GameStop takes a swipe at Microsoft after Game Pass price hike
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DarkShadowXI
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StreetsofBeige
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I miss when GS was a GS.
It used to be all about console and PC games in the 90s. They had price matching and a 10 day refund policy. I did both of them. Then they tried out selling DVDs for a couple years. Then it changed more and more to funko toys, board games, tshirts and at one time not too long ago they supposedly tried getting into selling cellphone plans and tablets or something.
Last year or the one before, I walked by a store and they even sold Xmas sweaters in the store window.
It used to be all about console and PC games in the 90s. They had price matching and a 10 day refund policy. I did both of them. Then they tried out selling DVDs for a couple years. Then it changed more and more to funko toys, board games, tshirts and at one time not too long ago they supposedly tried getting into selling cellphone plans and tablets or something.
Last year or the one before, I walked by a store and they even sold Xmas sweaters in the store window.
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Rran
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Some fun little playful shots but--
Gotta go to retro game stores for that older GameStop feel now.
--this is spot-on too. Xbox isn't the only thing that's changed for the worse over the past decade, as GameSpot has become this weird all-encompassing-geek-toy store rather than a dedicated game store. Kind of a pot calling the kettle black situation.
Gotta go to retro game stores for that older GameStop feel now.
PumpkinBoy
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The halo one seems less like a jab and more like a compliment to me. No mention of "When Microsoft releases something better", just that Halo 3 was a fantastic game.
StreetsofBeige
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The one shady thing I remember about GS too back in the day with the opened games refund policy is they wouldnt tell you about it or even have it printed on the receipt (like how most stores would print refund/exchange policy on the back of the receipt). You'd only know about it if you read a piece of paper on a plastic stand on the counter which said the refund policy in small font. You'd have to look close at the paper to see what it says as even just glancing at the plastic stand you'd never know what it says as it's too small.
Assholes. I read it though. So when I returned some crappy opened games within 10 days they honoured it.
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DreamcastSkies
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Halo 3 era Xbox was special.
Pejo
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Selling physical games in 2025 isn't a profitable business, even with used game sales margins. If they hadn't gotten the meme stock boost, they'd have been dead years ago. They really had no choice than to try to find other niches and revenue streams. There's no cats going back into bags in the game industry, physical is (sadly) on its way out.
I'm not saying that I like their new direction or shop there anymore or whatever, but that's the reality of their situation.
Gambit2483
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Why, The Year of the Xbox ofc
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I like that even Gamestop knows it's been irrelevant for the better part of a decade now.
Edgelord79
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I guess when game "protection plans" are not selling, go attack a disliked mega-corporation on social media to score some points.
Some of those were funny, but I'm still not going there for games. Besides they are all toys now I thought for the most part.
Some of those were funny, but I'm still not going there for games. Besides they are all toys now I thought for the most part.
Pasta la Vista
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GME to the moon?
ChorizoPicozo
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rumor say that even people at the gyms are taking about the Xbox dead.
Pimpbaa
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No GameStop in my town, and I ain't driving an hour to a city to buy a "new" game from a paper sleeve put in the box that has been on the shelves with the hands of a million grubby kids on it. Or them looking at you like you all insulted when you demand an actual NEW game factory sealed.
0neAnd0nly
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All you gotta say is "do you have a sealed copy", or if you feel awkward "I am giving this as a gift, so I would prefer a sealed copy". I have never had any kickback by just asking... Just tell them you are OCD or something.
kiphalfton
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Ironic, considering how GameStop has been failing for years.
Gilgalaad
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CentralScrutinizer
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You know what; they're based as hell with that Halo 3 take.
NOTHING in gaming will ever come close to Fall 2007.
Bioshock
Metroid Prime 3
Blue Dragon
Eternal Sonata
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Guitar Hero 3
CoD 4 Modern Warfare
Super Mario Galaxy
Mass Effect
Rock Band
If you had a 360 and a Wii you experienced peaking fucking gaming.
All downhill since then.
NOTHING in gaming will ever come close to Fall 2007.
Bioshock
Metroid Prime 3
Blue Dragon
Eternal Sonata
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Guitar Hero 3
CoD 4 Modern Warfare
Super Mario Galaxy
Mass Effect
Rock Band
If you had a 360 and a Wii you experienced peaking fucking gaming.
All downhill since then.
RetroGamingUK
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Xbox pissing off every retailer is yet another nail in the coffin.
Didn't GameStop shares plunge 15% when Xbox One was announced?
Didn't GameStop shares plunge 15% when Xbox One was announced?
Lightbreak
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Im surprised they still sell physical Xbox games
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Games Bookstore
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This is kinda ironic they'd come out and say that. I went into my local EB Games today (our version of GameStop) and the only area that had games was this tiny section at the back, the rest of the the store was devoted to board games, funko, merch and other general pop culture bullshit.
It's a sorry state of affairs to see a once thriving video game store become a shell of itself and have to sell all these random shit in order to survive.
It's a sorry state of affairs to see a once thriving video game store become a shell of itself and have to sell all these random shit in order to survive.
Skifi28
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Your man Adam and you in every thread:
