Okay okay. Ex Best Buy employee here. Cold War on the left is a print off utilized to represent that the game is available for purchase but not the actual game in the case. This is done for high theft items. Take that to the checkout, they grab you the actual game. The reason it’s in a security case is because you can’t just easily place a piece of printed cardboard into the same kinda slot as an actual video game, so this helps it sit in the pockets. Now, as far as why this particular Best Buy has the actual Vanguard copies out and not Cold War…shrugs. It’s 100% at the discretion of the store for specific games whether they put the actual game out or not. This could just be an line level employee not stocking properly or adjusting to what their actual high theft games are. This has 0 to do with it being open games.
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Okay okay. Ex Best Buy employee here. Cold War on the left is a print off utilized to represent that the game is available for purchase but not the actual game in the case. This is done for high theft items. Take that to the checkout, they grab you the actual game. The reason it’s in a security case is because you can’t just easily place a piece of printed cardboard into the same kinda slot as an actual video game, so this helps it sit in the pockets. Now, as far as why this particular Best Buy has the actual Vanguard copies out and not Cold War…shrugs. It’s 100% at the discretion of the store for specific games whether they put the actual game out or not. This could just be an line level employee not stocking properly or adjusting to what their actual high theft games are. This has 0 to do with it being open games.