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[–] 42 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

Yeah, people forget that Gamestop basically ran all of their favorite local game and card shops out of business. They should not be celebrated.

Fuck now I want to invent a game hangout space that has indie game tournaments, sells games, cards and comics and regularly holds tournaments. Online gambling is legal now, right as long as its base off a skilled game? Stream that shit and take bets...

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    As a casual yugioh enjoyer that went to Barnes and noble every few Saturdays to play and trade, I never saw GameStop even try to compete. I can't imagine it had any impact on running game/card shops out of business.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    I may be older than you. But there used to be a lot of those combo game stores when I was a kid I used to call them "the fun shop" as a child. Only the stores that had enough card volume survived, everyone else lost their business to Gamestop or another store that Gamestop ended up buying. So yeah, there are a few card places that do tourneys, Gamestop never really got into that business so if your sales were heavily card/comic based you had a chance to survive.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I try to patronize my local game shops as much as I can. I'm not into card or board games which limits where I go but I'm lucky enough to have a few local game stores that sell a lot of retro games for fair prices.

    Of course with new games (I still like to buy physical quite often) I generally have to buy from the big stores but I make it a point to avoid gamestop.

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