An Open (And Potentially Final) Letter to Gamestop

Dear Gamestop,





Screw you.


I defended your company and the policy of purchasing used games and re-selling new games to stores like yours when Microsoft essentially attempted to ultimately destroy this concept with the original model of the Xbox One. I defended you guys when one of Playstation’s top executives was hammering your business model to the ground. I firmly believed that we gamers have a right to purchase older games at cheaper prices because of the rising costs of video games. I believe we gamers have a right to re-sell the games we bought without experiencing any restrictions from the companies that worked on these games.

And then you guys pull off an absolutely dirty move by selling Xenoblade Chronicles, a pretty tough game to find, at $90 and marking them as used when we all know better and know that these games are most definitely not used.

Gamestop, this was amazingly low, lower than what Microsoft was attempting to do with their upcoming system. Lower than what Nintendo did to the Evo tournament. And quite frankly, I am going to say that this was the lowest thing any gaming-related company has done since Capcom’s fiasco involving Resident Evil on the 3DS and its inability to make a new save file. Your company knew that this game was going to be in limited supply because the actual release was a mere PR campaign by Nintendo to quiet Operation Rainfall. So you hung on to extra copies, marked them as used, and jacked the price.

Gamestop I am starting a personal campaign to never enter one of your stores until you dip the price of the rare (and underappreciated) Xenoblade Chronicles to a proper price. And stop trying to pull off shady moves like this....because I know this isn't your first lowbrow move trying to hack in some easy profits. And I know this has nothing to do with (most) of the employees that work in your stores and these are decisions by upper-upper management. But if I don’t take a stand and have others join me, what is to prevent your company from continuing to do things like this?

Xenoblade is not a modern eighth generation game; it is a rare Nintendo Wii game that is extremely tough to find in Western markets. I understand that the value of this game perhaps exceeds the $50 price tag that is supposed to be given to the game. But this still gives you no right to intrude and invade our desires of playing the game by pretty much forcing us to pay nearly $100 because your company knows full well that there is no other way to obtain this game unless a very small local game store happens to possess it.

Beginning today, I am not going to set foot inside one of your stores until you fix this nonsense. Immediately.



Sincerely,

Milton Malespin

P.S. This letter to you is also a blog entry. You will not be the only one reading this.