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Gamestop's statement before they started simply pulling all the copies:
"Regarding the Deus Ex: Human Revolution OnLive Codes: We don't make a habit of promoting competitive services without a formal partnership. Square Enix packed the competitor's coupon with our DXHR product without our prior knowledge and we did pull these coupons. While the new products may be opened, we fully guarantee the condition of the discs to be new. If you find this to not be the case, please contact the store where the game was purchased and they will further assist."
They did initially give out the order to gut copies before selling them."
We're expecting one in February, and that's what I'm worried about affecting my gaming habits."
Walmart doesn't open up DVDs or Blurays that contain codes for digital copies of the iTunes version of the movie, even though Walmart has its own digital distribution network. Why is the business side of the games industry so damned entitled?
They do this crap with the secondary market, too. They bitch and moan about used game sales. Heck, they even have consumers defending their arguments that used game sales are the same as piracy. You don't see craziness like this outside of the games industry. If I were to sell my Neon, how many car enthusiasts would accuse me of stealing from Dodge Chrysler?
It just seems more and more that the people calling the business shots in the games industry are just incompetent and incapable of adjusting their plans."
The Dr. Mario and Kirby commercials are the only two I remember seeing as a kid."
I got into it around 94 when my favorite cousin introduced me to it. We played it at every family function for a couple of years, and he gave me a ton of his old cards when he got out of it. I was still playing with some highschool friends up until the Urza Saga (1999, I think), but I got out of it when my friends refused to play anything but "Type II." That's the standard tournament format where the only legal cards are whatever is in the current core set and the latest two blocks of expansion cards. I didn't have the money to keep up with them (IE - I couldn't afford to buy a booster box or two at a time), so I got out of it right before Mercadian Masques.
I very briefly dabbled in it during the 8th Edition/Mirrodin era, and bought some cards, but I mainly played on one of the unofficial online versions. That didn't last long, and all my cards were stored in a milkcrate full of cardboard boxes until this past April.
The PAX East starter sets my wife and I were playing with rekindled my interest yet again, and I went by the local card shop. I didn't have high hopes, since this place was almost exclusively full of sports cards and memorabilia last time I went in, but I was shocked when I saw that not only did half the store have a ton of Magic cards, but a whole sideroom was devoted to tables for Magic players. I came in the next week for a prerelease tournament for Rise of the Eldrazi, and I placed sixth. I came back for the release tournament and placed second. I haven't done as well at the Friday Night Magic events, but I'm getting better (4th out of 22) last week.
The downside is that I'm picking up packs as impulse purchases almost every time I'm in a store that carries the cards."
