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I had a bad experience with GameStop last week.
BlackNMild2k1:
::late driveby posting::
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--- Quote from: UncleBob on September 12, 2019, 10:29:45 AM ---**** Disney for all the FOX employees they let go, amirite?
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Yes, because Disney is a successful company that could have made use of them in expanding their influence. Instead, they just fired them. GameStop is not currently a successful company, and their poor customer service unquestionably played a role in their decline.
I don't care that this is the Funhouse. If you want to take jabs at me, at least have the courage to do so in the relevant topic.
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Disney freed them all up so they could all go work at a Gamestop, and hopefully turn that company into something sucessful enough so that maybe a larger company like Target or Walmart will buy them up. and subsequently free up a lot of other redundant employees that will then be free to move on to other ventures, and so on and so forth.....
Stratos:
What is an FLGS?
Khushrenada:
Fully Licensed Game Seller
Stratos:
You have to be licensed to sell games?
UncleBob:
--- Quote from: Stratos on September 13, 2019, 01:19:47 PM ---What is an FLGS?
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Friendly Local Game Store. Typically, a shop that sells board/card games, RPGs, comics (aka FLCS). Term of endearment because local stores (Walmart, Target, etc.) don't tend to carry such a selection/variety and online stores tend to be impersonal. Your Friendly Local Game Store is where you can go to talk to friendly employees about games, get recommendations, special orders, new releases, and even typically have game events (Be it things like Magic tournaments/releases, or a really good FLGS, you can just stop in and play one of the demo games - maybe even with the employees on a slow day.
The Hollywood Video sub-store Game Crazy (RIP) did this with video games. I never went into one where the employees didn't feel excited to be there and talk games (and not in a condescending way either). Any in-stock title they had opened, they'd pop it into one of their demo machines and let you play it. Special Ordering was second nature for them and they carried lots of niche product (got my US-Released Hori digital Gamecube controller from them on a fluke one day). I've always wondered if Game Crazy would still be around if Hollywood Video hadn't crashed and burned.
Anywhoo, Imagine larger GameStops with real customer service focused employees, a huge selection of both video games and board/card games, still carrying all the geek culture stuff (but lighter on the Funko Pops, please). Someplace that you could seriously go hang out at for a couple of hours, have fun, and not even *have* to buy something.
I can't even be in most GameStops for more than ten minutes because they're so tiny and crowded, I feel like I'm in everyone's way.