Dear GAME, go fuck yourself

[Total LOLige]

This is just a theroy, I don't know anything about running a business, so don't quiz me on this shit.

I've abused Gamestation's trade ins for a while now. Cex is next door to my local GS, so I go to cex, get prices, go next door, and get new prices of Cex +£1. Plus, the original Gamestation offer is still printed on the receipt. I once turned an offer of around £20 into just shy of £50 this way.

I've just never bothered doing that because I can usually get what I want at HMV for the same price and better trade in. I've never heard of Cex before, just go on their website they've got some decent deals.

 

[dimensional]

Well I think GAME have already gone and fucked themselves to be honest and they are now in a right mess thanks to poor game selection, poor customer service (mostly some employees are the exception but managers have always been ignorant on the products they sell in my experience) and poor pricing.

There is no reason to shop there anymore unless the price of something is more or less the same everywhere (like a new console) then you may as well get it from GAME and get some points I suppose, hopefully it will collapse and we will start seeing some independents again im not sure there pricing would be much better but they should be able to provide good customer service and perhaps differentiate themselves by stocking more niche games.

 

[demotion1]

It is a pity for those who had a gift card and cannot buy it now i know i would be furious in their place. How can they not refund you for something they were advertising? This has to be illegal imo.

Amazon(uk,de) and Play.com are probably the most reliable places out there for Europe at least and play also ships free in EU which is a big plus for me as i live in Cyprus.

 

[BelmontWolf]

EA are the jerks here they always are and any gamer that likes their games these days is a fool

There's many things wrong with this. Here's a couple of my favourites:
-Blanket assertion that when something involving EA happens, it's always the fault of EA, and not, as in this case, the fact that Game doesn't know how to business.
-That because EA do make some decisions that are unpopular, that their products can't be entertaining.

Unfortunately for the gaming industry EA keeps trying to force new rules on people and that's what i disagree with.

If the gaming community were to just tell EA to piss off and sort themselves out by refusing to buy their games for a while they will back down and actually give us what we want.

ME3 is even more stripped down than ME2 was and they think its ok to publish games in this way.

GAME tried to make a deal. they know that ME3 will be a big seller regardless and asked to simply let them sell the game then they will repay EA when the sales roll in like a landslide.
EA in their infinite wisdom have said no to this and therefore have also shot themselves in the foot as alot of people rely on game stores still to get their games.

 

[Bebus]

It will be sad to see Gamestation go. My local is brilliant and the staff clean my discs for free. Game, on the other hand, can suck it for all I care.

I have spent the £5 credit they gave me for screwing me on ME3 and the balance on my points card on Batman: Arkham City. Don't want to lose my money when they go under!

 

[GoaThief]

EA are the jerks here they always are and any gamer that likes their games these days is a fool

The sentance is so flawed it makes my logic circuits hurt. I need to go lie down...

Interesting, yet you have no problem with the following as it's totally logical?

I was only saying to someone just earleir today on xbox live ''Well I dont like game because of the big fat ignorant **** who stares at you like your a big mac when you walk in the shop, so I hope the fucks crash and burn''. P.S. In ireland we have Gamestop aswell so Game can go choke on an EA dick for all I care

The whole of GAME should crash and burn because their local manager is ugly, fat and has the gall to actually look at the shop's customers? Hmmm.

 

[Alfador_VII]

It will be sad to see Gamestation go. My local is brilliant and the staff clean my discs for free. Game, on the other hand, can suck it for all I care.

I have spent the £5 credit they gave me for screwing me on ME3 and the balance on my points card on Batman: Arkham City. Don't want to lose my money when they go under!

Gamestation is basically GAME with staff who actually know about games, and care about the customers. Sadly it'll go under with the rest of the group.

 

[Aris Khandr]

GAME tried to make a deal. they know that ME3 will be a big seller regardless and asked to simply let them sell the game then they will repay EA when the sales roll in like a landslide.
EA in their infinite wisdom have said no to this and therefore have also shot themselves in the foot as alot of people rely on game stores still to get their games.

GAME tried to make a deal, yes. EA didn't take it, because obviously the deal wasn't as good as the deal they normally get. That's fine. That isn't EA being jerks, that's EA running a business. EA doesn't need GAME. The stock that would have gone to them will be happily sent on to Amazon, HMV, or a dozen other stores that can actually pay for what they want. EA isn't the bad guy here for not offering charity to a store that is nearly dead.

 

[Jiffex]

So when I went to Game to go pre-order Mass Effect 3 I put the money on a gamecard, make it easy when I went to buy it. Now I find out that they're no longer going to be able to supply Mass Effect 3, so yeh, I'm done with you unreliable motherfuckers.

I don't think they decided not to stock ME3 to spite you to be honest, it's not like it's their decision that a lot of developers think they're bastards.

It's not their decision but it is their fault, for treating developers badly for years, cutting into their profits by pushing pre-owned sales and making demands because they're the biggest game retailers on the high street.

 

[MercurySteam]

EA are the jerks here they always are and any gamer that likes their games these days is a fool

The sentance is so flawed it makes my logic circuits hurt. I need to go lie down...

Interesting, yet you have no problem with the following as it's totally logical?

I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I only buy from GAME because one day I will muster the courage to ask out the girl who works there, who is not only attractive, but is interesting and I get on with quite well... I just always get this feeling I won't be the first guy to ask, and I am probably lumped in with the usual 'desperate nerd' types... (Which I am, I just don't want to be! )

I also just had to scan through the thread to see if it was one of the GAME hating threads I had already posted in! Seems that they really don't have good crit right now! Sucks to be them!

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Pretty much all physical retailers suck, but that is entirely your own fault.

 

[ABLb0y]

Unfortunately if GAME goes there won't be any places to buy new games in my town. I mean, Jesus, they got rid of HMV for another JD sports. Do we really need another one? Are we really that starved of tacky shell suits?

 

[Neko Pounce]

It pisses me off that this happened, but I really don't blame game for it

I Just had to get over the fact I might have to wait a little longer, is all.

 

[MiloP]

I did exactly that, now my plan is to use that trade-in money to get SSX and then trade that in for straight cash, use it to buy Mass Effect on Amazon.

Good job GAME got their SSX shipment before they burnt the EA bridge, or this plan would've failed too.

If by "burnt the EA bridge" you mean "had no money and asked for stock for free on good faith so that they could stock ME3 and then pay EA back after they'd made sales", sure.[/quote]

Fine, EA burnt the GAME bridge. Whatever the case, a bridge was burnt.

But I did buy SSX, and I'm very happy with it so far