Gamestop is sad

[WhipperSnapper]

Does anyone who works at Gamestop read this forum?

 

[mmntech]

I guess I only go to Gamestop really because it's convenient. There's one in a mall just down from where I work, and about five minutes from home.

Last week, I was looking to pick up some games for my sorely neglected DS and they're still selling used copies of New Super Mario Brothers for $35, sans case, when a brand new copy is $40. The game has been out for four years now!

 

[inspiron]

I really think PC games should have their own WALL at gamestop, i mean come on pc games are still popular as hell.

 

[zerocool84]

The local Gamestop actually carded me when I bought Fallout 3 last year. I was 23 at the time. Granted I do look a little young for my age but certainly older than 17. Even the liquor store never asks for ID.

I've kind of had a falling out with them over the prices of their used titles. You can't take a $60 game somebody's sold you for a fraction of that, then throw it back on the shelf for $56 and call that a discount.

Gamestop is following the law for M rated games. Good for them for doing that. Also Gamestop doesn't make anyone trade in games for that price. It's business and while I don't like it either, it's what makes them the most money.

 

[Imp]

My EB/Gamestop stopped stocking PC games entirely. They neglected it for years by having low stock of new releases and throwing them on 1 shelf in the back.

 

[CurseTheSky]

No, gamestop is sad because there is never that hot chick you dream about who "for-realz" cares about video-games and works there.

All we ever get is ugly chix, fat chix, ugly+fat chix, "goth-chic" with too much foundation, concealing the true nature of her complexion, while also being obvious by her attire that she "don't" got the goods underneath.

The worst part is they still pretend to be COOL in the store by being rude and aloof.

If you're looking for hot chicks in a video game store, you're not doing it right.

Do what I did instead - date a hot chick, THEN get her into video games. I just played 4 hours of Titan Quest with my girlfriend tonight.

 

[borisvodofsky]

If you're looking for hot chicks in a video game store, you're not doing it right.

Do what I did instead - date a hot chick, THEN get her into video games. I just played 4 hours of Titan Quest with my girlfriend tonight.

What you've got is very rare. A girl who is

1" not afraid of social backlash,
2" patient enough,
3" actually a girl, (my assumption)
4" sexable, (my assumption)

Congratulations

I don't have trouble getting the girls. However, I've always had to ninja my true geekness.

 

[Lumathix]

How many PC gamers buy games from Gamestop?

I'm surprised they even have a PC section.

I think OP's point, is they USED to cater towards PC games.

 

[TXAngel08]

I do have some nostalgia of the old days though; especially since I picked up Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate II and Septerra Core all from Gamestop. Those were the days. /rockingchair

There are 2 Gamestops near me, but I haven't been in a few years. Mostly console stuff as others have said.

As for nostalgia, try Babbages in the mid 80's buying games for the Apple IIe. Or Soft Warehouse (what CompUSA was before it grew), bought my copy of Copy II Plus from them.

Now get off my lawn. :biggrin:

 

[dguy6789]

There are no stores in my city that sell PC games anymore. A year ago there were four or five. They all stopped.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Last week, I was looking to pick up some games for my sorely neglected DS and they're still selling used copies of New Super Mario Brothers for $35, sans case, when a brand new copy is $40. The game has been out for four years now!

Wow. That's outrageous. I remember going to Funcoland years ago for Sega Genesis games and finding that they had reasonable prices on older games. If I were a console gamer I would say "Fuck Gamestop, I'll wheel and deal on eBay or trade them at some other website."

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Do what I did instead - date a hot chick, THEN get her into video games. I just played 4 hours of Titan Quest with my girlfriend tonight.

Are you sure you're playing the right game? Shouldn't you guys be playing Hide the Sausage? (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

 

[heat901]

Whats a GameStop???

Is that some kind of pause feature in video games?

 

[Skott]

The original Babbages was an amazing shop. Today, Gamestop is nothing but a glorified console depot. I think they only carry PC games to make Microsoft happy so that they can get exclusive pre-release deals.

Yeah, I remember when Babbages was the place to go. At our local mall Babbages was on the second floor and EB was on the first floor. Babbages had the most games back then. Then EB started price wars. Selling a game for a dollar or two less. Babbages refused to drop prices. EB ended up the winner when Babbages went out of business.

 

[TXAngel08]

Yeah, I remember when Babbages was the place to go. At our local mall Babbages was on the second floor and EB was on the first floor. Babbages had the most games back then. Then EB started price wars. Selling a game for a dollar or two less. Babbages refused to drop prices. EB ended up the winner when Babbages went out of business.

Years and years ago, I worked for both EB and Babbages (back when EB was called "Electronics Boutique"... (yes, I'm old)

EB opened a store in a local mall, my first job... They closed up shop 6 months later when they weren't making any money, so I went downstairs and got a job at Babbages. Funny thing is, Babbages paid less, but it was a better place to work, professionally run by a manager who knew what they were doing. Shame they didn't last.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Yeah, I remember when Babbages was the place to go. At our local mall Babbages was on the second floor and EB was on the first floor. Babbages had the most games back then. Then EB started price wars. Selling a game for a dollar or two less. Babbages refused to drop prices. EB ended up the winner when Babbages went out of business.

