“So GAME and HMV are the worst game retailers in the UK. Maybe that’s because they are the only game retailers in the UK?”
They aren’t the only game retailers in the UK – there are also CEX and Grainger games at least.

“So to say one is the best value and one is the worst is pretty stupid too in my opinion.”
Yet that’s how the votes were cast, it’s not like Lewie just decided to say it that way – it could be that the people that voted for GAME being worst value didn’t actually vote for Gamestation as best value.

Your complaints are poorly founded – perhaps if you disagree with the results from voting then maybe you should have voted?

Triple post sorry. Also, GAME and Gamestation are the same shop and deliberately price themselves so they both sell certain things cheaper than one another. So to say one is the best value and one is the worst is pretty stupid too in my opinion.

I also found it strange so many people had bad service from HMV. They have always been pretty excellent for me. HMV even let you return games on the basis that they are shit or buggy, or my favourite – I completed it in one evening and that’s too short, yes they actually gave me a full refund for all those reasons! I don’t know any other game shops that would do that.

Even if they did it would probably be as much a departure from the series as Conviction was from Splinter Cell.

Yeah, I have to say that the GAME in Oxford has always seemed to avoid most of the horror stories about the store. They’ve even got a large PC section too. Too expensive to shop there, but I do use the online store regularly and never had anything but the best service with it.

I hope they wake the fuck up soon and A)remove this stupid DRM, B)stop making shit games for a quick buck, because at the end that’s what they will end up with, a dollar.

Perhaps people would be more tolerant of it if SC2 wasn’t ~50% more expensive than most other PC games.

But the microtransaction stuff in WoW isn’t actually anything other than vanity sutff, it’s not like selling you better game changing items. And some of it has been for charity lets not forget.
I’m more bothered about the slagging for Starcraft 2, yes it’s been split into 3 but it’s not like parts 2 & 3 are just expansions being charged at full price, if they’re the same size each as WoL then that would be pretty fair value.
ALthough, not that it is what i bought if for, i do wonder what parts 2 and 3 will do for multiplayer

I also agree with the guy about Take 2. Now that I think about it, when I was filling in the form, I had a problem thinking of some.

I know it’s a bit more work, but maybe next year you could pre-fill some with drop down menus that had some names in them, I was filling in steam for online retailers at first till I got further down the page 😀

Thanks as always Lewie, was looking forward to these results 🙂

I’d like to add to the thanks. I check the site several times a day – not least because I missed out on Civ 5 for £2.35 (never again!).

An excellent site and, most importantly, a clean and clear one. I’ve seen a couple of sites like it but they’ve been astoundingly ugly and desperate to cram ads in my face. Kudos Lewie and thanks for quoting me rotten in the article above, I’ve now taken to referring to myself as a published writer – which oddly sounds like douchebag when people say it back to me.

Thanks a lot, I’m glad to be of service.

I think the point is that they not only charge for the base game, three expansions, subscriptions fees but also have microtransactions. Sure, it’s only because their customers are happy to pay it, but it’s still pretty bad.

250 unread items? Check SavyGamer, one or two others, then mark all as read. I can’t thank you enough, really!

Thanks for the heads up, but I think The Hut asking me to take down this post would cause worse press than this post itself.

Interesting to see confidence in bioware remains high despite the recent nosedive in quality and intelligence of the games. Still fun, no longer epic.

I also suspect the responses on the Hut group are subject to a degree of echo chambering – after all, this IS the site that first pointed out they were fucking around with sales and offers. But despite this, they ARE generally cheap and I do eventually get my games. Yet to actually find a site that has completely up to date stock listings and sent out preorders on time on a regular basis. Play and Amazon also have failed to do so before.

Loved everything else, PoP 2008 and Assassin’s Creed II/Brotherhood especially.