OysterBarron Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Well After speaking with the manger at my local GAME the other week he was assuring me that he didn't fear for his job, unfortuantly his shelves told a different story! Its kind of shocking with a business model that makes you trade in 10 games you paid over £400 pound on release in order to get just one new game didn't work, but ultimately it has been there undoing. It's a shame that they had to learn the hard way that its the publishers these days that are in-charge of the market and the fairly recent rise in people buying digital distributed games will just be the final finisher for them! Its kind of sad really! popping over to my local town since i was 13 to pick up the latest console or AAA game back in the days when it was called Electronic boutique wont happen anymore if they don't get brought up by the american company. end of an era but as the rise of shopping online takes over i do see this trend of the high street slowly dissapering, not to mention that when game go's The likes of EA will have a hell of a hold on the market. if it limits the places you have to shop around then in essence they can charge what they like for there content.It could also benfit EA as they will be able to see 100% of the profits instead of having to share it with the companys who buy the games from them intially. http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/d-day-looms-for-game/092556 Anyway post your thoughts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple Penetration Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Meh, never gone there. I just once checked the prices for consoles on the outside, but didn't do anything else, as I know I'll be able to get PC games only on Steam or Amazon. Those shops are just console sellouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinski Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) The days have been numbered for dedicated games shop on the high street for years now. Even if you ignore the massive, massive effect online shopping/digital distribution has had, other competitors have been springing up in the form of supermarkets. Not only have supermarkets started stocking more and more games, some even dealing in pre-owned merch, but they can afford to undercut any dedicated store on price. I remember I got FIFA 10 (or maybe 11, I can't remember) on launch day for £24 from Tesco one year, when it was £35-40 in GAME and the like. Supermarkets can afford to use them as loss-leaders, knowing you'll buy other stuff while you're there that has a bigger profit margin. On the day I got FIFA, we all went down during our lunch hour at college and had dinner at the cafe in Tesco, probably making all the lost revenue on the games back instantly. Then when you do factor in online shopping/digital distribution the model looks unsustainable. Getting stuff days before, or literally the minute it is released, along with not having to go out of your way to get your mitts on it spells the doom of the brick-and-mortar game shop. Edited March 10, 2012 by Robinski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude4Catalina Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 went in there a few hours ago, even the likes MW3 were getting relatively cheap considering it's usually still full price by now. sad state of affairs really but gonna make sure I snap up a few bargains and use up whatever's on my loyalty card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterBarron Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Yeah deffentley i would advise anyone with money on there GAME card to cash the money in i used my £7.50 up last week picking up a few PC games. They wernt reminding people when i went in there obviously in the hopes of keeping the money in the company! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papanesta Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I have £60 something, so I'm getting it spent. Might add it to Max Payne, or get a few things I didn't buy on release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I think this must be a British problem, because here it seems like Game Stop, the big retailer around America, is one of the only stores not affected by a sh*tty economy. Despite their insulting prices for used games both in selling and buying, and sideways insults from employees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Rob_ Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Will defiantly be visiting quite a few GAME outlets during closing down sales, bargains to be had, not to mention I may be able to snag some display shelves etc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterBarron Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 I think this must be a British problem, because here it seems like Game Stop, the big retailer around America, is one of the only stores not affected by a sh*tty economy. Despite their insulting prices for used games both in selling and buying, and sideways insults from employees. Well id prepair for the possibility that gamestop may suffere the same fate eventually. im pretty sure its all this ea pass thing hurting the preowned market, if i remember correctly 90% of games profits actually came from pre-owned sales.but yeah like i stated i wont miss having to trade in10 games worth 400 quid back in the day for a40 quid game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moth Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Well id prepair for the possibility that gamestop may suffere the same fate eventually Gamestop isn't going anyway, especially since they bought Impulse, which is something like direct2drive. The brick and mortar shops might disappear, but Gamestop should still be around. It seems that GAME didn't future proof itself. Formerly known as The General Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I think this must be a British problem, because here it seems like Game Stop, the big retailer around America, is one of the only stores not affected by a sh*tty economy. Despite their insulting prices for used games both in selling and buying, and sideways insults from employees. Well id prepair for the possibility that gamestop may suffere the same fate eventually. im pretty sure its all