Why Gamestop should be Stopped.

[ewhac]

Free marker [sic], company that responds to the Demand of the market. If you go and punish Gamestop from being profit seeking company you are killing capitalism and free market. I have always got good deals and good service from my Gamestop, so If you try to take away their right of be on the Free market I will be there personally to defend them.

Um, what you're seeing here is the Free Market in action. A former employee is giving you information about GameStop you didn't have before. (Or maybe you did; that was a guess on my part.)

His message is the following: "GameStop pays less for your used games than you'll find almost everywhere else; sells used games for more than everywhere else; misrepresents used games as new; makes no meaningful effort to ensure its used games are in salable condition; inconsistently, if ever, enforces its publicly-stated policies; and underpays its employees and treats them poorly. If you're okay with that -- if posting enormous quarterly profits to shareholders in your mind trumps all those abuses -- then fine, continue to shop at GameStop. If you're [em]not[/em] okay with that, you might want to consider taking your business elsewhere."

How is any of that contrary to the intended operation of the Free Market?

 

[Tony2077]

i buy from gamestop/ebgames and i'll be damned if i care what some guy i don't know says about them

 

[funguy2121]

Just watched video #3, which was essentially 18 minutes of bashing everyone who's ever shopped at Gamestop. Just who is this dipshit seeking empathy from? He claims the expectation that gamestop employees know anything about games is unrealistic. Why is this guy not a lawyer yet?

 

[danintexas]

Got through maybe 2 min of the video. Horrible video.

With that said

If anyone buys from Gamestop they deserve what they get. I have to admit I die a little inside when I see some kid with 20 games and a 360 turn it into Gamestop for $100. But it is up to them to get ripped off.

All my video game purchases come from Amazon now. Find it cheaper and I usually get it next day anyways.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

Gamestop is the only gaming store near me that isn't WalMart. I realized long ago that the trade-in system is a rip off (though, I don't ever sell my games), but I've found used games cheaper than I could online.

Though, I still hope to get a vintage game shop near me.

 

[funguy2121]

I was just reminded of another parallel. College-level textbooks. Overpriced, poorly constructed shit that they are. When you try to return them, a semester later, in damn near-mint condition, the same stores will offer you a tiny fraction of the price ($300/$60 or worse). So I came up with the idea of posting ads for the books I was selling/buying all over campus (this was long before craig's list). I could charge a helluvah lot more than $60 to sell directly to another student and he would still spend a lot less than $300. So we were both circumventing the store altogether and we were both benefiting. Of course, ultimately they started updating the books every semester/year and the students officially weren't allowed to use the "out of date" editions. The only significant difference? The page layout was different so they had to do a tremendous amount of extra work following the syllabus. Too bad so many students march and demonstrate rather than contacting their congressman, huh?

 

[funguy2121]

Just finished watching the entire series. Sadly, the narrator has dreadful diction, and it is extremely difficult to understand what he's saying at times. This is a shame because A) he has something important to say; and B) some of his gags are pretty good.

I'm also extremely impressed that he managed to bash out what must have been well over 1000 panels of art to support his 90-minute rant. This is a [em]hell[/em] of a lot of work, as I can personally attest.

Finally, everyone claiming he's not funny obviously hasn't paid any attention to the sight gags. The joke density isn't as high as in Yahtzee's work, but it's still creditable. As an example, here's a still I clipped from near the very end of his rant that made me stop the video to laugh. The narration over it is: "The Internet loves when you hate on things so much, it can lead to a 400% increase in site traffic."

Any time I would agree with you that he's "kinda good" I also have to acknowledge that it's because he's spent a lot of time watching Zero Punctuation so those "kinda good" jokes are directly stolen and then modified to disguise the source - a pale simulacrum of the real thing.

This is like the guy who seems interesting because he knows a lot about David Cross and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Eventually he runs out of Family Guy references and you realize that he has nothing original at all to say. It's okay. I was once 16 and had a sense of humor pathetically dependent on Dr. Evil references. This guy is in or approaching his 30's.

He's also incredibly stupid. He doesn't even appear to get Yatzhee, just that Yatzhee is popular and therefore must have appeal (in this regard he was a perfect fit for a corporate entity like Gamestop). He starts out with "Part 1," in which he spends about 5 minutes telling us that he's about to tell us why we shouldn't do business with Gamestop. So he must've known who THE AUDIENCE HE PICKED TO MAKE THE VIDEOS WERE by the time he got to "Part 3 Part 1" and "Part 3 Part 2" ( < intellectual leviathon ) and spent more than 10 minutes describing his view that every single customer who walks into a gamestop is retarded and worthless and mean-spirited, THEN spends more than 10 minutes describing how every single gamestop employee is also retarded and worthless. At one point he said "my store is different" and I laughed because if that's the case, then how would he know that gamestop employees are lazy and won't pull their part of the workload and that general managers love sucking Satan's cock? Did he read it in Spin?

