GameStop starts a revolution with 'Deus Ex'
Allow me to preface this by saying, I'm an employee of GameStop, as well as a customer of GameStop. My intention of writing this article is to not only express my opinion on the matter, but to hopefully generate a positive discussion as well. The way I feel on the matter of GameStop opening and removing codes which contained free downloads of the OnLive version of "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" from retail PC copies of the game is that it's a quick, fumbled fix to handle the situation. Not a permanent solution, and not a very good one at that. This turns out to be true since GameStop almost immediately sent word to remove any copies of the PC version until new shipments arrive, ones without the code. So the question now must be, is it okay for them to do this? Whom does it hurt and whom does it benefit? It certainly does not benefit customers at first glance. There's nothing tangible, or immediate they recieve from this. But does it outright hurt customers? To t...