Reply to: Game over in Wandsworth

[pmeswani]

Gamestation in High Wycombe is shut down, but the Game store is still open. Only saw about 3 or 4 peeps in there. They are advertising pre-orders for May, and they are not accepting Reward Cards or Gift Cards due to "Technical Issues"

[amcdonald]

Um, do you even know what Steam is?

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.

Choose a tuliping big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.

Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of tuliping fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the tulip you are on a Sunday morning.

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing tuliping junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, tuliping your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, tuliped-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself.

Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else.

I chose Steam And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got Half Life ?

[psychocandy]

See what the robbing gits at game did with mass effect 3?

Apparently, suppliers wouldnt let them have it because of their financial troubles. So Game instructed all their staff to haul out old supplies of mass effect 2 put on display in their shops as No1 in the game charts, and told staff to put price sticker over the 2.

Deliberately misleading? Definitely. Some poor kid gets home to find they got last years game.

Robbin dogs - glad they've gone bust if thats their attitude.

[d000hg]

Aye, Steam is the way to go - stores are DOOMED!!!

Lol not all of us pirate everything

Um, do you even know what Steam is?

[amcdonald]

Are you finding that slower now? Since a few weeks ago Piratebay has moved to 'magnetic' linking(whatever the fook that is). It's slower, plus the amount of online material seems to have drastically reduced since the kick off in the US courts about illegal downloads.

Use Demoniod then

[scooby]

Are you finding that slower now? Since a few weeks ago Piratebay has moved to 'magnetic' linking(whatever the fook that is). It's slower, plus the amount of online material seems to have drastically reduced since the kick off in the US courts about illegal downloads.

Is it only me that uses newsgroups?? Never had an issue...

[MarillionFan]

I downloaded Skyrim from PirateBay, played it for a couple of weeks then bought it - from Amazon for £25

Are you finding that slower now? Since a few weeks ago Piratebay has moved to 'magnetic' linking(whatever the fook that is). It's slower, plus the amount of online material seems to have drastically reduced since the kick off in the US courts about illegal downloads.

[Churchill]

Steam offers good deals on games out a year ago or more, very rarely a decent game like Skyrim comes out and worth shelling out money when it's released.

I downloaded Skyrim from PirateBay, played it for a couple of weeks then bought it - from Amazon for £25

[scooby]

Rochdale is closing, but is that Game AND Game station (next door but one...)?

They should have closed in Rochdale ages ago, they're not a charity or pound shop!!

[OwlHoot]

Didn't one of NickFitz's links a while ago detail the decline of a similar business with hundreds of stores? I forget which one.

But the moral was those kinds of companies start thinking of the stores as the raison d'etre and main focus of the company, and (amazingly these days) neglect the online aspect.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Interesting story Game. Back in 1991 I had just been fired by Gay Workshop as a shop manager and had decided to go to University instead.

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Why did they fire you?

[amcdonald]

Steam offers good deals on games out a year ago or more, very rarely a decent game like Skyrim comes out and worth shelling out money when it's released.

I won Portal 2 and Skyrim in their xmas competitions, but ordinarily I'd wait till they're cheap

[MarillionFan]

Interesting story Game. Back in 1991 I had just been fired by Games Workshop as a shop manager and had decided to go to University instead.

Out of the blue I got a contact from a couple of guys asking me to come to an interview for a company called Game. I went, had the interview & that was about it. I remember at the time they told me they were backed by money(I think one was the son of someone) & it was backed my some venture capitalists. The plan to have interactive stores/videos/TVs's etc. I was to wet behind the ears for them then and frankly I had decided that Uni was the way.

Maybe would have been interesting to have been part of it, but as with all thing, they have their time and then they're gone. Even if rescued, hard to see how they would adapt now in the changing world of UK retail.

[AtW]

Lol not all of us pirate everything

Steam offers good deals on games out a year ago or more, very rarely a decent game like Skyrim comes out and worth shelling out money when it's released.

[amcdonald]

Aye, Steam is the way to go - stores are DOOMED!!!

Lol not all of us pirate everything