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UK Retailer GAME is dead | Brera's Lament
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bitoriginal
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If anyone visits Game today can you check out the Kingdoms of Amalur price? I visited my local shop yesterday but it was still at £32.
£43 new/£30 preowned yesterday in Liverpool. Will check again in an hour or so.
bitoriginal
Member
Hmm, seen a few people say it's at the £22 mark. I'd bite at that price. Seems to be a fair few fluctuations in price for some of these deals.
I bought a copy that didn't say preowned on the box at the main store in Eldon Square opposite John Lewis.
This sale was always likely to happen but has to be cause for concern. I wasn't too worried when it was just preowned games being marked down, but now points cards and even consoles too?
The next few weeks will be very important for the UK games market, if we'll personally miss the company or not.
The next few weeks will be very important for the UK games market, if we'll personally miss the company or not.
Psychotext
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Wait... points are cheaper now? Details man, details!
If you're lucky enough to find them in store you can pick up 800 for £2.98 or 1200 for £4.98 I believe. I posted links in the cheap arse thread
Psychotext
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Thanks.If you're lucky enough to find them in store you can pick up 800 for £2.98 or 1200 for £4.98 I believe. I posted links in the cheap arse thread
Best of luck finding some. Sorry I couldn't link here directly but it's awkward on my phone
https://twitter.com/#!/Chris_Dring/status/178102163732561920
EDIT: Yeah i didn't spot the" last year! bit
. Still, still news i guessCrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
https://twitter.com/#!/Chris_Dring/status/178102163732561920
EDIT: Yeah i didn't spot the" last year! bit
The MCV-GAME shilling continues.
Honestly, MCV have gone way down in my estimations over this whole thing. Their site has read like it's been written by the GAME press office these last few weeks.
I wish as I'd actually like to play it, but the game was on hot uk deals earlier so no doubt the funhaters there have ordered 100 copies each.
Mcv wants to support a strong retail sector in the UK. At the moment game is the big story around that
bitoriginal
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I'd be surprised if they did honour it tbh. I expect Game probably do have a fair few copies of this edition laying around though. I remember due to production issues the special edition wasn't available on release day.
Status: Cancelled on mine, but I got in lateish.
Did you get an email about it? Mine is still showing as Unshipped for now. Wouldn't surprise me if it was cancelled soon though.
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NinjaFridge
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Those guys can really take the fun out of it. Hate it when they do that.
That tweet was hardly shilling, more like an underhanded jab as I took it at Game Group's management.
Can't tell, email would have gone to home and I'm at work right now.
Nah there is a cross section of the games industry that receive it, for instance when I went to Eutechnyx for an interview they had them in the lobby area. So its not just retailers who buy it.
Monkeylord
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If you're lucky enough to find them in store you can pick up 800 for £2.98 or 1200 for £4.98 I believe. I posted links in the cheap arse thread
Doesn't look like it's everywhere. My dad phoned me up to ask me a favour and happened to be at Hempstead Valley in Gillingham which has a GAME store and I in turn asked for a favour of him to see the prices. Whilst on the phone to me he asked them to double check the prices and tehy scanned in a 1200pt card and it came back as still being £9.99.
Plops!
I could really use some more MS points, too
They did put out the subscriber numbers.I'll try and find them...
About us link
Plus unlike Game Group they have diversified to point where by they most likely will be unaffected. Plus its about £150 for a weekly magazine subscription for UK and I think its over £200 for ROTW.
zomgbbqftw
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https://twitter.com/#!/Chris_Dring/status/178102163732561920
EDIT: Yeah i didn't spot the" last year! bit
LOL 550 stores by 2013!?! More like none!
Seriously though, this is the problem with Game management, they should be looking at 300-350 stores in the UK an merging their staff so that the most knowledgeable are kept and the less so sacked. If Game had just 300 locations in the country, a well motivated (better paid) and extremely well informed work force they could make a go of it and become baseline profitable by the end of 2013/14 (with one off profits for new gen start) and the creditors would hold back until then. With 550 stores there is absolutely no chance that they will see a profit until the next generation has started in earnest next year but then they will fall right back into the abyss once the hype has died down and old problems resurface.
The paper copy isn't, but then again I had one, cancelled it. University paid for one for me, now I'm receiving it but have no clue why.
The cheaper points thing is only actual physical points cards, which to be honest no store should have left as they should have used them all up ages ago and all be using the electronic system.Doesn't look like it's everywhere. My dad phoned me up to ask me a favour and happened to be at Hempstead Valley in Gillingham which has a GAME store and I in turn asked for a favour of him to see the prices. Whilst on the phone to me he asked them to double check the prices and tehy scanned in a 1200pt card and it came back as still being £9.99.
Plops!
I could really use some more MS points, too
Doesn't look like it's everywhere. My dad phoned me up to ask me a favour and happened to be at Hempstead Valley in Gillingham which has a GAME store and I in turn asked for a favour of him to see the prices. Whilst on the phone to me he asked them to double check the prices and tehy scanned in a 1200pt card and it came back as still being £9.99.
