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GameStop Closing 150 Stores

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:21:40 GMT

Looks like they're about to be the next Radio Shack.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article141016233.html

Re: GameStop Closing 150 Stores

Schwartzinator — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:32:20 GMT

Good riddance. I won't buy a single thing from them. Purchased a game, returned it and was told I could only get store credit so I had the manager apply it to a preorder. Came in to pick up the game and low and behold, the credit had magically dissapeared without a trace. Manager remembered the whole situation but wasn't willing to do a thing about it. EO told me to eat the loss because there's no record in the system.

Re: GameStop Closing 150 Stores

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:20:24 GMT

I haven't bought anything from GameStop in at least 5 years. In fact, the last time I tried, I was using their PC app, and the program was so badly designed that my bank (BoA) thought a fraud attempt was going on after I made several unsuccessful attempts to make the purchase and locked my debit card, forcing me to get a new one. Even if that hadn't happened, I'm a PC gamer, not a console gamer, and buying actual boxed PC games as opposed to download is virtually dead these days, and even where it isn't is often more expensive than download. People have their complaints about Steam, which overwhelmingly dominates this market, but it has its good points like its sales; I got Hearts of Iron IV for $23.99 (40% off) this past weekend.

Re: GameStop Closing 150 Stores

marty56 — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:05:09 GMT

The writting was on the wall for brick and mortar stores when Steam showed up. Those of you who are old enough may remeber all the issues with CD and DVD copy protection and games and it finally going away by being able to download your game.

Re: GameStop Closing 150 Stores

Discover2016 — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 18:22:25 GMT

Speaking of GameStop, I was there yesterday looking for a Nintendo Switch and the service was horrible, many people there and the sales guy was just fiddling with reciepts or something completely ignoring people.