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Geek Culture / the end of EB games ?

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FINN MAN
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Posted: 17th May 2005 06:55
i have just heard that EB games was just bought out by GameStop, have any of you heard this? if this is true i am a bit surpised, i mean it EB games my favorit store gone.
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Posted: 17th May 2005 07:39
I have no idea what EB games is , But thats what I was going to call my new site

( My name is Eddie Blundell ) EB, Get it....

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Posted: 17th May 2005 07:44
Electronics Boutique, Right?

They sold out years ago to GAME here...

Made for a wierd change in shops...Like > There are 2 of every GAME in shopping centres, kinda wierd. But meh.




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Posted: 17th May 2005 08:49
The buy-out of Electronics Boutique isn't exactly new news.. the deal with Gamestop has been happening for months.

Those in the UK probably won't raise much of an eye-brow over it given GAME bought out thier UK market about 5-6years ago.
Ironically EB was in the midst of purchasing GAME.. Right now the UK market is shared between GAME and GameStation.

Both are UK only companies, and effectively between them they monopolise the market.. forcing other competitors out.
The deal with EB meant they couldn't retail to the UK, it also ment GAME couldn't retail to europe (which price-wise is probably not a good deal for Europe)

This deal passes on to GameStop though. So there is a likely chance that GameStop are going to try and buy GAME out, like they did with EB.

Well anyways, I doubt this deal will mean much for the gamers. Perhaps the eventual consolidation of nameing and stores.

If it's anything like how GAME did it, they'll pretend to operate them seperately for a year before simply changing all of the EB shops to a standard store (if they didn't already have one in that town) or to a Trade-in store, specifically for pre-owned games and hardware.
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Posted: 17th May 2005 08:53
I used to go to EB, until gamestop came along, and then they later bought it or it went out of business. Gamestop is so much better though . They have better quality games, and better prices.

Video games…they take you places unreachable, unfeasible. Putting you in the book...putting you in the movie...putting you in a world, that before could only be imagined. expage.com/piratesmainpage.
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Posted: 17th May 2005 08:53
Even though GAME bought out EB here in Bristol at least the EB stores remained - there are no less than 4 of them all within 1/4 of a mile of each other.. hell, two of them are just two stores apart. It's amazing they all co-exist really, especially as there are GameStations and two Virgin stores as well.

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Posted: 17th May 2005 08:55
Quote: "GAME"

why is everyone calling "Gamestop" "GAME"?

Video games…they take you places unreachable, unfeasible. Putting you in the book...putting you in the movie...putting you in a world, that before could only be imagined. expage.com/piratesmainpage.
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Posted: 17th May 2005 08:57 Edited at: 17th May 2005 08:57
off topic: my sister is in uni in Bristol. I pity you Rich

I don't buy games from shops: the internet allows me to barely leave my seat

(just before anyone says it, I'm not that lazy, I do go into my local town, like 2 mile walk there and back, but they have crap shops (cept for food ones and a beach)...I'm not paying ~£6 for a return!!)

EDIT: Gil, it says it on the shop........

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Posted: 17th May 2005 09:00
Quote: "Gil, it says it on the shop........"

what do u mean?

Quote: "I don't buy games from shops: the internet allows me to barely leave my seat "

yeah, but then you have to wait a few weeks for the game to arrive

Video games…they take you places unreachable, unfeasible. Putting you in the book...putting you in the movie...putting you in a world, that before could only be imagined. expage.com/piratesmainpage.
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Posted: 17th May 2005 09:01 Edited at: 17th May 2005 09:06
Err no about 24 hours if it's out...

I mean on the shop sign it says in big purple (i think) letters: GAME

EDIT: See: http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/images2/aspencer35b.jpg

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Posted: 17th May 2005 09:15
Quote: "why is everyone calling "Gamestop" "GAME"?"


GAME !== Gamestop

Here in the UK GAME bought out EB years ago (http://shop.game.net/)

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Posted: 17th May 2005 12:22
Well GameStop and EB are merging here--- I don't believe there's a buyout.

http://biz.yahoo.com/deal/050419/videogamesellerstomerge.html?.v=2


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Posted: 17th May 2005 12:46
Thats horrible, gamestop rips you off twenty time more than EB, thankfully they just put a new EB games store right by my house and a Game Stop, even though I will go to EB now.

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Posted: 17th May 2005 12:50
I'm not a big fan of EB anyways. Future Shop (which is USA's Best Buy) has better prices for games, I find. The only good thing about EB is their used games. I hate how EB has the gall to open new games and remove the CD until purchase. How can I be assured they also don't remove other promotional material and keep it, too?


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Posted: 17th May 2005 13:34
I hate EB. All I want is to go get a frickin new game, and they force feed me this buy and trade junk, which while some people may love it, I'd rather just get brand new shiny copies that I can sell on Ebay in 60 years, or possibly pass on to my grandchildren to show the legacy of gaming before holograms.

I get my games from Amazon, or sometimes Costco (Sam's Club or Price Club) has killer deals on games if they've been out a couple of months. I picked up a brand spanking new copy of Starcraft for 8 bucks several years ago.

