GAME in financial trouble
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I've got no idea what world you're living in, but it clearly isn't the real one. If Game can't adapt and survive as a business that's one thing, but saying it's the shopfloor workers fault is quite another. As for your final comment, that's just pathetic
I've got no idea what world you're living in, but it clearly isn't the real one. If Game can't adapt and survive as a business that's one thing, but saying it's the shopfloor workers fault is quite another. As for your final comment, that's just pathetic
Either he's never worked a day in his life or inherited the title of CEO in a huge company.
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Sorry, but I wont miss this store @ all if it goes under. And Im dissin the *company* not its workers..who will be out of a job if it goes legs-up.
I have sympathy for their sales staff cuz I know they are MADE to approach customers and annoy them with MAY I HELP YOU. Dumbass management didnt see that this was turning off so many people.
And of course their prices = LOL! Riiiiight.
They should have woken up when they saw people walking up to a shelf, lookin at a game, firing up their smartphone to check the Amazon price and then walking out laughing.
I have sympathy for their sales staff cuz I know they are MADE to approach customers and annoy them with MAY I HELP YOU. Dumbass management didnt see that this was turning off so many people.
And of course their prices = LOL! Riiiiight.
They should have woken up when they saw people walking up to a shelf, lookin at a game, firing up their smartphone to check the Amazon price and then walking out laughing.
Sales staff coming over to offer their help never bothers me, I find it's easily sorted with a polite reply of 'no thankyou, I'm fine' ... I much prefer this than the other extreme like Curry's where you need a posse and lasso to find and keep a sales assistant !
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Yeah it seems like its not all over, they could probably sell of their European and Australian business which would raise some decent cash for them.
It would be sad to see GAME and HMV go off the high street, I still think theres a place for Game, DVD and Music retail that isn't in a supermarket.
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Really don't understand why poeple are moaning about online prices off pc games.
19% of UK gaming's 2011 £2.5b videogames revenue is a lot of money still I guess
like i said before if GAME can sell PC pre-orders for £10-15 cheaper than Steam why do people give Steam so much money just for not needing a DVD in the drive 19% of UK gaming's 2011 £2.5b videogames revenue is a lot of money still I guess
I think you have the answer right there
19% of UK gaming's 2011 £2.5b videogames revenue is a lot of money still I guess
Steam is about a LOT more than that but the RRP pricing is not unique to Steam.
Digital delivery prices across the board are higher than retail which indicates it is not the fault of the reatilers, more the Publishers although Game have been mentioned multiple times regarding the use of bullying tactics regarding release dates and prices on Steam.
Game group have pretty much the monopoly on high street retail gaming. For most publishers, the concern is, if we do not compromise with them on this PC title, our next console release will get stuck at the back of the shop and we all know console games sell more than PC so in this case, Game group have a lot of muscle to flex.
I posted this to Codemasters a few years ago:
http://community.codemasters.com/fo...-codemasters-sort-out-your-steam-pricing.html
It was discussed here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18011221
Interesting how now the facts are known, peoples opinions have changed. A lot of people believed that Steam set the prices for everything back then
.To add, Some of Satines post have somehow "disappeared", especially the one where she admits she did not fully understand how it worked.
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I think you have the answer right there
A little over-exaggerated perhaps. I certainly wouldn't pay £10-15 more just to have it on Steam. I'd wait till it was in a sale and grab it for less or roughly equal price.
Of course as Gimpymoo was trying to say above... I'd much rather the price be reasonable in the first place.
Glad that GAME wouldn't be able to bully publishers into postponing release dates on Steam under fear that they won't stock titles from said publisher any more.
If I buy a game, it's generally on Steam, GAME decided because it was so butthurt about Steam taking their customers away that it would threaten some publishers to not stock their games unless they give them an exclusivity period where the game can't be sold on Steam. Funniest thing is GAME couldn't give a **** about the PC market unless it suits them.
I don't care about a company which uses such tactics to gain exclusivity periods on a service which I find to be better, more useful and more enjoyable than walking into a store and getting pounced on by some shop worker who doesn't know anything apart from playing CoD. The most amazing thing is about all of this is when GAME bullies publishers into not allowing said games to be sold on Steam, yet they use Steamworks.
As far as I'm concerned, the sooner they're gone, the better. If they didn't use scummy tactics then I wouldn't care, but as long as they're around they're going to make it harder on me to use my preferred service for games.
Couldn't care less about GAME. I've disliked them ever since this fiasco
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/39359/game-buys-nintendo-3ds-from-tesco
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/39359/game-buys-nintendo-3ds-from-tesco
Crazy scenario then as most PC games no longer need the game in the drive either or you can easily find a workaround after the game is activated online.I think you have the answer right there
I still think its crazy that people are willing to pay £10-15 more to own a new release game on Steam but each to their own I guess !!!
