GameStop UK is offering a trade-in deal so utterly ruthless it borders on trolling, allowing customers to trade in Battlefield 3 and receive rival shooter Modern Warfare 3 for practically nothing. All you need to drop is ninety-nine pence!
If you buy DICE's gorgeous looking shooter before October 27, then buy Modern Warfare 3 before November 7, you can send Battlefield 3 back to get your GameStop account refunded -- save for a meager £0.99 charge.
This is even crazier when you consider that Activision bumped up the price of all Call of Duty games in the UK, giving them an RRP of £54.99. So, if you wanted to essentially rent Battlefield 3 and keep Modern Warfare 3, this is a shockingly good deal.
I'd have sympathy for EA but I keep remembering its insistence on using online passes. So screw 'em.
GameStop: trade BF3 to get MW3 for £0.99 [Eurogamer]
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9:00 AM on 10.20.2011 | 
Kudos GameStop...
Seriously, fuck EA.
Ahhh...marketing...Now if only we gamers could just NOT buy either of these games it could be fun to watch EA and Activision self destruct. But that won't happen with massive sales.
This might boost sales of BF3 with people who were only planning on buying either BF3 OR CoD, but not both. EA gets paid for a new game either way. Beyond that, all those used copies in the wild means $10 for EA on each purchase, minus the very few who buy it for single-player.
The only real negative is that they might miss out on more long term DLC, but I think it kind of evens out.
Nope. Game and Game Station are owned by a separate company independent from GameStop. And yeah, we have them but not that many.
That's why I only buy used games on Gamestop, that's the only good thing about them imo.
And as a player, I would feel very relieved to know that all that COD players whow run around as headless chickens never helping with the objectives will stay away from BF3.
@Chongomaster
Thanks man, I wasn't aware of this. I assumed they were all under the same evil empire umbrella.
Because they think that demand for used copies of BF3 will be so high that they'll still make money by giving a new game away for almost free.
OR
Because they're banking that people will buy BF3 with this deal in mind but will like it so much that they'll hang on to BF3 and also buy MW3.
/sarcasm.
2) Buy a LOAD of copies from shopto for ~£30 a pop.
3) Trade all in at Gamestop for 99p copies of MW3
4) Sell MW3 copies ASAP on ebay for ~£40
Profit?