At this point, a competitor needs to show up for GameStop. All they need to do is not be assholes.
That would be nice, but considering the shift to digital is causing even mighty GameStop to struggle (hence all the random merch in their stores nowadays) I don't think anyone would be insane enough to do it.
I have a few friends who still prefer, one person exclusively, physical over digital. There is a market there, just not one big enough for a company the size of gamestop. Having said that I am not sure that without that competition Sony and Microsoft would have game deals as good as they do.
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I have a few friends who still prefer, one person exclusively, physical over digital. There is a market there, just not one big enough for a company the size of gamestop. Having said that I am not sure that without that competition Sony and Microsoft would have game deals as good as they do.
I'm one of them. I will buy digital games, particularly indie ones, but the big releases I want physical.
I mean it's not a great store, but I still don't understand why people act like Gamestop ran over their dog.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
I mean it's not a great store, but I still don't understand why people act like Gamestop ran over their dog.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
Their head office also has a long history of instituting punishing quotas for its employees, which explains the vast majority of the shitty pestering many of them do.
Target has Battlefield V console versions for $29.99, I believe this will be until Thursday.
Is this online only? I wish to gift a friend a physical copy.
I’m not sure. Target usually matches their website prices if you show/tell them about the price difference, but you can buy online and pick up in store to be safe.
I mean it's not a great store, but I still don't understand why people act like Gamestop ran over their dog.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
Sounds like your local store is shit? I'll admit, I don't shop at GS often, but when I check on a product's availability online, it's typically there (though sometimes the condition of used products is questionable, but that's to be expected).
I mean it's not a great store, but I still don't understand why people act like Gamestop ran over their dog.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
Sounds like your local store is shit? I'll admit, I don't shop at GS often, but when I check on a product's availability online, it's typically there (though sometimes the condition of used products is questionable, but that's to be expected).
Shit, when even the new games have been opened, I’d call their condition questionable.
I mean it's not a great store, but I still don't understand why people act like Gamestop ran over their dog.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
Their head office also has a long history of instituting punishing quotas for its employees, which explains the vast majority of the shitty pestering many of them do.
I'm well aware of Gamestop and their quotas, and it's why I made sure to give the CSR I spoke to good ratings in that Gamestop survey, because it's not his fault the company sucks shit and he did a good job after the 90+ minute hold they put me on.
But when I'm breaking my own rule and trying to give the company money and they won't allow me to, nor will they even acknowledge I made the purchases, it's a problem. I ask them to put an item on hold, they say they have it ready and I can go pick it up, and then they shrug and say they don't have it? That's nonsense. I get that it's probably a failing of that particular store except it's happened to me several times across many locations.
I mean it's not a great store, but I still don't understand why people act like Gamestop ran over their dog.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
Their head office also has a long history of instituting punishing quotas for its employees, which explains the vast majority of the shitty pestering many of them do.
I'm well aware of Gamestop and their quotas, and it's why I made sure to give the CSR I spoke to good ratings in that Gamestop survey, because it's not his fault the company sucks shit and he did a good job after the 90+ minute hold they put me on.
But when I'm breaking my own rule and trying to give the company money and they won't allow me to, nor will they even acknowledge I made the purchases, it's a problem. I ask them to put an item on hold, they say they have it ready and I can go pick it up, and then they shrug and say they don't have it? That's nonsense. I get that it's probably a failing of that particular store except it's happened to me several times across many locations.
I don't know how that system works at GameStop, it started long after I left the company. But I know that at Best Buy the order gets placed and the customer is told that it will be ready soon. The store's warehouse team gets a notification that there's a new product to be picked and, once it's picked and stickered,a new email goes out to the customer that their item is ready. Does GameStop just not do that second part? Are they taking the order and not doing any sort of confirmation?
Because that seems like a good way to buy something online for store pickup that someone in the store already has in their hands during the busy season.
Edit: usual disclosure, I work for Best Buy but not in a store.
At this point, a competitor needs to show up for GameStop. All they need to do is not be assholes.
I just remembered I had a dream I was at a funkoland and the prices were awesome. I kept rememberin in my dream that they weren't around any more though and something was off.
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I e-mailed GameStop both yesterday and today, and have yet to receive anything other than an automated response.
My primary complaint from gamestop is that they wait until the release date of a game to mail it to you. Which means you get it anywhere from 2-4 days minimum after it comes out. Amazon will mail it before the release date making sure it gets to you day of release. Now if I have to order something from gamestop I just do in store pickup which solves that problem.
I have a few friends who still prefer, one person exclusively, physical over digital. There is a market there, just not one big enough for a company the size of gamestop. Having said that I am not sure that without that competition Sony and Microsoft would have game deals as good as they do.
I'm one of them. I will buy digital games, particularly indie ones, but the big releases I want physical.
