General Discussion

So I was out running around the other day and remembered I had a $20 credit since X-Mas when I passed by GameStop.  I have been playing LOTRO on/off since launch and well nothing else is coming out for awhile to spend money on so why not, lets go get a 2-month gamecard!

There are 4 employees there atm including the store manager, walked to the desk and asked if they had any LOTRO gamecards.  The employee/manager or whatever gave me this cross-eyed look and said whats LOTRO?  {thinking to myself OMFG!}  So you seriously have no idea what LOTRO is I replied!

He then turned to the other employees and asked what LOTRO was....the other 3 also had no clue! {I'm just astonished at this point!} 

So like I told them you know Lord of the Rings Online, only the most famous fantasy story out there turned into an MMO! 

Finally I got a response, "Oh that game, hasn't that game been shut down, we havn't had stock of that game or gamecards since a month after launch!  All I've heard was that it sucks, nobody plays it and it was shut down like 6 months ago!" 

{I'm thinking; well regardless of how a game might have turned out, or not!  Not knowing about the current popular games and passing along horrible intel to other customers and ur an employee of a game store, that pretty pathetic, these ppl should be fired!}

Anyway I went into a bit more that the game was live and doing exceptionally well, and that I want this dumb-ass $20 credit turned into cash and that I would never shop at any of your stores again!  With quite a bit of resistance and little more heated complaining on my part the manager gave me the cash and I left!

Sorry you had that experience. The folks at my local Gamestop are MMO goobs like me so they have a pretty good clue. Still, I have not seen a LOTRO game card in one for a while. I have seen them at Fry's and Best Buy though.  You can take your cash there!

i myself have stopped all buisness with our local gamestop here they are rude and have no clue about anything you would think working in that type of store they would have some clue about games and not be rude snobs but the gamestop 50 miles away are pretty decent so i will have to go a tad out of my way but its a whole lot better than dealing with rude customer service that shouldnt be employed there in the 1st place

Obviously they don't have them because the game isn't doing well. Blame LOTRO for being a bad game. Don't blame Gamestop .

Originally posted by ghoul31

Obviously they don't have them because the game isn't doing well. Blame LOTRO for being a bad game. Don't blame Gamestop .

 

Game stop did not have any WOW game cards either. Does that mean WOW is as bad game too or doing poorly?  In fact, all they had were some cards for Xbox Live.

You sure showed them! Take that 20 dollars, and your self righteous indignation and show the world!!!!!

Originally posted by TedDanson

You sure showed them! Take that 20 dollars, and your self righteous indignation and show the world!!!!!

LOL

Its just so damn annoying to go into a game store and know more than every employee combined!  Not just LOTRO but anything! 

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

 

Originally posted by TedDanson

You sure showed them! Take that 20 dollars, and your self righteous indignation and show the world!!!!!

 

LOL

I live in South Florida so there are about 50 Gamestops in my area, and the employees vary greatly at each one.

DO Gamestop employees get paid more then $2200/month?

PC games are dwindling down more and more at retail shops.   Gamestop used to be THE place to go for PC games, long before Best Buy.  Not sure about anyone else, but both gamestops in the city I live in hardly stock any PC games at all.

theres a 3x5 rack dedicated to PC games, and thats it in both shops.  As for keeping stock of MMO's, unless the game just came out dont count on seeing much on the shelves.  However Gamestop still sells a LOT of PC games on their website

its PC gaming's fault in general, not gamestop.  Just compare the amount of games released on console vs. the PC.  Then look at how many PC games are exclusively PC and how many are exclusively console.

since the 360 and PS3 have been released, theyve absolutely been destroying the PC in games available.

anyway, as far as walk in retailers go when I want to pick up a PC game its almost always Best Buy.  Just 2 years ago I would never go to BB for games.  Strange how things turned..