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Where do you purchase games from?

Gamestop 20 17.54%
 
Amazon 35 30.70%
 
Steam 12 10.53%
 
Other Retailers 24 21.05%
 
Other Online 23 20.18%
 
Total:114
twesterm on 25 March 2013
Fayceless said:
Gamestop and Steam. People don't understand Gamestop's value to gaming. Wal-Mart and other general retailers stock mainly shovelware and big hits because their uneducated (gaming-wise) consumers only buy crap. Niche games need a physical home, a presence in stores, otherwise they may not be released at all. Why do you think Xenoblade Chronicles was Gamestop-only? They were most likely the biggest retailer who would even stock the game. Do you really think Wal-Mart would move Shooter-Hunter/Colorful Mini-Game 2013 for a JRPG franchise with a cult following? Forget about it, their customers are mainly rednecks and little kids (or their parents) who pick up the redneckiest or most colorfully packaged games.

Someday online will be the way to get games. Until then, we need actual game stores.


Except Gamestop are the same ones that will pressure you into preordering those very same shovelware and big hit games...

Seriously, screw Gamestop.  I don't need some know-it-all moron telling me false information and telling me I have to preorder X big game or else I have no chance of getting it.



 

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flagstaad on 25 March 2013

Amazon, they are one of the few sellers that accept my international credit card, and the shipping is free on most orders over 25 U$. I can not buy here in my country the prices are way too high.



Fayceless on 25 March 2013
twesterm said:
Fayceless said:
Gamestop and Steam. People don't understand Gamestop's value to gaming. Wal-Mart and other general retailers stock mainly shovelware and big hits because their uneducated (gaming-wise) consumers only buy crap. Niche games need a physical home, a presence in stores, otherwise they may not be released at all. Why do you think Xenoblade Chronicles was Gamestop-only? They were most likely the biggest retailer who would even stock the game. Do you really think Wal-Mart would move Shooter-Hunter/Colorful Mini-Game 2013 for a JRPG franchise with a cult following? Forget about it, their customers are mainly rednecks and little kids (or their parents) who pick up the redneckiest or most colorfully packaged games.

Someday online will be the way to get games. Until then, we need actual game stores.


Except Gamestop are the same ones that will pressure you into preordering those very same shovelware and big hit games...

Seriously, screw Gamestop.  I don't need some know-it-all moron telling me false information and telling me I have to preorder X big game or else I have no chance of getting it.


I've never understood why this bothers people so much.  It's pretty much exactly the same thing as the fast food worker who says "Would you like to try X today?"  Nobody complains about them pushing their cheap food on you, all you have to do is say "no, thanks."  Even at the grocery store check-out they're trying to offload some candy or something on me. It's ubiquitous these days.



twesterm on 25 March 2013
Fayceless said:
twesterm said:
Fayceless said:
Gamestop and Steam. People don't understand Gamestop's value to gaming. Wal-Mart and other general retailers stock mainly shovelware and big hits because their uneducated (gaming-wise) consumers only buy crap. Niche games need a physical home, a presence in stores, otherwise they may not be released at all. Why do you think Xenoblade Chronicles was Gamestop-only? They were most likely the biggest retailer who would even stock the game. Do you really think Wal-Mart would move Shooter-Hunter/Colorful Mini-Game 2013 for a JRPG franchise with a cult following? Forget about it, their customers are mainly rednecks and little kids (or their parents) who pick up the redneckiest or most colorfully packaged games.

Someday online will be the way to get games. Until then, we need actual game stores.


Except Gamestop are the same ones that will pressure you into preordering those very same shovelware and big hit games...

Seriously, screw Gamestop.  I don't need some know-it-all moron telling me false information and telling me I have to preorder X big game or else I have no chance of getting it.


I've never understood why this bothers people so much.  It's pretty much exactly the same thing as the fast food worker who says "Would you like to try X today?"  Nobody complains about them pushing their cheap food on you, all you have to do is say "no, thanks."  Even at the grocery store check-out they're trying to offload some candy or something on me. It's ubiquitous these days.


When a fast food cashier asks "would you like fries with that?" and I say no, they don't ask again.  When I buy X game at Gamestop, they then ask me if I'd like to preorder three other games, sign up for their crappy magazine, and then ask if I'd like to buy used, I say no, no, and no and then they continue to pester me about it.  

Also, McDonald's employees knows about McDonald's french fries, the typical GameStop employee knows next to nothing about games but they pretend they do since they're "in the industry."



 

BloodyRain on 25 March 2013

Ya gamestop does shove preorders and stuff down your throat. It is pretty much the same thing everytime I go there. They were alot less pushy a few years back or maybe that was just the stores I visited.



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DevilRising on 27 March 2013

Gamestop, as a company, sucks. And they really seem to train their employees to be cockbags as well. Either that or they specifically only hire snotty fanboys. I don't give a fuck WHAT game it is I'm purchasing, I should never EVER hear an employee of any store remark to me "What, you're buying THIS?"

The store/chain/entity is just completely full of shit, and does not deserve honest gamers' money.



twesterm on 27 March 2013
DevilRising said:
Gamestop, as a company, sucks. And they really seem to train their employees to be cockbags as well. Either that or they specifically only hire snotty fanboys. I don't give a fuck WHAT game it is I'm purchasing, I should never EVER hear an employee of any store remark to me "What, you're buying THIS?"

The store/chain/entity is just completely full of shit, and does not deserve honest gamers' money.


I've had them do that to me before and it took everything I had not to go off on them.  I understand my sister-in-law goes into Gamestop because she doesn't know what to buy and asks for advice on what to buy her eight year old son (even if their advice is bad), but I go in there and bee-line for exactly what I want and then go straight to the register, I know what I'm lookin for.  I don't need your condesending attitude.