ChickenLittle wrote:
APKeaton wrote:
ChickenLittle wrote: 
You take the box to the counter and they give you the CD/game, which they put in the box (at least at the places I've been at).

99% of what EB/Gamestop stocks is console crap anyway, and for PC stuff I almost always order online (and generally via digital download).
  
This is only for used games.  For new games they will give you a "new copy" that is sealed.

Could be.  Maybe I'm misremembering.
  
I definitely had this recently when buying a new game. Maybe they had sold all the sealed copies.