There aren't any other firms in the UK.
You have online retailers, some entertainment chains and supermarkets, but not other video games shops where preorders can be focused and pushed.
WHAT THE FUCKWhen GAME failed miserably and closed up shop in Australia a few years ago, they 'cancelled' all their pre-orders and ran off with the deposit money.
Argos.If/when GAME goes under there won't be a single video games retailer across the UK high street. I imagine it will be a massive blow to manufacturers as a games focused physical presence won't exist.
For example demonstrating how something like Morpheus to the UK market won't be possible.
Not that I'm favourable towards GAME. Lower your prices and get gud, otherwise prepare to get out.
There aren't any other firms in the UK.
You have online retailers, some entertainment chains and supermarkets, but not other video games shops where preorders can be focused and pushed.
They have done the same with me, except as far as I know mine isn't a PayPal pre-order, it's direct debit, and they are claiming there is some issue with withdrawing funds despite the bank claiming otherwise.
yeah again, that's standard. I know it sounds crazy but the second you admit publically that you might be failing, then you have failed. You're fucked. So until a business reaches the point of no return where they have to go into administration they will operate normally and try and maximise profits. The second they go into administration, everything changes and creditors lose a lot of rights. It's shitty but that's how it works.
They wouldn't just disappear. Someone would step in.
Why do people still insist on giving GAME their money? It's silly.
If you bought from GAME you only have yourself to blame.
GAME UK is truly a modern miracle of the retail industry. This is a company which commits astounding, otherwise fatal blunders with the release of their most important products every year like clockwork, yet inexplicably manages to bail themselves out from the brink of demise each time.
Whilst the nature of business is generally for competition to arise in latent markets....the UK market on the high street (for video games) is a dead horse.
The competition and competitive pricing from online businesses is strong and the price of having a physical presence, across the UK is very costly due to direct and indirect costs.
Therefore the option left is to mark up your prices/increase margins to offset the additional expenses.
Eventually consumer loyalty wains and people will continue shifting to the Internet for lower prices.
Knowing all that I dont think anyone else will take the risk.
There aren't any other firms in the UK.
You have online retailers, some entertainment chains and supermarkets, but not other video games shops where preorders can be focused and pushed.
never seen a grainger before, but god this post made me nostalgic for city centre birmingham's amazing fucking gamestation with the awesome downstairs bit.there's grainger. they're like gamestation used to be in the good old days before they were bought out by GAME and turned shit.
There really aren't any retail chains that are focussed on videogames in Germany except for Gamestop who has a very very small presence, and we're doing fine. All this exclusive pre-order pushing doesn't really exist in the way that GAME is doing in the UK.
Argos.
Frankly though, given the state controllers end up in on demo units in stores like GAME and Argos I wouldn't want to send out a load of headsets to get bashed to pieces.
there's grainger. they're like gamestation used to be in the good old days before they were bought out by GAME and turned shit.
If you bought from GAME you only have yourself to blame.
never seen a grainger before, but god this post made me nostalgic for city centre birmingham's amazing fucking gamestation with the awesome downstairs bit.
Sounds like the perfect future then.
Stop giving GAME your dime.
Sounds like the perfect future then.
Stop giving GAME your dime.
Forgot about Argos. Although they're still more of a jack of all trades as opposed to a entertainment focused product line.
I've never come across a Grainger before. Sounds like a northern chain.
No it isn't the consumers fault if anyone deserves the blame it is companies like Bethesda that make exclusive distribution deals that FORCE the consumer to buy from GAME if they want a particular product. I wanted the pip-boy edition of Fallout 4, therefore I have to buy it from GAME.
Thankfully it seems my order is being processed but then again I don't use paypal, which in my experience causes more problems than it solves.
never seen a grainger before, but god this post made me nostalgic for city centre birmingham's amazing fucking gamestation with the awesome downstairs bit.
it was retro paradise down there. had a metal slug cabinet, shelves upon shelves of old games, and a few rare oddities behind glass in a wall cabinet (i saw a virtual boy in there once). then that section got smaller as they brought in xbox 360s and couches, then it died altogether and became like the rest of the shop. last i recall i think they even closed the downstairs.
fucking GAME.
No it isn't the consumers fault if anyone deserves the blame it is companies like Bethesda that make exclusive distribution deals that FORCE the consumer to buy from GAME if they want a particular product. I wanted the pip-boy edition of Fallout 4, therefore I have to buy it from GAME.
Thankfully it seems my order is being processed but then again I don't use paypal, which in my experience causes more problems than it solves.
Point me to a single example of a high street pre-order for this item going wrong? Otherwise your statement makes absolutely no sense.When people complain that Amazon are too powerful and are mean and nasty because they're putting high street shops out of business, I like to point them to forum threads like this.
The same good old days when you could buy a new Nintendo product, it would be unsealed and could come with 0-2 Club Nintendo codes rather than one it should have. The same good old days when you could get a US copy of a game on a region free system (very annoying if you order online).there's grainger. they're like gamestation used to be in the good old days before they were bought out by GAME and turned shit.
Should we start cataloging GAME's failures. The Super Mario Maker seemed to be quite bad also.
edit. To be quite honest though, if you're paying by PayPal then maybe stop doing that?
I thought Game was going out of business? How did they manage a turn around if they're still doing the same shit?
Eurogamer is on it as usual
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...us-as-game-cancels-pip-boy-edition-pre-orders
No it doesn't, because you can fund your PayPal account, or pay a transaction with, your credit/debit card.The PayPal customers being denied just further shows the 'credit card denied' explanation is complete bullshit.
This is clearly (in classic GAME UK fashion) a bungling attempt to cover up for their own incompetence.
Point me to a single example of a high street pre-order for this item going wrong? Otherwise your statement makes absolutely no sense.
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That's just disgusting.They pulled the same shit with me, and it was even more flakey! When I pre-ordered a couple of amiibo for £11 each. Suddenly the price to pre-order on the shop went up to £15 and I was sent an e-mail stating that there was an issue with the bank and my direct debit payment. Rang up my bank and surely enough, no recent history of payments being stopped!
Spent a good couple of hours with multiple contact centre workers before finding a nice bloke who managed to re-do the order for me, AND got me the amiibo for the old price I originally pre-ordered them for. The rest of them were saying they could re-order them for me, but only at the new, higher price.
Ever since then I've taken my business to Grainger Games and CeX. The recent Mario Maker charging nonsense just further justified my boycotting of them. GAME can't seem to get the simplest of things right. Especially when it comes to pre-orders and banking. Only reason I used them for the amiibo was because every other online shop had sold out of the amiibo I wanted, back when they were tough to get in the UK many a blue moon ago.