Gamestation in my town was a decent little store before Game took it over.

Then out went the older stuff and in came the huge "BUY CALL OF DUTY IT WILL MAKE YOUR DICK BIGGER" posters and banners, and now its a dump with over-priced games and games that are second hand being marked as new etc..

Waste of time.

So whilst I wouldnt say Gamestation were perfect, they were a lot better than Game, atleast in my experience

No dress code Goth Looking staff is not what you expect in a consumer driven market,don't get me wrong im not been judgmental but long gone are the days when it was expected that you wore a tie and suit as standard for a interview.

If i have to buy a game outside of my online stores then i prefer Gamestation even though its owned by Game,but on many occasions i have waited 10/15 minutes in the queue with little to no staff at the counter and 3 or 4 of the others just hanging around doing nothing.

Game tried to take the monopoly and killed many smaller game shops dotted around our towns and cities,Now places like Shopto.com and Supermarkets have taken back a lions share of the Game market.

On many occasions when i used to order from Game online i found there site tiring and not user friendly with no mention of future releases and when there was it was not simple finding it hidden among the depths of a poor designed website

Edited by time2die (Thu 01-Mar-12 17:40:57)

Yeh me too, first steps well under way to disappearing, mind you when I ever walk past them at weekends etc, they are always packed out, took my nine year old just after Christmas to buy 360 (he�d saved for 3yrs), it was shoulder to shoulder and manic, perhaps that was just a local extreme..

Yes they are in trouble, their credit rating is nil rated now and a lot of distributors are not selling to them. Sad times really, I do feel a bit sorry for them, they can't justify selling games for £25 like Tesco because games is all they do, supermarkets count on people going in and spending money on other items as well. Personally I still buy quite a bit from Game just because there are some good staff in the Game shop where I live and give you informative views on games and don't just say every game is great.

Haven't shopped with them in years as their PC "section" which once took 1/3 of the shop has been relegated to about 2 shelves.

Same thing with HMV. The one in my town closed recently. They stocked no PC games at all. Actually was in it before it closed before xmas when MW3 and BF3 were coming out. Went along to see what sort of prices they were selling for...only had console rubbish.

Seems silly to so obviously cut off a decent chunk of your potential market by totally failing to stock anything.

The Gamestation in Bognor used to be a grotty, darkly lit shop - the sort you wouldn't venture in unless you had a bodyguard, whilst Game was bright and airy.

It's funny you say that as that's exactly my experience with the two stores I use (one in Camden and one in my hometown).

According to Wikipedia, Gamestores are meant to be more for the hardcore gaming element (yes, that old chestnut!) Game were more mainstream. I guess that gets interpreted in terms of lighting bills...

It wont be long before HMV and Game both go under, their markets have moved to online distribution which can undercut and sell at a greater volume then they are able to.

Both companys have not moved with the times fast enough, as such their laden with large amounts of debt, HMV stock value is a tiny % of its actual debt.
The end result for these companies is they will run a few key stores that can turn a profit and a online site or they will go under and the market will carry on.

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No dress code Goth Looking staff is not what you expect in a consumer driven market,don't get me wrong im not been judgmental but long gone are the days when it was expected that you wore a tie and suit as standard for a interview.

Not everywhere is like that.

Yes, I suppose a spooky, unrelenting and foreboding atmosphere adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the display