Gamestop Stories

They'll probably downsize and kill themselves so that the higher-ups can get as much money out of it as they can. The only story I have of GameStop is waiting in line with my aunt to pick up halo reach legendary edition at launch, was so hyped up waiting in line. Me and the boys skipped the rest of the week to play that shit.

Yeah gamestop are niggers i just go to bestbuy to buy new games and usd games on amazon

We have consoles set up. A lot of the kids don't make it far past the start screen before their attention goes somewhere else.
Mario gets abandoned in the middle of Rainbow Road a lot.

Something I forgot was how much GameStop pesters you with stuff like reward cards or whatever. Really doesn't make you wanna go there.

One thing I will sya with games top is you do pay a little less for used games. I've been picking up ds games and I might just save a few bucks but it's something.

for anyone else ctrl-f-ing it here you go
FUCKING GAMESTOP

I had a guy come in to the store I worked at once saying he was from out of town looking for an Elite Controller like the month they came out. He asked for my opinion on the thing and I simply told him I thought they weren't worth the money. He still bought the only one we had then my manager talked to me the next day saying he wrote an essay length complaint on his receipt's survey saying I called him an idiot and belittled him for his purchase. My DM and SM said they talked to him and he was gonna come back in and get two free games of his choice to make him happy.
My coworker didn't know and when he eventually did come back he didn't get his games and made an even bigger fuss.

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>GAME SHIPS 09.14...
>"Oh cool, they finally announced a release da-"
>...2010
>mfw

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>wanting the game that killed Halo this badly

The sooner this comes out, the sooner the rest will.

>the game that killed Halo
>4 and onwards only really kept the abilities from Reach, didnt take much more from it
You can't seriously claim that Reach was even a fraction of as big a blunder as 4. Reach was actually an enjoyable spinoff. 4 and onwards are poor attempts at continuing a story that should have ended already.

Bestbuy sometimes just asks you for you phone number without telling you why. If you ask they say it's for their rewards program but idgaf so I just say no

That's the best move. I'm usually really careful about giving up my contact info, but I must have slipped up at some point, because I got hit with a fucking wave of telemarketers that lasted around a month a while back. What sucks about it is that I work nights, so I was being constantly woken up during the day by these assholes.

Fuck starbucks for making that shit commonplace.

I got asked for my phone number at fucking Burger King, like no bitch I'm not gonna let BK sell my fucking phone number for a tenth of a cent to some chinese robocaller so I can get coupons to buy this shitty food.

Only one good thing happened at GameStop for me user. Was hanging out with friends at a mall and I bought a Naruto headband for Halloween and decided to throw it on for the rest of the night. We went to GameStop to buy a copy of Tekken 7 and we had a argument on who’s best girl in the series. Cute store clerk girl jumps in the conversation after I said Sakura was shit. Eventually had a whole two hour conversation before she closed the store and got her number too. Aside from that fuck GameStop

Good man.
Ino is the best, also probably the most fucked over in the end with Sasuke 2.0.

>Fuck starbucks for making that shit commonplace.
what? i wasted a good amount of time working for them and although i joined in like 2014 i never saw even a hint of something like that.

I'm a mobile faggot because it's almost 3 am and I dont want to go downstairs and grab my laptop, but heres a quick story.

>be me
>go into gamestop to get the dumb pokemon card with a code for the Arceus event
>I grab 2 codes, one for my brother
>some chink walks in
>5' nothing manlet, maybe 90 pounds
>asks in the most blunt voice
>"Do you have the ah-see-us codes!?
>repeats himself
>I actually laughed at the guy in store

Reach for me was more of a last hurrah before the death of Halo. After Halo shat the bed I haven't cared about vidja in nearly the same way as I used to. Bungie used to be the game dev me and all my friends wanted to work at, plus you had the Bungie forums which were my first exposure to any kind of forum. nowadays the only game I really play with any sort of consistency is tf2.

I forgot what in specific it was but I remember going to one of those pokemon events as a kid, quality times user.

I meant the phone number shit, not the gamestop "do you want to sign up for 15 things" thing.

that's what i mean too, i've never heard of that from starbucks. seems like the environment is too fast paced to be able to try something like that.

M8, maybe the girl thought you were cute and just wanted your number.

Gamestop is soulless. Its negative soul. The rare occasions I have to go (and they are rare, last time was for RDR2 because I'm a steelbook cuck) I feel worse when I leave.

I'd rather deal with the burgers n weed crowd at GameXChange or go to Disc Replay which is actually a fantastic store.

Gamestop is basically Spencer's Gifts with a "geek" theme now, which also sells video games on the side.

Brothers been working there for 11 years. He seems to have just given up on life because he has 0 motivation to do anything outside work, even play games. Like a fatalism type of thing. He played Mario Odyssey for a whopping 20 mins, God of war for 40 and Forza for 15. Hes late 20s and everytime I talk to him he repeats the same convos and jokes hes had from middle school.

