Current Events > Its kind of crazy how no one is talking about the death of Gamestop

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Tired-Insomniac
03/26/20 9:54:30 AM
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Jiggy101011 posted...
My last midnight launch was Halo ODST. Back when you could pick up a game at midnight, go home and pop in the physical disk and play right away lol.

Ever since digital preloading was a thing I never went back. Playing a game right at 12:01 without having to leave my couch... Gamestop was never going to win the fight over convenience.

I've only done one midnight launch this gen, and that was Halo 5. I was shocked how many people were there. Though that was 2015 and I don't think digital downloads were nearly as popular as they are now.

I'd love to replicate the Halo 3 and Halo Reach midnight launches but that'll never happen again. Halo Infinite might be similar since it'll be a midnight launch for a new console as well. But I'll probably just order the XSeX on Amazon and come home to it on my porch.

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Jiggy101011
03/26/20 9:56:36 AM
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Tired-Insomniac posted...
I've only done one midnight launch this gen, and that was Halo 5. I was shocked how many people were there. Though that was 2015 and I don't think digital downloads were nearly as popular as they are now.

I'd love to replicate the Halo 3 and Halo Reach midnight launches but that'll never happen again. Halo Infinite might be similar since it'll be a midnight launch for a new console as well. But I'll probably just order the XSeX on Amazon and come home to it on my porch.

Im incredibly excited to play a new Halo game on the launch of a new console. I'm ready to throw whatever $$ at Microsoft.

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Keith_Valentine
03/26/20 10:00:03 AM
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I went in a Game stop years ago when GTA4 first came out and the clerks were talking about the game. The one kid was bragging he had only died 4 times in game and it always stuck in my head as a stupid thing to track and care about. Kinda reminded me of my cousin who had to win so desperately games were almost like a job for him and half the time he didnt even have fun.

I got dark souls 3 on day 1 and havent been back for years before or since. I dont buy many games either though, been mostly playing souls PvP for quite awhile.
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KillerSlaw
03/26/20 10:24:40 AM
#54:


Jiggy101011 posted...
Sounds like they are in panic mode and arent aware of their own policies right now. Meaning if you got some other manager on the phone I'm sure there answer would have been completely different.

Probably but at this point they're closed closed cause my state is in lockdown I think and it wasn't worth making a bigger fuss cause it was just store credit I had almost forgotten about anyways.

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DevsBro
03/26/20 11:14:54 AM
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dummy420 posted...
I dont like losing them only because it was a good place to browse for physical games. But still all these years later they sold opened games as new. They had time to improve themselves.
They had decades. It's not like they didn't know.

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dummy420
03/26/20 11:20:21 AM
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DevsBro posted...
They had decades. It's not like they didn't know.
For sure. It is entirely their fault. Even when I went there to browse I often bought elsewhere at places like amazon because they only had one copy and it was opened. Last time I bought a "new" copy like that it had a coffee stain in the manual. So games still had manuals then.

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inloveanddeath0
03/26/20 11:21:41 AM
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I don't care in the slightest. Shady business practices ahoy

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DevsBro
03/26/20 11:40:20 AM
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dummy420 posted...
For sure. It is entirely their fault. Even when I went there to browse I often bought elsewhere at places like amazon because they only had one copy and it was opened. Last time I bought a "new" copy like that it had a coffee stain in the manual. So games still had manuals then.
My last "new" Gamestop game had what I pray was chocolate smeared between two pages of the manual. That was 2004.

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Questionmarktarius
03/26/20 11:42:24 AM
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My "F" key remains unpressed.
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dummy420
03/26/20 11:45:42 AM
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DevsBro posted...
My last "new" Gamestop game had what I pray was chocolate smeared between two pages of the manual. That was 2004.
Mine was Bully so somewhere around that timeframe as well. Maybe a bit later.

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