• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The move to digital sales is killing their business model.

    They can’t buy and re-sell used digital games.

    Pre-orders on digital content can be done through the respective app stores.

    Gamepass renders the buy, sell, re-buy consumer behavior irrelevant.

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      8 months ago

      I mean, all that was intentional…

      But this was a dying business years ago, it was propped up by a few people who made a shit ton of money and a whole bunch of idiots they convinced to hold the bag.

      GameStop was never going to last long, it was just delayed

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        8 months ago

        It should have ended years ago, it’s a crap company who were annoying to do business with, it became a meme and got to live a few extra years. But I say good riddance