GameStop Stopped Selling Dawn of War II ? - briefly
(hx) 11:41 PM CET - Jan,22 2009
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Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II appears to
no longer be available for purchase at GameStop. As of January 15th,
according to Google's cache, GameStop was still taking pre-orders for the
real-time strategy game. But as of yesterday, nothing. The product has
disappeared from GameStop.com and calls to brick and mortar GameStop stores
indicate that Dawn of War II is no longer available for pre-order. Why? A person
claiming to have knowledge of the matter says it's because of the game's
association with Steam:
So, what about that allegedly contentious Steam relationship? According to what we were told, it's the (supposedly) required install of Valve's digital distribution platform that has rubbed GameStop corporate the wrong way. That would be an odd stance to take on Dawn of War II, considering the same is true for games published by Valve.
But maybe not so odd, considering GameStop's apparent stance on games released on digital distribution platforms prior to being released at retail. Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik told Wired last April that the retailer objected to carrying a boxed version of Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, which was launched on the Greenhouse platform.
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