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This is why I hope they survive. Digital distribution is the end for me.They are selling a dying medium when the big 3 are pushing digital distribution.
Yep.I see no way how a physical store selling physical games like GameStop will not go anywhere but down as the years pass by. Digital, streaming and online stores like Amazon are all slowly but surely killing any chance Gamestop has to surve
didn't they try this for a short time?They could provide a local game renting service. They have a huge catalog to pull from.
Yup. Asura's Wrath was recently added to Xbox BC. I picked up a copy for less than $10 at GS while it was $20 digitally.This is why I hope they survive. Digital distribution is the end for me.
I always found this incredibly bizarre.Does GameStop still sell opened games as new?
Not sure why I would give them money over a retailer that actually sells new products.
They could stop pissing on their customers and tell them it's raining like this.Does GameStop still sell opened games as new?
Not sure why I would give them money over a retailer that actually sells new products.
I have no reason to shop at GameStop when I can just buy the same game for the same price at a big box retailer like Target but without being hassled about pre-ordering shit and buying magazines.
Yep.
It's just too convenient and easy to go digital. I know it's not feasible for EVERYONE, but it's feasible for most of us.
They were going to, but they backed out at the last minute, literally five days before it was going to go live
Their used game pricing is already ridiculous, what makes you think that pulling the retro card would change it? They had a few stores offering retro titles for a while, not sure if they still do it because I refuse to shop there anymore, but the prices were ridiculous. I wanted to buy Pokemon Silver for gameboy but it was $45 (this was ~3 years ago).Kind of like funcoland when it was around, but without the ridiculous pricing
I agree. It's such a turn off to even want to enter a store now.This is may be tangential to the underlying question, but I still think the move to cut down their locations to roughly half Funko-POP/novelty/collectibles was a terrible decision that made shopping there all the worse for their core buyers. Them now having to restructure that business to prop it up when the original intent was the other way around has to be frustrating on the business side. I understand the markup is higher on that stuff, but even having better arrangement/display of a smaller amount of game-related stock would be preferable to this pop-culture vomit making the store feel cramped and unfocused.
I find myself using Gamestop more now that I know they are in danger. I stopped ordering from Amazon a few year back and switched to Best Buy. I still like BB, but I have been reorganizing my game collection and I have to say, Gamestop has been great for selling the stuff I don't want anymore and picking up some of the PS3/PS4 titles I've missed over the years. I also bought a 60GB launch PS3 recently (backward compatible with PS2) for $90 from them when eBay prices would have had me up near $250.
When Gamestop is gone, they'll be missed.