Plops!
I could really use some more MS points, too
The Maidstone store is the same. Dont worry, though, I think they are using this week to get everything repriced. The Spring Clean branding has only just gone up, so obv its going to be a bit of a rush and repricing all of the preowned stock is more of a priority, I should imagine.
Monkeylord
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It was an actual physical card the guy scanned in. I could hear the bloop of the till from the other end of the phone. Me in office, dad in store at the tills.
I may have to get up early and nip to GAME and Gamestation in Chatham then to see if anything's going on there. I wanna get more Rock Band songs in preparation for the annual Rawkfest we have for my friends birthday every year (this year's one is tomorrow evening).
JonathanEx
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The reason for that tweet was that a few websites were reporting the closure of 60 stores as a new story - he was explaining that it's old.
SuicidalSteve
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kingellesar
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Grabbed Soul Calibur V CE on xbox for £39.98' was stickered at £49.98 but got the girl to scan it as I didnt fancy paying £35 fof normal edition.
Some stuff has changed today I noticed, Marvel UA2 went down by £2, they had MW3 stickeredto hell. They were in the process of stickering new stock, Sonic Generations was in the sale at £26.98 lol. There as just a load of crap tbh, glad I used my credit but still wouldve preferred SSX! now i need to decide whether to keep soul cali ce or sell it and get ssx.
Some stuff has changed today I noticed, Marvel UA2 went down by £2, they had MW3 stickeredto hell. They were in the process of stickering new stock, Sonic Generations was in the sale at £26.98 lol. There as just a load of crap tbh, glad I used my credit but still wouldve preferred SSX! now i need to decide whether to keep soul cali ce or sell it and get ssx.
Azure Phoenix
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The offer is only on boxed Microsoft points, what the guy scanned in would have been one of the digital points cards that are displayed on the shop floor. Stores should have used all the remaining boxed points cards at Christmas so the chances of finding one now is very, very slim.
Good luck! Please let me know if they do have reduced points. If so, I may have to pop in over the weekend.
never knew there were any GAF members who lived in Maidstone too
Its a great coincidence
(Actually, I work in Maidstone and live in West Malling. But its near as dammit.)Fancy swapping fathers? If I sent mine to get me a PSN card, he'd come back with a grin and a copy of 'The Thing' on Xbox 1.
Monkeylord
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I dunno, he did say to me "Hang on, he's just fiddling with keys" so I assumed he got a card from the cabinet.
Will do
I have conditioned him well, but if I wasn't dictating to him his lines over the phone he probably would have come out with a Binweevils card or something.
MCV just report the facts, it's a trade paper not a tabloid.
Facts are facts. They've reported good stuff and bad stuff. Just because it's not 100% bad or some nuggets of hope that you don't want to hear due to your blinkered hatred for the company doesn't make it a bad paper.
Let's not forget theyve also been breaking most of the bad news!
Psychotext
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Horseshit. They've put so much spin on many of the Game stories that they barely reflect reality.
Speedymanic
Banned
Holy FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
A mate just emailed me this pic, the entire haul cost him £39.
:O :O :O
A mate just emailed me this pic, the entire haul cost him £39.
:O :O :O
And whats the betting the quality of the disks are scratched to hell.
Little Old Man
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Went to a different Game and GS today whilst I was in the area. I think it says more about the levels of unemployment in the town than anything else, but the stores there seemed much more busy than in Liverpool yesterday. Most were doing the same as me, picking through the masses of crap for anything good. More of the prices were updated than the Liverpool stores too. Barely any shelf space dedicated to new stuff.
I saw loads of people trading stuff in at GS, more than those buying. One guy sold in a 3DS and around a dozen PS3 games- must have been taking advantage of the trade in deals, as they were all going for cash. There's probably also a lot of them taking advantage of differences in the trade in prices (people there will do anything for a few quid).
Forgot that someone I knew in school worked at one of the stores. It was weird to think he will probably be out of a job in a month or two.
Walked out with Monster Hunter for £10, Pikmin Wii for £2, Front Mission Evolved £2, and Vanquish for £3. No sign of any God of War games, which I would have grabbed on sight.
SWOTOR special edition could still be found there, £50 from £130. If only I had money to burn.
I saw loads of people trading stuff in at GS, more than those buying. One guy sold in a 3DS and around a dozen PS3 games- must have been taking advantage of the trade in deals, as they were all going for cash. There's probably also a lot of them taking advantage of differences in the trade in prices (people there will do anything for a few quid).
Forgot that someone I knew in school worked at one of the stores. It was weird to think he will probably be out of a job in a month or two.
Walked out with Monster Hunter for £10, Pikmin Wii for £2, Front Mission Evolved £2, and Vanquish for £3. No sign of any God of War games, which I would have grabbed on sight.
SWOTOR special edition could still be found there, £50 from £130. If only I had money to burn.
Given how Skylanders sells, I'm not certain that that's incompetence!
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