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After branches of a certain game shop started to sell Otogi for the Xbox on Monday, someone must have stepped in to prevent them doing so. According to staff and customers of the shops, the game has not been on sale there since Tuesday, when it was taken from the shelves by request of the head office.
In a short interview with one of the staff members at an anonymous branch of the shop we found out the exact situation.
"We got the game in late last week and were not told of it's release date. Since we had it in stock we thought we would put it on sale and we (the whole chain, not the individual store) sold around 190 copies by Monday. When we were informed by Head Office that we should not be selling it early, all copies were taken off sale and all staff members reponsible for selling copies were spoken to. The game will go on sale from Friday (today) and not earlier, all the boxes on display in the store are simply display cases. Sorry for any trouble caused by this."
As you can see, the company seems to be quite swift in preventing further sales, especially as all of the branches we spoke to sounded downbeat about the whole affair. A branch of a rival store we visited were seen putting boxes on display on Thursday but these were only display boxes. A staff member said
"We had the game in late last week but never put it on sale. We know that [store name removed] were selling it early, but they have stopped selling it now and should not have been selling it anyway. We can only sell games early if another store in the same town is selling the game before us, but [store name removed] have been told to stop selling it by someone"
When asked who they thought had told the rivals to stop selling the game they did not answer, just a shrug of the shoulders.
This is interesting after the apparent calmness surrounding the sale earlier in the week, no media outlet seemed to report the early sale (except us here at SF, of course) and so it could be seen that people don't care. But whoever prevented the sale obviously cares and who that was remains to be seen. Was it the head office of the stores (seeing morality and keeping it fair with rivals) or was it some form of trading standards? We don't know, but all will be revealed in time.
Chris Barnett
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