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jallen
08/03/09

In reply to GameStop's New Rewards System Could Be Your Ticket To E3
I love the conflation of a 'free new game' with 'free all-access pass to E3.'

They're equally desirable!!
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Maldron
08/03/09

In reply to GameStop's New Rewards System Could Be Your Ticket To E3
This first system is completely different from the one described in my e-mail. My survey took me to this far less attractive offer:

TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH GAMESTOP REWARDS

Now you can get great rewards and benefits, just for buying or trading at GameStop – a little "thanks," from us to you.

It's FREE to join. It's GameStop Rewards. All you have to do is sign up with your email address and start leveling up. As a member, you get sneak peek previews of new titles delivered to your inbox or mobile device, a 3-day free trial on previously owned games and early access to trailers and other new insider game content. Plus...

LEVEL 1: Make 1 Purchase or Trade in a Year to Get All This:

* A special birthday surprise – a personal shopping pass good for a day of savings during your birthday month
* Members-only deals like free and discounted strategy guides

LEVEL 2: Make Any Combination of 5 Purchases or Trades in a Year to Get All the Benefits of Level 1, Plus:

* Power trades – always 20% bonus trade-in credit
* Early access to purchase collector's editions of games
* $5 shipping on new titles, shipped on day of release

LEVEL 3: Make Any Combination of 10 Purchases or Trades in a Year to Get All the Benefits of Level 1 and 2, Plus:

* Power trades – always 25% bonus trade-in credit
* Guaranteed access to exclusive in-game accessories like weapons, players and instruments
* Opportunity to chat with and provide feedback/ideas to game developers

Get more out of gaming at GameStop, because only GameStop brings power to the players.
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jayntampa
08/03/09

@Maldron: The one I got was like yours ... I sent some images to Kotaku, although I wouldn't have if I'd known they already had the story up -- couldn't access the place all day :P
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Mit
08/03/09

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Neat. It just became twice as easy to sell Edge cards at work. Although I think a lot of customers will actually be disappointed about not getting the magazine with it anymore.
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jeembomb
08/03/09

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Uhh, notice it says 501+, not 501 points. The E3 trip is probably 3,000 points or something.
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GohanGVO
08/03/09

@jeembomb: Either that or it is first-come, first serve.
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ReconToaster misses garnett :(
03/19/09

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Could someone tell me what the difference between a "Computer game" and a "video game" is...?
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GohanGVO
03/19/09

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Awesome. Here come more 5 minute play demos leading to hastily written previews all while near-naked broads hand out teh cool schwag!!11

And then we can hear about how E3 was too hectic and there was not enough time to actually play the games!

Good times.
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PimpNinja24
03/19/09

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It would be nice to be able to go one day. i know people will say PAX, but E3 is the bigger bash, imo, and just once I would liek to be able to experiennce the madness. I actually thought the TGS was ok, but once again, not E3.

Alas, unless Wells fargo opens a gaming department, or a journalism division, my wishes go unheard...
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excaliburps
03/19/09

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At least something good is happening amidst the recession the world is having.

I wonder who liked the new er old-new E3. The one where they forced journalists to commute one place to the next for press junkets seemingly set at the same time. Not to mention there were no booth babes,lacks the glamour of a supposedly thriving industry.

I'm glad the "old" E3 is back. Hopefully booth babes,extravagant halls and Kentia Hall are all back in action as well!

I would love to see what MS,Sony and Nintendo does to their booths!
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TRT-X
03/19/09

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To be fair, 50% of that 90% is Guitar Hero titles.

*runs*
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KillerBee
03/19/09

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Anything better than last year's E3 is going to be a very good thing.
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NeVeRMoRe666
03/19/09

@KillerBee: Why? I rather liked last years E3 and Ms. Dunaway's peice on perhaps one of the most innovative experiences about to grace any platform. It was both intellectually stimulating and exhilarating to say the least...actally no...no...I'm still trying to get over it. I can't sleep at night. All I see is Cammy and her giant head yelling nightmarishly into my ear night after night....DOGGY DOGGY DOGGY!!!!!

*cringe*
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Deathimself
03/19/09

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gawd, i would LOVE to attend this one of these years... why's it gotta be all the way across the country... there should be a committee to vote on where it takes place... like the superbowl or the olympics.

yes i'm comparing E3 to the olympics.
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maelstromALPHA
03/19/09

@Deathimself:

At least it's IN the same country as you. I want to go to E3 so badly but, I can't afford to fly over, buy the ticket, find somewhere to stay.. it's all too much. Wish UK had something of this scale.
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frank0127
03/19/09

@maelstromALPHA: Leipzig, perhaps?
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ThursdayNext
03/19/09

@frank0127: Leipzig isn't in the UK. Plus it's moving to Cologne, which isn't in the UK either.
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Paradox me
03/19/09

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Well that's good to hear, especially after nVidia canceled nVision 09. Was looking forward to that.

Hopefully E3 delivers.
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Rey Rodrigues
03/19/09

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Remind me to buy myself a 'free' beer.. if its indeed free
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HyruleMonk
03/19/09

@Rey Rodrigues: You can't buy free, silly!
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Black-Dog-Howls
03/19/09

@HyruleMonk: Yes you can. Just open up your wallet and hand over invisible dollars. Worth is exactly Free - yet somehow it has a higher value than USD.
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grayfox9996
02/05/09

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While this is pretty reasonable, I have to wonder exactly what this says about this year's E3. Sure, it'll be a big event again, but without one of the biggest developers in the industry, who's to say it's going to be the be-all, end-all of events that the ESA is hoping for? It CAN be a success without Blizzard, but who's to say other developers aren't going to skip out on this E3? Especially when the initial reasoning for cutting E3 down to a smaller show was due to the cost, and right now, all of these companies are trying to cut back on costs as much as possible.

I would love to see E3 return to how it was when I went in 2005, but it looks less and less likely, no matter what the ESA tries at this point, that it can ever be the same again. If they do, though, congrats to them, and hopefully it helps promote the industry as much as it did in years past.
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MOP88
02/05/09

@grayfox9996: As what? A giant gathering of manchildren staring at boothmodels? Do we want to end like the various comic-cons? GDC is a start of a serious gathering of gaming folk that talk and exchange ideas in a serious manner. It's the same issue I have with most gaming related news sites and shows. Too much pandering to the immature and excitable self within ourselves. There are exceptions, but it's still a long way away until we have something in our industry comparable to Al Jazeera.
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Aye Mak Sicur
02/05/09

E3 was a mess back then and it's a mess now. It's either an overblowm, ridiculously expensive convention where the goal for developers is to have the biggest rock concert/most strippers in their booth to attract horny gamers with lots of cash, or a developer-only event with no interaction with the public who actually buy the games. E3 is really on the way out, conventions like PAX and GDC do everything E3 does, only better.
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MyBigToe
02/05/09

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Does that mean Starcraft and Diablo are nowhere near completed?
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Aye Mak Sicur
02/05/09

Why is everyone making the huge leap from "Blizzard don't want to go to E3" to "BLIZZARD WILL NEVER MAKE ANOTHER VIDEOGAME BUT WORLD OF WARCRAFT". Everyone has this paranoid fantasy that Blizzard is going to cancel two of their franchises they've been working on for years just because World of Warcaft makes money. I'm going to put a CRAZY thought out there: Maybe they're not going to E3 because it's a terrible, inclusive developer tradeshow since the cutbacks? Or that (As the article pointed out) they have their own convention to announce things at?
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