Ah, the good old days. My mall had both a Babbages and an Electronic Boutique too.

 

[shortylickens]

Yeap, the days of PC games aplenty at Gamestop are long gone. Now it's just filled with kids running around and disgruntled parents wanting to hurry things up and get out of there.

It's like that at my local mall Gamestop anyhow. If it wasn't for the Orange Julius next door, I wouldn't even know how a Gamestop looked today since I stop going casually about 6 years ago.

I do have some nostalgia of the old days though; especially since I picked up Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate II and Septerra Core all from Gamestop. Those were the days. /rockingchair

Ahhh yes, this man speaks my language.

 

[fatpat268]

Ah, the good old days. My mall had both a Babbages and an Electronic Boutique too.

My mall used to have a Babbages and EB as well... and well it still does.

The Babbages changed it's name to Gamestop. And yes, the EBGames and Gamestop coexist in the exact same mall maybe 200 feet away from each other. :hmm:

 

[Schadenfroh]

Gamestop likely makes most of their profit from used games. Game publishers are in the process of killing the used game market for PCs with license keys for multi-player games (do you buy used multi-player games? The key is likely still in the hands of the original owner) and software activation. Once digital distribution and the broadband infrastructure is improved and more widely available, the consoles will likely move away from disks and the used game market will disappear for the future platforms (consoles and PCs). Remember, a publishers and developer do not get any money from people trading used games.

 

[TXAngel08]

Anyone want to guess if the PS4 and XBox 720 will even have Blu-Ray drives? It would be interesting to see if they go download only and skip the whole physical media. If you buy anything in a store, it will be like Office 2010 will be, just a code to download the game to your console/computer.

Oh well, the last time I sold a used game was... Um, never?

*shrug*

 

[shortylickens]

Anyone want to guess if the PS4 and XBox 720 will even have Blu-Ray drives? It would be interesting to see if they go download only and skip the whole physical media. If you buy anything in a store, it will be like Office 2010 will be, just a code to download the game to your console/computer.

Oh well, the last time I sold a used game was... Um, never?

*shrug*

That will probably be the standard sometime in the distant future, but its not practical until everyone has 100mbit internet access. There might be one more gen of consoles before it happens.
As it is right now, downloading a game can take a whole day for most people.

 

[rstove02]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I remember 17 years back when in Babbages (think of it as the precursor to EB) that all the shelves were IBM-compatible games when there was only a half shelf in the middle of the floor where one side of it had apple compatible games. Course back then had an Apple, now I have a "IBM compatible".

 

[zerocool84]

That will probably be the standard sometime in the distant future, but its not practical until everyone has 100mbit internet access. There might be one more gen of consoles before it happens.
As it is right now, downloading a game can take a whole day for most people.

Yep I don't see it for at least another 20 years minimum cus even 10yrs down the line there are still going to be many people in the world or even our own country that can't get great internet connections but still will play games. It's not fiscally feasible at all in the near future.

 

[TXAngel08]

That will probably be the standard sometime in the distant future, but its not practical until everyone has 100mbit internet access. There might be one more gen of consoles before it happens.
As it is right now, downloading a game can take a whole day for most people.

Fair enough...

Of course, Google wants to offer 1 gigabit Internet connections for reasonable prices, so anything is possible.

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=google+broadband

My only point was that if Microsoft thinks that now is the time to do it for MS Office 2010, then in 2012-2014 (or whenever) the PS3/XBox 720 come out, enough people will have high speed connections that they can bypass disks.

Think about it from their point of view. No second hand sales, no piracy, no physical distribution costs, and if they REALLY want to, they can cut out the middlemen and just sell everything online and keep 100% of it.

If they lose some sales, those points might override that. Besides, the PS2 is still sold, Sony can keep selling the PS3 for those without such a connection. Anyone looking to do better than the PS3 probably will have really high speed Internet anyway.

Of course I'm biased, we have FioS, 25meg up and down, so everything online wouldn't bother me in the least. I already use Steam for everything as it is.

(BTW, even if Google doesn't come here, FioS can do 1 gigabit now, the box in our garage is prepared for it, just as soon as Verizon has a reason to turn it on, but right now they really have no competition)

 

[TXAngel08]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I remember 17 years back when in Babbages (think of it as the precursor to EB) that all the shelves were IBM-compatible games when there was only a half shelf in the middle of the floor where one side of it had apple compatible games. Course back then had an Apple, now I have a "IBM compatible".

When I shopped at Babbages in the mid 80's, it was Apple II & Commodore 64 stuff more than anything else.

Got my first IBM compatible (Gateway 2000 386DX-25) in April 1991 because all the Apple stuff was going away (had a Apple IIgs before then, still own it in the garage and it still works, amazingly enough) and moving to IBM (now PC) software.

I feel old...