GameStop stores are potentially closing their doors

**MrRaverX** Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:53 pm

2012 annual sales figures were recently released, and according to
Business Insider, the used game juggernaut is downsizing across the
country. At least 500 GameStop stores are potentially closing their
doors, and there aren’t too many gamers that are sad to hear it.
In the wake of subpar sales, smear campaigns by rental companies like
GameFly, and a general loss of respect by frequent customers, GameStop
has been slowly losing business for a while. Many major retailers like
Best Buy and Target are already carrying previously owned games.
Meanwhile, digital gaming is taking control, and despite the efforts to
start selling prepaid Steam gift cards, most gamers are staying away
from GameStop.

GameStop’s future becomes bleaker when considering the next Microsoft
and Sony consoles may or may not support used games. On top of that
uncertainty, Game Stop also has to compete with the rise of online phone
games, indie games, and a potential wave of microconsoles set to
release over the next year.

This would leave GameStop to the hardcore gamer wolves. The only
product they would be able to move would be the Wii U, new games, and
outdated titles. When is the last time anyone walked into a GameStop and
they made a retro gamer feel welcome? Odds are pretty decent that 500
closed doors will mark the beginning of the death of a long line of
absorbed game store outlets (including the once great EB Games).

GameStop isn’t evaporating overnight, but this is definitely a huge
‘I told you so’ in the eyes of many gamers who have become increasingly
fed up with poor customer service, overpriced titles, and the general
lack of industry knowledge by many GameStop employees.

I have come across a handful of knowledgeable, polite, and even
helpful GameStop employees. I hope the stores these employees work at
are some of the many stores to remain open.

How do you feel about GameStop closing doors?

**MrScrewedx** Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:53 pm

If EB Games over here in Aus closed down I couldn't give a shit really, buying games off the internet is always a better way to go when retail in Australia is twice the damn cost lol.

Guest Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:50 am

Some guy on machinima was talking about this and his reaction was fucking hilarious. I personally hope that not all Gamestops close in the future because they provide more games than the Walmarts and Best Buys that are around me combined. I can't find Halo 3 at walmart anymore but I can at best buy. Sometimes I wanna get a game righ away and not have to wait until it arrives in the mail. They're preorder bonuses aren't that bad either. Prices are bad but whatever. If it's a game I really want then I'll cough up the extra bucks for it.

**Rapidkirby3k** Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:00 pm

I don't remember if I had a good or bad experience with GameStop, but I lost interest in it a while back.

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