 

[Shycte]

Oh no. They are making money legally fair and square. How do we stop them?

 

[ewhac]

Oh no. They are making money legally fair and square. How do we stop them?

Wow.

The confusion of ideas on display makes me wonder how any of these people ever make it all the way through Atlas Shrugged.

But please, feel free to see Soviet Communists lurking under your bed and sapping your precious bodily fluids while you sleep. The rest of us will be making informed shopping decisions based on the best information available.

 

[Jaded Scribe]

Newsflash: GameStop over-prices it's used games.

/yawn.

To be honest, I like GameStop. Do I trade in games there? No. Though I will buy used there. Do I know I'm paying more? Yes. But, I've never gotten a disk that doesn't work. Never been scammed by online sellers. They also offer (last I check) a 7-day used return for full refund, no questions asked (PC excluded, but considering DRMs, makes sense).

 

[Jayse]

Here in Ireland I bought Killzone 3 for 50 euro, for the steel box edition.

Cleared the game, was let down by it, so six days later I returned to trade it in. Got 45 euro store credit. Now I don't know about the rest of the world but that's essentially a 6 day rental for 5 quid. Which going off the local xtravision price is the renal fee for a new game for a single night.

Infact I was in Argos one day and saw them selling Dead Space 2 for 20 euro not 3 weeks after game release. I snapped up 3 copies which Gamestop were still offering 40 euro trade-in value for. I really cant see people problem with the store.

 

[II2none]

Nah, his style is kinda annoying, I shouldn't have to adjust the volume louder just to here a long running joke. Especially if he's not gonna get to the highlight of his joke/points at a reasonable pace and speak as if he's rushing to take a piss.

No offense...

 

[II2none]

the resell for games you sell them didnt tip you off
Pokemon emerald
buy $5
sell$30!!!

and yeah he loves yahtzees style...who doesnt.

Me, sometimes he talks too fast that you can't understand his jokes/points.

maybe your too slow...

Nah, his style is kinda annoying, I shouldn't have to adjust the volume louder just to here a long running joke. Especially if he's not gonna get to the highlight of his joke/points at a reasonable pace and speak as if he's rushing to take a piss.

No offense...

 

[II2none]

the resell for games you sell them didnt tip you off
Pokemon emerald
buy $5
sell$30!!!

and yeah he loves yahtzees style...who doesnt.

Me, sometimes he talks too fast that you can't understand his jokes/points.

maybe your too slow...

Nah, his style is kinda annoying, I shouldn't have to adjust the volume louder just to here a long running joke. Especially if he's not gonna get to the highlight of his joke/points at a reasonable pace and speak as if he's rushing to take a piss.

No offense...

 

[darkcommanderq]

Gamestop is fine. If you dont like them dont go there. I have traded in tons of games for decent cash to cut down the price on a midnight release. I have also picked up a few gems of games for under $10 that I otherwise would have never played.

If you dont like gamestop dont buy from them, if enough people feel the same way you do they will go out of business. I dont really see what the problem is with them is.

 

[Saviordd1]

If your stupid enough to think you'll get a good deal at gamestop in the first place then theres a good chance that no matter what anyone says you'll continue using the trade service

Pointless thread is pointless

 

[Atmos Duality]

Old, old, OLD news.

It's still a great rant, and fun to watch. But the fallout from Gamestop's exposure has already been touched upon here, and months ago at that.

If you want the short of it: Gamestop exploits arbitrage and cheap labor to turn amazing profits, bought out its competition, and grew to its current size as a result. I don't do business with them anymore both out of a sense of decency/ethics and because I can find much better deals with firms who actually competitively price their new games.

 

[Mister Linton]

Me, sometimes he talks too fast that you can't understand his jokes/points.

If you don't like Yahtzee's style but still want reasons to hate Gamestop, then try this on for size:


He's got about 7 videos about Gamestop. Enjoy!

That guy was super useless, worse than the Yahtzee wannabe. Former employees of a company complaining about how unfair their former employer was are a dime a dozen. "Oooh they didn't give me a big fat raise! They didn't promote me!" I'll give you three guesses why they didn't give you a raise or promote you (hint, it rhymes with "you are a crappy useless worker who doesn't know jack shit about retail and the sales industry")

My gosh, some people think being an assistant manager at a small retail store is some sort of high falootin' position that should be getting major corporate pay and raises. You are still a peon and until you put in the hard work, that's what you will stay.