GAME store filed for ponies : Othor Games

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:03 pm

Not seen any threads about this yet, but the UK retailer GAME filed for administration today.

This article about it is from yesterday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17455742

Will this affect gamestation as well, I wonder? It's a real shame, if GAME shuts down totally there won't be a lot of viable alternatives to supermarkets. Better spend all my reward points whilst I can. :shrug:

» Mon May 14, 2012 6:46 pm

I'm glad they're going down, they're rotten to the core.

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:45 am

I buy my games of amazon anyway. Its cheaper.
I wonder how much the cash exchange in town would give me. I may visit game, they should be selling games cheap, I wonder if I could sell them for a profit.
I missed woolworths, I wont miss out on this oppertunity either.

» Mon May 14, 2012 11:33 pm

What's that? Oh, marginalising the PC section might have had a part to play in this? Too late now, you say? :dry:

Haven't been a GAME shopper in years. What's the point, when their prices were so high and their selection so poor? Give me Amazon, Play.com, GOG and Steam anyday.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:03 am

"brick and mortar" retailers are doomed. I think the next consoles will have digital delivery and storage.

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:38 pm

I personally don't mind seeing anything remotely like the atrocious GameStop I have to deal with puffing into smoke. Horrible customer service.

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:32 am

I always liked GAME. They were better nicer places than Gamestation and you could pick up some decent second hand stuff. Well, until they stopped selling PC games. The one in my town closed down a few years back. It's getting to the point where online and mail distribution is the only way forward.

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:47 am

I think we've got a GAME and a Gamestop in the city too I think, but can't say I have too much experience with them since they are located in the middle of the city, and I've got plenty of different alternatives around here. I keep hearing crap/etc about GAME from people though, but I've never experienced anything negative with them.

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:35 pm

"brick and mortar" retailers are doomed. I think the next consoles will have digital delivery and storage.

Hell no. I own a few things digitally. But I will always choose physical copies if its an option.
If I was forced to buy digital only, I would just stop buying, or end up buying things. Then putting them on disk. Becuase I paid for it, I own it. Having a physical copy garuntees ownership of the item I purchased.

» Mon May 14, 2012 11:05 pm

Hell no. I own a few things digitally. But I will always choose physical copies if its an option.
If I was forced to buy digital only, I would just stop buying, or end up buying things. Then putting them on disk. Becuase I paid for it, I own it. Having a physical copy garuntees ownership of the item I purchased.

Well, I wasn't saying it should be like that, I'm just saying it probably will be like that.

» Mon May 14, 2012 1:47 pm

Hell no. I own a few things digitally. But I will always choose physical copies if its an option.
If I was forced to buy digital only, I would just stop buying, or end up buying things. Then putting them on disk. Becuase I paid for it, I own it. Having a physical copy garuntees ownership of the item I purchased.

Except for, y'know, having to use DRM before you can play your physical copy...

Anyway, this is a shame, I shopped at GAME quite often, they had a much better selection of games than supermarkets, and sometimes I want a game immediately instead of waiting for delivery.

» Mon May 14, 2012 8:59 pm

"brick and mortar" retailers are doomed. I think the next consoles will have digital delivery and storage.

i couldnt afford it, bandwidth is too expensive

» Mon May 14, 2012 4:26 pm

for me, digital versions are immeasurably superior. To get to town, it takes an hour there and back, in half that time I can download and install a game from steam. I'm somewhat disorganized, so I find having unlimited downloads very useful also.

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:15 pm

I've only had one bad experience with a Game Store.

But I prefer buying things physically. I would hate to have to buy things at Wal-Mart.

:S

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:44 pm

In ten years time, there will not be a single brick and mortar shop selling any kind of movies, videogames or music.

If I'm wrong, I'll eat my computer.

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:58 pm

Good news for my local Granger Games I guess.

» Mon May 14, 2012 6:03 pm

I'm not surprised. I hated Game, they always nicked the pre-order codes and had non-existent customer service. Amazon put them to shame in that regard. The only reason I ever shopped there is because of their habit of getting exclusives on collector's editions.

Although I generally think that reducing competition is really not a good thing, Game were toxic for gamers, so in their case... good riddance. I do feel sorry for the decent people who worked there, of which there were reportedly many, but the company's infrastructure and policies made them less good than many of their staff.

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:09 pm

I used to love their old budget PC games sections - 3 for ￡15 and you could usually find some gems.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:55 am

you guys who dislike GAME, is similar to me disliking gamestop

» Mon May 14, 2012 8:24 pm

you guys who dislike GAME, is similar to me disliking gamestop

They're one and the same, aren't they? I thought game acquired gamestop.

» Mon May 14, 2012 6:50 pm

We used to have a Gamestation, then last year it changed to GAME. It was pretty crap, HMV normally had a better selection. I mostly use Amazon anyway

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:38 pm

They're one and the same, aren't they? I thought game acquired gamestop.

Maybe the other way around. Gamestop is way too big, they merged with pretty much all of their retail competitors.

I miss the original Babbage's, Funcoland, and Electronics Boutique...

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:58 am

They're one and the same, aren't they? I thought game acquired gamestop.

Yeah, I think so. Though I heard that Gamestop never quite descended to the depths of Game's crapulence.

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:42 pm

If Game bought out Gamestation, and now Game is going bust, does that mean all the Gamestations will close?

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:34 am

We used to have a Gamestation, then last year it changed to GAME. It was pretty crap, HMV normally had a better selection. I mostly use Amazon anyway

hmv here is not gonna carry games anymore, theyre marking down everything. ps3s were 30% off