Huge Closures for GAME
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Oh yea, I have a gamestation too, I see why they are shutting down some, they are bloody pointless.Jonny49 said:
Cooool, an Escapist lives near me. As for the OP, it always confused me that wherever I see a GAME store, there's a Gamestation within 200 yeards, yet they're owned by the same company. Sounds like a wise move to me.ultimateownage said:
NOOOOOOO!!!!! GOD NO!!!! i refuse to shop at gamestop or xtravision. where am I going to buy PC games if the close down
Didn't they buy out EB Games? Or buy out there UK stores?Trivun said:
Cos I know here in Sheffield, we had an EB Games and a Game right across from each other, then GAME bought the EB Games store and they had 2 right accross from each other, which I alway's thought was wierd.
Better not be the one in Stockport. Only decent place to buy your games. Better selection than Gamestation here and the less said about the local Game Stop the better. There are the few independent game stores but they massively rip you off and seem to store their CD's in between their arse cheeks the condition they're in. Bleh.
Simalacrum lives near us too, I think the reason they have game and gamestation, is for 2 different demographics, gamestation for the hardcores who like more "local." stores, and GAME is for more casual gamers, with a more company feel to it.Samuel Cook said:
My response is, meh, I shop online now anyways, majority of stuff that I used to find in game were usually found cheaper somewhere else, I'm pretty sure the last thing I brought at game was a used pokemon mystery dungeon game that I played for about a week.
The GAME in my town is going to be closing a few days before Red Dead: Redemption is released. I don't really care all that much though, I've never really shopped in there, and there'll still be my local independent game store and a GameStation to buy stuff from.
I never did understand that: why would two stores owned by the same company open up within 100 metres of each other? I mean, surely you're paying double the operating cost for roughly the same amount of revenue? It makes no sense!
(Just a little side note: there are two reasons I used Redemption as a reference point:
1: It's probably gonna be awesome.
2: I don't think in terms of weeks, months or years, I think in game release dates. For example, I remember my birthday this year as being "Five days before Mass Effect 2 came out".)
I never did understand that: why would two stores owned by the same company open up within 100 metres of each other? I mean, surely you're paying double the operating cost for roughly the same amount of revenue? It makes no sense!
(Just a little side note: there are two reasons I used Redemption as a reference point:
1: It's probably gonna be awesome.
2: I don't think in terms of weeks, months or years, I think in game release dates. For example, I remember my birthday this year as being "Five days before Mass Effect 2 came out".)
You sir, live in Brighton, where there are two GAMES and a Gamestation all within spitting distance of each other, so one will probably not be missed.dark707 said:
Not that I will miss them much anyway. I stopped shopping there when I realised they were routinely adding £2 or £3 to the RRP.
I can't help but think this is a good thing as the two GAME stores in my town are literally about 100 metres apart. They're even on the same fucking street for christs sake!
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Good to see it's not just the locals that think this.kelvingreen said:
Agreed. The only time I go to GAME is if I happen to want a game REALLY badly and don't want to wait 2 days for delivery AND the game is being sold at the same price as online. Which isn't often.RetroVortex said:
But my more ignorant family members have a habit of buying games for £10 more than what they could online, simply because they can't be bothered to ask me to look a specific game up. *sigh*
Absolutely no ideaBaron Khaine said:
. I only came to Leeds about two years ago for university, I'm from near Birmingham originally and I've never seen an EB Games store anywhere in the UK. Unless EB were bought out before I came North, it's always been four GAME stores...
There's five within range of me. Ironically four of them can be considered 'small' branches in comparison to the fifth. That's a bugger.