petition to stop gamestop from selling retro games

[SignOfZeta]

I hate Gamestop as much as anyone, but I don't see why people are so worried about this. Gamestop is totally doomed to fail at this...but more importantly, if they DO succeed, what's the worst that can happen? eBay loses its virtual monopoly on retro stuff and the prices go down? I see that as a good thing.

A lot of indie game shops have sprung up to the meet the demand for retro games. In the short term, Gamestop could potentially put them out of business and that would suck. In the long term, Gamestop tops Best Buy and even Radio Shack on the list of idiotic, soon-to-be-extinct businesses. Let's just hope they don't do too much damage in their death throes.

In order to put the indie shops down they'd have to buy games at half the price they sell them for. I don't think GS could bring themselves to do that, profitable or not. They are so pissed off about making almost nothing off current gen new releases they feel that they HAVE to rape people on used stuff.

I admit, its hard to understand where the profit is supposed to come from when you have to fork over the cash to stock 300 game systems at launch and sell them for $2 profit each, especially now that the hint book industry is dead. They make more money off a 3rd party HDMI cable than they do off a PS3. The entire industry is totally f*cking backwards right now. While there is a ton stuff out there, games, technology, etc, there is almost no profit in anything anymore. Nintendo isn't bringing home bacon like they were 20 years ago, and Sony and MS probably never will. I don't know why anyone is even in the biz right now.

[HercTNT]

Brick and mortar stores are dying anyways. Digital downloads of cheap mobile apps are slowly killing gamestop's overpriced games. I also hate gamestop but agree there is most likely not much to worry about.

[TheClash603]

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. f*ck Gamestop.

I bought my launch 3DS at K-Mart.  Maybe it is nostalgia, but I try to support K-Mart when I can.

...but damn that place is a shit hole.

[SignOfZeta]

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. f*ck Gamestop.

I bought my launch 3DS at K-Mart.  Maybe it is nostalgia, but I try to support K-Mart when I can.

...but damn that place is a shit hole.

The KMart in my home town has a particular smell, a good smell. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe there is cedar in the ceiling beams or something? When I was a kid KMart was the only department store in town that carried toys year round, and it was quite close to my house. The same smell was there when I was a kid, when Optimus Prime, the *real* Optimus Prime was on the shelf, when Coke with cane sugar was sold in glass bottles, when there was a diner in the store that sold breakfast all day.

When I go in there now, all of that stuff is gone...but it still smells the same. No other KMart has this smell, so its always nice to go there once in a while. Its also nice to go there because it isn't "way the f*ck out by the mall" like nearly every other store in Midland.

....even if I do have to wait in line a half hour to buy a Snicker bar...

[esteban]

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. f*ck Gamestop.

I bought my launch 3DS at K-Mart.  Maybe it is nostalgia, but I try to support K-Mart when I can.

...but damn that place is a shit hole.

The KMart in my home town has a particular smell, a good smell. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe there is cedar in the ceiling beams or something? When I was a kid KMart was the only department store in town that carried toys year round, and it was quite close to my house. The same smell was there when I was a kid, when Optimus Prime, the *real* Optimus Prime was on the shelf, when Coke with cane sugar was sold in glass bottles, when there was a diner in the store that sold breakfast all day.

When I go in there now, all of that stuff is gone...but it still smells the same. No other KMart has this smell, so its always nice to go there once in a while. Its also nice to go there because it isn't "way the f*ck out by the mall" like nearly every other store in Midland.

....even if I do have to wait in line a half hour to buy a Snicker bar...

That smell is from an overheating SoundDesign clock-radio in the manager's office

[SignOfZeta]

Oooh, I'll make sure to steal it before they bulldoze the place then.

[8bitForLife]

Well since I am on an island and the only game store is Kmart wallyworld and the one gamestop maybe Costco during holidays i kind of welcome them selling retro games as its ether eBay or amazon or trading websites which can be hairy sometimes. I would think it would drop the price the on retro games.

[Ji-L87]

I was going to sign at first but then I actually became kinda curious on how this all will play out for GameStop. I don't know if this is will be an US only thing or if I'll get to see retro games being sold in stores over here as well but, they probably already have the games and petition or not, if they do have them they must really, really want to sell them. If not for profit then warehouse space, probably. Which can be a costly thing in itself.

If at least this will bring online prices down, that'd be bees knees, and if they stay true to their normal business practices, other retro stores shouldn't need be too worried about loosing customers.

[SignOfZeta]

When I worked at EB (now part of GS) I opened a new store with 2600 games in it's initial inventory. From time to time we took in NES, SNES, b/w GB. In theory they could be sitting on a few hundred copies of Earthbound, Paper Mario, etc. if that's the case I'd rather they put the stuff in a store so people could trade for them rather than the stuff just sitting around or going to eBay.

What they probably have is a shit ton of Madden 93s and Mario/Duck Hunt.

[FiftyQuid]

But if GS is able to drive the prices of retro games down then its def a win win.

GS has never driven the price of anything down.

Flooding the market would be great.  If anything it'll put some of the eBay idiots out of business.  I do hope GS finds a warehouse full of Soldier Blade sealed or one of the other 'rare' titles for TG-16.  I have doubts though.  I won't sign the petition.

[esteban]

I know this is off-topic, and I'm sure the INTERWEBZ has documented this already, but...

GameStop and smashburger use nearly identical fonts and colors for their logo/signage.




A smashburger opened up recently in my town--I immediately wondered why it seemed so (oddly) familiar.

[Ji-L87]

Maybe you can now go in and not only order a burger but also pick up an Xbox Live subscription & a copy of CoD used, at the same time?
Oh, and maybe putting down a pre-order on their next experimental bonus menu.

Edit:
I can't get over how awesome that name is

[Tatsujin]

Stop the Game

[SignOfZeta]

As if "Smashburger" wasn't a ghetto enough sounding place, they pirated their logo.

[TheClash603]

I wonder if they hound me to get a one year membership to shitty beef at smashburger or to preorder fries.