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If you could say one thing to the Gamestop CEO
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The topic is pretty simple. I may get to meet with Gamestop CEO this weekend. If you could say one thing to him, what would it be? I will pick one from the thread to say to Mr. Fontaine on behalf of G&T. If I don't end up meeting him, I will have my boss pass on the "one thing" in my stead.
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And then tell him to get a haircut.
Or perhaps 7 billion?
Fuck your couch.
(tell him the new ad campaign is stupid)
Maybe an exploding high five.
About the haircut thing.
Damn hippy.
I can dream.
How can you say that without including a pic? For shame. I'm probably going to go with the PC/Steam angle on my own at some point, so count your opinions included SithDrummer.
and sell the one copy for a discount because it is no longer new.
never ever sell an opened game as new. if it has been opened, but not sold yet, discount it and label it as opened.
only let employees take home games that have been traded in (used)
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Seriously, this will be to the benefit of EVERYONE. A specialty store just doesn't work when you are hiring minimum wage folks who don't care.
This is a good one. Staff that gives a shit about their well-paid job will do a better job for the customer.
What the FUCK are you talking about?
Pre-orders give money DIRECTLY to publishers/developers.
The industry, as it currently exists, COULD NOT survive without Gamestop and its ilk. If they were gone, all you'd have left is Madden and GTA. There'd be no market for riskier titles.
Until they rampage and kill us all...
and USED is not good for devs/pubs
and the market could so survive without EBstop. I get all my riskiey titles at BB or online (amazon anyone) anyways.
Not at all.
Developers/publishers just like to bitch because they don't directly get a piece of the pie, but they are NOT actually being hurt by it.
And without it there would be no Gamestop, which WOULD hurt them.
Seriousoly, though. I hope that EVERYONE who bitches about used games pre-orders all of their purchases, because pre-ordering is the only way to ensure a 1:1 ratio between games purchased in store and games ordered from a distributor. When you just buy a new game off the shelf, the developer gets ZERO dollars, because that copy has already been sold to the store previously, and the store DOES NOT re-order on a 1:1 ratio.
Used markets exist with ALL MANNER of products; why are video games some how special?
And the Bush administration caused September 11th?
Seriously, you're free to believe in your conspiracy theories, but don't state them as fact.
Not that profit is BAD, mind you, it's what a company does.
But when you're surrounded by a protective wall of money, it muffles the cries of the anguished gamers done wrong, and instead sounds like a chorus of people saying "you're doing everything right, please keep selling us abused products and pitching your discount card and other special offers to us at every opportunity".
I think GameStop is a lost cause anyway. For most of us offended by their policies, it doesn't matter because we have other (more preferred) methods of shopping anyway.
The three stores in my area either don't carry the type of games that I play (PC games) or they can't be relied on to have the titles in stock that I want (DS games). So I don't bother.
Hey everyone else is bitching (not that there is anything wrong with that), I figured I would through out a question. Though some may not value his opinion, I think it would be interesting to see what he thinks.
Well as a matter of fact they did in a way.
And also
"hey do you have game X?"
"did you preorder?"
"no"
"then no, but we have the used copy for $5 less over here"
Gamestop is actually on a REAL "customer experience" kick right now. Stores are actually ranked based on responses to customer experience surveys.
The key is that they are looking for the issues that matter to the mainstream of consumers; not to small groups on the fringes, especially when those concerns go against what the mainstream wants (The mainstream LOVES the used market; they don't want to see it done away with.)
Seriously though, folks, if Gamestop wasn't necessary for the industry then why don't all of these developers and publishers being hurt stop selling their games there? If they could do just as good, or better, without them, then why don't they?
Instead they spend EXTRA money on promotions that work WITH Gamestop.
That only happens when a game sucks so bad that folks are trading it in within the first two days that it is out (pre-orders are only held for 48 hours)
If a game sucks that bad, then used game sales are the LEAST of the developer's worries.