According to my manager, Activision and a few of the other big publishers have been really threatening GameStop over this, threatening to pull stock.
Steroid said:
Yeah right. Not everyone wants to drop 60 bones on every single game that comes out. For many people if they can't get the game used, they won't get the game at all. |
Except GameStop only sells the used version of a game for ~10% less than the new version. So a $60 game goes for $55 used. A $30 game goes for $27 used. If people aren't willing to spend $60, they're not willing to spend $55 either. The difference is that employees like myself are told to talk customers into buying used over new.
Your reasoning is hardly a justification for GameStop's crappy practices that *are* hurting the industry, because the price differential between used and new is neglible to the customer.
| ymeaga1n said: Dude that is the gamestop nearby my house at buena park mall, i swear |
you should be on the picture 
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makingmusic476 said:
Except GameStop only sells the used version of a game for ~10% less than the new version. So a $60 game goes for $55 used. A $30 game goes for $27 used. If people aren't willing to spend $60, they're not willing to spend $55 either. The difference is that employees like myself are told to talk customers into buying used over new. Your reasoning is hardly a justification for GameStop's crappy practices that *are* hurting the industry, because the price differential between used and new is neglible to the customer. |
It's different store policies. I'm also a gamestop employee, and my manager does not push any one of us to push the used games specfically. I've found that if customers want a game used that they'll ask for it.
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| Nightmare24 said: Thats terrible used games are bad and killing this industry slowly. |
$60 a pop for a game isn't? When a game fails to have replay value, and goes for $60 a pop, I don't know why people should be forced to keep it. I hear how "piracy" kills the industry. Now used game sales kill the industry. I think the industry needs to stop making excuses, and make games people want to buy.
They are easing off because Walmart and Best Buy is getting into the game. Gamestop lost the entire sector of revenue basically.
Sometimes I think they can tell from my body language I'm not f'in interested. Lol, but generally they are annoying with that. I do understand corporate makes people do crazy things though :0
Everyone needs to play Lost Odyssey! Any opposition to this and I will have to just say, "If it's a fight you want, you got it!"
Steroid said:
Yeah right. Not everyone wants to drop 60 bones on every single game that comes out. For many people if they can't get the game used, they won't get the game at all. |
Forge a Nickel then.
richardhutnik said:
$60 a pop for a game isn't? When a game fails to have replay value, and goes for $60 a pop, I don't know why people should be forced to keep it. I hear how "piracy" kills the industry. Now used game sales kill the industry. I think the industry needs to stop making excuses, and make games people want to buy. |
Used games has changed the pricing structure of the video game industry. A certain percentage of people will buy a game new regardless, now Publishers have to rely on pulling bigger returns from these guaranteed customers because they are losing out on the return from the customers that want to save a few dollars and buy used games. If there was no used game market $50 or even $40 could be the standard price for a new game.
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