Of course I will be, they've always made up a huge chunk of my modern game purchases at retail; a trend which I continue to this day. While GS doesn't get the distribution of smaller profile titles like they used to, other retail store are significantly worse for game selection in 2022. If you haven't noticed, all of their competition has now relented back to AAA titles only, full retail, brand new with next to no clearance... Leaving GS as the only retail store left offering a chance of getting a reasonable deal on a modern game, that might be a little bit more obscure, like a KoF. Although, as you know they're having distribution issues themselves actually getting the games on time.
Two stores in my general area have closed in the past couple years, leaving 3 within reasonable driving distance. I feel it's only a matter of time until it comes down to just 1 store. I suppose I'll be forced to order all of my modern games online when the day comes that there's nowhere left to get them. As I've noted, big box stores like Best Buy are useless for most AA game releases now. Sure, you can buy Horizon all day there, but think you're gonna find Edge of Eternity in store? Nope. Heck, you aren't even gonna find that one in GS unless you pre-ordered.
So yeah, I am going to miss it. I don't really care about the things which people often complain of, like trying to be sold subscriptions, or warranties, or pre-orders. I don't care about how little they offer you for your games. If you don't like it, sell them yourself. You can't expect a corporation to give you what your games are worth in cash, not even close. That's silly.
The sad part of this all comes down to not only the obsolesce of GS as a store, but the rampant and gross mismanagement happening as we speak. As with most failing retail chains, the company is made up of a bunch of money-grabbing fat cats, only taking the chairman position to soak up as much wealth from the company as they can, and then bail and let the next guy do the same. They don't actually care about trying to save the company, and they're not trying to turn things around. It's just greed from top, all the way to the bottom level management with these stores, and lots of abusive assholes at every level, firing hard working employees to cut costs and trying to make everyone below them in the company suffer in some way. Beyond your average guy running the register, it's just a corrupt cesspool of over-paid assholes who don't care, pointing fingers, barking orders, and soaking up fat paychecks. There's so many over-paid levels of management in the company, it's ridiculous, and the store workers get treated like crap.
Greed and corruption usually sees the demise of most corporations, and GS is no different in that regard, sadly. I feel for the bottom level employees, who are doing all of the actual work and trying to make a decent living doing something they are suppose to enjoy. But ya know, late stage capitalism.
