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Will you be sad when Gamestop goes out of business?
soera:
I use them all the time. We used to have more local stores like Game Xchange around here ... but they slowly went under. Vintage stock is still in my area but they are way overpriced and never offer any kind of sales or any reason to choose them over GameStop. I worked at GameStop for a while so I am friendly with some of the managers and one of them constantly gives me reasons to go to her location such as pre-orders before they go live, free items, etc cause she knows I actually do enjoy gaming itself.
I also will chime in on missing Babbages and EB. I was one of those people that thought GameStop had so much potential to be more than just a dude-bro game store but the upper crust management doesnt care/want that. I would be willing to wager that they dont even play games themselves. They are just businessmen in the wrong line of work. Ive wondered if it was fixable with someone (me) in charge to turn GameStop around into a place like old school FuncoLand where the staff is knowledgeable and happy and it was an inviting place to be ... sadly digital is going to destroy that dream regardless.
pzeke:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 18, 2022, 02:34:31 am ---Will you be sad when Gamestop goes out of business?
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Honestly? No, not at all. They've shown time and time again to never learn from their mistakes, so I genuinely think it's about time they ceased to exist. If anything, the only thing that would truly bum me out if they were to go out of business are the thousands that would lose their jobs.
--- Quote from: mastodon on February 18, 2022, 05:35:18 am ---I loved Electronic Boutique
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And Babbage's. I miss them both.
--- Quote from: NickAwesome on February 19, 2022, 06:50:50 pm ---When they run their promotion- buy a certain number of titles, get 50% off you can get some pretty wild deals- Gamestop this past winter was crazy- so many good deals- I cleaned up. They did buy 2 get 1 free with new games too for the first time- 50% off 1st party nintendo switch and so much more. In store and online. [...]
It is possible to get some absolutely insane deals at gamestop if you pay close attention. But usually only in the holiday season- otherwise I ignore Gamestop for the first 9 months of the year usually.
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You're not wrong, but I still wouldn't care if they went the way of the dodo.
marvelvscapcom2:
It was a damp dew laden monday morning when Allison approached the gamestop beast. Gamestop is the Al Gore of game dispensaries. She knows this. We all know this. A 5 headed monster known for it's knack for 3rd party counterfiet cases, known for giving 25 cents for complete copies of earthbound, known for preying on the local school children for sustenance. Howweeeeeeellll. Howeeeelllllllleeee. Gamestop has harmed me. Shunned me like a dragon infant in town square. Poked me with sticks and said "you ruined the night. You ruined the night" as tears trickle down both cheaks. Was it horizon forbidden west? Forbidden? Ahahhahha. NOPE. Horizon Zero Dawn? A PS4 case for a PS5 case. And with a howl and a cry Allison charged every last bit of energy within the Jeff Bezos blade of unreckoning. And WISPHASSSSSHHHHH. She unloaded a plucky squire esque doom slash. Double backflip. You harmed me gamestop. You made my niece weep because all she wanted was Horizon Forbidden west for PS5. And in the mail arrived a fake case. Grey plastic. Noooo. Noooooo the world howled in unison. And inside? Expired codes. HORIZON PS4 case. We were duped. A gamestop employee sat there with ill intent. And printed the label. How? Why? Just curb stomp my game.
Chapter 2. The afternath.
There I laid. Half naked. Shirt torn. Covered in what appeared to be maintain dew but was most certainly urine. Reduced to the caveman animalistic state. A moment in a lifetime had become a lifetime in a moment. Gamestop had caused pain. And then I figured. Well Allison? We still have those 25k reward points. We are free. Free of the emancipation of the grey vicuous beast that is our gamestop overlords. Click the link. Open the profile. Summary. Reward points. -25k points. Stolen. None. Taken. Within a week. Why Pondu you promised me. So I cry. I CRY. Z
I hope gamestop rots and dies. No necromancy either. No "one last blockbuster in kansas" documentaries. No "beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice" gamestop and also all of its case art destorying, customer support limited, rewards points stealing, improper address lying socialist worm affiliates. May all go under and may amazon crip walk on the ashes of what once was.
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