Saturday, November 14, 2009

Blockbuster Fail


Back years ago when a Blockbuster opened up in my local town I was fairly excited. At the time I had thought Blockbuster to be a nice Movie Rental store as well as a store that catered to Gamers.
These thoughts had been well supported for many years, until recently. I am unsure why but lately the store has been crap after crap to any self respecting gamer (perhaps because the only competing rental place was finally shut down).
I walk in there about 3 months ago and ask for Left 4 Dead. It has been out for a while and seemed like an easy enough feat to achieve. Well they had it, but it was out of stock. Or should I say, it was MIA.  They had it checked in, but it was not in the back or on the shelves. I left annoyed and defeated after searching for 30 minutes or so. (I know that it could just be the store in my town)

Now tonight I go searching for COD Modern Warfare 2. They had ONE in their store and it of course it was checked out. And that just bugged me. I would expect Blockbuster to keep tabs with ''hot" new releases in the video game world. But no, or if they do listen then they must take what they here, decided the market is wrong and go with it's own crappy intuition. A new and greatly hyped game comes out and they get one of it for the store.

I am done with them.