Any anon who got a business degree would like to tell me what they could’ve done to help the ever reducing physical media industry?
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Any anon who got a business degree would like to tell me what they couldve done to help the ever reducing physical media industry?
no on-disk drm
Probably could've gone into sellibg online store keys like what Fanatical/2game do. A focus on the in-store experience (turning it into more of a boutique, probably through more demo kiosks, events etc) is another idea, given this has worked in other industries. Some of the extentions to their product range that could've worked (retro, especially "geek" merch) but were either poorly implemented or pushed to the point of turning off old customers. A slight sell-off of some locations earlier would've been for the better (especially if they did the boutique idea, since you don't need multiple stores in proximity) and the funds from that could've been put into investing in the ideas I mentioned or more (wages, other assets).
Give out free USB disk drives for PCs. I haven't owned a computer with a built in disk drive for like ten years.
Not a bad idea maybe put special spy ware on USB for cia or some marketing comps that is completly hidden get extra funding
Bro, Gamestop acquired ThinkGeek. All they would have to do is transition into selling merchandise based on video games and they would have done well.
They had plenty of time to adapt to the changing market, and failed.
I worked with GameStop for various promotions and heard things through the grapevine. What they needed to nail was experiential marketing.
GameStop had some sort of premium store they were testing in select locations. It was black, sleek, open, and had massive floor demos for things like VR. This was the way to go, at least in industries vying for the increasingly difficult physical sales. They planned to take this concept and use what worked across all their stores to make wanting to go to GameStop about more than just buying games, since they couldn't compete on that alone. But they never ended up doing this.
In fact is wrong because what they ended up doing was diving hard into merchandise but they did it in such a shitty way that you'd be hard pressed to say they did it properly/at all.
>BUT THE SHORT SQUEEZE!!! MOASS!!!!!
GME really destroyed people's brains. How many of you are still holding your bag? I got out at when it was 300 a share.
the squeeze was happening. Its just that the people who make the rules changed the rules and successfully prevented it.
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When they only allowed selling and stopped buying they prevented it.
Actually if you bought at 10 bucks after the dump when the israelites israeliteed in that january and held it until march the stock price went back up to about 250 and held there for a couple months. You couldve made bank even then but you missed it.
I just dont see why Gamestop went the route of "sell 1000000000 things per store thats all literal garbage like funko pops and "gamer" backpacks" and whatever other shit. Why not just downsize a bit and just sell games? Sell some PCs or gaming laptops. Consoles, games, game service cards (psn, etc) and thats about it. Is that so hard? Why did they blow billions of dollars and all that other bullshit instead of just being a game store?
They have a gamestop like store in the uk. It was so bad everytime you walk in they would push you into getting a loyalty card and you had to pay to get it and the rewards were shit frick that.
You talking about Game? I had a card with them and I didn't have to pay for it.
Because the margins for selling physical vidya and vidya accessories are tighter a virgin's pussy.
Every time I go to GameStop some moron buys a Funko Pop
Is that moron you?
Wait, someone actually goes into a store and buys physical games in 2022?
i used to do that until last year but a lo of them closed. they had some real sweet deals.
Because of digital sales disks are slowly being reduced to effectively "merch" nowadays and there is no stopping that. If you want them to sell more you have to pack in more stuff alongside the disk.
Not being absolute dogshit?
Literally every time I've tried buying a "new" game from gamestop they give me a goddamn used open copy that's been taped closed
FRICK gamestop, they are still massive fricking cancer and their death cannot come soon enough
The ones near me stopped doing this roughly four or so years ago but by then their reputation was ruined. It was always because they had a "rental" program for employees by the way, they never were simply opening them and using them for display cases. It probably stopped because they program ended
Delegitimize the concept of Eula authority (This even applies to disks morons about to shriek and fart and piss about muh physical cobbies, muh physicaaaallls) and criminalize it's usage to rob owners of their property.
Don't destroy thousands of perfectly working copies of games because you think you can force the price up GAMESTOP.
Actually offer competitive rates instead of gambling on defrauding children being stupid enough to sell you a game for $0.50 so you can sell it for a used sale competitive rate at 1000-2000% markup.
Did they not make billions from idiots buying their stock last year?
That's not how stocks work.