I don't know about post-360 features, but I prefer digital because it means I don't ever need to insert the disc. But, that leaves the whole hassle of downloading on the shittiest of speeds.
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Maybe I'm just cynical or something, but I prefer physical because I don't trust companies to always give me access to the digital games I buy from them. I just don't feel like I own those games, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in the fine print that none of us read, it basically says we don't.
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WACriminalDying Is Easy, Young ManLiving Is HarderRegistered Userregular
Maybe I'm just cynical or something, but I prefer physical because I don't trust companies to always give me access to the digital games I buy from them. I just don't feel like I own those games, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in the fine print that none of us read, it basically says we don't.
Exactly this.
If I dig out my N64 and my copy of Quest 64, I can play it. I might have to do a little jiggling of the cartridge or whatever, but no external factors can prevent me from putting it in the console and playing myself a vidja game.
Compare to the many games I own on Steam but don't have installed on my hard drive. If Valve disappears or simply decides to discontinue carrying some of those games, I have nothing.
Maybe I'm just cynical or something, but I prefer physical because I don't trust companies to always give me access to the digital games I buy from them. I just don't feel like I own those games, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in the fine print that none of us read, it basically says we don't.
The disc doesn't have the full game on it anymore, so you still don't own them anyway. It's a false distinction.
Maybe I'm just cynical or something, but I prefer physical because I don't trust companies to always give me access to the digital games I buy from them. I just don't feel like I own those games, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in the fine print that none of us read, it basically says we don't.
Exactly this.
If I dig out my N64 and my copy of Quest 64, I can play it. I might have to do a little jiggling of the cartridge or whatever, but no external factors can prevent me from putting it in the console and playing myself a vidja game.
Compare to the many games I own on Steam but don't have installed on my hard drive. If Valve disappears or simply decides to discontinue carrying some of those games, I have nothing.
The considerable flip side to this is that I don't have to store and transport a pile of what would now be hundreds of discs in order to keep Steam games I've purchased, and I've also kept my Steam games far longer than any console I've ever owned. My Steam games are also not reliant on hardware that inevitably fails, as I've had happen with multiple consoles.
Steam could disappear tomorrow and it would still have been a better option than trying to keep track of a massive assortment of disks for over a decade.
in my case it's much easier to keep discs and cartridges around than go through a 3 hour download everytime I feel like playing an old game due to deleting it for space
in my case it's much easier to keep discs and cartridges around than go through a 3 hour download everytime I feel like playing an old game due to deleting it for space
With old games I wouldn't be surprised if downloading them is quicker than installing from a disk.
And my laptop didn't even come with a optical drive actually.
Maybe I'm just cynical or something, but I prefer physical because I don't trust companies to always give me access to the digital games I buy from them. I just don't feel like I own those games, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in the fine print that none of us read, it basically says we don't.
Exactly this.
If I dig out my N64 and my copy of Quest 64, I can play it. I might have to do a little jiggling of the cartridge or whatever, but no external factors can prevent me from putting it in the console and playing myself a vidja game.
Compare to the many games I own on Steam but don't have installed on my hard drive. If Valve disappears or simply decides to discontinue carrying some of those games, I have nothing.
The considerable flip side to this is that I don't have to store and transport a pile of what would now be hundreds of discs in order to keep Steam games I've purchased, and I've also kept my Steam games far longer than any console I've ever owned. My Steam games are also not reliant on hardware that inevitably fails, as I've had happen with multiple consoles.
Steam could disappear tomorrow and it would still have been a better option than trying to keep track of a massive assortment of disks for over a decade.
I'm not contesting that, only explaining why people with different priorities would see the all-digital apocalypse of the near future with disdain.
Maybe I'm just cynical or something, but I prefer physical because I don't trust companies to always give me access to the digital games I buy from them. I just don't feel like I own those games, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in the fine print that none of us read, it basically says we don't.
Exactly this.
If I dig out my N64 and my copy of Quest 64, I can play it. I might have to do a little jiggling of the cartridge or whatever, but no external factors can prevent me from putting it in the console and playing myself a vidja game.
Compare to the many games I own on Steam but don't have installed on my hard drive. If Valve disappears or simply decides to discontinue carrying some of those games, I have nothing.
The considerable flip side to this is that I don't have to store and transport a pile of what would now be hundreds of discs in order to keep Steam games I've purchased, and I've also kept my Steam games far longer than any console I've ever owned. My Steam games are also not reliant on hardware that inevitably fails, as I've had happen with multiple consoles.
Steam could disappear tomorrow and it would still have been a better option than trying to keep track of a massive assortment of disks for over a decade.
I'm not contesting that, only explaining why people with different priorities would see the all-digital apocalypse of the near future with disdain.
The real question is: why on earth would you ever want to play Quest 64? :P
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
I bought a PS4 during Black Friday, and in anticipation of it getting here, I decided to finally get rid of my PS3 + games and put them in the storage bins in the garage with all my other old systems.
