Ok well think about it. How many stores does GAME/Gamestation (lets call it game from now on) have? lots. It is a huge company and if a company of its size collapses I cant imagine investors will be queuing to make a loss. Im willing to bet one of the reasons it went out of business in the first place is that it is engaged in a price war with supermarkets and online retailers such as amazon and play.com which it cannot win. With these two factors i think we wont be seeing a game specific high street retailer ever again considering digital distribution is not to far off the horizon. Games fall was inevitable with digital distribution and I look forward to that but until that time we suffer without it and the competition it brings. If pc gaming was worth supplying for then game wouldnt have stopped. I know pc gaming is worth a lot of money but I can only think it was the move by the medium to digital which caused it to stock less pc games. Less competition is a bad thing and its unlikely any company is gonna fill games shoes. I rather liked Game as well now ill have to buy online and it seems no more used sales. to ebay it is.bahumat42 said:No game stopped stocking pc titles before many people switched over. If there ever were a chart to show the amount opf pc support game gave and the rise of the steam platform it would show a rise on steam after the fall on game's support. Sure i only have anecdotal evidence from the 100's of game design students i know all over the country but their switchovers happened for the same reasons mine did. (for the most part)ablac said:Well they dont stock pc anymore specifically because they cannot realistically compete with digital distribution. PC gamers severed those ties because they bought at other places giving game no reason to stock pc titles. It is definetely the new way for selling games but its not right to just shrug and say you dont care. Thousands of jobs will go and the retail market is narrower now. There is less competition and this will negatively affect gaming.bahumat42 said:that may be true (hint its probably not but for argument lets agree that it is) but even if it were true, it never had enough stock, the maximum number of goodd pc titles in that store at any time was a couple of shelfs worth. Compare that to LITERALLY hundreds of titles that are available online (hell indie titles are only available that way).Ilikemilkshake said:I've never understood this argument. I'm not saying GAME is cheap but Steam is almost always more expensive for both new and old games. Apart from sales that is which doesn't really count.CardinalPiggles said:GAME is pretty bad anyway, over priced garbage. As long as Steam and Amazon stay afloat, I'll be happy.
Anyway I hope this means independent stores stand more of a chance, and new more competitive chains opens up.. that's really the only good thing i can see coming from this closure.
Game burned its pc bridges a long time ago, you will be hard pressed to find pc gamers who care about its demise.
Yes its sad that people will be unemployed, but i dont agree there will be less competition, if anything this opens up the British high street to actual competition opposed to the fake game/gamestation (which people fall for all the time) "competition"
I've said it before, but partly management are to blame, and partly WE are to blame. I worked in MVC when it started, and we not only were encouraged to talk to customers about music, movies, TV, gaming etc, anything that we sold, but the manager of each store tried to get an 'expert' for each genre of music, as well as a a movie enthusiast and a gaming one. (yes, that was me).Gordon_4 said:Has there been a fucking vacum of Customer Service Training in the U.S. or something? The manager of the Game I visit the most is a roaring Scotsman and the happiest bloke I know and the staff are always amiable to having a chat about the latest news and never, ever seem to pull any bullshit about pressure for pre-orders.rembrandtqeinstein said:meh all specialty retail is useless in the internet age
no need for the "expertise" since we have infinite reviews, no need for the community since we have forums and chatrooms, no need for the selection since we have amazon and steam
not that it is anything like gamespot but this PE comic pretty much shows why retail chain specialty gaming shops are dying and good riddance
[image src="http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/217539373_yo43C-L-2.jpg"]
Jesus if anyone in Game in Aus treated a customer like that, aformentioned Scotsman would tear strips of their hide right then and there.
nope, it was exactly how i wanted it way to take to the next level for your self thoughcaptainfluoxetine said:well, i guess it's *puts on shades* game over thenLunar Templar said:well, i guess it's game over then
corrected it for you.
Any chance theres gunna be games goin dirt cheap? mite check out me local this weekend.
I don't know much about Gamestop, but if they're buying out Game would keep (some of) the shops open and the brand alive, then I'd be all for it. Besides the somewhat sentimental side of it - I remember buying games from Game when it was Electronics Boutique so for years it's basically where I bought most of my games (and my 360).Beautiful End said:I want to see GameStop buy this company, mostly because I don't want to see all the staff lose their jobs. And I have the faint, impossible hope of seeing Special Editions in EU being released over here via GameStop.
I'm looking at you, The Last Story.