Gamestop No Longer Pushing Used Games
If you’ve ever shopped in Gamestop you’ve probably dealt with this before. You come in, asking for a game that isn’t you hadn’t gotten around to picking up yet. Then you spend the next ten minutes trying to convince the guy working the counter that no, saving five dollars isn’t worth getting a used copy of the game. It’s a similar shtick in many retail stores. The poor chumps who work there are instructed to push certain products, deals or unnecessary warranties on any and all who enter.
A company memo was circulated instructing managers that their policy regarding pushing used copies of games sixty days after their release is being rescinded. This was apparently done in favor of better vendor relations. Though some in the industry say used game sales aren’t as much of a threat as some think, many publishers and developers aren’t terribly happy that potential revenue is going into the pockets of those who simply run a chain of retail stores instead of those who actually create the games.