If you purchase your copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution at a retail store, you’re supposed to receive a code that allows you to play the game for free using the online gaming service OnLive. It’s a neat giveaway, and it certainly gives gamers an incentive to try the service, but a leaked memo seems to show GameStop’s fear of digital delivery: employees are allegedly being asked to open every game and remove the coupon.
For the uninitiated, OnLive is a cloud-based game service that lets you play PC games on your Mac, PC or on a TV (using a hardware device). GameStop says the coupons for OnLive were slipped into the shipping boxes without its consent. So I guess that makes it all right for them to remove the coupons without your consent.
Screw those guys. If you were planning to buy Deus Ex for your Windows gaming rig or for a Windows partition on your Mac, do it from someone besides GameStop.