He hates working at gamestop and he gets extremely depressed when you ask him about it.

Not like hes poor and needs to survive, he lives rent free with our dad. Dont know what to do about him.

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>acnl release day
>driving out with some friends in the morning to grab our copies
>im the only one who preordered
>they give me shit about it saying they think its "unnecessary" cause theres no way acnl will sell out in the morning of release day
>i just like the err on the side of caution
>pull up to a walmart
>no acnl
>drive to the gamestop near it
>no acnl
>start calling up gamestops nearby asking if they've got any copies
>literally not a single one has any copies on their shelves
>finally pull up to the gamestop that has my preorder
>walk inside half feeling bad for my bros but also smug cause i get a physical copy for preordering
>"hey, what can i do for you?"
>"here to pick up a preorder for animal crossing"
>"oh yeah no problem"
>give him my info
>clerk looks me dead in the face
>"oh, looks like we sold your copy earlier"
>"...huh?"
>"we sold your copy to somebody else"
>"a-ah... so you don't have any more copies?"
>clerk pauses for a moment
>"we have some other people's copies, but not yours"
>im so stunned i cant even react
>clerk starts smiling
>"haha just kidding man, i got your copy right here"
>im still so turned around i can barely do more than laugh along and grab my receipt
>"enjoy your game!"
>"y- thanks"
>walk back to the car reflecting on how this is karma for feeling smug about my friends' loss

It was fun.

>order super mario odyssey from amazon
>dumb cunt Amazon Logistics delivery person marks my package as delivered but doesnt actually deliver it, submits zoomed in picture of package label to amazon as proof it was "delivered"
>complain to amazon'
>they send me an extra copy free of charge
>offload the 2nd copy to gamestop for ez money
>buy eshop giftcard

pretty cool guys imo

I got a few micro stories
>At gamestop
>Dead space one coming out soon
>Small child asks what it is
>Clerk says "it's like Halo except it has zombies"

>At gamestop recently looking for a clone hero guitar (didn't find one)
>Some big faggot nerd asking about obviously unreleased details about that new star wars game
>Clerk says "one things for sure, it's by EA so you know it's gonna be epic!"

>At gamestop a while ago
>Ask clerk for Naruto ultimate Ninja storm 4
>He starts spazzing out asking my favorite characters and shit
>I tell him I like Shiba or kiba or whatever, idk I don't watch the anime, I get all my experience from the Ninja storm games which are fun
>He goes on this insanely long diatribe about Naruto actually being some ancient parable about the power of friendship or some shit, he has a tattoo of kakashi on his shoulder
>Some female clerk asks the equivalent of "aren't you a bit old to watch anime"

>At gamestop
>Just looking around at games while my gf is looking at clothes next door
>Guy asks if I need help finding anything
>Just browsing
>"Okay if you need anything just let me know"
>Looking at the back of some musou all Stars game with the nioh guy on it
>same Guy butts into my personal space, really fucking close to me and asks if I've played dark souls
>I say yeah but I'm ju-
>OH DUDE THERES THIS GAME CALLED NIOH YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT ITS AWESOME
>tell him I've played nioh
>Oh cool, they might be making a nioh 2 check this out
>Pulls out this fat fucking packet of potential released for the next year
>Tells me all these fucking games are coming out
>Games with titles that say TBD and dates TBD
>hands me the fuckin packet and tells me to look them over and he can "get me a deal on a pre-order"
>Before I can even refuse and give it back an ad for fallout 76 plays on one of the fuckin 10 TVs in the store
>Guy nudges me and says "check this out, this is gonna be the greatest game of all time"
Fuckin GameStop......

If anything that should make hate normie costumers.

>I can get you a deal on pre-orders
Well now I'm curious if that nigga was gonna suck your dick.

Same guy, got a weird Walmart story
>Browsing Walmart
>In the games section looking for anything neat to pirate onto my 3ds or discount PS4 games
>2 younger dudes come up to me "hey man, can I get a minute of your time"
>"Sure, whatsup"
>"So I don't know if you know this, but Walmart is claiming they will no longer be selling violent video games as a result of these mass shootings, do you play violent video games?"
>He says it all so fast and kind of mumbles his words so I'm somewhat confused by all that
>"Uhh, I'm not sure what you mean"
>"You know, do you play games like call of duty or battlefield, or battlefront"
>"Uhhhhh, I can't say that I do" at this point I notice guy number 2 has a GoPro on a tripod in his hand.
>"Well you're in the games section, what games do you play"
>By now I just fucking want out, social anxiety is getting to me, I'm a little buzzed, and my patience is worn out "I uhh, mostly play Madden and uhh, Tetris"
>Guys look kind of confused and irritated, thank me for my time and walk away
>I stumble my ass all the way home before realizing I was wearing a fucking Tekken shirt.