this ea pass thing hurting the preowned market, if i remember correctly 90% of games profits actually came from pre-owned sales.but yeah like i stated i wont miss having to trade in10 games worth 400 quid back in the day for a40 quid game. I f*cking hope so. I think I've been to one GameStop in the past five years that has had good customer service. And I've been to A LOT of them. Once I even tried to exchange a broken rock band pro guitar controller because it stopped working, and instead of me handing them my old one in the box everything there, and them giving me a new unopened box, they tried to just switch out the part of the controller they thought was broken and give me a partial exchange. And when I refused they acted like I was trying to rip them off. I've mostly stopped patronizing them, with the exception of that one good store, which is entirely out of the way. I'd rather go to, not sh*tting you, Wal-Mart. Sorry about the rant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gta_king Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I think this must be a British problem, because here it seems like Game Stop, the big retailer around America, is one of the only stores not affected by a sh*tty economy. Despite their insulting prices for used games both in selling and buying, and sideways insults from employees. Well id prepair for the possibility that gamestop may suffere the same fate eventually. im pretty sure its all this ea pass thing hurting the preowned market, if i remember correctly 90% of games profits actually came from pre-owned sales.but yeah like i stated i wont miss having to trade in10 games worth 400 quid back in the day for a40 quid game. Considering Gamestop are trying to organise a buyout of GAME I'd doubt Gamestop are going anywhere at the moment. I do honestly hope something is done to help GAME or keep them in busy, first of all for the fact that if they go it leaves there no dedicated game store on the high street save for Grainger, CHIPS and maybe a few little independent ones. More importantly the UK doesn't really need to have thousands more people become unemployed right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Pink Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Well id prepair for the possibility that gamestop may suffere the same fate eventually Gamestop isn't going anyway, especially since they bought Impulse, which is something like direct2drive. The brick and mortar shops might disappear, but Gamestop should still be around. It seems that GAME didn't future proof itself. Yeah, I've been reading about Game on a local Irish forum and it seems they're on the way out. I never liked the Game in my city. Even the shop itself, seemed old and outdated. I always avoided it. Gamestop seems to be thriving where I live but sure the ones I frequent are in the city centre. It's crazy when I read that devs are giving the games to Game on lay anymore. They weren't ever sheduled to have Mass Effect: 3. ＲＵＢＢΣＲ░Ｊ♢ＨＮＮＹ （スオッ） Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOSEPH X Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 It will be a bad day for gamers if the brick & mortar game stores disappear. Regardless of which platform you are on, or how you buy your games, retail affects the content and value for money of games I reckon. To lose this would be to lose more power to the publishers - and we all know they are about cutting costs and increasing profits. That means more 6 hour corridor shooters with generic multiplayer, story driven games where you have to pay extra to find out why the fook you bothered, and a decline in quality assurance. Why would they check the quality if you can't get rid of the game once you've paid for it? There needs to be some way to keep these publishers in check or we are facing the death of video games and the rise of DLC distribution programmes. To read the rest of my conclusion, simply purchase the unique code from the Origin store at just $9.99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Pink Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 .....To lose this would be to lose more power to the publishers - and we all know they are about cutting costs and increasing profits. That means more 6 hour corridor shooters with generic multiplayer, story driven games where you have to pay extra to find out why the fook you bothered, and a decline in quality assurance. Why would they check the quality if you can't get rid of the game once you've paid for it?.... This is a very important point. I'm really not liking the current trend of single player campaigns/stories going down the drain. Losing concrete shops may have a bearing on that or... maybe download only releases can spawn more independent gaming. It may have some positives when the developer can sell directly to the customer, essentially cutting out the middle man. Who knows? ＲＵＢＢΣＲ░Ｊ♢ＨＮＮＹ （スオッ） Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OchyGTA Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Sure it will be sad to see the only big gaming store in the county disapear but they've brought it on themselves so I don't fell sorry for them. For years they have priced themselves out Of the market forcing most people I know to buy from play.com, amazon or even in supermarkets. Game doesn't even get the best pre-order bonuses anymore. But on the positive side, when one door closes another on opens. Hopefully the gap in the marley will encourage competition between new highstreet retailers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secura Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I went to game the other day and guess what ? I tried to buy SSX; big mistake. They'd run out of stock to sell, I can see what you're thinking "Well it's just one game what's the problem exactly"?; I'll tell you what happened next, I tried to buy the Jak and Daxter HD collection as they still had plenty of game cases on the shelves and the woman the desk tells me "Sorry we're out of stock on that one, It's because the bosses still want us to keep the game cases up" Isn't that false advertising or something similar to that?. So you may think that's it but no, not but a f*cking long shot; I go up to ask them If they don't sell either of those games do they have any copies of ME3 in the back......."No" came the response "You see due to a...blah blah Lame excuse blah....we can't stock any copies of ME3". I just stood there absoloutely infuriated, I was in a game shop that sold no f*cking games ! "Fine! do you at least have a copy of FIFA Street that I could pre-order"? That's when it happened the cashier decided to talk to the woman behind him to ask the question; she came back a couple of minutes later with "I'm sorry it appears we may not be stocking that game, is there anything else I can do for you". With that I left the store and bought a whole box of krispy kreme donuts to drown my sorrows in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterBarron Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/10-000-game-worke...