more expensive
  • Sold us a Wii with party games and only one controller
We are people of limited funds, so price is an incredibly important issue when it comes to purchase decisions, so the cheapest XBox360 was £119.99 compared to £149.99 for the cheapest Wii.

Also the XBox games were better, they had Beautiful Katamari, and Portal and Project Gotham Racing all going cheap. Extra controllers were only £8. It too ages but eventually we decided on our purchases and approached the pay counter.

The woman scanned barcodes and scurried off to an unseen storeroom and we waited. About ten minutes later the other sales chap took a phonecall from to back and told us that they didn't have any cheap preowned XBox 360s left in stock, but they could sell us one of the more expensive ones.

Sixty quid more expensive. 50% more than the one we'd chosen.

At this point I started seeing red and in my imaginary dreamworld went batshit crazy and razed the entire shop to the ground.

On a similar note, elsewhere on the internet we find out that the newly elected mayor of Doncaster will be unable to cut funding for the town's Gay Pride parade and unable to axe the council propaganda rag, and unable to cut translation services. The chap may be a fuckwit, but he did win the election the constituents presumable chose him because they agree with his manifesto. The electorate looked at the very specific items on his manifesto and the vague platitudes on his rivals and decided that he was the candidate for him. Regardless of the inner workings of the council and the services currenly offered, the people spoke, and they chose him. But alas, their vote is in vain.

So instead we emerged from the GAME shop twenty minutes later, having been sold a cheap Wii.

They'd sold us the basic package, which was another mistake on their part becuase there's only one controller, only one person playing at a time. Which might be okay for some games, and some games consoles, but for the Wii, with Rayman Raving Rabbids and Sonic/Mario Olympics, its a fucking disaster.

They're party games, specifically designed to be played with your friends, with more than one person playing at a time. Games which you are racing and competing against the other players. Except if there's no one else playing because you've only been sold one controller, you find yourself stood in the middle of the room on your own, trying to get the character on screen to win a sack-race on his own, throwing your arms in the air trying to get the character to jump at the right time.

Those fucking cunts at GAME must have been laughing their asses off when we left. Those absolute bastards. Vermin of the video game selling community. If there was some kind of fascist organisation dedicated to exterminating people who work in video game shops who sell shit games and console bundles to the unsuspecting public, I would wear the uniform and jackboots and join that organsation and vote for them in the European Election.

1 comment:

  1. take it back referencing the Sale of Goods Act. Although sold on a 'Party' ticket, it's clearly not fit for this purpose given the solo nature of the controls.

    Argos have good xBox packages in stock now.

    Interestingly, the random CAPTCHA below is "pophype"

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