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Subject: Re: Good Old... Gamestop?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:38:35 +0100
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On 29/08/2024 08:27, Werner P. wrote:
> Am 29.08.24 um 09:26 schrieb Werner P.:
>> Am 29.08.24 um 04:06 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
>>> But I suspect, like many of Gamestops recent attempts to re-invent
>>> itself, this transformation won't save it either. Between ready access
>>> to emulation and companies re-releasing their older titles to GOG.com,
>>> there's no real need for a 'retro gaming store' except as a nostalgic
>>> curiousity. It's the sort of place you'd go into only because you
>>> happened to stumble across it, play around with their overpriced
>>> artifacts for a while, then leave and buy it somewhere cheaper.
>>
>> Gamestop was always a ripoff, I visited 2-3 times bevore I noticed 
>> that I can get second hand games for consoles chaper by using the 
>> internet and the usual second hand whatever portals.
>> Too bad, with less customer gouging the chain really could have gone 
>> somewhere, it is failing on its own greed!
>>
> PS: In the end gamestop follows the route of most other computer gaming 
> related stores, the internet has taken over!
> Not sure how you can save such a chain in the end, the rip off behavior 
> from GS did not help either, their name is tainted!
> 

I think the problem is I can't see what they can really offer that makes 
it worth using them. To take a different example, I make model kits and 
I far prefer going to a bricks & mortar store as the owner is highly 
likely to be a modeller themselves and browsing means you can find kits 
that take your fancy and you also get to look in the box to see what 
you're actually getting. For me I don't mind paying a slight premium for 
that.

I just don't see how anything like that translates to going into a game 
shop.