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I miss Gamestation...
I worked for them in Scarborough and Cramlington 20 odd years ago, I loved it
Gamestation was the best store
Same
Same
Me too, it was a proper gaming store.
As a Gamestation manager for many years I think we should all get Gamestation back up and running, Unite and bring in Fat Chris again !!!! haha. Cex is good but a true Gamestation store needs to return!
I can't think of a single good reason why I would have something sent to a store I would have to collect, over just having something sent directly to my house.
Does anyone remember Electronics Boutique? Thats where i got my first Gameboy Color back in 2001. The good ol days.
Australia has eb games. Dunno if that’s the same thing
As a former GAME employee (left 2 years ago) I can tell you a lot of things they've done wrong.... The top one that people don't talk about is returns, if you buy something as a gift, say you got a £70 game they won't give you cash back or even put it back on your card, you'll get a voucher, receipt or not.... You could see things going downhill when they started buying in board games that weren't game related, not to mention the barbies.... Most of the things they are doing is to bring thr tills in line, this is a fact they were talking about it before I left, they wanted there to be one system for all, which reinforces what you were saying about Game not having tills, some of the sports direct stores (I worked in one, of the multiple stores I have worked in) and people would come up to but their, shoes, swimwear or trousers and you would have to send them to another till, angering them, most of the time I stood around.... Erm.... 😂 playing Wolfenstein on an emulator I found online... 😂 if you want any insider info, I'm always happy to talk about my exoerimce under Frasier group.
Games return policy has always been the reason I never shopped there to begin with.
Back in the golden days you had gamestation who always gave you your money back or let you swap it for another title.
Once game brought the company i just brought online
@@isonic yeah, Game really killed the scene.... How they were allowed to buy out Game station is beyond me, surely that would have counted as monopolising the games industry on the highstreet.... 😂
Used to had GAME here in Ireland years ago, but they are mostly gone now or rare in certain Sports Direct stores, I think them moving into Sports Direct stores is one of their downfalls for those who dunno where to go, they usually just in the back somewhere or something, wish they still had their own store fronts tbh, but that's just me, also we lost Game Stop too last year and only game stores we have now is Cex and barely any significant games stores tbh, unless you go to your nearest toy stores tbh, so yeah
Also, do love some insider info too, also find someone who worked in Game Stop or other well known game stores and have all of you discussed things too tbh, so yeah
Also, the removal of physical and the way things are going will lead to their downfall tbh, but that's my take tbh
@isonic word it's a complete shitshow to the fullest sense of the word and it doesn't surprise me that this company is struggling to make ends meet when they're this trash for YEARS now
@@isonicGame used to let you bring a game back within seven days for a full refund, regardless of if the game was used or not
I agree with you that Game died when they got shot of pre-owned. I haven't been there for months. Anything else that happens is just a byproduct of that. They may as well just go all out and just say yes we are basically a toy shop now.
I used to go there all the time but since sports direct bought it ive been about less than the number of fingers on my hand and i now havent been there for a year.
It's such a shame that some people won't even remember that Game used to be great in the early years. It is a completely different company now (literally,it has entirely different management) and it's decline has been long and substantial.
It’s a massive shame that GAME is inevitably going to disappear, I used to go there every couple of weeks with my mom as a kid and we’d pick a game out together and go home to play it. They haven’t been brilliant the last few years, but I’m still a bit gutted
Apart of me is sad and another not because of how they killed gamestation I think all we will have left where I live is cex and only option is pre owned
GAME could get into a Time Machine and head back to 2003, that is the only way they could become the biggest game retailer in the country again
very sad times. especially for those born in the 80s. electronics boutique, gamestation and now game. Smyths toys is great but lacks the stand alone game stores that we are now missing.
G force in Glasgow will never be forgotten, games a week early buying games never been the same since it closed
Loved that store
@@thomasmcguire5447 best gaming store ever
Recently spoke with a GAME employee. Even they know their on a sinking ship, its sad
I worked there from 2003-2007. My god I’m glad I left.
Game as a business makes no sense in 2024, there is no market anymore. They could have moved exclusively into the preowned/retro space to compete with CEX - they would have been really well placed to do this they have the knowledge, stock and brand recognition etc but instead they want to sell cheap tat no one wants. Feels inevitable the business will shutdown within the next 12months
Game won't be here 12 months
I said 18 months to someone I know the other week, they must sell next to nothing now
@@Jste75 the one near me in sports direct has posters in window for Lego. You go in and there is no Lego. Just a few games behind a counter
@davenport11 Mike Ashley doing Mike Ashley things. Won't miss it, they've always been a rip off and shut down game station! Good riddance, I'll stick to CEX.