-122313224.html More news coming in! They're pretty uncertain as to what the future holds so i think you can safely say they wont be taking pre-orders, exspecially ones they may not be able to honor. Game does have an online digital distribution system of witch i'm unsure as to what is going to happen with that as i have brought rift and farming simulator from it! GAME brought gamestaion a while back and the story sound kinda familiar as to what gamestop is proposing, never say never, but yes i think the game companys would be able to charge what the hell they wanted for a game if there is no alternative! or it could work the otherway if tescos start selling chart games at £25 a pot that may actually force EA to reduce the price of there games online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alick Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 ...I go up to ask them If they don't sell either of those games do they have any copies of ME3 in the back......."No" It's been known for ages that Game wouldn't be stocking any of EA's releases through March after SSX. I don't use Game, the last thing I bought from there was SSX as they were the only ones who had the limited edition. I'll be sad to see another empty building on the high street and a few of my friends out of work, but even so I won't actually miss the company at all, always preferred Asda/online to buy my games. Plus I thought Game had a service similar to direct2drive? Is that even still going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papanesta Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 With that I left the store and bought a whole box of krispy kreme donuts to drown my sorrows in. Did you just go in to purposefully ask for games they didn't have? Seriously, if you read any gaming news, you'd know they weren't stocking any of those. Might be an idea for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Username.gta Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I was at my local GAME yesterday and nearly everything was on some sort of sale. They have already been suffering for a while now I believe. I don't really like GAME, but it's the only games specialist in my town, so I have no other option. Now, I'll probably need to turn to t'internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I always use the internet for shopping. I live too far away from the city centre to bother going in, let alone paying out for parking. I always pop into GAME and have a gander at stuff because its nice to see if they do have a deal on. But honestly, they are usually overpriced to begin with. And they had a sh*tty trade in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 7 five 11 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 With that I left the store and bought a whole box of krispy kreme donuts to drown my sorrows in. Did you just go in to purposefully ask for games they didn't have? Seriously, if you read any gaming news, you'd know they weren't stocking any of those. Might be an idea for the future. To be fair not everyone reads up on that, and when you walk into a game store you expect to be able to walk in, buy a game and walk out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOSEPH X Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 GAME must be winding up now. Nearly everything is out of stock on their site. I've just got back from a local-ish store and everything looks normal - they're even taking pre-orders. I was going to pick up AC:R and redeem my £21.48 reward points, but when they said stores only redeem in blocks of £2.50 - meaning I'd only get £20.00 - I decided to come home and order it online. Looks like I'll have to go back tomorrow and take that £1.48 up the arse. Fanx GAME bai ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seddo Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Better start spending all those stored up points in case a takeover doesn't happen and the company goes tits up. They go into administration if a buyer is not found by next weekend. They're not stocking some up coming Microsoft and Activision products now (Star Wars console, Kinect Rush, Cabela Big Game Hunter 2012 and Zhu Zhu Babies). Although we're not missing much there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A J Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Are they doing any sales on new consoles, specifically ps3's? Mine recently got YLOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alick Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Just read on IGN that a potential buyer had been found, OpCapita (the people that own Comet) so looks like things may be looking up for Game. Link: IGN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterBarron Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 Um could have quite a bit of potential! selling PC's and tv's and surround sounds as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papanesta Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Well, GAME are in administration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OysterBarron Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) so i take it that comet didn't make an offer then! or perhaps there going to wait until the adminstrators start selling the company off even cheaper. Shall we hold a 2 minute silence for them um nahh! http://www.gamesradar.com/game-finally-giv...ans-real-terms/ Edited March 21, 2012 by oysterbarron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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