Sealed Games

[Harsin]

Quick question, is anyone else a but anal about getting their new games sealed. Asking as after a shopping trip where my mates laughed at me for asking for a sealed one.

The cardboard sleeves they seem to store the discs in seem to have the internal consistency of sandpaper and hell if I'm paying £40 for the privilege of a brand new game I want the security that they haven't given me a sneaky preowned copy.

Hell, must matter to someone since MS put those security seals on new games.

So how about the rest of you or am I just an OCD case?

[splobber]

Doesn't really bother me tbh. Most sealed games I get delivered are shakers anyway.

[kandee]

I do it as well - always have, with CDs and DVDs also. I also ask for a replacement case if it looks too scuffed (woolworths usually), and I've changed my mind on several occasions after watching the shop monkeys (with long fingernails) struggling to get the disc out of the card case from the draw (woolworths again).

[Robby]

Woolies always have been crap in that respect. It's been years since i've bought any optical media from them.

Why do they insist on displaying the cases you eventually take home for everyone to mangle and keep the discs in draws? I can't think of many other stores that do this except maybe Blockbuster.

[internetuser]

If I want a open game, I will buy it second hand

[Dan]

Getting shrink wrap off a game can be a nightmare.

[Brozyniak]

I bought Gears of War at Sainsburys, didn't pay attention and the spotty teenager behind the counter put the display box in my bag. Got home itching for some grub blasting to find that I had no disk. Drive back to Sainsburys (now midday on a Saturday so the car park is heaving) and get my copy while giving the guy behind the counter the evil eye. Get home and put it in the Xbox just for it to tell me that the disk was unreadable. Tkae the disk out to find that it's been scratched to hell, I then realised that the package had been pre-opened, a dodgy return from some ****** with a ****** up drive.

Was not a good day. By 9pm I finally got to play some GoW.

I'm gonna check for a sealed copy from now on.

Just felt the need to share that with you all.

[LCD-Killer]

...if I'm paying £40 for the privilege of a brand new game I want the security that they haven't given me a sneaky preowned copy.


Same here. I pay a premium for it, I expect it to be unmolested. Especially with the 360s habbit for spitting the dummy at the first sign of a marked disc.

[T4V]

I used to (and will do again now I have a 360) stick the Xbox seals to my wall, and they are still there to this day. I wish they still had the holograms on them. :dork:

[ajr90]

You are not abnormal. Those wretched cardboard sleeves have a most detrimental effect on discs, not to mention the shop monkeys don't give a **** about where they put their fingers, so it's just common sense to prefer a sealed copy.

[KennyVader]

I always want a sealed copy too (if only to make sure I get my Nintendo points card and no scumbag has scratched it off already).

But then I always want sealed boxes for everything that comes in a box, clothes with tags on and pins still in, and I grab my magazines from the back of the WH Smith shelf so as not to get one that someone's already pawed through.

If I'm paying top dollar for something I don't want bits missing or someone else's sweat all over it.

[Refrenz]

I used to (and will do again now I have a 360) stick the Xbox seals to my wall, and they are still there to this day. I wish they still had the holograms on them. :dork:

I stick the seals to the left inside case to act as a reassuring reminder that I got the game brand spanking new and sealed.

I don't like buying games stuff in normal shops - I recently bought a couple of cheap games in Currys and one was unsealed, so I checked and the disc had been scratched to buggery - 2nd hand goods sold as new methinks. I got them to replace it with a sealed copy.

Stores that opent eh game cases and hide the discs/manuals behind the counter are just too too tight-arsed to invest in proper security containers (the sort that Tesco and PC world stick new sealed games in on the shelves).

[mr_woo]

I also prefer to get my games sealed though it's not a complete deal breaker if I can't get a sealed copy. Most of the time these days though that's essentially by default as I order most of games online.

If I am buying from the high street I tend to go into Argos for a new release though it seems like GAME in Belfast tend to sell a lot of new games sealed. My Mirrors Edge was sealed when I bought it.

[camaj]

Honestly, on the grand scheme of things it's no big deal unless there's a problem with the game. I think buy a game brand new is a waste of money unless you have to have it on day one. Admittedly that's almost a requirement on xbox live games