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@ heatDrive88 - An absolutely lovely blog, and I hope to see more from you.  It's refreshing to see someone approach the issue with a cool head and use the reasoning brain he was given instead of falling in line with the rest of the lemmings and gurgling out "GAMESPOT IZ TEH SATANZ!" or what have you. 
 
For the record, while I certainly would rather they not open any copies at all, I have found them to be nothing less than friendly and accommodating when I ask to inspect the disc on a gutted copy, and they're nothing less than understanding if I decide that the disc is not up to standard.  Compare that to the crapshoot buying things in other stores is, from dirty, drool-covered toys at the Toys R' Us to music CD cases that are cracked open and have no disc inside them at many big-box stores because no one's checking the merchandise. 
 
I've said this before, and I'll say it again - I have never had a single issue shopping in a GameStop what wasn't handled professionally by the employees, and I'm glad to give them my business.  Perhaps that makes me less of a gamer in the eyes of many on this site, but honestly, the lot of them can go fuck themselves raw.  They've taken fanboyism to such a level that their blind loyalty to and hatred of fucking retailers would put the Tea Party/Nazis and the Communists to shame.  It is only by the grace of the Lord that these fuckers are a tiny minority.  Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta figure out what I'm going to do with my gift card tomorrow.

I'm not nearly as cynical as the average internet user, so I'm being cautiously optimistic on this project.

I think the last game I bought new was Portal 2 since I got the PS3/PC version for like 40 bucks. I've gone from buying a new game almost weekly, to maybe buying a new game monthly, or even seasonally. There are still games from 2008 I'm trying to finish up. Being late to the party for a lot of games has saved me a lot of money.

When I was into playing MMOs, I was spending way less money for pretty much the same amount of enjoyment I get from any other genre. I love RPGs and I love games that have some sort of social aspect, so putting me into what is pretty much a gigantic co-op world is the bee's knees for me. The last MMO I probably got into was FFXI in 2004, which I quit in 2008. But, man, if I could get into another MMO like I did in the past, I'd gladly chuck $15 a month for continual enjoyment, instead of $60 a dozen times a year for a 10~30 hour ride that I usually never touch again. Plus, after playing MMOs, single player worlds always seem so dead and desolate. Nothing in gaming has awed me in such a way like seeing another character run past me, knowing another human is controlling that character, and whose dialogue can go on for more than a couple lines of text.

I wonder why John Goodman isn't used for many other voice roles. He has such a distinctive sound for certain genres.

Not going to vote since I use both sites for very different items. Amazon is almost always used for new games and household items I'm too lazy to run out and buy. eBay is for the used game market, or old/vingtage/rare/weird crap that would take forever finding in all the shops around town.

Tested, Screened, and Giant Bomb are the only parts of WM I care for. I love Will and Norm.