Major-Link

Credit for the video goes to ReviewTechUSA on YouTube.

As many of you already know, that is I am assuming you all have been to GameStop, or maybe even worked there, GameStop is about to close its doors for good. The company has tried SO MANY different things to survive after the digital game sales started to take over. For instance, it actually thought about streaming its own gaming cloud service, but unfortunately, not even that will work our for GameStop.

I will not lie, this does not surprise me at all, because lets face it, GameStop has stopped being my go-to store ever since 2012 when Nintendo decided to start selling its games digitally through the Nintendo eShop, and because of that, I also decided that it will be a lot more easier for me to buy games digitally and download them DIRECTLY to my consoles from now on. The truth of the matter is: Times have really changed, and as I am getting older by the year, it is becoming more and more difficult for me to have to go down to a store as such just to get a single game when I can just download it through the Nintendo eShop, let alone I can pre-purchase and pre-download upcoming games, and just wait for that game to fully download like... BEFORE it comes out on release day... At least from where I live. Whether we like it or not, I actually find this ultimately convenient. Given the fact that I am now living in Sacramento, CA, where everything is completely spread out, I can rest easy on the point that I have made here.

As far as GameStop is concerned, the company is in MAJOR trouble like Rich from ReviewTechUSA has said. Their stocks have sunk, and the company has no chance of being bought out, because well, times have changed for many of us, and I will tell you guys right now... NO ONE is ever going to want to get their ass in their cars, and spend like 30 minutes to go down to GameStop just to pick up a game that was pre-ordered. And if that's not enough, GameStop has REALLY messed up is Pre-order policy. If you don't get a refund from the pre-order after 30 days, or don't pick up your pre-order by then, you'll only get store credit while GameStop GREEDILY keeps your Rupees. What the actual (bleep), GameStop?

Anyway, I'll let the rest of the video do the talking for me. There is definitely one question to ask myself...

Will I ACTUALLY MISS the experience of going into a store to buy a game that just came out? Absolutely. I think everyone who reads this will agree that I am actually missing those days when Toys R Us was my go-to store for video games back in my middle school years, and when I got introduced to GameStop in high school, that was my next place. Now that I can get everything digitally through the Nintendo eShop, and even Amazon, which by the way always has the BEST deals for so many things I have bought from it, my days of visiting places like Toys R Us and GameStop are officially over... And to top that, those two stores I mentioned are complete goners now.

It really saddens me to say this, but times have really changed for me. Not just with GameStop, but the fact that I'm getting older by the year is causing me to make changes for myself. With a new home in a more spread-out but comfortable environment, I am now in a better place where I have ACTUAL privacy to myself, something I have not had in a DECADE, and it's really because of that, I can think a lot more clearly than I did back then. It didn't really help that my family fell into corruption 15 years ago either, but that's no longer relevant since we all have moved on. My Twitch Channel is still going strong. I've been getting followers every week, and I'm aiming to become Twitch Partner. It will take time, but that's my goal.

This is the end of my journal entry. I will see you all later. Major Link out.