The company's position had been that the game's publisher, Japan-based Square Enix, should not have packaged the coupon with the game without informing GameStop. The service had priced its own version of the game at $49.99, the same price as a physical copy - which meant customers were effectively getting a $50 game for free.īut GameStop also sells a digital edition of Deus Ex, and its views OnLive as a direct competitor. OnLive is a streaming service that brings cloud-based games onto on TVs, computers and, soon, tablets. GameStop took a lot of heat from the gaming community earlier this week after GameStop directed its employees to open up copies of Deus Ex to remove a coupon that was meant to give all physical copy buyers free access to the game on an online gaming service called OnLive.
And for this, we are truly sorry," Paul Raines, CEO of GameStop, said in an e-mail. "We regret the events surrounding this title release and that our customers were put in the middle of this issue between GameStop and Square Enix, the publisher of this game.
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