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May you join Circuit City or Blockbuster in bankruptcy or wither away into irrelevancy like K-Mart. http://seekingalpha.com/article/2702215-gamestop-a-value-trap
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Nov 23, 2014 16:33
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My main question is what people go to Gamestop if you can just order the stuff online
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Nov 23, 2014 16:35
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amuayse posted:My main question is what people go to Gamestop if you can just order the stuff online Sell games to them for literally pennies...?
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Nov 23, 2014 16:36
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*Assassin's Creed delayed a few months * *Goes out of business*
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Nov 23, 2014 16:38
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amuayse posted:My main question is what people go to Gamestop if you can just order the stuff online If you want the game on the release date your chances are better in a store.
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Nov 23, 2014 16:40
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amuayse posted:My main question is what people go to Gamestop if you can just order the stuff online I went to get Smash Bros. for the 3DS because I wanted it on launch day. Other than that I haven't had to buy anything there in the better part of a decade.
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Nov 23, 2014 16:44
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Dianetics posted:If you want the game on the release date your chances are better in a store. Yeah but this is 2014. You can pre-download games on modern consoles (PS4 and WiiU) and have them ready the very minute they unlock in the store.
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Nov 23, 2014 16:45
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"Management cited a delayed release in Assassins Creed as the reason for the miss. This exemplifies GME's reliance on game sales for its livelihood." I immediately closed the article because this person hasn't got a loving clue what they're talking about. EDIT: ahahahh apparently he's a manager of his mom and dad's money writing babby's first financial clickbait article
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Nov 23, 2014 16:46
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"There are two secular trends that will be huge threats to GME's business model." but i thought their primary demographic was the 16-30 year old white male 'gamer' who subscribes to /r/athiesm
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Nov 23, 2014 16:48
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a financial website where literally any idiot can write whatever they want
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Nov 23, 2014 16:50
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Value Tarps - a value trap?
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Nov 23, 2014 16:51
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Harald posted:a financial website where literally any idiot can write whatever they want So all finance websites?
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they'll make the money back when that open-world my little pony game comes out. gta 5 will look like a pile of poo poo next to it
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Nov 23, 2014 17:10
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i miss going into electronics boutique and seeing a huge wall of pc games and programs in cardboard boxes with brightly colored graphics and teenagers playing pc games on the store's demo system and shouting extreme expletives whilst doing so
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Nov 23, 2014 17:15
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"This exemplifies GME's reliance on game sales for its livelihood." Uhhh
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Nov 23, 2014 17:17
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amuayse posted:My main question is what people go to Gamestop if you can just order the stuff online The only people I know who don't just order stuff online or get digital downloads honestly think that Steam will one day choose to take everyone's video games away. Meanwhile they have stacks of dusty video game cartridges they can't exchange anyway because they're computer games that require access keys.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:18
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The Royal Scrub posted:"This exemplifies GME's reliance on game sales for its livelihood." I guess if Gamestop loses preorders they can somewhat exist as a second hand used game store.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:32
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Maldoror posted:i miss going into electronics boutique and seeing a huge wall of pc games and programs in cardboard boxes with brightly colored graphics and teenagers playing pc games on the store's demo system and shouting extreme expletives whilst doing so This. Going to Babbages (basically Electronics Boutique, then Gamestop) was a magical time for mas a kid. I'd go in trade my games in and get like $90 of credit and buy all sorts of awesome PC stuff like Baldurs Gate and Half Life. Now you go to a Gamestop and they offer a loving credit card, pennies for trade ins, all sorts of add on extras and loving doritos and Mountain Dew. As an honorable REAL TRUE GAMER I loving despise what Gamestop has done to my hobby.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:35
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i urinated into a gamstep once
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Nov 23, 2014 17:37
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i'm close enough to a gamestop that if i chose i can walk to it instead of waiting for something to ship. I'll head over every now and then to look at cheap used games because i'm bored and have 10 dollars.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:39
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i'm pretty sure the only reason gamestop sells used ipads and phones and poo poo is because half their business model revolves around being a pawn shop for stolen games and peripherals without any of the record keeping or security an actual pawn shop has to follow, so why not expand that to other electronics too and make a mint from desperate druggies
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^^It's true, my local gamestop is always full of heroin addicts.Jastiger posted:This. Going to Babbages (basically Electronics Boutique, then Gamestop) was a magical time for mas a kid. I'd go in trade my games in and get like $90 of credit and buy all sorts of awesome PC stuff like Baldurs Gate and Half Life. I miss Software Etc sometimes, I'm pretty sure it's just nostalgia. Gamestop would be doomed even if they had never turned evil. Why the hell would I drive 20 minutes to deal with going to a mall to buy something I can buy and download in 20 minutes without ever leaving my chair?
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amuayse posted:My main question is what people go to Gamestop if you can just order the stuff online I got a white PS4 for £299 from gamestop, they have some good deals. Occasionally.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bzmdfM8gjw
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Nov 23, 2014 17:58
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Gamestop got too much of a comic book store vibe. Nothing like going in there to buy a game to have the grognard at the counter scoff at your game of choice.
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Tenzarin posted:Gamestop got too much of a comic book store vibe. Nothing like going in there to buy a game to have the grognard at the counter scoff at your game of choice. Your local GameStop still has spergs behind the counter? I thought they replaced all of them with girls cause gamers are easy.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:18
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I use gamestop because I need a physical copy of pokemon on day one of release so I can immediately cheat at it and and receive the gratification of upsetting small children online.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:24
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Hmm yase, me thinks these 'grognards' be much too uncouth my goon sires.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:27
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Good. gently caress Gamestop.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:33
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Last Gamestop I went to employed almost exclusively 20-something females who were moderately attractive, but also friendly and helpful. I purchased Fire Emblem: Awakening only to discover that someone stole my 3DS.
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I was going to comment on the current state of affairs concerning my local Gamestops, but then realized I haven't been in one for a couple of years now. The last time I went was to get that pre-order of Xenoblade Chronicles. ... Well, gently caress 'em anyway.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:36
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ThirdPartyView posted:So all finance websites?
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My gamestop has two manic pixie gamer girls and the "cool black guy" and no I don't want scratch protection.
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Iamblikhos posted:I purchased Fire Emblem: Awakening only to discover that someone stole my 3DS.
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BigBoss posted:"Management cited a delayed release in Assassins Creed as the reason for the miss. This exemplifies GME's reliance on game sales for its livelihood." I got my paycheck on November 1 instead of October 31. Guess I'm bankrupt now. - the stock market
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You guys are forgetting the most important part of this. What are 12 year olds going to do while their moms clothes shop for 3 hours!? expecting roaming gangs of thugs in the malls unseen since the 80s
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Nov 23, 2014 18:46
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:Yeah but this is 2014. You can pre-download games on modern consoles (PS4 and WiiU) and have them ready the very minute they unlock in the store. *snicklers to self* they named the third xbox the xbone
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OlmanRiver posted:expecting roaming gangs of thugs in the malls unseen since the 80s That's already the case at The Source mall...? 
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You ever go to gamestop and find that girl working behind the counter, not the hot one, the other one that's still ok and all you want to do is trade in last year's madden for this year's assasins creed but 20 minutes later you're still in the store, in the employee restroom and she's feeding your rear end zelda plush figurines and telling you how she's a bigger man than you are and you just can't stop cumming?
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