@ Berry : Been away, but now THAT is a legitimate complaint, even though I must say most of the mom and pop game stores I know kinda suck...
Yea putting them out of business is bad, but they have a stock so... small... that I can see why they go out of business.
Which, makes me wonder where it starts, do they have a small stock because gamestop is siphoning there business, or is gamestop siphoning there business because they have no stock.
Well they get their stock partly due to the threatening, and making companies put "exclusive" content on the discs going to Game Stop. So now not only is GS huge, they're supposedly offering a better service
It not only makes it impossible to keep up with, in our supposedly competitive market, but contributes, note I only say contributes, to the practices and attitudes of big publishers these days. Because once they have the game on their shelves Game Stops goal is constantly buy and sell the same copy so that they don't have give money back to the publishers.
Now I still think used games are great, but by the time the time Game Stop has taken their share for selling the game, and the publishers take theirs for backing the product, the people who actually did the work, the devs are left with chump change.
Heck, because the retail and publisher levels are trying to take all the money for themselves neither comes out with a satisfactory amount, and the devs are left in the dust to be whipped into making another clone of the game they made the previous year, just so they can make a little bit of change to keep going. Not that devs are entirely faultless, we've seen what they'll do when no one's watching the quality of their work. Steam Greenlight people.
But fucking Christ the video game industry rakes in BILLIONS every year, and there should be enough to go around, but there isn't because no one can be satisfied with the amount they actually get, they need more because...BECAUSE.
Holy shit I just ranted.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850Because I got waaaay off topic in the middle there, what I was talking about with used games. Game Stop gets all of the money for those, while they only get some, if not most of the money for the new ones. So they shove used games down our throats, with (understandibly) low prices, and they constantly recommend, "Don't get the new one, get this used copy for a slightly slashed price". Even if people want to buy new, Game Stop employees are obligated to steer the customer towards used games. In that way Game Stop is abusing the used game market like an item dupe glitch. It seems like they're just trying to get the games in the people's hands, by giving them an option, but what they're really doing is taking money that otherwise would not belong to them for products that they don't produce.
edited 17th Sep '14 4:26:49 PM by Azure
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850Having worked with that stuff Berry, that's because retail does NOT make money off the initial sale, well they do, but its like 5usd which is not even enough to pay the bills, or the employes.
Sure, more money going to the Devs would be nice, but to do that publishers need to relinquish some of there share, so that retail can actualy make money on new copies, and so that the devs actually get a share as well.
edited 17th Sep '14 4:32:50 PM by Imca

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