bargain bins slowly bite the dust

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Maybe you can find electronic bargain bins.

Btw LotM this was a serious point. Lots of online stores (sometimes with physical counterparts) have bargain sections.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Btw LotM this was a serious point. Lots of online stores (sometimes with physical counterparts) have bargain sections.

thanks, but Im aware of that, Doc. If i was pursuing a specific game i craved, thats probably the direction Id go. But ive got more than enough gameplay backlogged now, as ive said before. The EB visits are more idle window shopping, a way of killing time while with the family at the mall, and to keep up on the death of the EB bargain bins.

[duke o' york]

Yeah, there has to be a good reason to go shopping, although I doubt my Spanish friend will really fancy going into Game when she could be choosing clothes for me that I don't like. /
(Yeah, she's beautiful, but also married. )

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Yeah, there has to be a good reason to go shopping, although I doubt my Spanish friend will really fancy going into Game when she could be choosing clothes for me that I don't like. /
(Yeah, she's beautiful, but also married. )

ah, thats where having a kid comes in. QOTM is too busy making POTM try on clothes that POTM doesnt like, to do that to ME. And if I hang around, I'll end up saying something like "well, if she doesnt want to wear it, why are we spending money on it?" so QOTM will usually herself say "why dont you go to the game store and meet us in an hour" Unfortunately EB isnt good for anything close to an hour.

[duke o' york]

No, I can imagine. I never spend more than ten minutes perusing the games, and then, if something catches my eye, another up to 15 queueing, depending on what has been released for consoles recently/the proximity of Christmas.

[Enigma_Nova]

No decline seen in Australia over the last 5 years or so, but then again Australia hasn't been a big market to begin with.
... And San Andreas getting banned? What the hell's up with that? Oh well. (Fires up uTorrent and downloads more stuff)

[Nikolai]

You guys go to the wrong places obviously. In my city I know of several shops that has ~50% PC games I'd estimate. One of the bigger has reintroduced its bargain bin, one of the other has both a bargain bin and a section for used games.

[Stuie]

I picked up IL-2 for $9.99 recently at the Gamestop near me. I was supposed to be buying stuff for the kids' Gamecube... oops. Anyway, they still have a decent bargain section for PC games, especially considering they're in a strip mall, and those Gamestops seem to usually be more console-oriented.

The Gamestop and EB at the local mall, on the other hand, definitely have incredible shrinking PC sections, though EB seems to be the worse offender of the two.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I guess it depends from shop to shop, but here the shops have cut down on space for PC games.

IMO it is hard to balance now for space that you have PS2, GC, X box, Xbox 2, and PC... and what will happen when PS3 and Revo come later this year ...

I mostly buy over the net anyhow. Though I bought Civ 4 in the local shop just because I couldn't be bothered, so I paid 10£ more than I could have otherwise, but 10£ is the price of laziness (and getting the game straight away)

[Grumbold]

Shelf space for PC games has been shrinking in all the UK stores I visit, but that is hardly surprising considering they have to find shelf space for new consoles at regular intervals and the shops don't get any bigger. More noticably, the PC titles used to be front of store and are now near the back.

We don't tend to see bargain bins too often. In the Uk everything just seems to be rereleased on a budget label in months, except for the games you really want to get cheap of course

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Nikolai
You guys go to the wrong places obviously. In my city I know of several shops that has ~50% PC games I'd estimate. One of the bigger has reintroduced its bargain bin, one of the other has both a bargain bin and a section for used games.

Yes, we should travel to Norway to buy games. Yes.

[Nikolai]

Do that. And please leave some valuable taxes to my and my countrymen's splendid use.

[DrSpike]

No, I am afraid of the forks.

[Nikolai]

Oh, but I can assure you I don't normally fork people of same sex as me.

[DrSpike]

You don't normally? This implies you do sometimes. I'm not willing to take the risk, frankly.