Gamestop promo

[woodjer]

How does the NCAA team let Gamestop run a promotion offering to trade this back in for Madden with the slogan "Take your game to the next level." Sure, I get the significance of that saying in a sports sense but couldn't someone also look at that and say that NCAA is EA's "practice" version of football and Madden is the better product all-around? If I'm on the NCAA dev team, I would be all over that. I mean, if I were an uninformed customer, I might look at that and say "pass on NCAA because it isn't as good as Madden, which is only a month away anyway." I just thought that was interesting...

[jwilphl]

I thought it was odd too that they were giving out coupons for $40 trade-in. I know for at least the last couple of years they have accepted it and essentially say the credit goes toward Madden (it's really just store credit), but this year they seem to be pushing it. It's almost as if they know the game is awful and people will gladly trade it in for Madden instead.

Not sure I fully understand paying $60 to basically rent the game for a month. It also makes me wonder if NCAA is just becoming the junior version of Madden and will never truly be its own game. If that is the case, this game will never be any good, and if that's how EA has it set up, they ought to start selling it at $20 or $30 (wishful thinking).

[parrothead]

Yeah, but it worked. I bought NCAA, just to trade it in, but they get the sale no matter what I do with it. I'm sure many others did this also.

[Roggie]

Quote: Originally Posted by woodjer

How does the NCAA team let Gamestop run a promotion offering to trade this back in for Madden with the slogan "Take your game to the next level." Sure, I get the significance of that saying in a sports sense but couldn't someone also look at that and say that NCAA is EA's "practice" version of football and Madden is the better product all-around? If I'm on the NCAA dev team, I would be all over that. I mean, if I were an uninformed customer, I might look at that and say "pass on NCAA because it isn't as good as Madden, which is only a month away anyway." I just thought that was interesting...

It's actually really good business for EA. They sell a game new. It gets traded in a month later and another of their games is bought new. They make very good money off this deal.

[bkfount]

Doing this gives Gamestop tons of copies to sell at a nice markup when the casual gamers come in looking for the game when it's actually college football season.

Gamestop is brilliant with their business, as lots of people buying NCAA now are probably Madden hoppers anyways.

[weasel631]

Quote: Originally Posted by parrothead

Yeah, but it worked. I bought NCAA, just to trade it in, but they get the sale no matter what I do with it. I'm sure many others did this also.

So you decided to pay $80 for Madden 10 this year? How does that make sense?

[twigstudios]

I'm not gonna do it. I got the same coupon and was extremely surprised when I saw it. Kinda peeved me off too. I enjoy both games. It's kinda like saying "This game sucks trade it in for something better." Right now I'm enjoying NCAA 10 and already prepaid for Madden. But that's the nature of business. If anyone wants this coupon PM me and I'll mail it to ya.

[parrothead]

Quote: Originally Posted by weasel631

So you decided to pay $80 for Madden 10 this year? How does that make sense?

Thank you, I'll just sit right here in my place where you put me. But I would've bought NCAA anyway just to tide me over.