I place a hex on thee whom shop at cex after my experience working for them. A hex! A hex, I tell thee! A cexhex!

Forgot about that Switch deal, yeah fuck those guys.

I remember these guys, I preordered radiant historia from them for £24.99, about 2 months before release. A few days before release, they send an email saying they have no stock. Which would be annoying, except for the fact their website had it in stock still, with the price £34.99. I contacted them and was told that I could re-order it for £34.99, which I obviously didn’t because fuck that.

Luckily Grainger games still had some, and at a pretty cheap price, and sent it out for release day. Which sucks as they both went under the same way, despite one being obviously better than the other.

Tesco are closing their Tesco Direct online service claiming it can't make it profitable.
How the fuck can they not make that site profitable?

In Belfast we have a GAME, a CEX and a Ca$h Converters. There's a small indie shop too which is rather good but that's about it.

kneecap wrote:

There's no gameshops left in Ireland bar a smattering of independents, and Gamestop. Tesco do carry a little but its always shite, I don't think they do their cheap COS at launch thing any more either. Gamestop is often more expensive than PSN at launch. Often new release are €75 And always for second hand games. Back in the 360 days, I had no problem going in and dropping a 50 note on a game. in Ps4 era, it's 65-75, and the fucking disc has to install so I run out of HDD space anyway. Absolute load of shite.

There's still the Cex stores located around, plenty in Dublin. Although not sure they count as game shops as opposed to second hand shops that stock games.

Liveinadive wrote:

Tesco are closing their Tesco Direct online service claiming it can't make it profitable.

Oh, great.

Tesco wrote:

I have pre-ordered a game will I still receive this?

If your pre-order is due to arrive by 9 July, we’ll still deliver it as scheduled.

If your pre-order is scheduled for delivery after this date, we’ll unfortunately need to cancel your order and issue a refund directly to your account.

If that’s the case, we’ll send you an email to confirm this, so please make sure your contact details are up to date in your account.

I ordered Spider-man in August 2016. It should’ve been out by now. When does it come out? 7 September. It was the only new-new game (besides PS+ stuff) that I had allowed myself to get this year, because it was already bought and paid for.

Smelly Tesco.

I swear, something’s got to go right for me pretty soon.

Fuck-a-doodle-doo. Just got the refund email from Tesco.

I ordered Horizon: Zero Dawn and Spider-man together, as part of a 2 for £80 deal, with a £10 off when you spend more than x amount voucher... so, £35 each for two new games. That’s the only reason I was buying them.

Except, of course, Tesco are cancelling the order, which cancels the deal. So, I’m only getting £26 back, because they’ve now charged me full-whack (£44) for Horizon.

Just got my PSVR replaced by Game in store. Took them a while to verify the fault, but they processed it despite not getting through to their service line. Props to the staff.

That's bollocks that Andy. I'd kick off at them on the social meeja.

#FuckThisShit.

That's Games Centre folded. Only indie in my town, older brother used to work there, used to get all my PS2/XBOX/Gamecube games there. Shame

Yeah but if you want a Pokémon plush or some energy drink where else can you go?

Don't know.. Presumably in an ideal world everyone would pre-order their new games and impulse purchases would all be your used stock?

It just seems a bit desperate not to have any new cars out on display.

Funnily enough I’ve been in Bath the last few days and spotted a Game, went in for a browse with the kids as I haven’t been in one for a while and had exactly the same experience. There was some new stuff dotted around in odd places, but mostly was all preowned stuff and branded accessories.

I’ve never disliked Game personally (maybe because I worked there for 3 years) but felt as if there was no reason for it to be there. Bit sad really.