Hello N4G community. I’m writing this blog due to my recent experiences at GameStop. These are just personal things that bother me. My first blog, Enjoy!
Employees
There are several GameStop’s in my area and I’ve been to them all. The types of employees there differ from store to store.
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The Idiots- These are the people that you hear talk and think to yourself, “What the fcuk are they doing working here”. They are easy to spot because they are usually older man or young teen girls that know nothing about recent releases or videogames in general and try to hold the most ignorant conversations. For example, I preordered Skyrim at GameStop. The old dude at the register literally made a huge deal of my preordering it by asking everyone in the store what this game is about. I was held in there for 10minutes…
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The Self Proclaimed Elitist- Well, these are just as annoying as the Idiots. These people are the ones that look down on every single soul that walks into GameStop. The only explanation is that sometime in their gaming life a traumatic event happened to them that led to them feeling more “powerful” than everyone else. You can spot these guys pretty easily too. Just ask a question about any game and they will come back with an attitude like no other. It’s like you just ruined their whole day.
Pricing/Trade- ins
Now pricing is something GameStop got horribly wrong. It’s already bad enough that brand new console games cost 60 bucks, but with bad trade in value, it only makes it worse. This is how they do it. Say you buy a $60 brand new game at GameStop. For some reason if you don’t like the game and go back to GameStop to ask for a refund, it’s not happening. They’ll tell you that you have an option to sell the game…for 15 bucks. WTF! That’s why I have a huge game collection. If I try to sell I’ll only get a few dollars.
So I hope I informed you of just some of the annoying things at GameStop. I kept this brief and short just to see how this would go. Leave comments of how GameStop has played you and tell me how you like this little article.
This should be on every GameStop store front.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Gamestop sells me $20 games for $40+...used
'Nuff said
I hate Gamestop. I REALLY hate Gamestop. Dude this article speaks the truth. Gamestop is evil, truly evil. I brought in 2 ps3 games, and 1 Wii game. One of the ps3 games, I had recently bought for 40 bucks. The other two games were a bit older but I did pay full retail for those as well. Gamestop gave me 16 dollars. 16 friggen dollars! I just payed more than double that for one of the games! Gamestop isn't power to the players, its more like "GameStop: Ripping off the players"
I just traded in Duke Nuken Forever and got $37 dollars for it. Don't know what is going on everywhere else but I have had nothing but good times with the two gamestops that I go to.