A positive GameStop experience.

I’m pretty hyper-critical about the usually-bad service I recieve at GameStop. It’s only fair, then, that I share the rare good experiences that crop up there from time to time.

When Peanut bought me my PSP as a “welcome back to work” present, she picked out the one that came with Dissidia and a UMD copy of FF7: Advent Children as pack-ins. Unfortunately the UMDs came in a flimsy little cardboard sleeve instead of actual PSP packaging. Nintendo pulled this same stunt a few years ago with Wii Sports, which I remedied by digging up an unused DVD box and printing out an insert.

Well, PSP games don’t come in standard-sized DVD boxes, and inserts for Dissidia didn’t seem to be immediately available. So one day while I was in GameStop trolling the used shelves* I asked the guy if they ever sold empty boxes. He told me he didn’t, but understood my plight, so he just up and gave me an empty PSP box and the full-sized cardboard Dissidia sleeve to go over it.

So now, thanks to the generosity of that GameStop clerk, my copy of Dissidia can live on my shelf with the rest of my collection — just like a real video game! Also he didn’t offer me a strategy guide or try to strongarm me into pre-ordering anything, which I thought was nice. Of course by corporate’s reckoning that probably makes him the worst employee ever, but hey, I’m not going to tattle on him.

Thanks, Nice GameStop Guy!

* I ended up buying Patapon, which is pretty stupid and not really worth the $12 I spent on it. Oh well!