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This person has a different problem. He'd rather drive to Gamestop to buy something now than wait for shipping. Seriously, go play some TF2 or something.
> Buy a used game. Sell it for three dollars less. No profits go to the developer. Pretty simple
To some extent I do feel a bit guilty about doing this because no profits go to the developer. That said, I can hardly afford full-price games...
> Then again, there is something satisfying about going into town to buy something and bring it back physically.
I did, admittedly, really feel like buying stuff from the local fye because it felt cool, in that I was at least helping out local sales of animé DVDs.
> independent game store
Unfortunately, the one nearby closed down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4
Don't particularly care about developers not getting any cash from used sales, either. As a consumer, it's not my responsibility to care. My responsibility as a consumer is to find the games that I want at as great a value as possible, and I get that from Gamestop. The nice service and deals are totally a bonus.
If I bought games on other digital distribution services I would be really, really careful to back them up. And it would be a pain since my external HD is full right now and I have to decide what to trash.
As for buying other things online, I'd be buying hard copies anyway. I want to have a box set on my shelf. It's nice to have. I can torrent the show all I want anyway.
In fact, something I might do is to buy a product AND acquire it through less-than-legal means. This passes my own ethical standards, yet it also leaves a lot of other options open. Emulated games let me play the games on non-native systems, most notably letting me play tiny-screen portable system games on my computer (whose screen is far, far larger than anything a portable system could ever offer). Torrented TV shows come conveniently in files that I can transfer from one computer to another--including my computer that has no optical drive, as well as my old computer whose optical drive has long been broken.
And I'll also have a DVD copy to watch comfortably on TV if I so choose. sure I can plug my computer into the TV, but it's just not the same. And it being the official DVD, I'll get all the extras too. Character bios, deleted scenes, "making of" segments, and more. I really like those extras, to be honest.
No they're not. In my area there's at least two other non-GameStop game stores. One that's better because it covers consoles older than the previous gen.
and Gamestop doesn't have a monopoly because it has to compete with any other store that (even marginally) offers the same product, such as competing stores, mom n pop stores, and even actual pawn shops.
I don'r like Gamestop but I don't have a hate-on for them. I mostly don't visit because they just don't have the games I want (until recently when I got a PSP). Nothing wrong with that though.
Sure, they have some competition from stores that carry a small selection of games, such as fye, or superstores that happen to carry games, such as Wal*Mart or Toys R Us.
However, if you're a gamer looking to acquire a game, you'd probably call up game stores first, and then superstores second, then small entertainment stores third.