So who gets the money when you buy stocks in a company
The person who just sold you the stocks
the company can earn money buy issuing more stocks into the "pool" at a price. thats how can raise some capitol but in the process lower the value of the stock by dilution. AFAIK they didn't issue any stocks during the gamestop craze. dunno why could have made a frickton of money for investments
There's zero chance they'll survive as brick and mortar stores, so maybe they'll rebrand themselves into some fricking hipster thing people come to "experience".
Think arcade slash bar slash nerd shop where alt girls serve you kombucha and craft beer while you rent a table with a SNES hooked to a CRT television. MAYBE buy a game on your way out.
Ah this is the company that makes crypto wallets right?
They could have done their own physical releases of games that would have otherwise only been released digitally. (Think LimitedRun games, but with more exposure and distribution lines.) There's no reason why they shouldn't have been proactive on this, since nobody had more to lose. I imagine they'd have a lot more sway in this regard than all of the current limited print companies, and they could probably land bigger games. They could have potentially looked into localizing games that didn't get physical releases in America despite being released in English. Their market was clearly shrinking, but they could have given consumers who prefer physical media a reason to go to them instead of literally anywhere else.
I really doubt they could have done anything to "help" physical but they should have been looking at Blockbuster as a crystal ball into the future and heavily pivoting the business elsewhere instead of doubling down and being c**ts to customers who didn't buy into their bullshit
Business graduate here. Short of bribing publishers for exclusively physical releases, not much of anything. They should have diversified into an online store and turn stores into delivery depots for rapid delivery of physical goods.
It's like the horse anon. Every anon here can name stuff they'd want but every they want is niche. There was no saving it just like there was no saving CDs and Blu-rays, sure they still exist but specialty stores are rare and people are moving to all digital.
The niche for physical video games now is being something you want to actually show off. Like how vinyls have resurged in music
Actually Blurays died because the Bluray Disk Association are literally the most insufferable human beings in the world, and the entire way to access the medium is blighted with garbage.
Literally if it wasn't for them, Blurays and even physical rentals would still be a MASSIVE fricking success.
>pretty much every console has a blu-ray player and blu-rays are available at pretty much the same price dvds we're when they were the standard.
I think your coping if you think streaming on demand wouldn't of killed physical media
>The niche for physical video games now is being something you want to actually show off. Like how vinyls have resurged in music
I like physical video games because it takes up less memory than buying digitally.
The question isn't what you like, the question is "is this thing mass market or niche"
I buy blu-rays because I don't like the inconsistency of what's available to be streamed. For the mass majority of people though the fact that they can't watch Oldboy easily anymore without piracy isn't going to save the blu-ray market in the same way the inconvenience of not having two Call of Dutys saved to your console because of storage limits won't save physical gaming.
They could never get their online store coordinated with their physical stores. I remember having to show people at the register sale prices or price drops on my phone all the time, when price matching should have been baked into their system from the start. It comes off as shady. You always vaguely felt like you were being ripped off at Gamestop even when you were just paying normal prices.
There's nothing you can do to help it, it's vastly inferior to digital sales from a business standpoint. Producing copies and shipping them around the world costs money, and a physical store only has limited shelf space, forcing them to limit the amount of games at sale.
Publishers keep screeching that $60 or $70 isn't enough for a new game anymore, while conveniently ignoring that without having to waste money on the logistics of physical copies, they're making much more profit than they used to per sale.
People don't go to Gamestop because it's a shit store that barely sells games anymore as the walls are plastered with Funko Pops and used phones, the employees treat you like shit because they have to reach quotas or be fired, and the prices aren't even good. There's a reason people just buy their shit off Amazon, Gamestop is everything wrong with retail stores all at once.
Does anyone still read Game Informer? Considering subscribing again because it's so cheap but don't want to read pozzed garbage
>but don't want to read pozzed garbage
Then you probably should avoid GaymeInformer.
Honestly imo gamestop should have transition to a hybrid Brick and mortar store/pc cafe.
The last time I went to gamestop, the manager was working the register and tried to [as usual] sell me a membership. When I said no he told me the cost of the membership is actually less than the one he just mentioned when he tried to sell it to me. What the frick?
Worker quality in general is really fricked, the buttholes usually leeching off of people had to get jobs.