this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
82 points (97.7% liked)

Games

16738 readers
578 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
82
GameStop Q2 sales down 45% as more stores due to close down (www.gamesindustry.biz)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's literally no point to me going into a game stop anymore. I used to buy their bargain bin games, but now with psplus and a library card, I don't need to buy games at all. GameStop here mainly just sells products and pop figures now

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And their games aren't competitively priced. Why would I pay $40 for a used game there when I can get it for $20 on eBay? And they frequently don't have the used games I want anyway, so there's even less reason for me to check it. And if they do have a sale on something, it's usually not as good of a sale vs their competitors (e.g. I bought my Switch from Target instead of GameStop, which is in the same parking lot, because Target had the better offer).

I used to go to GameStop because they had a great selection of used games for good prices, and there were perks to buying pre-release games from them.

If I were in charge, I'd change the whole model of the business, for example:

  • host tournaments with prizes and whatnot
  • host live game exchange events, where instead of selling to and buying from GS, it would arrange swaps directly between locals (i.e. safer than Craigslist/Facebook marketplace/etc); they could pay a small fee to test the game in the store and appraise the quality of the game, as well as clean it up
  • have an option to rent games before buying; it wouldn't be a big part of the business, the main goal is to keep people coming back
  • sell retro games/consoles, international treats (esp. Japanese), and other nerdy stuff

Right now, when I got to GS, all I see is overpriced crap, and I want to leave as quickly as possible. If they're going to survive, they need to be a place people want to go, otherwise they'll just play at home.