Post by Daku on May 8, 2017 9:40:06 GMT
This is pretty different to the server related stuff on the forum but with y'all being fellow gamers, sharing this here wouldn't be too farfetched of an idea.
Around the beginning of this year, me and my elder sister were at an EB Games store in the CBD (EB Games is a division of GameStop, most prominent game store in regions like Australia and New Zealand). My sister decided that she wanted to get a game for her friend while I tagged along with the hopes that she might buy something for me too.
We were at the 3DS section of the store although I didn't know why we were there. I didn't have a 3DS, my sister didn't have a 3DS and neither did her friend. She's looking through the display shelf and I see some pretty good titles. The new Pokemon games, some Zelda's and other Nintendo giants. She goes ahead and decides to pick up this Big Hero 6 cash-grab looking game and from what I deducted from the images on the back cover, it looked like a side-scrolling shooter like Mega Man. I question my sister's capability to conjure any sort of logical thought process as she pays for the game.
Fast forward to like a week ago. She tells me to trade the game because nobody had any use for the game. I give her the "really..." look and she reasons that she bought the game in the first place because her friend wanted a 3DS. One doesn't buy a game without having possession of the console that it runs for. Now we got some laws of diminishing returns going on here. Ain't no money back, we got loss.
Anyways, I decided that I'd trade the game today after school. Along with an old copy of Street Fighter 4 that I got a much better digital version for free for. Was planning to get some Steam moolah to splash on some better digital licenses. I walk up to the dude and whip out the games. He already registered the trade for the Street Fighter and he up to the Big Hero 6 one when he starts looking at it with some serious intent. He flips the game cartridge thing out and turns it around and investigates it. Keep in mind that I obtained the game from an EB Games store, and here I was trading to an albeit different but still same brand EB Games store. The game even had the price sticker on it that EB Games uses. He tells me, "We can't accept this. It's a U.K version of the game. It won't work on Australian/ New Zealand stock because of region lock." And I'm just standing there, staring at him trying to comprehend what was wrong. You mean to tell me that this game, which was sold to us at an EB Games store no more than 30 minutes away that's located in the same city region, is the U.K version of the game...
Seems legit.
There wasn't really any way we could have found out about this unless we somehow knew of the codes they have on the cartridges, because we didn't have anything to actually test the game on and find out that it was in fact, unplayable in our region.
I didn't argue with the guy because my sister lost the receipt. Maybe I had bought the game using my EB World account (which stores proof of purchase with your account) and I may try to get some sort of compromise with the store people. Selling me the wrong region of the game seems pretty shady.
Anyway, lesson to take away is that money is valuable. Don't go splashing it towards random games that you don't even have the proper console to play for.
Edit: So I looked at the game box thing and at the back it says "For use with the European / Australian version of the Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo 3DS XL system only." Which I assume would be correct but according to the store clerk that I had talked with, the (I guess) serial code on the game cartridge itself ends with a UKV which was what he said was what classed it as being from the UK region. Real weird stuff.
Around the beginning of this year, me and my elder sister were at an EB Games store in the CBD (EB Games is a division of GameStop, most prominent game store in regions like Australia and New Zealand). My sister decided that she wanted to get a game for her friend while I tagged along with the hopes that she might buy something for me too.
We were at the 3DS section of the store although I didn't know why we were there. I didn't have a 3DS, my sister didn't have a 3DS and neither did her friend. She's looking through the display shelf and I see some pretty good titles. The new Pokemon games, some Zelda's and other Nintendo giants. She goes ahead and decides to pick up this Big Hero 6 cash-grab looking game and from what I deducted from the images on the back cover, it looked like a side-scrolling shooter like Mega Man. I question my sister's capability to conjure any sort of logical thought process as she pays for the game.
Fast forward to like a week ago. She tells me to trade the game because nobody had any use for the game. I give her the "really..." look and she reasons that she bought the game in the first place because her friend wanted a 3DS. One doesn't buy a game without having possession of the console that it runs for. Now we got some laws of diminishing returns going on here. Ain't no money back, we got loss.
Anyways, I decided that I'd trade the game today after school. Along with an old copy of Street Fighter 4 that I got a much better digital version for free for. Was planning to get some Steam moolah to splash on some better digital licenses. I walk up to the dude and whip out the games. He already registered the trade for the Street Fighter and he up to the Big Hero 6 one when he starts looking at it with some serious intent. He flips the game cartridge thing out and turns it around and investigates it. Keep in mind that I obtained the game from an EB Games store, and here I was trading to an albeit different but still same brand EB Games store. The game even had the price sticker on it that EB Games uses. He tells me, "We can't accept this. It's a U.K version of the game. It won't work on Australian/ New Zealand stock because of region lock." And I'm just standing there, staring at him trying to comprehend what was wrong. You mean to tell me that this game, which was sold to us at an EB Games store no more than 30 minutes away that's located in the same city region, is the U.K version of the game...
Seems legit.
There wasn't really any way we could have found out about this unless we somehow knew of the codes they have on the cartridges, because we didn't have anything to actually test the game on and find out that it was in fact, unplayable in our region.
I didn't argue with the guy because my sister lost the receipt. Maybe I had bought the game using my EB World account (which stores proof of purchase with your account) and I may try to get some sort of compromise with the store people. Selling me the wrong region of the game seems pretty shady.
Anyway, lesson to take away is that money is valuable. Don't go splashing it towards random games that you don't even have the proper console to play for.
Edit: So I looked at the game box thing and at the back it says "For use with the European / Australian version of the Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo 3DS XL system only." Which I assume would be correct but according to the store clerk that I had talked with, the (I guess) serial code on the game cartridge itself ends with a UKV which was what he said was what classed it as being from the UK region. Real weird stuff.
