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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Sept. 19, 2008
Multiplayer: And if someone drives themselves to a mall this Christmas season and sees on one end of the mall a GameStop and on the other a Wal-Mart or Target or any of your competitors, why should they walk into your store and buy the games there?
McKenzie: They’re going to have the best experience shopping at GameStop. Our people are passionate about what we do. They’re very knowledgeable and they’re going to be able to help the customer get into the right gaming experience.
This inspired a Kevin Pereira-like "really!?!!!?" out of me. Are you telling me that the same chain of stores that is trying to ram pre-orders down my stupid throat every time I get within 40 feet of the store is the "right" gaming experience? That the store that sold me an open copy of The World Ends With You as new because it was their last copy, but still charged me the full, new price is the "right" gaming experience? That the store that once tried to sell me on a third-party N64 controller by claiming that they came from the same mold even though you could clearly see that the controller was not at all like the official controller contains "very knowledgeable" people?
(OK, old grudges die hard, I guess. But that N64 controller was total garbage.)
Point being, I usually feel sort of filthy after leaving a GameStop.
For the record, I don't actually think that Target or Wal-Mart are much better, since you often have to flag down some shiftless wage-slave who's too busy trying to shake last night's bong session out of his brain to open the stupid glass case and get you a game. At least they usually share my sentiment of really not wanting to be there.
The runner-up for the lie of the week is only really the runner-up because it doesn't make me all outraged. It's technically way bigger and way more interesting. Cheap Ass Gamer apparently held some sort of secret sneaky contest through its podcast to trick gaming blogs into running a hoax. The hoax concerns a fake document that talks about a name change for the Xbox 360.
A bunch of blogs ran the story, and some of them got all pouty about it once it was apparent they'd been fooled. If we had been, you know, awake, we almost certainly would have run it, too, so please don't mistake this for some sort of holier-than-thou nonsense. Instead, take it as pretty firm evidence that the battle between speed and accuracy continues to rage on inside us all.
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yup, gamstop is fuckin crap. I've never been proud of spending money their...
All the quotes coming from the Gamestop hierarchy has been complete crap.
The more crap they spew, the more I realize they have no clue about what's really going on in the world.
I think Sony needs to give them a big FU and launch Socom: Confrontation on the PSN at the stroke of Midnight on October 14th for $29.99.
The more crap they spew, the more I realize they have no clue about what's really going on in the world.
I think Sony needs to give them a big FU and launch Socom: Confrontation on the PSN at the stroke of Midnight on October 14th for $29.99.
I was in the US over the summer and went into a GameStop to buy a copy of Disgaea on PSP. The guys at EB here (Montreal) are pretty cool. They'll ask if you want to protect your game for a year but if you say no, they brush it off. Anyways, when I went up to the counter, the guy asked me if I wanted to protect it for a year. I said no. He asked me if I wanted an EB Edge card. I said no, seeing as how I'm from Montreal, his card wouldn't work back home. He told me it would (This was a lie, I asked my local EB's manager). He asked me if I wanted to subscribe to Game Informer. I said no. He asked me if I was looking to buy a new Memory Stick for my PSP. At that point, my patience ran out. I slammed my hands on the counter and told him "NO! However, I AM looking to buy a car! Got one of those? I'm interested in Nissan. OH! And I need to get some food for later. Sell any pizza?! How's about a CHILD. My girlfriend and I want to move further in our relationship. CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THOSE, HUH?"
Astonished, the store clerk said nothing and gave me my game, my change and I left. I was greeted with something like, two high-fives on my way out.
I was walking by a Gamestop and I started to look at the "bargain" bin. I saw Fable for 17.99 which I could swear you could download off the marketplace for $15.
Suck my balls Gamestop! That whole crap about the last copy being open happens so much. And they take advantage of the parents who don't know better during the holidays, I feel like stepping in so many times to help them out. Best buy is the best place to get games, because its less of a hassle and you don't need to ask anyone to open a game case, unless they just have a bunch of copies in there. But even then, in my experience, you get to talk to someone who is a real gamer like yourself and just like talking about what set up you got and doesn't pressure you into anything because they understand the crap that goes on at Gamestop.
I remember one instance where a guy at a Gamestop got a call about a 360 getting the red ring and told the guy he couldn't help him cuz he didn't buy their warranty. He was such an asshole when he hung up, he laughed and said, "shoulda bought the warranty!" What a jerk, they know those warranties are crap, especially now that the MS warranty itself is a year and up to 3 years with RROD.
I remember one instance where a guy at a Gamestop got a call about a 360 getting the red ring and told the guy he couldn't help him cuz he didn't buy their warranty. He was such an asshole when he hung up, he laughed and said, "shoulda bought the warranty!" What a jerk, they know those warranties are crap, especially now that the MS warranty itself is a year and up to 3 years with RROD.
I just can't go to Gamestop anymore. It's all about the Bestbuy, or my local gamecrazy. Luckily for me, they're half decent in there.
I'll take Best Buy or Target any day over Gamestop. I haven't shopped there in years. There is nothing they provide I can't get somewhere else with less hassle at the same price or sometimes at an even lower price.
