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  Xenctuary | March 11, 2008
  They're definitely showing faith in the title (although it'd be easy to misinterpret that, the way the poster is worded). I wonder if it applies to the PC version too.
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  jmac353 | March 11, 2008
  "This may be a sign that EBGames thinks the game will be a flop"
  
  How so in the slightest guticb?! If anything, like Xenc says, it's showing they think the game will be good.
  
  Why on earth would a company guarantee you your money back unless they really think you're going to keep it? Companies don't give a god damn about your woes if you buy a 60 dollar game and end up not liking it.
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    Guticb | March 11, 2008
    Because it's basically saying "We don't think it'll be good, so if it's not, you can get all your money back".
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      Xenctuary | March 11, 2008
      "We think the game will be so good that you won't even want to return it, despite being able to"?
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        jmac353 | March 11, 2008
        Exactly. I've gone back and forth on this game.
        
        On the one hand at first it looked pretty cool, all the talk of four player co-op and stuff. Then sometime around the middle of development I saw just the absolutely worst video they could have put out. It looked so run of the mill and average and I lost a great deal of interest.
        
        This whole little deal has me interested yet again though. I've never gotten into the TimeSplitters games but I know FreeRadical is considered a pretty adept developer so hopefully Haze ends up being pretty cool.
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  devil link | March 11, 2008
  This is good for people who can't decide on whether to buy Haze or something else lol.
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  Red 9 | March 12, 2008
  If they're offering full refunds if you hate it, I can't see that as good at all. And Xenc, there IS no PC version. Or 360 version.
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    Guticb | March 12, 2008
    Thank you, someone that realizes what I'm saying!
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      Xenctuary | March 12, 2008
      I think it's more that they're relying on you not hating the game. The fact that there is a week's "trial", as it were, will likely persuade buyers to "give it a go". It's then, EBGames and FreeRadical hope, that you realise it's actually a decent title and end up keeping it. It's clever marketing that relies on the supposed high quality of the product to work effectively.
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      jmac353 | March 12, 2008
      Guticb, it still makes no sense how you were able to see this as a bad thing for haze just by judging what GameStop is doing.
      
      You clearly don't see the logic still.
      
      Red 9 says:
      "If they're offering full refunds if you hate it, I can't see that as good at all"
      and that is JUST the point.
      
      The point is that GameStop is banking on the fact that people won't hate it, they'll be happy with their purchases and not return it. They're banking on more people like me who have 60 dollars but aren't sure what to spend it on, they see this deal and go, what the hell, what do I have to lose? Buy the game, end up liking it and not returning it.
      
      As I said, a company doesn't do this unless they think people are actually going to like the product and not return it.
      
      You act like GameStop is doing this out of the kindness of their heart because they think it's a bad game and that a lot of people aren't going to like it and want a refund. Well that is definitely not the case, no company would ever do that. This is what any company would think of your situation in that case, tough shit.
      
      The whole goal of this deal is to get more people to buy Haze that weren't planning on doing so before. Now those people have nothing to lose and if they end up liking it, GameStop has nothing to lose either because they weren't potential buyers to begin with. So they're thinking it's going to do pretty well obviously.
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        Red 9 | March 12, 2008
        Hmm, very good points, this is why I'll never work in game sales lol.
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    Xenctuary | March 12, 2008
    Ah, Neoseeker's PC profile confused me! Thanks for clearing that up.
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  Subzer0 | March 12, 2008
  If they are showing this much faith, then it must be at least a decent FPS game. I wish this was also in the U.S.
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  Ameer | March 12, 2008
  Heh, in Australia, EB will let you buy a game and let you return it for full price in cash. They openly endorse it.
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  Gamesta100 | March 12, 2008
  ^^^That's what I love about EB Games here.
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  Silver Mirror | March 12, 2008

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  Heh, in Australia, EB will let you buy a game and let you return it for full price in cash. They openly endorse it.

  Indeed don't they do it over in America?
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    Ameer | March 12, 2008
    GameSpot are EB in America aren't they?
    
    The article itself is about EB Canada though.
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      Xenctuary | March 12, 2008
      GameStop took over EBGames in 2005 in Northern America (that includes Canada). They just haven't rebranded all of the stores yet.
      
      Interestingly enough Electronics Boutique UK actually bought out GAME over here in 1999, yet decided to keep the GAME branding in order to sever ties with their then less successful American parent company. How times have changed!
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  iLLmatic | March 12, 2008
  Gutic, why would the store care to give your money back? Even if someone didn't like the game, they are just trying to make sales. I have to say, however, that anytime statements like these are made, its because the person making the statement is very confident in the product.
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  Jeterocks | March 12, 2008
  You have to remember that if someone returns the game, Gamestop has to sell the game for a cheaper price to the next person because it is used.
  
  If anything gamestop does not want you to return the game because for every game they get returned, they lose $5 on the initial sale of the game.
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  jmac353 | March 13, 2008
  Guticb and his goons had to thumb down all the comments that made him look like a fool. It's okay to be wrong Guticb, as long as you admit it.
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  Trend | March 13, 2008
  If they're doing this the game probably won't make it.
  So they have store credit to get most of the money back. I wouldn't buy this game anyway, doesn't seem interesting.
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    Red 9 | March 13, 2008
    As much as this strategy could work, Haze has gotten too much bad press. I can't see Haze redeeming itself.