Dude, you are seriously being the most blatant GS apologist imaginable. I call BS on you not being an employee/shareholder/shill.
You get all that because I don't hate them, have friends who work for them, worked for them in the past, know people on these forums who claim to have worked for them, and don't think they are evil because they offer a service that is optional? ok...now you can go troll elsewhere.
Except my disdain for them is backed up by actual facts and reason. You... you're just delusional.
I've only ever heard of the Xenoblade situation. I don't think they let any new sealed games sit in the warehouse unsold. They'd be losing money on every copy they have there.
They do on occasion take a title that is old and has no demand and start selling them as used games to try to move them. I've seen that before.
GS in my area also opens all games, and takes all the discs out and keeps them behind the counter. I don't see how they can sell them as new. If they don't want people stealing them, they should spend money on theft-deterrant plastic cases. I don't buy from GS anymore, because they open all the games.
They only open one copy to put the box out there. They always give you a sealed one from behind the counter. They open all the games? So they sat there and opened 800 copies of GTA V?
Have you ever even been to gamestop? The only time you'd ever even have that happen if it was the last one and they will always tell you this is the last one and it was the gutted copy. I've seen a lot of people decline to purchase it which is perfectly fine. I'm one of those people who doesn't care cause I'll rip the plastic off immediately anyhow.
For big games, we'd open a couple to have multiple boxes out on the shelves.
Not that it should matter anyway. It is not like a game sitting a sleeve is somehow flawed. You can inspect it before you leave...
All the games on the shelves on every wall, have no discs in them. This is true. Yeah, on new releases, the day they get released, those are still in the package. But all used, and older games, even if they were new, have no discs in them. I bought several "new" games from them, and they got the disc from behind the counter in a locked cabinet, and placed it in the game case. I was charged the new price.
When I was in HS, I had a few friends who worked at Sam's Club, but that doesn't mean I'd try to defend Walmart policies in an internet forum.
You're a weird dude, cmdrdredd.
Instead of opening the games, I wish Gamestop would display their games the way Toys R' Us used to back in the day, which is with a plastic flip card with an image of the front and back of the case showing. I think they need to get out of the habit of opening anything, especially considering that there are one time use codes that can be used up, even by GS employees who use the check out system. Not saying it happens often, but as far as I'm concerned once the box is opened I can't trust them, period.
I don't think anything has been said that's unfair or untruthful about Gamestop.
Gamestop does sell brand new re-prints of games as gutted USED copies. They sell them as "Used" so that they can sell at higher "market value" prices that are well over the "new" pricing... and they've done that with several games. Other retailers don't do this on new re-prints. Just Gamestop.
Gamestop does try to sell gutted games as "New" copies. Mileage varies on whether or not there's a non-gutted "new" copy available. Seems to me if I'm not buying something absurdly common, it's been freaking opened.
Other retailers don't do this, just Gamestop.
And you know what? It'd be nice to be able to walk through the door completely, before being bombarded with requests to buy Pre-Orders and Subscriptions. It's super ridiculous.
I gave facts...you like to ignore numbers. They are making billions. That's not exactly "going out of business" but keep imagining they are. They'll keep making money.
You're a weird dude, cmdrdredd.
So I'm defending them by giving actual facts? Wow...you guys are super ridiculous. You'd rather believe BS stories, fake anecdotes, and other falsehoods from the internet than come to an understanding of what the facts are?
I see people post blatant lies about gamestop all the time. On some other forums people call them out for their BS. It's not defending someone or something when you are only making sure the truth and facts are understood.
How is it even legal that they freaking open games and then sell them to people? That's absurd imo.
Its death is inevitable. It's just a matter of time when.Well I dont see physical media dying at all.
They don't. Too bad for them; they represent an irrelevant segment of the market and no massive business will hang around to support this tiny subset of people.There are still a lot of people who want to have the disk so they can play the game any time. If 15 years down the road they want to play a game that they bought digital but the servers are gone how do they download it?
Again, most people don't care, so these people will be pushed aside.There is also a good number of people who want to have the collection with the cases and artwork and maybe the steelbook special editions etc.
Internet not only won movies, it eviscerated them. Many people literally cannot even rent movies now. The only access I have in my entire city is Redbox. Not long ago there were multiple movie stores. These are GameStop's future. Undeniably the percentage of movies watched each year over the net vs physical media grows by leaps and bounds. I'm an example. I watch more movies than ever before and only a couple/year on a disk. Many people are like me. Physical media means nothing to me and I've moved on. Everybody else will eventually, too.It did not win movies. Look at how many movies come on blu-ray. The quality of the digital movie is not the same either. Again, there will continue to be a market. Not to mention that some movies cannot be found streaming but you can buy it.
No, they won't. Their business cannot possible go from what it is now to doing nothing but selling increasingly old and uninteresting hardware & games.We have years to go before it goes all digital. They have plenty of time to figure out a plan for then. I don't see GameStop going out of business. As long as you can buy and sell used systems they'll be open
Dying businesses can sputter along for a VERY long time, but your time line seems realistic to me. The absolute best case for GS is that this generation does well for them. The next they are done. That's best-case.5 years is where my money is, barring a (successful) overhaul of their business model. A couple people chirping up in defense of GS without digesting the facts or the trends of similar businesses/models in the past. No matter... we'll know soon enough.
Yet another mark against them. This isn't even a factor with digital products.Mark up? They lose money when they buy a new product and have it sitting unsold. Every game is paid for prior to it getting on the shelf.
So your single example means the entire movie industry will stop producing disks? Get real...
There are a ton of people who demand the quality of blu-ray before streaming. Quality that the internet can never provide from streaming.
I've never understood peoples hatred of gamestop
Right....that's why the PS4 E3 reveal was one of the loudest and biggest events of E3 history, and why Xbone launch would have been a compete failure if MS didn't backtrack, its because nobody cares about physical copies or ownership of their games.