02-01-2015, 09:34 PM
So funny story. I got my tax return money on Friday, so I obviously decided to use some of it to purchase some of the recent games that I've wanted but haven't had the money to buy. One of those games was Hyrule Warriors, which I ended up buying the last copy in the store.
So I tried popping it in this evening, but the Wii U was refusing to read the disk, which was freakin' weird because it was a brand new game. I pop it in and out of the system a couple times before I notice that the edge of the disk's label was peeling off, and it looked like there was a different image underneath. So I peel it off more to discover that it's actually a paper sticker label covering the label of a "Crysis 2" disk for ... actually I don't even know what console it was for as I didn't see a console logo, which makes me assume it was for PC.
So that sucked.
Mind you, this was asealed game. Still in the plastic wrapping. I have no flippin' clue how this could have happened, but when I returned the game to the store the clerk at the service desk informed me that this is actually an issue that they've been running into a lot. I should have probably asked if it was a problem specifically with Wii U games but I didn't think of it at the time.
Anyways, since I had bought the last copy there was obviously none for me to trade it in for, so I still don't have a copy of the game. I wish that had occurred to me before I walked to the store in a friggin' blizzard.
Anyways, have you guys heard of this happening before? Fake games in a factory sealed box? Whatever thief pulled this off did a masterful job; and completely unnecessary too considering how easy it would be to just steal the games from the store.
So I tried popping it in this evening, but the Wii U was refusing to read the disk, which was freakin' weird because it was a brand new game. I pop it in and out of the system a couple times before I notice that the edge of the disk's label was peeling off, and it looked like there was a different image underneath. So I peel it off more to discover that it's actually a paper sticker label covering the label of a "Crysis 2" disk for ... actually I don't even know what console it was for as I didn't see a console logo, which makes me assume it was for PC.
So that sucked.
Mind you, this was asealed game. Still in the plastic wrapping. I have no flippin' clue how this could have happened, but when I returned the game to the store the clerk at the service desk informed me that this is actually an issue that they've been running into a lot. I should have probably asked if it was a problem specifically with Wii U games but I didn't think of it at the time.
Anyways, since I had bought the last copy there was obviously none for me to trade it in for, so I still don't have a copy of the game. I wish that had occurred to me before I walked to the store in a friggin' blizzard.
Anyways, have you guys heard of this happening before? Fake games in a factory sealed box? Whatever thief pulled this off did a masterful job; and completely unnecessary too considering how easy it would be to just steal the games from the store.