Did OnLive coupon dustup earn gamer good will?
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20097833-1/did-onlive-coupon-dustup-earn-gamer-good-will/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=image"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/08/26/Deus_Ex.jpg" alt="" /></a></div><p> <p class="image-caption">GameStop's decision to remove an OnLive coupon from Deus Ex: Human Revolution may have backfired.</p> <span class="image-credit">(Credit: Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)</span> </p> <p>Before this week, if you mentioned OnLive's cloud-gaming service to dedicated gamers, you'd hear lots of skepticism. Whether it's doubts about OnLive's responsiveness or reservations about the absence of a local copy of games that have been paid for, OnLive has met with plenty of consumer resistance (although <a title="Hands-on with OnLive: Is this the future of PC gaming? -- Monday, Jun 28, 2010" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20009033-1.html?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=embed">we like it</a>) <a href="http://news.cnet.com/onlive-could-threaten-xbox-ps3-and-wii/?tag=mncol;3n?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=embed">since it emerged in 2009</a>.</p> <p>This past week, though, OnLive seems to have earned itself some good will. At the start of the week, gamers discovered a coupon for a free OnLive version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution in their boxed copies of the game's PC version. Putting the service, and a copy of a well-received fan favorite game, in the hands of gamers who risk nothing by giving OnLive a spin can only help win fans.</p> <p>Then, a few days into the week, news broke that retailer <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/deus-ex-human-revolution/news/6330790/gamestop-discarding-deus-ex-coupons-before-selling-game?tag=newsfeatures%3Btitle%3B2" >GameStop was pulling the OnLive coupon</a> from its Deus Ex c... <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20097833-1/did-onlive-coupon-dustup-earn-gamer-good-will/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=readMore">[Read more]</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~4/Wh83JGlwZ-A" height="1" width="1"/> [More]