• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The move to digital sales is killing their business model.

    They can’t buy and re-sell used digital games.

    Pre-orders on digital content can be done through the respective app stores.

    Gamepass renders the buy, sell, re-buy consumer behavior irrelevant.

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      9 months ago

      I mean, all that was intentional…

      But this was a dying business years ago, it was propped up by a few people who made a shit ton of money and a whole bunch of idiots they convinced to hold the bag.

      GameStop was never going to last long, it was just delayed

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        9 months ago

        It should have ended years ago, it’s a crap company who were annoying to do business with, it became a meme and got to live a few extra years. But I say good riddance

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    9 months ago

    I’d do my part in buying games from them more if they didn’t block my home network from their website lol. Yes it’s behind a VPN, and no I’m not turning it off to give up my privacy just to buy something I can get from stores that won’t block me.

    I honestly used to buy games from them a lot, but once their website became inaccessible, I sorta forgot about them. Surely I’m not the only one right…?

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    9 months ago

    Has it not mooned yet? Apes must be in shambles.

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      9 months ago

      That subreddit was simultaneously the funniest and creepiest subreddit I’ve ever visited. It’s hilarious how sure they are that they will all be billionaires but I always got the creeps when thinking about how I was reading the comments from a bunch of people just throwing their life savings down the toilet.

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        9 months ago

        I bought a few thousand dollars because I could and I’m just sitting on it because I’m very curious what’s going to happen. I really believe the float has been locked up for a while and there’s some serious shenanigans going on. I either will strike it rich or at some point throw in the towel and write off the losses on my taxes. But I look back at when everyone wrote off Bitcoin and look at it now.

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    9 months ago

    As a Mexican I always loved visiting GameStop when I was in the USA, there was simply not a good replacement for GameStop here at those times, now there are some, but they barely look like a videogame store (full with merchandising and stuff), and as always Amazon MX has cheaper prices than local stores, hell even it has cheaper prices than Target or GameStop (compared when I was there last time some months ago).

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    9 months ago

    They should merge with RadioShack and that company that rented DVD’s out of ATM’s in front of gas stations.