Yeah, I agree the store manager fell far short and seemed to have been deliberately winding the guy up. We don't see the early part of the situation but she failed for all sorts of reasons and chiefly, in my view, she should have forbade the guy videoing the situation from using his camera. To me that's harassment and very serious though the whole thing was a storm in tea cup and should not have resulted in millions of posts like this from around the globe. Funny eh? Good way to make some money if you could gain from it (Facebook and Youtube and zillions of public news websites are getting more hits).

There's a better cooler headed summary over here at The Escapist

It somewhat surprises me some people are very critical of the customer, tho I suppose it's maybe a lesson we should not take things too personally in life sometimes - I don't doubt the store manager was rude and obnoxious throughout just judging by her body language and rapport with the other customers. I'd give her a stern warning if I was her boss but a sacking because of this one incident would not be justified in my view (not that my opinion has any kind of weight). But hey, who loves ya Spooky baby? [Gives self hug]

Im thinking its going to take me at least 2 months to finish this single player game playing it every couple of days 2/3 hours at a time.

tonight i spent 3 hours doing nothing really but blowing stuff up,car jacking,taking in the drop dead gorgeous sites and at the end of all that i done one single mission,and that took about 6 attempts .

I have never seen an area so vast and with so much to do,i mean you can get a fancy haircut,have some mighty fine tattoos ,pick up a Hooker,play golf,Play tennis,Challenge people to races,play on the shooting range[spent 1 hour doing that alone] go hunt some animals...[red dead style] the list is endless .

Im surprised they even managed to finish all this in 5 years if im honest,one hell of a game though and some mighty fine characters and brilliant set pieces and its really so well polished.

In reply to a post by time2die:

tonight i spent 3 hours doing nothing really but blowing stuff up,car jacking,taking in the drop dead gorgeous sites and at the end of all that i done one single mission,and that took about 6 attempts .

Welcome to GTA! Leave your life at the door and enter a new world where - just about - anything goes. That's the beauty of the GTA series and sandbox gaming as I see it, do what you want when you want and take it at your own pace.

GTA San Andreas (before GTA IV) was the best GTA game I played and I've replayed that several times and you just do all sorts of crazy antics and yeah, some missions are devilishly hard and require many attempts to crack. Sometimes they're not as well devised as they could be (well often not). That can be a bit of a chore but it's always worth pursuing in the end as the main story is too good to leave.

Dunno about the console version but there used to be cool mods you could get on the PC and cheats that allowed you to turn on flying cars and such like. GIVEMEATANK was one cheat you could type at any time in GTA III and you could go on a rampage. Rockstar seem to think of everything and know their gaming: it's all about fun at the end of the day.

Good to know you're enjoying yourself Timey.

Looked everywhere for a copy yesterday and everyone was sold out. This morning the wife managed to persuade one of the girls in our local Asda to put two aside when the delivery came in and it's just landed!


Damn, it takes ages to install.

Edited by mrnelster (Sat 21-Sep-13 16:55:28)

In reply to a post by time2die:

Why would a man that looks 40 actually have to show any...seen the video the lady store manager a bit of a [censored] if I'm honest.

thats my view also, asking someone who looks 40 (or at the very least 30) for ID to buy a game is petty, especially when they insisted its photo ID as the business card was rejected.

Apparently its normal in america to need photo ID to preorder games O_o

Here you go

http://uk.ign.com/cheats/games/grand-theft-auto-v-ps...

Very Easy Money (Exploit)

In the ocean near the north side of the map, you can check underwater to find a crashed airplane. When the airplane crashed, a briefcase full of money (around $12,000) also found its way to the sea bed. You can swim to find the wreckage and the briefcase. After you collect that briefcase, you can then immediately switch to another character and then switch back to the one who was located near the briefcase. When you do, the briefcase will have reappeared. The character who is underwater will collect the case again and his supply of air will return. You can repeatedly use this trick to quickly amass a small fortune.

There is a spaceship you can drive, just need to get the 50 bits

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

Here you go

http://uk.ign.com/cheats/games/grand-theft-auto-v-ps...

Very Easy Money (Exploit)

There is a spaceship you can drive, just need to get the 50 bits

Haha. Cool. Might ruin the game tho. But easy money is not to be sniffed at.

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In reply to a post by time2die:

Why would a man that looks 40 actually have to show any...seen the video the lady store manager a bit of a [censored] if I'm honest.

thats my view also, asking someone who looks 40 (or at the very least 30) for ID to buy a game is petty, especially when they insisted its photo ID as the business card was rejected.

Apparently its normal in america to need photo ID to preorder games O_o

ID was required to prove the guy was who he'd said he was and not some other dude picking up another customer's preorder. Photo ID offers better proof than a business card that anybody can fake. But, of course, it's pretty unlikely in most instances that someone would know so-and-so has preordered (and paid) for a game already. At least that's the assumption I'm making that this guy already paid for the game (online/what have you). Otherwise it seems pretty petty if all they're saying is it's to protect the allocation of pre-ordered games from people who've just turned up and are trying to imitate some other bod just so they can get a copy they still need to pay for. Else I think it's not such a big ask really; I'm sure it wasn't to prove the guy's age but if it was, what a compliment!

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Looked everywhere for a copy yesterday and everyone was sold out. This morning the wife managed to persuade one of the girls in our local Asda to put two aside when the delivery came in and it's just landed!


Damn, it takes ages to install.

Hands tingling are they? Are you playing yet? I was in Sainsbury's in Lewisham yesterday and they seemed to have lots of copies on a special display right next to the entrance.

I'm playing now and to be honest I'm not overly impressed yet.