WYP
News Guru
Say goodbye to pre-owned video games at GAME UK.
Read more about GAME UK phasing out game trade-ins.
Read more about GAME UK phasing out game trade-ins.
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GAME UK's ending its game trade-in service
- Thread starter WYP
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Trade ins just became horribly flooded with nothing but FiFa <insert outdated year>, Call of duty, or whatever game gets refreshed every year.
Smart move by them though considering online storage/downloading is the norm now. I feel like physical copies are in a massive decline. Gone are the days of huge game stores catering for all consoles and PC. Now they are just tiny little stores scattered in each shopping centre/mall
Does Game even sell PC games anymore?
Smart move by them though considering online storage/downloading is the norm now. I feel like physical copies are in a massive decline. Gone are the days of huge game stores catering for all consoles and PC. Now they are just tiny little stores scattered in each shopping centre/mall
Does Game even sell PC games anymore?
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
I have an inkling that everything going digital is going to backfire so badly in the coming years.
trawetSluaP
Member
Only time I really want to purchase physical copies are with Collectors Editions, however, if Horizon Forbidden West is anything to go by, these might start coming with a digital code anyway!
Id still search online for CE boxes. Chances are they are cheaper.
I can still download FF1 through to 9 on the playstation store which I bought over 15 years ago, so im pretty sure its not an issue.
Greenback
Active member
there's also as physical you may pick an older game up cheaper than the online store sales it, and obviously you can only fit so many games on a HDD so physical makes more sense that way
Funnily enough, i just checked my storage earlier and out of curiosity opened my PS3 box.
I found FF lightning returns in there... completely unopened and sealed. Forgot I had it
trawetSluaP
Member
I actually liked FFXIII and FXIII-2 but never played the third despite it wrapping up the trilogy. Probs something to do with having to play the second from start to finish after completing to get the proper ending...
KingNosser
Well-known member
I called it years back with these stores in general, I spoke to a manager and said basically your store is a bunch of boxes, you should put it on a system for people to browse then fill the shop with gaming related merchendise.
south of the country when i worked there had it more right with 2 shops i went too, one was small like tiny yet he even had a life size lara croft for sale, sold mainly very rare items. Another rather much bigger store focused on key games no trade ins and had a lot of imports at very good prices, then the rest of the shop was filled with merchendice which i actually picked up a fair few things i'd not ever find elsewhere even back then some 15+ years ago them two shops put the likes of game eb etc to shame.
when a company focuses on profit and not passion that is when it will eventually fail, all these kind of big company stores will go belly up as they have no passion.
south of the country when i worked there had it more right with 2 shops i went too, one was small like tiny yet he even had a life size lara croft for sale, sold mainly very rare items. Another rather much bigger store focused on key games no trade ins and had a lot of imports at very good prices, then the rest of the shop was filled with merchendice which i actually picked up a fair few things i'd not ever find elsewhere even back then some 15+ years ago them two shops put the likes of game eb etc to shame.
when a company focuses on profit and not passion that is when it will eventually fail, all these kind of big company stores will go belly up as they have no passion.
Dawelio
Active member
Yup, going so heavily digitally is convient for many reasons. But dropping an EMP for example, that basically has no physical damage like an actual bomb, but fries everything electronic and hence the society would literally crash. ATMs, phones, systems, banks, everything... And that is scary.
You know thats almost impossible right?
Every sensitive and secure site hosting servers etc including every mobile network in every country, is housed within a ridiculously EMP shielded vault. You would need to break in and those sites are so heavily strict on security that you would need to be some jilted upper echelon management to do such a thing. This kind of stuff is only something you see in movies.
Only the end user devices could be impacted negatively. I regularly go on site for our telecommunications network in Norway. I have to pass through 5 security doors, sign in to a guard after pre-booking my arrival date and departure time, then open a 60 inch door to enter the servers that hold the countries mobile network. IF i get sacked, quit or laid off. Im instantly revoked from these places faster than they can actually remove the login of my work pc.
Now if Neustar (who handle the entire worlds master DNS information) were to have problems then the world could turn to chaos.
Anyways... Did I just understand that FF Lightning Returns is actually FF 13-3? or did I misunderstand.
Dawelio
Active member
I was referring to mostly that it would blast out cars, smartphones, ATMs etc... if that would happen, what would the consequences be you'd think? Massive traffic jams all over, panic etc.
trawetSluaP
Member
Yup, it's the final part of the trilogy for FFXIII.
AlienALX
Well-known member
The only EMP you need to worry about is the one a nuke puts out. At which point you will have far more to worry about than your car not working lol.
Might have to pick it up on steam on sale then
Dawelio
Active member
Not sure how you got to a nuke from an EMP really? A nuke is a whole different thing lol. If we're talking a nuke, then hopefully the blast kills you straight away...
There are such things as nuclear electromagnetic bombs. Guess he means that.
