Aug 22, 2006, 11:16 AM
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I can tell you that at Toys R Us we stopped getting the games with security stickers on them sometime just before Christmas of last year. I know because I distinctly remember having a customer issue about them and the service desk associate thought it was resealed but all 50 copies of the game didn't have the little top seal on.
Yeah, they were annoying, unless you felt like keeping them there. I think the main reason they took them off was because it was too easy to just open it on the other end and take the game out. That seal really was too circumventable. The XBox/360 seal is a better idea, because for one it's on the actual handle part of the game, which makes it a bit harder to open, but also because that paper that they make it out of becomes fucking trashed when you peel it off. It's impossible to reapply it and make it look like you didn't do anything to it.
Sony taking off those little tags has created a problem for us and I'm assuming other stores. There are people going out and buying $50 games, opening them, taking the game and rewrapping them in such good quality that it looks professional unless you know EXACTLY where to look (there's a crease in the plastic that isn't normally there). They then return the game, getting their money back but keeping the game. They only do it with PS2 games because I'm guessing an adult returning a bunch of kid games would look weird, and the XBox seal thing keeps them from doing it. It's a phenomenon we've only had trouble with since Sony took the stickers off the PS2 games.
To summarize, yes, Sony has stopped putting the security stickers on any game manufactured at any time this year. Greatest Hits, reprints, etc. all fall under this category, so if you have no seal on it you have a recently made game.
How ya doing, buddy?
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