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Gamestop

August 21, 2009 By: houkah Category: Videogames

gamestopGamestop…. it’s possible that i hate every last thing about this company.  First of all the companies business model is built to ensure that they’re giving as little money as possible to the publishers of the game.  Which in turn means as little as possible to the developers.  How do they do this?

First they push pre-orders.  This ensures that they only need to purchase new games from the publishers to fill their pre-orders.  So if they have 10 preorders they might buy 12 copies from the publisher.

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