They've also just finished their loyalty scheme for rewarding customers..... Which is usually a sign of creeping death.
this got denied like almost a week ago now, your absolutely craving these clickbait videos lately
Starving for views
I used to work in the industry and you need pre-owned games to survive. In fact an entirely pre-owned business model is the most successful provided you micromanage pricing on an almost daily basis.
In the mid 2000’s blockbuster we’re in the process of offloading their financially crippling gamestation brand to US retailer GameStop but Game instead purchased game station (I still don’t know how this got through anti monopoly laws), but due to retail let’s being typically 5 year contracts they were in the red to the tune of £18 million quid within 2 years.
Game sold for £1 to a US conglomerate who specialise in turning around failed businesses and like HMV moved into sale or return trinkets made in china like t-shirts, mugs, key rings, etc etc.
In some ways it’s amazing they’ve limped along for so many years, but I think the writing is on the wall
I was a frequent user of Game Reward Elite because of the 10% back on TCG product. If you're a TCG collector you know 10% is a huge return and was very good. I became good friends with my GAME employees from buying TCG product and when they told me the Reward program was over i had to tell them i would no longer be coming here for my TCG purchases. They completely understood and we both agreed the changes are likely the end of the GAME era.
Yea i remember that was really solid. Sucked when they axed it especially as they're still seemingly trying to sell tcg stuff and without that competing with online just seems moot
Yeah that is my exact same reaction I mean seriously why would u buy any physical games there when there cheaper everywhere else and especially after release as games prices never come down
No surprise for CEX credit
Yet in my experience, the majority of CEX shops are staffed by complete idiots who know chuff all about 95% of what they sell.
GAME era 1992-2019
Fact: in June 2019 games became no longer for gamers but more customer consumers.
6:26 £48 for Red Dead Redemption on PS4? No wonder they’re struggling.
Joke of a company.
Game is such a weird shop now. It’s just an outlet for toys no one wants and for years now they just haven’t been able to compete when it comes to prices. Their console bundles are always poor. The cost of games on release are too high and have been for years compared to Amazon. All in all their decline has been inevitable and it reminds me a lot of toys r us. The once go to place for what they sold and now it’s just an overpriced mess of a place with no care or attention. It’s a real shame.
Wasn't this denied about a week ago?
Even the VGC story says so....
If you have to order online, why would you have something sent to a store when you can order online and have it delivered straight to your address already???
They’ve been circling the drain for a while now. One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel
already been denied by game
This has been refuted.
I wonder if there’s still a market for Game rentals. I remember blockbusters did it and lovefim. The problem with Lovefilm is that people say they never received it when they did. At game it could be pick up and drop off at your local store. I don’t know how Sony and MS feel about this but it did exist once and they didn’t do anything about it.
Argos have said their sales are down mainly due to fall in video games sales according to owners Sainsbury's. I like to have physical games in my collection, you can also sell them on unlike digital games and digital games can be more expensive sometimes.
I miss the days when you could go into game or gamestation and browse all the PS2 games and play the demos for some 360 games on the in store Xbox 360
my friend wasn't hit by the layoffs at GAME but did take it as a sign to jump ship and look elsewhere (and thankfully has moved onto a new job). he gave me advance warning about them getting rid of the rewards/elite scheme and to use up all my points because they'd be getting deleted from my account if not used. it's a shame cos we both grew up having GAME as our go-to store (other than gamestation RIP) and his experience working with them post-sports direct/frasers buy outs really shattered the nostalgia goggles we both had for browsing through physical GAME stores in high school together. i won't say exactly what he told me about how his branch was run, but suffice to say when he broke it down neither of us could see how the place was making enough money to even warrant being kept in the back of a sports direct. we somehow have a free-standing game store still in our city centre, but I don't see that lasting long (sports direct close by to it).
There is one in Newport sports direct too, but I wouldn’t waste your time 😂
They announced that about 4 months ago about their points. The card is connected to your email account so people would’ve got the email, but there’s very few people who would have any point. I probably have some, but I have not bought anything from that store for over 15 years, they should be happy they’re still open
It's already been denied by game
I remember the good ol’ days of trading in and buying pre-owned games. Some of my PS2 games still have the price stickers on them. 😢
It's sad to see where game has gone as I miss the time where I was a kid comparing trade in prices and prices of games from Game and Gamestation. If they some how make a comeback I would love it to see how it would compare with the empire of CEX
I went to a standalone Game store yesterday, because they're only letting you spend your remaining reward points there, not the Sports Direct stores. Glad I went though. Got a pre-owned copy of Maneater on Switch for a quid. That store was literally next door to a cex who'd have given £13 trade for it. No idea how it sat there that long
It’s crazy how big video games have got over the last 10 years and how people are so sick of swapping discs over they’d rather get a digital copy and yes we all really know with the discs most the time u don’t own the bigger games as there bigger in size than what ps5/xbox discs can hold software size wise but all the cool maybe AA games are mostly all on disc so why not stock these games and physical gamers will still pick them up
The Uxbridge store has already got rid of their dedicated Game till last year sometime, so wouldn't be surprised if the rest went this way.
