Yup, pretty much. Really the worst part of it was the worry of not being able to get a refund.
>>Collage
>>$10/week for food
>>$40 for game that hates PS3
I played about 20 minutes of skyrim, had to go to dinner, so I saved it, came back and saw my save had been deleted, raged at the disk, then went back to the store the next day and demanded a refund saying that they sold me a scratched disk. (Used game store.)