Well I use to work at a game stop and I can tell you it sucks balls. There is always pressure for the employees to get magazine subscriptions and game reserves, otherwise they get fired. Every body you talk to, you HAVE to mention the magazine and the card and ask about reserves. And of course customers hate it. I felt like a used car salesman. Those stores are always so tiny, crowding everyone together and making it feel more like a zoo than a store. And because they don't keep games out on the shelves (just empty boxes), there's always the problem of a box going missing (people steal the boxes of course). Honestly, how hard would it be to get a scanner in the front door. It would be so much easier. But I remember the worst part of working there was that you had to find the game that goes in the box within the mess of colored CD packets or "somewhere" in the back room.
Awful experience.
Awful experience.
all corporatations are alike, they're there to make as much money off of you as possible and thats their bottom line
I don't know, the clerks at the local Gamestop equivalent EB Games (same company, in Canada so they aren't changing the name) seem pretty knowledgeable about a lot of things. When I mentioned Odin Sphere they immediately knew what I was talking about and after stating there is no way I'll ever find it went on to describe how awesome it is. They also complimented my Katamari shirt so they seem alright to me. Granted, this may be one decent store out of a chain of hundreds.
I love how all the gaming blog sites are acting all hurt cause they ran a fake story. Just admit that you got fooled and learn from it so this dosent happen again and be done with it instead of bashing the website it came from. Im sure if the guys here at GiantBomb would have posted this story they would have just said it turned out to be fake and would have forgotten about it, which is the right way of handling it.
My Gamestop must be like a shimmering diamond in a sea of dog shit. The employees there are fantastic. Yes, they ask you for pre-orders but they don't force or degrade your if you choose not to. They know their shit, too, which to a gaming news blog addict like myself, simply means I don't have to speak to idiots when I go in to pick up my latest fix. Perhaps my opinions of this store are raised further by the knowledge that ALL game shops rape people on trade-in prices -- when I trade, I use Goozex or eBay -- so I don't have some sort of resentful grudge against them for offering fifty cents for last year's Madden. Even in a situation like that -- yes, the price is bullshit! -- it is one's own god damn fault for accepting the deal.
Any Gamestop executives reading this comment: before you pick up the phone to have all these guys fired for more mindless number-jockeys, please consider the fact that because these people are so friendly, knowledgable and pressure-free, I currently have 8 pre-orders on file with them (two of which fully paid collector's editions). If they weren't there, or if they were fired, I'd just buy from Amazon and never spend another dime in that shop.
Any Gamestop executives reading this comment: before you pick up the phone to have all these guys fired for more mindless number-jockeys, please consider the fact that because these people are so friendly, knowledgable and pressure-free, I currently have 8 pre-orders on file with them (two of which fully paid collector's editions). If they weren't there, or if they were fired, I'd just buy from Amazon and never spend another dime in that shop.
"Shake lastnights bong session out of his brain. "
I've never known someone who has had a hangover from a bong and had to shake anything from their brain... maybe after drinking copeus amounts of rum on the job, but not after smoking pot. :)
Yeah, a lot of poeple are bashing on Kotaku for reporting the rumor and I believe that is them doing their thing. I think it was a cool contest by CAG though.
GameStop sucks. Always has and always will.
The stories posted on video game Web sites based on the Cheap Ass Gamer story show why it is important to fact check before publishing, and why the video game press rarely gets any respect (and rarely deserves any respect).
Report something with no real source as a rumor if you'd like, but when even the rumors you report often turn out to be untrue, claiming that they're rumors isn't going to help your credibility.
(I am not singling out Giant Bomb with this comment. It applies to a good portion of the video game press.)
Report something with no real source as a rumor if you'd like, but when even the rumors you report often turn out to be untrue, claiming that they're rumors isn't going to help your credibility.
(I am not singling out Giant Bomb with this comment. It applies to a good portion of the video game press.)
The people at my local gamestop have about zero knowledge other than the fact that they need to bug me every single time about trade ins, and pre-orders. Honestly I got into GS almost every single day on my break at work and everyday they ask the same crap...they should know damn well they are bugging me since I always say no.
I know they have sales goals to meet but I am what you would call a regular customer..I spend an asston of money in there every month and I dont fall for their crap.
I also hate when they open a copy of a game and sell it as new. I went in for a game last week and they had about 20 copies open and on display. I asked for a sealed copy and they didnt have any. What the hell possessed them to open so many damn copies?! Screw Gamestop...maybe I should stop spending my money there.
I have joined Goozex which is amazing and its quickly getting me to stop trading anything in at GS. Full value is far better then the pittance GS gives.
I know they have sales goals to meet but I am what you would call a regular customer..I spend an asston of money in there every month and I dont fall for their crap.
I also hate when they open a copy of a game and sell it as new. I went in for a game last week and they had about 20 copies open and on display. I asked for a sealed copy and they didnt have any. What the hell possessed them to open so many damn copies?! Screw Gamestop...maybe I should stop spending my money there.
I have joined Goozex which is amazing and its quickly getting me to stop trading anything in at GS. Full value is far better then the pittance GS gives.
So sick of Jeff's biased hate speech toward folks that enjoy THC. I call bullshit on your "don't mistake this for some sort of holier-than-thou nonsense" line, regardless of what context it was used.
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