Kotaku - Using data from online employment portal Glassdoor, business site 24/7 Wall St has compiled a list of what they claim are the worst places to work in the United States.
Everybody's favourite specialist retailer GameStop managed to make the cut, finishing in tenth place. Why? The chief reasons cited from current and former employees include a push to prioritise sales over customer service, and the resulting HI PREORDER THIS NOW culture which places "customers at a disadvantage".
"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.
If they did then collectors wouldn’t be getting f***** over with discless collectors editions
No shock, GameStop is alive because of trading. If they don't have used games on their shelves they are absolutely donezo.
Well of course the GS boss thinks this... that's their bread and butter business. That and funco pops and clothing, though those two were added as a means to supplement the decline in people buying used games or even new games. GS just sucks overall when it comes to gaming. I buy my physical stuff on Amazon or Best Buy.
As for "requiring" disc drives... nah. Not anymore, but i like having them as an option. They had a means back when games actually ran off the discs and were more/less complete. Now they are incomplete and the disc is really an installer with a license to play. If you want to change games you have to take out the disc and put in another. Its more convenient to just use digital. I have been into digital for years now and when the PSPortal comes along i wont even have to go into my game room. I will just play my PS5 from my couch downstairs. I have a bunch of digital installed games to my 5... I'm all set.
Gamingbible writes: "Luckily, if you’re living in the US you can trade your Xbox into Gamestop, where you’ll receive a hefty amount of cash as well as a $50 bonus for certain customers, just short of enough to buy the PS5."
At this point in time If I didn't own a PS5 I would have done this in a heartbeat but I had already acquired a PS5 first before I acquired an XBSX.
I'll stick to keeping both. Gamestop though... seems kind of desperate to take in Series X units. What could they be plotting???
I just want some games for my series X I have both since release and after weighing the offerings in PS Essentials to Gamepass I quickly realized I Owned anything of worth in both catalogs. And, the things I didn't I didn't see as justifiable for maintaining both subs.
Since then my series X is a legacy machine that I play my old games on and that's it. 3 years ago I really thought from that Xbox showcase we were going to have some great games by now. Instead, it's just been a lot of meh
GameStop’s chief financial officer is resigning, in the latest of several executive departures from the video game retailer.
LOL I work at gamestop and i can say that preorders are how you get hours.but i can't complain with my employee discount i get to pickup games for cheap and we can check-out games for four days.now my boss likes to employ nothing but hot chicks,good thinking on his part.keeps the guy gamers and some girls (wink) coming back.
I used to asst.-manage for Gamestop a few years ago, and it was a pain in the butt. The ever-changing policies were the biggest pain. You never knew what new thing corporate wanted you to cram down customers' throats.
However, Gamestop also attracts a lot of whiny man-children who think working for a videogame store "would be SO cool because you get to play videogames all day, right?". Poor expectations can create poor employees. I would say that 95% of all the "horrible" stuff about working for Gamestop is common to most retail/service industry outlets. Some people simply aren't cut out for it.
These are literally a few entries apart from each other on the "news" page, only this one is 4 hours older and not from Kotaku:
http://n4g.com/news/1058325...
I don't think its all THAT bad, they get discounts on games, first dips on others, and they even get to play games early. I know some people that "borrow" a store copy before its even on sale. I have friends that have played and beaten Sleeping Dogs already.
Its also one of the worst places to buy your games from too! They are the biggest rip off, everywhere else has so many better deals than them. Every blue moon, you might be able to pick up an older used game for a decent price. Can still get the same deal online though. Most of the time, at a much lower price!