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Datablitz has answered allegations of CIDG that the “confiscated” items are in fact smuggled goods from Hongkong and Singapore through the Datablitz fanpage just a few minutes ago.
To our friends & family in gaming,
We wish to further dispel the false news reports that have circulated the past few days. The seized NBA 2K13 stocks are not pirated nor smuggled goods. DataBlitz has never sold any pirated games, not then, not now and not ever. The games are genuine, original stocks that came from legitimate suppliers, and had gone through the proper importation channels with taxes & duties properly paid.
The basis and reason for the seizure of the goods was that these were allegedly “unauthorized” stocks, without XPlay stickers, and taken away under the supervision of the lawyers of XPlay, who supervised the whole process up to and including the most unjust detention of our staff who were merely doing their work of manning our stores and trying to make an honest living.
We look forward to contesting the “unauthorized” stocks issue and the truthfulness and validity of the exclusivity claim in the proper fora in due time.
Meanwhile, from the bottom of our hearts, a million billion gazillion thanks for the outpouring of support we’ve received from our beloved gaming community and from gamers in general everywhere. You are our inspiration and your support is the source of our strength in everything that we do since our inception. There is no DataBlitz today without you and for this, we shall forever be grateful. In this dark hour, you have stood by us and have come to our defense, and the least we can do is to continue to work hard and fight each and everyday for the welfare of gamers everywhere! MARAMING MARAMING SALAMAT PO!!
Now this puts a different spin in the whole matter since the reply focuses mainly on what CIDG reported on the various news sources. So what do you guys think?
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May I suggest something? With your amount of stores around the philippines and your length of respect and experience in this industry, may I suggest that you request authority to directly sell and import the games from Take-Two Interactive and other game developers. And also explain that with what X-Play did to you you can never take it upon yourself to buy from them after the pain and anguish they have caused to you and your innocent staff members. These guys will relent and after all, its all about the sale at the end of the day