elm669
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This, I gave up on Gamestop as a source for PC games and accessories years ago.I can't ever remember ever seeing PC stuff at the gamestop near me. Their previous iterations maybe.
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This, I gave up on Gamestop as a source for PC games and accessories years ago.I can't ever remember ever seeing PC stuff at the gamestop near me. Their previous iterations maybe.
Pretty sure the PC market has always been the minority compared to the aggregate console market.This, I gave up on Gamestop as a source for PC games and accessories years ago.
it's all about price...I bought the physical copy of Doom (2016) through Amazon because it was $15.99 (or something like that) a few months after release
I admit, the pricing is unclear sometimes. It probably is because of a number of things like physical inventory needing to get out the door. Shelf space costs money.I bought Destiny 2 for $26 on Amazon the other day. Why was it $26? Because it seems that the physical box pricing can be whatever the retailer wants to set it to and the digital pricing seems to be suggested or set by the publisher. I've seen physical copies on sale for 50% off or more 6 months before the digital copy gets that discount. And you get the same code to activate on Steam, UPLAY, Battlenet, Origin, etc. Just have to wait 2 days for the thing to arrive.
I don't miss going to the game store to buy games.
Look through the rack for like 20 minutes for anything worth buying...
Narrow it down to 3 items, each individually in your budget, but you can't afford more than just 1.
Debate over it for a while. Ask the dude behind the counter for advice, and be told to buy the most expensive one.
Narrow it down to two.
Debate over it for another 10 minutes.
Put both back and get the third.
Wait in line for 45 minutes to check out because there are 30 people in line, and only one checkout attendant working, even though they have 5 employees and 4 sales terminals.
Get home, and find that an employee has opened the game, played it, or as they would say, 'demoed it', and forgot the CD key when it got put back on the shelf.
Go back to the store, and wait another 55 minutes to talk to a manager about getting a CD key...
There, you've wasted 4+ hours of your life.
Buy it off steam. CD key is usually a non issue. You get reviews, documentation, Q&A, etc., right there. No pushy sales slob to deal with, and the game downloads and installs in less time than it would take just to drive to the store.
Exaggeration is an understatement here...literally.
Nowadays, maybe a bit (at least as far as the lines go)...though I can say that back in the days before Steam/widespread internet this was a pretty common situation, in my experience.
Exaggeration is an understatement here...literally.
Last game I picked up at Gamestop was Diablo III: RoS.
(and only because at the time it was half-price compared to Bnet)
You can get games release day with a 20% with prime for most new games I believe. $48 shipped is good even if it comes a day or two late.If you are an exclusive PC gamer, there’s no reason to ever step in a Game Stop. I see posts here saying “hopefully they go out of business”, when in reality they did for pc gamers.
For console gamers or people like me who like consoles and PCs, it’s still a great store. Sure theres ordering games online, but 9/10 times, the games are the same price both in store and online so why wait 3-7 days for a game when I can just buy a game and be playing it in a matter of minutes? Not to mention it’s nice to just browse a store. I like seeing the boxes and just browsing around the same way I did when I had an NES and would look at games at Funcoland. Pc game makers don’t even make physical media anymore so is GameStop even to blame for that?