Negaview

Gamestop…. 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.

Next they heavily promote trading games in.  This is by far the biggest scam for videogame consumers.  You can trade in a game for 20 - 30 dollars then gamestop will turn around and sell it for double, sometimes even triple what you traded it in for.  Once a game is used all of that profit goes to gamestop rather than to the publishers.  That pretty much covers their business model.  What else could i possibly hate?

The employees.  I have never once received good service at a gamestop or electronics boutique.  The employees tend to be lazy, stoned, or both.  Typically if there’s a long line one employee will be working, while another just sits there stacking games.

The customers.  The ones that hang out in gamestop reading magazines, talking to the employees, playing the game kiosks.  The problem is that the stores are usually small and they usually hang out right in the way of the check out line.  They’re just taking up space, and wasting time.  If your time is so unvaluable why don’t you go volunteer somewhere you fucking dork.

There is a reason why all developers and publishers are pushing for digital distribution.  It is because of stores like gamestop.  These stores take games out of the usual profit/revenue circulation for the publisher and horde all profits from ‘used’ games for themselves.  They will be bankrupt soon enough thanks to digital distribution, good riddance i say.