Yep. Definitely go for the video about how game could turn it around. Maybe they’ll watch and take note. 😅
Must admit it is one of the things I dont like about UK is that there is no physical shops to buy games. Even when I moved here I could not look at computer monitors and TVs in person and this really something I love to do to see what I am getting.
@kcrazy3311 100% agree
tbf you can do this but our game stores have never really focused on TVs or PC gaming (never saw TVs or monitors in game or gamestation even as a kid 20+ years ago). For that you need to hit up a PC World/Currys, larger supermarket that has a dedicated electronics section, Costco, or depending on where you are in the UK, Richer Sounds. RIP to Comet though, they were the best for TVs and computers, not quite sure what happened that tanked them
@rhonab6698 yeah but even then it's not a large range that's there. If you ever go to Australia you'll see. We have lots of stores that have displays with TV, Monitors, laptops and even PC all setup so you can see what your buying.
It's just different here and that's cool
The Bridgend store is a rare thing. It's still an actual Game store rather than a tiny corner of a Sports Direct but yeah it's also 75% toys......
One of the worst working experiences of my life was a Christmas job at GAME some years ago. Awful management throughout the company.
In those days they were pushing the now-defunct Reward card very heavily and penalising staff who couldn’t get people signed up for them or who sold games to people who didn’t have one (the more senior staff would then simply push more junior staff into serving customers without the cards and let them get the b*ll*cking from the manager).
I remember on one occasion they declined to stock an edition of whatever magazine had a critical article about GAME that month. They couldn’t take the criticism.
I was sacked in breach of employment law, not that it was worth arguing the point. They had made sure to make me work over Christmas and New Year holidays before sacking me.
Just a horrible place to work.
To help Game out I feel all they'd have to do is have competitive prices and keep the reward points and make them engaging. Do something where stuff £10 and under give you 10 points £11-£20 give you 20 points etc and you can use points to buy stuff (x item is x points) or use them to take money off (100 points is £10 off)
They denied it to Eurogamer but it definitely has to have come from an internal source, so can see them actually doing this eventually
The one at Rushden Lakes is in the House of Fraser.
This isn’t true, got denied the other day… didn’t it?
Yep almost immediately by Game. False news.
They want to employ people who actually know gaming and the gaming scene. Not some executive who graduated in business and art history at university who doesn't know the scene.
Jeez what happened to the high st and the game stores how is the business not profitable
I also remember when I was in Chester a year or so ago that there was a big advert outside the Grosvenor shopping centre advertising Game opening, went a couple weekends ago and no sign of new Game store and not one in sports direct either. Doesn’t surprise me but why advertise they were opening one in the first place when they were making cuts 😅
just close it, as much as its gonna suck having no real game stores left now (chain not indepenedent), it deserves it. the fact that gamestation, grainger games and chips world closed and this pos has stayed open the long annoys me. Any of the stores i just mentioned has great prices and where a hell of a lot memorable than anything game ever done
I remember an age when gaming was gaming and PC games came in big boxes and came with extras and a decent manual and Game sold board games and RPGs. But the gamers of the new world and era don't know they;re born. In this new age business isn't done face to face and transactions're carried out in a world we can't see using a currency we cant' feel.
(I got the idea for this from the opening of The Road Warrior) and refer to the GAME of the '90s/early 2000s)
Wait what do they sell then :D
I buy quite a lot of physical games from GAME,it's a shame sounds like they're going down hill! Will have to get my future games from Ebay!😊
The amount of people who didn't listen to TVM and jumped ahead and started commenting 30 secs into the video... 😂
Thats me not going in Game again then..oh wait i never did anyway 😂
Sad to see it go like this. I remember the days of Game, before EB bought them. They were enjoyable shops to browse. Not they're just toy shops. The game prices are always brutal in comparison to cex
I don’t see why they are doing this it’s destroying the uk physical game industry
I'm worried about Game, we don't need more stores closing. There's also the loyalty card points, Game are stopping them soon as got an email about it
good prices and deals and promotional exclusive instore incentive merch
I started working at game in 2016 and moved around a few stores, I remember them being really busy, working days of the spider-man launch and Red Dead Redemption 2 and they were super busy but over the span of a year it started to die off and two years after that was when they moved the store I was working in into the local sports direct and even then you could see how badly ran it was and I left there in 2021. Now I work at CEX and I really enjoy it and I can see how better managed it is and how mind blowing that Game are missing out on things like retro and pre owned, there’s so much money to be made it doesn’t make sense!! The Game I used to work in looks a mess now, hardly any video games on display, toys thrown everywhere and staff just standing about on their phones, what a waste of a brand!!
