GameStop posts $624.3 million loss due to impairment charges

@jhcho2 @Nick_Fury_Shine

The point that he can post about what ever he wants. He made a simple statement and received a smug duchess sack rep once. It would be like me saying he lacks the understanding of perspective taking, because it is hard to see/hear others ideas with "ur crainium up/around Uranus". Again if I said it towards him.

 @Nick_Fury_Shine Well, if he's not educated enough to know the difference between profit and revenue, then he should refrain from posting anything about profit.

 @Toysoldier34 You make a valid point concerning servers being kept online but let's not forget it is in the games best interest that there is a large online community. How many games have been trashed because people complain no one is online. But server availability is also dependent on the company running it. Take EA for instance. They are known for dropping servers 2 years after a games release, especially for their sports franchises. I guess they figure if they let people play the old version no one would buy the new one.

 I also agree with you about supporting developers who make games you enjoy. We want to keep them in business so we can enjoy more of their work. And they do deserve to be rewarded. It's just that there are a lot of me too companies as I like to call them, that seem to be the most vocal about this issue we are speaking about. Some companies spend a lot of money producing their games while others don't even come close but still charge the industry norm for their games. Then their games don't sell and they blame the used game market.

 @zilcher A big part of it I feel is how frequently the games are sold used.Books do get sold used but not as much as games do. The same copy of a game can be sold five or more times easy. While this does happen with cars and homes they are sold over the span of many years and are sold very high to compensate for that. A few years back before Gamestop was as big as they now are used sales did happen and theyw ere around but no one complained because it wasn't an issue. Gamestop has made used sales such a common thing now that it creates an issue.

There are many people for instance that wait a few weeks after a game launches so they can buy it used for $5 less. Before it was so common they would have most likely just bought it new and not hassled with finding another person to buy it from if a shop wasn't selling games used.

Also with games now having so much content online games cost them money to maintain servers and keep service going. It is more than just print the games and sell them like it used to be. This ongoing cost is hard to keep up when a year after the launch of the game 70% of the copies people buy are used. The people that have finished playing the game sell it and now new people keep playing and putting load on servers but they aren't receiving much more funding to keep them up.

While overall it can be blown out of proportion and I don't like hearing about it, I understand why they may feel that way.  My biggest issue is just that people need to keep it in mind when they want to save a few bucks that could go into supporting the company that made the game you want so they can keep making games you want to play.

 @Toysoldier34 Another point I'd like to make is selling used games actually fuels new sales. The people that sell them usually use the money toward other games. In fact if you look at the Gamestop web page they will give you 30% more for you used game if you use the money toward the purchase of a new game because they know that's what people usually spend the money on.

 @Toysoldier34  ok what about Ebay. You can buy and sell cars there as well as video games. I guess you're not getting what I'm saying. And about pricing, books can sell for what a used video game sells for but you don't hear publishers or authors crying about reselling them. The point I'm making is a lot of things are bought new and can be sold later but it's only video game companies that cry about it.

 @zilcher Not the market for whether you can buy and sell them. The pricing and everything else that goes into it. You are clearly missing everything I am saying.

 @Toysoldier34 but the markets are set up that way. It's called Gamestop and Amazon and BestBuy, so yes the analogy does apply. And so does the law.

 @victorlamy  @richten71 If the second person buying the game spent $5 more and bought it new the company would get more money and keep the games going.  It is less of an issue for big name games, but for smaller games that aren't triple A titles get hurt because people just wait to buy it used.

I don't support the Online passes but I understand why they are there. The developers see far less money overall for the amount of copies sold overall. More money for good games means we get more good games and original games.

 @Toysoldier34  @richten71 what a bunch of fucking shit. a game gets sold along with a "spot" for the server. that one spot is all devs deserve cuz they got their share already.

it's literally double dipping.