Comment Re:Perfect Plan! (Score 1) 409
GTA: San Andreas. At least the first couple shipments when I was working at a retailer.
Now, the main reason I'm saying this is that effectively on launch we received almost 40% of our stock back in returns due to scratched discs and "Uhh...my PS2 won't read it" complaints. We would ask if there were any issues with other games the customers owned or if there was a small child in the house that may have gotten access to the disc and decided to see how far it would skid across the floor -- both of which tended to receive annoyed no's.
Then we would ask which version of PlayStation 2 they had, and almost unanimously (we had a couple returns from people just managing to screw up their copy, of course) it was the old, thicker model. Most closer to launch. We had approximately 120 copies come back in within the first week with squiggled scratches where the disc was mauled during reading.
I'm honestly not sure why the older PS2 hardware would scratch up GTA:San Andreas and not other software as well, but it was exclusively that title that we received those returns on.
Now, the main reason I'm saying this is that effectively on launch we received almost 40% of our stock back in returns due to scratched discs and "Uhh...my PS2 won't read it" complaints. We would ask if there were any issues with other games the customers owned or if there was a small child in the house that may have gotten access to the disc and decided to see how far it would skid across the floor -- both of which tended to receive annoyed no's.
Then we would ask which version of PlayStation 2 they had, and almost unanimously (we had a couple returns from people just managing to screw up their copy, of course) it was the old, thicker model. Most closer to launch. We had approximately 120 copies come back in within the first week with squiggled scratches where the disc was mauled during reading.
I'm honestly not sure why the older PS2 hardware would scratch up GTA:San Andreas and not other software as well, but it was exclusively that title that we received those returns on.
