The Retail Game

Here are the collected articles written by Elysium on his experiences as an EB Games manager. Find out why they keep pushing used games, or why they'll try to sell you that "Gameplay Guarantee". Enjoy!

(Motivated by this post)

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This is just as good as any. Really, we could've just went in and put the original articles in a book. Hell, why don't I just go do that and put them in this book.

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Something's happened to the first one.. wherever there's supposed to be an apostrophe I see ’ instead.

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Yeah.

Oh well. I realized that, in a collected form, these articles were pretty damned good, so I posted them over at Evil Avatar, for all those people who don't visit this site.

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Pyro, that's what I was trying to do but I obviously don't have the mojo that you do. Thanks for the help.

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Grumpicus wrote:
Pyro, that's what I was trying to do but I obviously don't have the mojo that you do. Thanks for the help.
Actually it's not your fault, we only let admins add non-book page posts to books.

"This is where our industry is right now: not sure what the hell we're doing, or why, or for whom -- but we're doing it with all of our technical skill and artistic talent and conviction." - Simon Carless