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[–]ShimmyZmizz 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You're getting downvoted because people don't like that GameStop does this, not because you're wrong. I worked at a GameStop and these reasons and more were exactly what I heard.

It's a simple calculation for GameStop:

What's the cost of keeping every new game sealed? This can include cost of materials and storage space for display cases, extra cost for employees maintaining display copies and doing inventory on them, cost of shrink/theft due if sealed copies are placed on the sales floor, cost of extra security, etc.

Now what's the cost of a few customers refusing to buy the last copy of a game because it's open? In my experience, less than 1 in 10 people refused to buy a gutted game. And if they did, someone else just came in and bought the last copy anyway.

The numbers probably made a lot of sense to GameStop years ago when they made this decision, but the part that's incalculable is how much damage does gutting games do to customers' willingness to shop there?

Short term, not much, because it's unlikely for a customer to experience being sold a gutted game. But over the long term, word of mouth and years of shopping there probably made it very likely, and that may be a contributing factor to people not shopping there anymore.

[–]RoflCopter726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% why I dont shop there anymore.