>around 2009 or 2010
>couple of friends and me wanted to play a 4 players split screen game
>browsing
>random guy starts to talk to us about how many of the games sucked
>told him we just want a fun 4 players game
>guy starts to tell us about emulation and mario party
>decided to buy some CoD game
>guy followed us to the car
>told him we hang out by a local park, to meet us there
>never saw him again

>preorder heavy rain so I could get future dlcs like an idiot
>pick up the game
>ask the dlc code that should come with the preorder
>"sorry we ran out of codes"

How do you run out of small pieces of paper with codes on them?

I always went to Best Buy to get my games. Never step foot in a GameStop, but I imagine it smells.

Parents have two options, let their kids act like a bunch of assholes to the detriment of others so they can get a bit of peace, or they can beat their kids.

I remember getting 40 left 4 dead 2 baseball bat codes

Hopefully you performed badly enough not to make it onto some autists youtube channel

i asked for battletoads and got my dick sucked

Rule 1 of retail, fuck the customer, if they're interested in overpriced shit let, recommend it. Dude's fragile ego was probably hurt because he was gonna buy it anyway and can't handle people telling him he shouldn't
surprised you didn't get fired but you live and learn

wew that clerk plays a dangerous game. say that shit to the wrong person and they'll flip before he can pull the "It was a joke"

Sounds like my dad. He’s a borderline nigger that goes out of his way to get retail workers fired

I punched the guy from gamestop when he ordered me the normal edition of diablo 3 instead of the collector. He wasnt joking.
Maybe it was the great god's plan for me to spend less money in that bullshit.

>Went to gamestop to buy groceries
>mom asked for bread
>out of bread
>fuck.png
>ask if they have anything kind of like bread
>clerk takes down a display for rice cakes
>”it’s got starch”
>thank him and excuse myself to the parking lot
>go home empty handed
>mom beats me and sends me to bed without tendies

an employee stole yours out of the box

So unless i do it too much often i can have free games working at gamestop? All i have to do is saying "uh they send us one less copy, again" and everything is fine? Better i can sign manually the codes and when someone come complaying i can say "we dont know nothing".

>Go to Gamestop
>Ask for a copy of Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance for the Xbox 360
> Clerk says "Nah but i think the one down the street does"
>MFW i didn't know it was a playstation exclusive
Fucking gooks.

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Huh? Rising does have a 360 port.

They tried selling me a an opened copy of Bayonetta 2 "new" when the download code for Bayonetta 1 was right in the case. Might not have been activated but I'm not risking that shit. Then the MANAGER got pissy and uppity with me when I turned down the game. I'm a retail manager myself so that really pissed me off and I've never gone back since.

I get games from their online store occasionally. Physical gamestop brick and mortars are worthless though. There's a handful of local ones here (all approaching shutdown) and the larger ones have gigantic walls dedicated to physical toys, and shit like t-shirts. Most of which have been there since they were forced to stock them.

The others have to have them lined up behind the register counter, and that's just outright depressing, because those funko pops are going fucking nowhere.

Wait really? I looked it up at the time after going to the second gamestop and read that it was a ps4 exclusive. Was it ported later or something?

That's the worst shit, when every other game had a fucking "online pass" to cuck gamestop and they tried selling used games as new just because they were cib, I got scammed once with that shit, but it was a PC game they left the case with the steam key out on the display shelf. I went back and stood there for fucking hours being a god damned nuisance until they gave me my money back.

>be me
>go into GameStop to buy used copy of Dragon Ball FighterZ
>two people are line in front of me
>one is a egg shaped man, the other is an older woman with some kind of eastern European accent
>egg man seems a bit...off from the way he speaks
>I'm pretty sure the lady with him is his mom, aunt, grandma, or tard guard
>egg man is trying to buy a Switch
>he keeps drilling the cashier for information
>"Is this the Switch with the improved battery life? If so, did they fix the joycon drift?"
>employee doesn't know how to respond
>I'm getting impatient, so I speak up
>"I dunno if they fixed the stick issues, but I think they're offering free replacements if that begins to happen"
>egg man and his older companion thank me for the help
>they fuck off to go pick out more useless accessories for the Switch
>I hand the used copy of FighterZ to the employee
>he quietly exchanges it for a new copy
>no words are exchanged as this happens

Fucking GameStop

That's a lie because that would go against his quota.

Though I’ve gone to gamestop all my life, I’ve never had an actual FUCKING GAMESTOP experience.
The only story I can really say is that when the old gamestop closed down, the new one I went to had an incredibly androgenous cashier and I couldn’t tell whether they were male or female for about 2 years.
Then when I went to pick up KH3 they erroneously had facial stubble.