To the local Gamestop....

[Ironclad Alibi]

i doubt my 80 year old grandma would buy Lego Island for herself ...

We have an 81 year old woman in our local Adult Fans of Lego club. She buys lots of Lego products for herself.

[RayvenQ]

I prefer strategy games to FPS games, afterall, why kill hundreds of enemies when you can kill thousands?

I also prefer playing with female gamers, mostly for the sole reason that, while they can be fiercly competetive they are generally more laid back mostly.

[Dreamstalker]

I wonder at times where corporate gets some of the buyback prices from... The reason I generally don't buy used games there (unless it's something I need to have NOW, like when Professor Layton was practically impossible to find and I was lucky enough to stumble across a used copy over Thanksgiving) is that they can usually be had cheaper even with shipping from Amazon. Also the used stock in the stores is so hit-or-miss.

Barbie's Bulimia Blowout Adventure.

I have little experience with FPS (other than Dark Forces), but am awaiting the rumor that the Ghostbusters game will have a multiplayer option for PC (please please please).

[Elspeth]

And I now thank my lucky starts I have a decent Gamestop. When Steel Balttion (Big arse control for one game) all the guys in there were very jealous that I was getting it. They all said their wife/girlfriends would never get it. I had to help the hubby with this thing it was so dang big. Thing made me sick to my stomach. I am glad we have never had these problems. Most of the workers know us by name. They are great.

I tend to go for more of the match 3, MMOs and puzzle games. and Cooking Mama for the DS.

Since we are both gamers, I tend to haunt half.com and the used sections for games.

I am a gamer/geek and a girl and I set fire to gnomes in world of warcraft

For the Horde!

[edible_hat]

I don't even bother walking into EB anymore. I know that 30 meters further along the mall is Game which is cheaper and offers better service. (Although if you buy something World of Warcraft related from one particular CSR, you'll be stuck there for 20 minutes).

[Munkie]

i'm a gamer girl too.

The only game stores around where i live are EB Games, one GameStop that i know of, Play Me Games, a place i cant remember the name of, Whyte Knight Books and Games and Collector's Edge. The EB staff i've run into on occasion has been helpful and knowledgeable (rare, sometimes, but I've rarely gotten stupid cashiers). The GameStop employee was polite, if probably thinking "wtf, she's looking for oooooold games, get her out!" about me... Play Me i REFUSE to shop at - their price for a second-hand game I got later at an EB Games was nearly THREE TIMES the price at EB. and EB had about six copies of the game. In good, if not mint condition.

The place I can't remember is all old-school, they even have regular NES games in there.

Whyte Knight is more towards the RPGs and collectibles than anything else - i remember once a few years back i wanted a copy of mario kart... all the games around it were $5, Mario Kart was $15. I was confused as to why - i didn't understand it was worth more then, being a collector's game. Collector's Edge is all about memorabilia, and they've got some good games.

OH and theres Game City too... don't like their prices, and they only ever have one person in the store, and they usually ignore me in favor of the skinny soccer mom with big boobs or the bald, aging fat guy who's asking whether he should get Battlefield 1 or Time Cross 3 or something like that. Whatever. The only time they ever paid attention to me is when I walked in with my dad - and then had to get the cashier's attention by telling him I lost the case to my Halo 2 game - but had the disc.

[Digitalpotato]

I worked at an EB (owned by Gamestop) - and the retail employees have NO control whatsoever over the buyback prices. Find the title, does it have the book, register gives you the price. Same as any retail position with a large company: corporate sets the prices.

The rest of the list, yowza.

It still sucks though. >.>;; more of a corporate issue.


And while I COULD probably go to the Buy Back Games which does believe in the Cartridge-based era (The local gamestop doesn't even sell used Game Boy Advance games.) it's all the way on the other side of town and it's a bad place to get new stuff. old stuff? Just one step below Amazon. (Amazon's more expensive but sometimes it's better to pay more just to insure that you actually GET it.)

[ottid]

I just remembered this one time my family was buying something from one of the game stores, and noticed they had a "Trade two games in, get one free" Or some kind of deal like that. I commented to my mum who was already at the counter "I wonder if they take Sega games?" This was because we have an insanely large amount of Sega Master System III games at home, as well as Sega Mega Drive II games. The cashier responded "No, but I'm sure there are a few guys here who wouldn't mind them"

[Andara Bledin]

The reason I generally don't buy used games there (unless it's something I need to have NOW, like when Professor Layton was practically impossible to find and I was lucky enough to stumble across a used copy over Thanksgiving) is that they can usually be had cheaper even with shipping from Amazon.

Ooh, I spotted Professor Layton used at the local GameCrazy and picked it up. It was too short, but I really liked it. Traded it back to GameCrazy the next week for exactly the price I paid for it. I love that place!

For the Horde!

"For the Horde, baby!"

^-.-^

[Mike Taylor]

And yeah, I remember walking into a Babbages, Electronics Boutique or whatever and the walls would be stocked with PC games. Now there is like a little sliver of them.

Babbage's and EB Games, like Funcoland before them, are now just memories. Great stores, they were, but GameStop has devoured them.

[Geek King]

I've got three choices for a brick-and-mortor game store right now: GameStop, GameCrazy, or BestBuy. I prefer GameCrazy, but they must have the worst computer system ever. Almost everytime I try to pre order a game (I buy lots of Atlus and NIS titles. Good games, but they do low production runs), it becomes a major to-do because the computer can never find them without some serious work. Sometimes they can't find them at all, even with the full title less than a month from the release date. And occasionally, I can find my games in Best Buy before my preorders even come in. It's just really odd for a place that pushes preorders.

[Andara Bledin]

GK, your GameCrazy sounds like it's run by people who aren't quite all there.

Our local GameCrazy employees are really on the ball. They know what's coming out, they know how it's listed in their system, they know what games they're likely to get extra copies on (not a lot since it's a very small shop in a strip mall), and they usually have a halfway decent idea of what used games they have in the display cases. They also have a pretty good clue on what games to recommend based on what games a customer likes, too, which is a definite bonus.

^-.-^

[cawaker]

to chime in, my local gamestop is very professinal and well run, I've heard tons of horror stories, but they dont have seen to hit my local shop so far.

I think its cause the main manager seems to work there a lot and he's a good guy.

[Imogene]

As an MtF gamer, there is not enough use of Princess Peach out there. Adore her to death, I do... but, all the merchandising is on Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and the generally male populace of the Mushroom Kingdom.

As to the original topic... way, way back when, my brother and I were in what was then a Babbages, I really wanted the Sims, and Diablo 2 had just come out. I get up to the counter with my Sims box, and the lady working looks at me like WTF? then says, "I saw you pick up the box for Diablo, and put it down... you can't possibly want the Sims."

I was much, much younger then, and actually put the Sims back, and bought D2, big mistake for me, as my then friend MADE me play it with him, and he liked to abuse the game to make me feel bad about playing it at all.

Were it to happen nowadays, I'd probably go so far as to just leave the box on the counter and walk out. Not something I'd normally do, mind, but, I know what the hell I came in for. You don't.

[mariamousie1]

If this is all one employee, he should have been fired a long time ago. I'd let the manager know about the phone sex, and if nothing is done I'd tell corporate. That is definitely not right.