I decided to clean up the bins a bit too, since I had just been throwing cables/controllers/games in there willy-nilly.
It took forever. The bins didn't close at first. When I finally got them to close, they were very, very, very heavy.
I kind of hate physical games now.
COUNTERPOINT: I pulled out my Dreamcast, and stared longingly at Powerstone for a really long time.
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Also find a market segment with some profit margins in it.
Gamestop is terrible because it's dying between big box stores and online stuff.
And the move to digital.
The move to digital kind of renders that moot.
That would be nice, but considering the shift to digital is causing even mighty GameStop to struggle (hence all the random merch in their stores nowadays) I don't think anyone would be insane enough to do it.
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I'm one of them. I will buy digital games, particularly indie ones, but the big releases I want physical.
That doesn't mean they don't still suck completely.
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Well, Best Buy had the 20% discount going for the last few years. And is a less shitty company (at least, as far as I know, but it's a low bar).
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Amazon had the 20% discount too. It went away at both places, though if you have GCU at Best Buy it will keep working until it expires.
Several times over the past few years, Gamestop has not been able to fulfill their simple role as "distributor of goods/services". When a store is botching it so badly, I can't give them money I want to give to them for products they say they have but then don't when I arrive? They have absolutely no use to me.
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Yes, but Amazon is a shitty company.
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Their head office also has a long history of instituting punishing quotas for its employees, which explains the vast majority of the shitty pestering many of them do.
Is this online only? I wish to gift a friend a physical copy.
I’m not sure. Target usually matches their website prices if you show/tell them about the price difference, but you can buy online and pick up in store to be safe.
Sounds like your local store is shit? I'll admit, I don't shop at GS often, but when I check on a product's availability online, it's typically there (though sometimes the condition of used products is questionable, but that's to be expected).
Shit, when even the new games have been opened, I’d call their condition questionable.
I'm well aware of Gamestop and their quotas, and it's why I made sure to give the CSR I spoke to good ratings in that Gamestop survey, because it's not his fault the company sucks shit and he did a good job after the 90+ minute hold they put me on.
But when I'm breaking my own rule and trying to give the company money and they won't allow me to, nor will they even acknowledge I made the purchases, it's a problem. I ask them to put an item on hold, they say they have it ready and I can go pick it up, and then they shrug and say they don't have it? That's nonsense. I get that it's probably a failing of that particular store except it's happened to me several times across many locations.
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Let's get back to some bargains.
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I don't know how that system works at GameStop, it started long after I left the company. But I know that at Best Buy the order gets placed and the customer is told that it will be ready soon. The store's warehouse team gets a notification that there's a new product to be picked and, once it's picked and stickered,a new email goes out to the customer that their item is ready. Does GameStop just not do that second part? Are they taking the order and not doing any sort of confirmation?
Because that seems like a good way to buy something online for store pickup that someone in the store already has in their hands during the busy season.
Edit: usual disclosure, I work for Best Buy but not in a store.
I just remembered I had a dream I was at a funkoland and the prices were awesome. I kept rememberin in my dream that they weren't around any more though and something was off.
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I don't know about post-360 features, but I prefer digital because it means I don't ever need to insert the disc. But, that leaves the whole hassle of downloading on the shittiest of speeds.
Exactly this.
If I dig out my N64 and my copy of Quest 64, I can play it. I might have to do a little jiggling of the cartridge or whatever, but no external factors can prevent me from putting it in the console and playing myself a vidja game.
Compare to the many games I own on Steam but don't have installed on my hard drive. If Valve disappears or simply decides to discontinue carrying some of those games, I have nothing.
The disc doesn't have the full game on it anymore, so you still don't own them anyway. It's a false distinction.
The considerable flip side to this is that I don't have to store and transport a pile of what would now be hundreds of discs in order to keep Steam games I've purchased, and I've also kept my Steam games far longer than any console I've ever owned. My Steam games are also not reliant on hardware that inevitably fails, as I've had happen with multiple consoles.
Steam could disappear tomorrow and it would still have been a better option than trying to keep track of a massive assortment of disks for over a decade.
With old games I wouldn't be surprised if downloading them is quicker than installing from a disk.
And my laptop didn't even come with a optical drive actually.
I'm not contesting that, only explaining why people with different priorities would see the all-digital apocalypse of the near future with disdain.
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The real question is: why on earth would you ever want to play Quest 64? :P
Yeah, this whole shitty/notshitty convo can really be read as 'convenient/inconvenient'.
I decided to clean up the bins a bit too, since I had just been throwing cables/controllers/games in there willy-nilly.
It took forever. The bins didn't close at first. When I finally got them to close, they were very, very, very heavy.
I kind of hate physical games now.
COUNTERPOINT: I pulled out my Dreamcast, and stared longingly at Powerstone for a really long time.
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