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caseyweederman, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

What! But they did absolutely nothing to prevent that!

kratoz29, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline
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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).

nxdefiant, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

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

XeroxCool, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

What an unfortunate way to learn thinkgeek is defunct

SpaceNoodle,

They were spiralling for years.

AlteredStateBlob, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline
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I mean, they're profitable for the first time since 2018. Not least thanks to a huge amount of cost cutting the past two or three years. This is more of that.

janNatan, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

I thought it said “understandable,” and I was like, “yeah.”

Manos, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

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

muse,
@muse@fedia.io avatar

More importantly, hows AMC and silver doing? Truly those will make us rich

Templa,

MOASS!!! 😵‍💫

Moneo,

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.

muse,
@muse@fedia.io avatar

If it's any consolation, i feel a heavy dose of those posters weren't buying anything. "Bought another 700 this week on the dip!"

Sure you did, bud. You're totally not trying to make more bagholders.

ramble81,

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.

argh_another_username, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

I’m always amazed by how the store near (Canada) me is always full. I don’t know I people are there to buy merch or what, but they’re never empty.

tempest,

I go there to buy Nintendo games because I don’t trust Nintendo not to do weird crap with their digital goods.

Dudewitbow,

basically nintendo and sony are dubious with digital,. since they dont host their own CDN, so the store is more prone to being shut down earlier than virtually all other competitors.

samus12345,
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I’m old and buy physical whenever possible so I can trade them in when I’m done. It will suck when console online stores have the monopoly - I might have to go PC Master Race when that happens (complete with eyepatch).

Cethin,

As someone who’s been PC only for some time over a decade, I love digital. Having to store disks and search for them when I wanted them sucked. It’s a shame used isn’t an option, but that was never a great value to consumers anyway. It saved some money, but it was mostly sucked up as profit by whoever was reselling them.

I don’t even have a disk drive on my computer. I have several fairly large drives so I can keep a good number of games installed at a time, and load times are faster than from a disk too. I couldn’t imagine going back. There is the risk of losing it all when a storefront goes down, but that’s already the case with modern physical games which have always online components or DRM locked to a network.

silliewous, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

Buy the dip!

jordanlund, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

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.

givesomefucks,

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

Fapper_McFapper, (edited )

At the very least, two bag holders have read your comment.

Conyak,

It could if they were willing to modify their business model. They could have leaned into the game merchandise more but relying on used game sales was never going to be sustainable.

BetaBlake,

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

SomeGuy69, do games w Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs'
@SomeGuy69@lemmy.world avatar

I’m excited for this game, it could really be an amazing experience.

SplashJackson, do games w Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs'

New BioShock when? Better yet when new System Shock? My brain cannon considers them to be the same series

Voroxpete,

New System Shock probably isn’t happening. Warren Spector was working on it a while back, but the project got canned and the rights are with TenCent now. Since it’s not exactly the sort of thing you can turn into a live service micro transaction generator I really don’t see it going anywhere any time soon.

Itrytoblenderrender,

Well, Tencent has a 30% share of Larian Studios. So there is a infinitesimal chance of a (turn based?) System Shock.

Computerchairgeneral, do games w Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs'

Feels like forever since I heard Ken Levine ramble on about narrative LEGOs and game design. It's an interesting concept and hopefully the game lives up to expectations. I'm still cautious that it might all end up being pre-release hype, but he certainly seems passionate about the idea and I'm certainly curious to see what narrative LEGOs actually looks like in execution.

Corigan, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3: Director Swen Vincke Answers All Our Questions About Foregoing DLC, AAA Development, and More - IGN

Nice to see a studio head be so candid

Kaldo, (edited ) do games w Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs'
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I'm a big fan of Levine and his games and I'm looking forward to Judas. It might not be a huge mainstream hit but I think it's going to be fantastic for some people, or at least interesting for everyone to see what has he been cooking all these years. It definitely sounds like his dream game he wanted to make for a while now

Was there any info on when it might be finished?

ampersandrew,
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He won’t rule out this year as a release year, but he won’t commit to it either.

KingThrillgore,
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ampersandrew,
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Yeah, but a decade of development time can be deceiving when you’re prototyping a new way of doing things for a while.

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