I have a digital Xbox and ps5 but my son has a disc ps5 I would either buy off Amazon or something but I would still occasionally buy from game but to get rid of them would be daft and I refuse to buy pre owned games from cex sometimes they sell for more than brand new I only buy from them for the more older games like 3ds games because I have no choice but game has been going downhill for years thanks to a lot of places selling physical/digital games online like cd keys
Punctuation. Use it, please. 😣
how im i ment to get games for chrismas now
Unfortunately I stopped ordering online with game when they started charging £5 for postage. It won’t be here in 18-24 months
if you order it into a store click and collect they give the £5 back in the form of a money off voucher in store
Smyths / Argos is where I buy my games from
Smyths always has some good deals.
I thought the reports that they’re axing physical games were denied?
They should sell switch 1/2 games.. those will be in high demand for years yet.
So game now is literally useless
my game in wrexham has hardly no games but has lots of clothing,, pop figures and plushies and a bunch of computers for people to play on its always empty
God damn you mike ashley
Goes to show gameststion were ahead of their time. They used to be great for trading in games (compared to game) and getting good deals on pre-owned games. I remember the 4 for £10 deals used to be decent. Makes me wonder if they’d still be here had game not bought them out ( probs not but still).
Gamestation never turned a profit despite large market share. Blockbusters were desperately trying to sell them
When I heard about the new series X I did think about preordering it from game but then I changed my mind because it is 50/50 if they will still be in business when it is launched later this year and I did not want to have a chance of losing my preorder payment
I can't believe this is happening
Why? They been in decline for years
its not they refuted the claims, this video is a week out of date
Game died years ago. They just didn't realise it. After their finanical issues you could only buy a new game if you pre-ordered, with a very limited selection of the popular titles, it was a shop swamped by pre-owned. They ramped up board games and topys in recent years, then they moved into sports direct. Game have little to offer the video game industry now. Mike Ashley bought a name again.
I don't understand why game doesn't go down the CEX route and sell all retro games.
Because they're idiots
Costs too much to train staff, handle and hold stock for a niche market. And cex will undercut them anyway
they should of franchised like cex.
Cex can go lower than them long term.
They also have to compete with eBay and independent stores
Its such a cut throat market to enter now
Given that Sony are laying off a large amount of their physical media team and are phasing out development, I think the writing is on the wall for places like Game across the planet. CEX and the like will carry on because they deal with multi generational pre-owned media but Game are absolutely not going to start going down that road. It would require too much change for them to impliment, require more space and staff etc. Game's dead.
I have proper game store in Preston but its always empty I never go to game that much buy online store instead
Game will be gone soon followed by HMV, I shop in cex now anyways
I would imagine it's something that's gonna happen but not on a all or nothing situation but rather the more popular games and the more popular games on the popular platforms (ps5,ps4 and switch) will stay stocked ( as I would imagine they would want to sell games alongside console sales and people who buy a console may want to also pick up a few games) but let's say xbox games and less popular games and ones that are not evergreen will become online only with the option for store pick up. I love game but can never justify using them as they don't play the same game as everyone else with getting the price down straight away so I'm not going to pay more just to use them
I went into game is Glasgow the other day and it was shite!
Win for CEX
Get then starting to sell Retro games. Undercut CEX
Mike Ashley's fault
I humbly apologise but WTF?!
Game deny this
Why do they even still exist then lol if I want digital I'll get them at home on steam or whever other platform. Anything you can get there you can get cheaper else where and amazon.
notthing will happen this year,also the biggest mistake they made was not franchising like cex.
I don't use them anymore....too expensive. Have been irrelevant many years now.
I dont care im into retro gaming ps1,ps2,ps3 era are what i love. I dont love ps4 and ps5 era.
Because games are too expensive now. They're not selling enough.
Pretty sure games are still selling ...
What? Digital preference has declined interest in physical copies, not the demand for games in general. Enormous difference.
@@EVIL-C The only reason that it looks that way is because people have been buying alot of games that they missed digitally when they sell them cheaply in the online store. It doesn't change the fact that people would still prefer physical in general. They probably sell those games really cheap so that they have more excuse to push for all digital. I can understand them wanting to cut back on physical but it's wrong to stop it all together. Probably you will have to buy a disc drive as an optional extra on future consoles.
Console games are too expensive now, i buy them but only when they have been heavily discounted, bet loads of others do the same, sod paying £60 a game.
You need to have actually bought things to get rewards mate.....😂
Game station was better than game
Its already been rubbished by Game