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UK Retailer Takes Step to Warn About Used Game DLC

By pete_gallagher

In response to a consumer suing retailer GameStop over the code for free downloadable content from a used game already being used (by the original purchaser), UK retailer GAME has taken a proactive step to avoid sharing a similar fate with its U.S.-based counterpart.

According to MCV, GAME has fashioned warning stickers that will warn potential purchasers to check with a store's staff for more information on the availability of a used game's downloadable content.

This solution, a GAME spokesperson told MCV, would allow the staff to 'explain clearly the difference so that our customers understand the benefits of buying both pre-owned and mint [new].'

GAME started using the stickers in its stores last week.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).