Some online retailer I've never heard of, DVD Empire, has come out and said they're going to stop selling video games and they got a few reasons as to why. Take a look at their list of complaints. See something interesting there? Here are some big ones:
• The video game industry only cares about mass merchandisers like Toys-R-Us, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. They completely ignore the needs and wants of the medium to small game retailers.
• You may not care whether or not we make money, but we cannot continue to pay to sell video games. It is impossible for us to make money selling video games.
• This one blows our minds; we are not big enough to return products. ... So if we buy a bad title, we are stuck on an industry-induced money losing ride through the land of price drops. Of course, if the video game industry produced quality games, we wouldn’t have this issue.
• The final reason we killed our video games division is the industry does not let us provide the same level of service that we do with DVDs. We cannot continue to have our good name tarnished when we cannot control how we receive the product.
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11:29 AM on 02.01.2007
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Then they redesigned their website to look like shit and their prices started not being as good, so I stopped shopping there. Never bought games form them either.
Anyway, that's all I have to add. Everyone move along now.
God, I hate when I do that!
You're a guy.
http://www.adultdvdempire.com
If you think I'm going to believe you've never even heard of them ever, you're a liar. And so is anyone else who says they've never head of DVD Empire.
Any company that pioneers anything in porn is known by every man. Especially when they had iPod and PSP porn before anyone else.
Anyway, I completely agree with them for not carrying it anymore. When you have to bulk receive games from a publisher and they stick two copies of Barbie Horse Adventures (not the porn) in with a single copy of God of War or something along those lines, it does suck bad. Video games in retail are a lot different than video/DVD distribution. It's set up more like magazine distribution, where you sign an agreement with a supplier who deals with certain publishers. Ever wonder why every Wal-Mart doesn't carry that ONE game you're looking for? Because the supplier didn't want to stock it for Wal-Mart. Same theory here, except DVD Empire probably got stuck with some lousy distribution deals from a supplier. Happens all the time. The suppliers cut way better deals for the big box stores and gamestop.
Also, they're selling most of their video games at 20% off now.
Also, cocks
Frankly, I don't disagree with them at all. Every good game store I ever went to as a kid is dead due to big box stores. I used to live 5 miles from a store that carried a large selection of import games. Almost as big as the regular selection. It was CRUSHED by the Babbage in the mall. Imports didn't help, I'm sure, but the business was a million times more brilliant in concept than Babbages at the time. Babbages NEVER had instore demonstration gaming, all you had instore was a loop tape showing new games (like current Gamestops still do)
This import store had set up consoles, and you could play any game you wanted on ANY console. Wanted to play SFII on the Super Famicom? Done. Sonic R on the Saturn? Done. BA:Toshinden before the PSX was released in the states? Done.
It's really too bad that the games industry wastes so much money on crap content. Uninformed parents too often take safe bets on licensed content from a recognized brand and buy those games, when often times those are the WORST things out there.
The video games industry has it's own "ET incident" occur 3-4 times a year now where they make and ship a phenomenally shitty movie based game that is broken beyond all scope and measure. And no one bats an eye to it anymore. Didn't watching your predecessors fail so badly it killed the industry, convince you to not make shitty games Atari? Acclaim? LJN? Ocean?
To be honest, if a local mom and pop shop the was solely based on games gave up, I'd be upset. There was a recent article somewhere about local gamestores vs. EB/Gamestop/BIG Companies. I enjoy buying my games from these places because there is a face that goes with the store, not a faceless website.
Maybe I'm being hypocritical because they may be just a small mom and pop, but its not the same.
I do agree that videogame publishers and distributors make it difficult for the smalltime stores that aren't part of a larger entity. However, as the internets expand I think that its just evolution of consumerism, and unfortunately only the strong survive unless we as consumers do something about it.
Even if you don't buy from there, people still look for titles. Or don't you ever window shop? DVD Empire is like the itunes of porn. Find a title, then go get it somewhere else for free.
I'm kinda past the days where I just type "woman screws donkey for rations" into eMule and open up any video that comes in. I'd like to know that there's a series called "Donkey Fuckers on Welfare" so I can save some time and skip the amateur crap. Now, excuse me, I've got business to attend to...
They are actually a fairly big retailer. Back in the late 90's they were one of the first companies to offer DVD's for sale online. They were selling DVD's before Amazon was.
They managed to survive because of their Adult DVD business, whether or not you actually buy DVD's or do what I and Dean do and go find it online, they make a killing in rentals, VOD, direct sales, and downloads.
Do I think the video games business is f'd up on the retail end? Yes. Do I sympathise that a multimillion dollar retailer of porn is hurting when their gay sex toy division is probably doing better than their video games department? No.
The problem I have is this guy seems to be personally offended, like the video game idustry slept with his wife or something, no one is gonna ask questions if you shutdown a unprofitable enterprise, but geez calm down
Buuhhh I'm broke!!
Oh well, didn't saw anything that caught my attention anyway.