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Microsoft wants its games back off Woolies

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CVG Write: Company prepares to take legal action.

Big name companies including Microsoft and EMI are preparing legal action against Woolworths' administrators in a bid to reclaim millions of pounds of stock.

Woolworths' distribution arm, Entertainment UK (EUK), still has tens of millions of pounds worth of games, CDs and DVDs in its warehouses, despite the fact that the last operating Woolies stores are due to shut tomorrow.
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DavidMacDougall - 366 days 21 hours ago
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LOL they wasted 500 million on DLC that nobody is going to buy and yet there taking a broke company to court for money?
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DeathroW22 - 366 days 20 hours ago
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1.1 - 50 million.
Not 500.
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Kigmal - 366 days 20 hours ago
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It was 50 million and people will buy it. Outside of N4G, GTAIV is a big game.
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DavidMacDougall - 366 days 20 hours ago
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LOL i would say i knew that but who would believe me (Need to start using the edit button )

@Kigmal - I like GTA4 but i wouldn't buy it for more missions ,i'd like the guns tho
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anh_duong - 366 days 20 hours ago
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they have to take it off me because i bought quite a few of them when they were 50% off.. lol
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Kigmal - 366 days 20 hours ago
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1.5 - @DAVID
Like I said, OUTSIDE OF N4G, GTAIV IS A BIG GAME ...
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spandexxking - 366 days 19 hours ago
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lol i work at woolies and got and elite for a fiver! plus i saved a load of games and stuff til it was 90% off! i was buying brand new titles for like £3.40! ha ha good luck microsoft, the euk warehouses were cleard out about a week ago.
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gaffyh - 366 days 4 hours ago
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How do they expect to get money back from a company that is in more than £360 million in debt?
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die_fiend - 366 days 20 hours ago
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I think you mean 50 million on DLC that loads of people are going to buy (fastest selling game ever mean anything to you?). And them doing it also meant a lot of people bought the 360 version instead...The only people that don't seem to want it are people with a PS3...funny that.

"still has tens of millions of pounds worth of games" That's 10's of millions of pounds worth of their games, that they don't want to be sold off cheaply by the administrators and instead want their own games back so they can sell them at the usual prices. And this surprises you?!
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games4fun - 366 days 20 hours ago
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3 - @people above arguing over the 50 mill DLC
no matter how you slice it that 50 mill could be a game right now or even a studio?

R.I.P ensamble the price of your DLC in plain sight.

If you had told me that the creators of Age of Empires series would get the can even though all of thier games sell well i would have thought you were crazy, it just turns out only Msoft is crazy.

Losing an Age of Empires game to some extra missions in a game i would like to ask the gamers here was it really worth it?

also even if they Msoft has another studio make AoE, it wont be good without the creators behind the wheel.

another thing is that even if the Dlc gives them money there is no way they will be able to get ensamble studios employees back they will have already been snatched up by everyone esle in the industry.

Edit: if you disagree tell me where i went wrong
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RadientFlux - 366 days 20 hours ago
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Not surprising though this is the first time I've heard of this type of lawsuit. Though with the economic times like they are I'm sure Sony/Nintendo and other publishers will join the lawsuit.
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games4fun - 366 days 20 hours ago
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i understand why Msoft would do this, its quite obvious that woolies might pull an msoft tactic and sell out all of the merchandise in thier warehouses to make a quick buck and taking a large ammount of merchandise Msoft would want to sell.

I would sue them too.
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sak500 - 366 days 20 hours ago
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Tsk tsk such language.

My mistake i thought i was in gamer zone oh wait....
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RadientFlux - 366 days 20 hours ago
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at least the language made him easy to spot... another year another user to ignore
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monkpunk1 - 366 days 20 hours ago
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I got fallout 3 for £18 just the other day from my local store....But this is still shameless...
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THELANDOFSAND - 366 days 19 hours ago
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8 - LOL good luck getting that back
you can't get blood out of a rock

hahaaahah

that will teach MS to rip people off all day everyday with TRROD: KARMA's A B1TCH BILL!
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mirroredderorrim - 366 days 19 hours ago
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@Kigmal

Should try looking at what fanboys on youtube are saying. That is a unified fanboy technology too.
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Karum - 366 days 19 hours ago
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They might get a small amount back from the administrators but nothing close tot he full value of it.

On another note I managed to grab a few blu ray movies for £7 from Woolies last week, weeeeeeeeeee.
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Sickr - 366 days 18 hours ago
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OH SHI-
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cereal_killa - 366 days 16 hours ago
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Maybe I'm wrong about this but doesn't a company already pay for there stock b4 it sold. So if thats true what does M$ care what they do with it there getting the systems sold and counting them as sold in which will give the 360 fanboys little egos that there system is selling so well. Hell maybe that's the only reason that the 360 is selling so well in the UK because of Woolworths is closing all there stores and reducing all the stock to get rid of it.
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Lumbo - 366 days 14 hours ago
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Consoles are usually sold on commission by huge chains, cause the manufacturer may cut the price at any time, if stores bought the stuff they would end up loosing money selling at the new price they did not decide upon themself.
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cereal_killa - 366 days 13 hours ago
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Thank you Lumbo have a bubble
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