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Dudley

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Well I gotta disagree with everyone supporting game cos boo hoo it's due to their supplier. As someone whose job is to focus on customers and strip waste and bollocks from processes and departments then customer is king, focus on the customer.

If the customer loses you money then the customer is not king.

Literally the only other option would be to not offer the bundle. You can "disagree" with this all you like, doesn't change that it's fact. It's not that they're being screwed on Rare Replay, it's that they get a massive subsidy for bundling specific games and it's that and that only that makes it financially viable to do a bundle.

If we lived in a world of customer loyalty, losing money on the first purchase might be worth a punt but that's not the world these days.

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T Pot

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The Centresoft website seems to indicate otherwise, advertising PS4 games to the hilt. Sony and Nintendo's logos appear but no sign of MS.

https://www.centresoft.co.uk/

Edit: Although searching for xbox brings up Xbox products.

The two major suppliers in the UK are Gem and Centresoft. There are others too (Koch Media etc), but those two do the most. I'll have gotten mixed up, apologies. Centresoft tend to be bigger with the SONY stuff, and Gem is a lot more xbox.

Moot point anyway, as I said, both the biggest wholesalers for games retail, and you're making your life much harder and much more expensive if you piss them off and have your contract pulled.

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If we lived in a world of customer loyalty, losing money on the first purchase might be worth a punt but that's not the world these days.

So massive worldwide companies belief in the net promoter score must have been something Ive made up then.

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As someone whose job is to focus on customers and strip waste and bollocks from processes and departments then customer is king, focus on the customer.

I disagree, you'll end up with software designed by committee if you did this. They're an input to the process, but not king.

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A lot of you forget how little profit there is in new gaming gear. Very often that new Call of Duty or Battlefield or FIFA etc is selling for as little as 50p profit. Many companies literally can't afford to discount shit. Hardware is similar.

Example. The Xbox one on launch, the indie I worked at were buying as many units as possible. We ended up with a fair few hundred boxes (surprisingly one of the largest stocks in the uk). We were making £15 on each unit. Considering they were over £400 is a bit mental.

Back in the ps2 days I rember bundles with Buzz and a couple of games that were £250. £1 profit. There's fuck all wiggle room with new gaming stuff that's why lots of these stores practically force pre-owned shit down your throat.

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Is there a way to mute people's mics? Did an online road trip in FH2, complete with one twat coughing, sneezing and broadcasting half a conversation to the entire world. Surely there has to be a way of selecting that player and shutting them off.

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Anyway got one from Sainsburys for 289 with Rare Replay. No doubt supplied by centresoft or gem as a bundle.

Further to my other point. Many supermarkets get bundles from suppliers as you say. But many also make their own, they can afford to sell console bundles as a loss leader since they can also sell you your Stella and Richmond Superkings etc.

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Dudley

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So massive worldwide companies belief in the net promoter score must have been something Ive made up then.

It's almost like different businesses operate in different markets.

If we're going to talk meaningless buzzwords, Retail, and games retail more than once is very un-sticky and almost entirely driven by price. GAME giving you that bundle wouldn't change that almost certainly you'll buy your next game from Amazon if they're £2 cheaper. Equally if you need a game today on the High Street you've got fuck all choice other than GAME so there's no reason to try there either.

Net Promoter Score, ignoring that it's all a bunch of shit anyway is only even debatably useful in a industry driven by actual product. Those multinationals you talk about are companies like Apple, not a commodity retailer, which the notable exception of Amazon who create that stickiness through sheer range and schemes like Prime.

You can rationalise all you like but GAME would be better off financially handing you a fiver to go away than selling you the bundle you made up in your head.

Back in the ps2 days I rember bundles with Buzz and a couple of games that were £250. £1 profit. There's fuck all wiggle room with new gaming stuff that's why lots of these stores practically force pre-owned shit down your throat.

Yep, from a similar time GAME when they had a lot more control used to do a PS2 and "Free choice of platinum game" bundle. they made 50p on that bundle. On a £250 purchase. We tried to force bundle £9.99 GAME controllers with them. If people bought that bundle and said controller, the profit was £8.

Now if you were buying a bundle that included Pre-owned games, especially in the good old GAME code days when you could know exactly what was paid for said game, a smart GAME staffer would go hog wild on that.

Further to my other point. Many supermarkets get bundles from suppliers as you say. But many also make their own, they can afford to sell console bundles as a loss leader since they can also sell you your Stella and Richmond Superkings etc.

And again, bingo. Supermarkets don't give a flying toss about games, if the whole enterprise can get close to profit that's perfect. They exist there to tempt you in to buy other things and distract the kids. Buy that console alongside a weekly shop they've made more on that transaction than GAME could ever dream of. And enough people do to make stocking them worthwhile. It's not a comparable market, although its existence is at least partially why GAME doesn't have the pull it once did.

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I just used a credit card that was already on my Microsoft account, same one I used to buy from the Hungarian store.

Worked fine for me.

Yeah this credit card is also attached to the account.

I'll ring the bank to see if they blocked it.

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rafaqat

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Amazon? Maplin?

It was on amazon that it was £8. I don't think a normal adapter works. It's got to have the three rings on the male end.

Will give maplins a look

Yeah this credit card is also attached to the account.

I'll ring the bank to see if they blocked it.

Turns out it was my bank security kicking in as it wasn't my normal buying pattern. :)

Unlocked and it's gone straight through now.

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Gold members can download EA Sports Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour this week and play it for free starting from today. The download is available in the deals with gold area. [26.6GB download]

Deals of the week are live:

EA SPORTS Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR* Xbox One Game 33%

Life is Strange Xbox One Game 50%

Life is Strange Season Pass (Episodes 2-5)* Xbox One Game 20%

Life is Strange Complete Season (Episodes 1-5)* Add-On 20%

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty Xbox One Game 33%

Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones Xbox One Game 50%

The Swapper Xbox One Game 33%

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition Xbox One Game 50%

Stick It To The Man Xbox One Game 67%

Worms Battlegrounds Xbox One Game 50%

LA Cops Xbox One Game 50%

The Escapists Xbox One Game 40%

Ziggaraut Xbox One Game 50%

Ultratron Xbox One Game 50%

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I thought I'd give streaming to my Windows 10 PC a try, but it's not working.

I've followed all the steps on the Windows instructions, but I can't. I'm connected to the console in the Xbox app, and there's a button under 'Recently Played' that says 'Stream Xbox One games now'. When I press it, I get told I can't stream because either the Xbox app or the Xbox itself needs an update.

I've checked on both, and neither do need updating. When I click on the 'Connect to your Xbox One' button on the left hand side of the app, I'm connected, and I can see what's playing on the Xbox, but there's no stream button there, like Microsoft say there should be. I can access the streaming settings though, to choose the video quality.

Hang on, could this be because I've got the N version of windows? Will I need that Media pack thing? Hmm, going to check that now.

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