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Looks like they have survived by the skin on their teeth!
Last time I went to GAME was about 10 years ago. Went in eating my pasty from Greggs, eating it all nicely in the paper bag so no mess, and was in no uncertain term told to '**** off out of the shop you cant eat that in here'.
I did **** off and never returned.
Anyway from a company point of view why not just close all their stores and open a big warehouse retailing from the internet and make sure you beat all the competition on pricing. How hard can it really be? Is it any wonder these dinosaurs are dinosaurs.
I did **** off and never returned.
Anyway from a company point of view why not just close all their stores and open a big warehouse retailing from the internet and make sure you beat all the competition on pricing. How hard can it really be? Is it any wonder these dinosaurs are dinosaurs.
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The reasons that i want this to occur is quite simple, it will be unfortunate that the workers are laid off, however that is simply a fact of life and moaning about it, wont change that.
I said harass and non compliance to illustrate frustration to the hierarchy, the way i see it is they go down as an embarrassment or at least go down fighting for the continued existence of the store and ultimately their jobs. (I suppose that's just too alien for some people, to understand)
I mean what's the point in arguing about something that you simply do not control, the populace has obviously decided that it didn't like the service any more, the logical step beyond that is to reform and frankly all ive seen are massive backward steps by Game Executives, especially the advertising...just god awful, is their real market a bunch of mums with no idea about what they want? Apparently so.
There are three items of interest here, the morons at the top, the apathetic people on the floor and the consumer ignoring the store as they walk by.
The consumer cannot change anything other than add to profit margins, so it is solely up to the two to work it out and if there is no communication between the two, besides a few policy changes, then frankly its both of their fault, now most of the blame is on the executives, perhaps i should have said that, but that does not mean the floor people are just random worker ants with no part to play in the demise here.
This opinion of executives and overpaid CEOs, that somehow its all their fault for being greedy and selfish, one must be terribly brain damaged to ignore the fact that "spreading the wealth" is selfish as well, until society can bring up enough will to say no for once rather than moaning at their TV, perhaps my respect will go up, until then its a downward spiral to the bottom.
I am not simply looking at Game, this a problem across the spectrum, which can only be solved by the workers themselves.
Of course i guess people are too afraid to lose their job to a Chinese or Indian person to care about their own economies in the long run, you reap what you unknowingly sow.
This opinion may seem rather strange, however i am trying to be unbiased as much as i possibly can.
I said harass and non compliance to illustrate frustration to the hierarchy, the way i see it is they go down as an embarrassment or at least go down fighting for the continued existence of the store and ultimately their jobs. (I suppose that's just too alien for some people, to understand)
I mean what's the point in arguing about something that you simply do not control, the populace has obviously decided that it didn't like the service any more, the logical step beyond that is to reform and frankly all ive seen are massive backward steps by Game Executives, especially the advertising...just god awful, is their real market a bunch of mums with no idea about what they want? Apparently so.
There are three items of interest here, the morons at the top, the apathetic people on the floor and the consumer ignoring the store as they walk by.
The consumer cannot change anything other than add to profit margins, so it is solely up to the two to work it out and if there is no communication between the two, besides a few policy changes, then frankly its both of their fault, now most of the blame is on the executives, perhaps i should have said that, but that does not mean the floor people are just random worker ants with no part to play in the demise here.
This opinion of executives and overpaid CEOs, that somehow its all their fault for being greedy and selfish, one must be terribly brain damaged to ignore the fact that "spreading the wealth" is selfish as well, until society can bring up enough will to say no for once rather than moaning at their TV, perhaps my respect will go up, until then its a downward spiral to the bottom.
I am not simply looking at Game, this a problem across the spectrum, which can only be solved by the workers themselves.
Of course i guess people are too afraid to lose their job to a Chinese or Indian person to care about their own economies in the long run, you reap what you unknowingly sow.
This opinion may seem rather strange, however i am trying to be unbiased as much as i possibly can.
I bought star wars from game, they priced matched the independent shop 2 doors down (i only went to game as the Cue was to big at the independent.
(it was mainly to avoid installing origin)
Rubbish shop, rubbish service, rubbish staff, full of second hand xbox games that no one will ever buy. Quicker they die off and more independents spring up to take whatever scraps are left the better.
(it was mainly to avoid installing origin)
Rubbish shop, rubbish service, rubbish staff, full of second hand xbox games that no one will ever buy. Quicker they die off and more independents spring up to take whatever scraps are left the better.