Badly designed CE game boxes

[ison]

Originally Posted by Dreamcazman

I'm interested to hear of others experiences of CE's they have bought that have been terribly designed. Not so much how they were received in the post, although that does play a part, but the actual box the CE came in.

For me, it happened today. I received my Hitman Absolution CE which I bought from Zavvi in their latest special. I know Zavvi aren't the best when it comes to packaging, but they did an ok job. It was in a box with the air pockets to stop it moving around.

The CE on the other hand is very badly designed IMO. For starters there is nothing holding the figurine in place and it was just moving around inside, secondly there's nothing really supporting the front of the box and it was easily crumpled and I'm not sure if the hard plastic window is supposed to be stuck to the box, but it was loose.

Thankfully everything inside is perfect and I'm not too fussed as I got it cheap. I don't think there was anyway it could be packed better to avoid the box creases and dents.

Damn thats unacceptable for me...i would mail them and ask for a refund.

Im too expecting the ps3 version...you just broke my heart ...

If it is as bad as yours i will ask for refund/return.

Just because it was cheap doesnt mean you have to tolerate this.

Ill wait and see how mine arrives but seeing yours...i dont have much hope.

Question:

Was the box of the ce sealed or not? I am asking because if it wasnt sealed ...you may got a store display game or something?

[Dreamcazman]

Originally Posted by ison

Damn thats unacceptable for me...i would mail them and ask for a refund.

Im too expecting the ps3 version...you just broke my heart ...

If it is as bad as yours i will ask for refund/return.

Just because it was cheap doesnt mean you have to tolerate this.

Ill wait and see how mine arrives but seeing yours...i dont have much hope.

Question:

Was the box of the ce sealed or not? I am asking because if it wasnt sealed ...you may got a store display game or something?

The box was sealed. I broke the seal to check the contents inside.

I might email them and see what they have to say. I'm not sending it back because that'll cost me more than the thing is worth.

EDIT: Just emailed Zavvi, fingers crossed.

[Cosmic_Link]

Originally Posted by ison

Damn thats unacceptable for me...i would mail them and ask for a refund.

Im too expecting the ps3 version...you just broke my heart ...

If it is as bad as yours i will ask for refund/return.

Just because it was cheap doesnt mean you have to tolerate this.

Ill wait and see how mine arrives but seeing yours...i dont have much hope.

Question:

Was the box of the ce sealed or not? I am asking because if it wasnt sealed ...you may got a store display game or something?

If I remember rightly, the box was cellophane wrapped. You won't get a store display copy from Zavvi as they don't have any stores anymore. They're online only now.

The box wasn't really badly designed. There is a tray in the bottom which has cut outs where 47's feet sit into and when the figure is stood in there, it doesn't move around. However, it looks like during manufacturing, the lazy little sod on the line hasn't bothered to open the tray out and therefore the figure just slides around. The tray will still be flat in the bottom of the box! >.< That's how mine was.

Either way, the state that arrived in shouldn't be tolerated. >.<. Contact them and try and push for a refund.

[Dreamcazman]

I finally got a result out of Zavvi. They initially only offered me 4 pounds compensation. I didn't feel that was enough and wanted 10. Their response was the max they could give was 25%, so I'm getting 7.50 pounds back.

It's better than nothing, but it would've been even better if it didn't arrive damaged in the first place.

[Vlad]

The one that immediately springs to mind for me is the MGS HD collection.
Flimsy, thin outer box that could easily cave-in if something went on top of it, then everything inside can move easily which means the weak inside cardboard at the corners was probably wrecked on almost every copy shipped out.

At seeing it mentioned I do remember X Blades wasn't great either.

The US Brothers in Arms that came with a figure was really quite bad too, way too easy for it to bend out at the sides, even with the figure still in it.
Dead Space 2 was a bit the same although not to the same extent.


Can't think back of too many others that were as bad as some of these just now.