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Posted: 17th May 2005 14:00
Quote: "GAME !== Gamestop"


Syntax Error! I believe you want !=


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Posted: 17th May 2005 14:50
I'm faithful to gamestop for 3 reasons:

1) I worked at one (fun job, sit around and play games, occasionly help a customer).

2) A great selection on Older Games.

3) Its about .25 miles closer then EB.

I have no problem with the merger, as long as Gamestop gets the better end of it

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Posted: 17th May 2005 17:02
I liked it when Virtual Games had a very small shop. You could buy N64 games for about £2, play them, then sell them at EB for £5. Unfortunately they expanded and moved so now its just like the others.

Simple... yet fun!
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Posted: 17th May 2005 18:39
Quote: "Quote: "GAME"
why is everyone calling "Gamestop" "GAME"?"


GAME is a UK chain of games shops. What on earth GameStop is I don't know

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Posted: 17th May 2005 19:12
Quote: "Syntax Error! I believe you want !="


Who says it was DB code?

I like GAME stores but mostly I buy from play.com - they only have the newer titles but the pricing usually beats everyone else (Amazon included). GAME is cool for 2nd hand stuff, but so's the local indy store up my road.

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Posted: 17th May 2005 19:33
Quote: "Who says it was DB code?"


Since when did DB use the ! operator anyway? Apart from that though, I'm yet to see any language use !== to signify not equals. Although, I do admit to having not seen many languages.


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Posted: 17th May 2005 20:19
I don't have a place where I buy all my games. It's quite random

But anyway, in Denmark I see that the situation is quite different
EB Games always have a lot of customers, and GAME is always empty
At least where I live, but Denmark is not that big, so I expect too see a similar situation in the hole country.

Sometimes I buy my games in GAME, because I feel sorry for them. Other times I buy my games in EB because the guys at GAME is annoying

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Posted: 17th May 2005 20:20
lol
Rich,
"not equal to" in DB is: <>


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Posted: 17th May 2005 22:03
Quote: "Apart from that though, I'm yet to see any language use !== to signify not equals. Although, I do admit to having not seen many languages."


!== means "not identical" in PHP (a not equals + strict type check)

Quote: ""not equal to" in DB is: <>"


Or !

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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:09 Edited at: 17th May 2005 23:11
Quote: " strict type check"


Although Rich, both GAME and GameStop would have type VideoGameStore?

Unless one sells DOS games so you'd need to perform a 32-bit cast to get them both to VideoGameStore32 format.....

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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:11
Quote: "Or ! "


I just found that out in the IRC a few days ago. Up until then I had no idea that worked in DB

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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:40
Yeah works in DB fine.. why it's missing from DBPro boggles the mind.

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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:49
lol you have the yellow hotlink phone to DBHQ, why not ask the man in-charge
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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:55
Quote: "!== means "not identical" in PHP (a not equals + strict type check)"


There's a 'PHP' now? Why was I not informed?


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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:58
Quote: "why it's missing from DBPro boggles the mind."

The NOT operator? Its the NOT keyword, strangely.


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Quote: "There's a 'PHP' now? Why was I not informed?"


We're trying to keep the riff-raff out

Quote: "The NOT operator? Its the NOT keyword, strangely."


That's not what I meant (ho ho ho)

I meant why remove ! when it would have been easy to leave it in and would have helped increase code compatability rather than decrease it. Hardly matters now anyway, we're a bit too far down the road now.

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I've read most of the posts in this thread. I believe here in New York, they have been merged for quite some time. I have the following shops nearby:

1)(Most Recently) Gamestop
2)EB Games; I guess... A.K.A (Electronics Boutique)
3)Babbage's
4)Funcoland
5)Planet X
6)Software Etc.

Most of them accept the GameStop membership card for discounts. It has been somewhat confusing, to say the least. So I am guessing that they are all affiliated. My latest GameStop card says,

Quote: "
Discount card is accpeted at: GameStop, Funcoland, Babbage's, Software Etc. & Planet X"


Making the situation more interesting is that numbers-- 1),3),4),&5) above-- all have stores in the same local mall. Funcoland has a store right outside the mall. A new GameStop store opened just down the road.

So I guess I have no real clue as to how all of this works anymore.

I actually purchased my first GameStop membershib at an EB store.

I'm not to worried, as I'm quite certain they'll all be owned by Microsoft soon. So, I'll drive my MS car to the MS gas station- buy an
MS cola- and goto MS GameStop located on MS highway.


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In C++ "=" is an assigment operator, whilest "==" is a relational/comparative operator; meaning "is equal". "!" == not

So I can see where Rich was going....



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Posted: 18th May 2005 01:15
Quote: "That's not what I meant (ho ho ho)"

Yeah I thought that might have not been what you meant, but I wasn't sure..


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Posted: 18th May 2005 01:33
Quote: "In C++ "=" is an assigment operator, whilest "==" is a relational/comparative operator; meaning "is equal". "!" == not"


Same with me in PHP. It eventually twigs when you realise the code is run no matter what.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 02:53
Yar.. in PHP == is the "equal to" while === is the strict equals - I'm sure they would have created a ==== if they could have

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