Telltale Games saw huge success in 2012 with the release of The Walking Dead as an episodic series, with the game now at more than 8.5 million individual episodes sold since launch. More on that after the jump.
"As part of the integration of GAME, we will be phasing out the trade-in, pre-owned and Game Elite offerings in the UK over the coming months," a spokesperson for the chain's owner Frasers Group told BBC News"
Seems like a blizzar move here. It's the second hand market they thrived upon.
If I'm not mistaken game are owned by the same company who own GameStop in the US?
"Seems like a blizzar move here"
How? Game charges £5 delivery fee. Overpriced.
GameStop doesn’t own Game. Mike Ashley does, who owns Sports Direct, House of Fraser, etc...
Yup I was wrong about ownership.
Yes they charge £5 delivery that is terrible. GAME is a awful company. But it is a blizzar move as just a few years ago they where crying over that the pre owned market was their bread and butter. Trade in prices have always been crap at game. But realistically got most cities in the UK. If you wanted a new game on release. Game was the only store that you could go to to trade games in towards brand new games.
Whaaaa
Gamestation is gone
Grainger Games is gone
CEX is shit
Jesus. The only reason we use GAME is because there’s nobody else and they get away with this shit.
I I'm fine with cex. It's the best place to trade and buy second hand games. Game has been rubbish for years imo.
Surprised they will be getting rid of Game Elite as well. I have £32 game points. Think it's time I got and spend that and get something I have been meaning to buy.
Game owned GameStation. I didn't 'see a point owning 2 Game Stores with different names that sell the same stuff.
They owned them but they didn't originally.
It was only when they were bought and after GAME went into administration they started to close GameStation shops down or replace them with GAME ones
Basically getting rid of their competitor
Games Centre was a great wee independent retailer in the UK too, sadly gone years ago.
I pay £3/month for Elite as I usually buy 2-3 PS5 games a month so getting 10% back as credit on a £6-£70 game adds up. Strange move they're stopping Elite now...
Their trade in offers are f****** atrocious even when games are in good condition and still almost new releases
CEX is a joke for prices now. They list games as mint condition, which is against the Trades Description Act. Mint condition mean that an item has never been handled/used. They'd be hard pushed to advertise games as being in good condition. Handled by so many people, scratched disc and food on the manuals. That's CEX is a nutshell.
I remember taking some film steelbooks to CEX when I needed money once, they had never been opened but when I took them they made me take the plastic off them, open them up and only gave me shitty trade offers that matched "Used" conditions. Why? Because they had been opened...
eBay does well on second hand games, always works for me, always get more than I would have done trade in .
which if effectively a double con, as with a trade in you are normally offered a fair market price, on the reasoning, you are in-affect promising to buy the future product form the same retailer.
Yeah eBay will give you a better return especially if you get those fee promotions every 2 weeks, some just like the no hassle risk with CEX. No chance I'd trade in a rare/expensive game to CEX like my copies of Shantae & the pirate's curse for switch there tho, they'd probably give you like 1/4th of it's value.
CEX is the one for me.
eBay have terrible seller protection and after being burned twice over games that I've sold, I just stopped using it. If I want to sell a game, I just take it to CEX who offer a decent price compared to GAME.
olMyerslo can I ask how you were burned? Because I use ebay frequently but I make sure to have the item tracked and signed for. Only issue I had was a guy trying to claim PayPal saying he didn't receive a controller, but I had the tracking number so they ruled in my favour
Were people even doing this these days? They offer awful amounts. The best way is to ebay or gumtree. Day ones games are generally getting 90% of my money back after I'm done with them
Probably kids/teens still doing it. I have not personally traded anything into game since I traded in a psp and games on the release day for the vita. Even then I got them to price match cex on trade in credit. They even stopped doing that a few years ago.
A high street store can not compete with online. Game prices are £59.99 for a new release. Go with many of the online stores and those games are £44.99-49.99 for day one.
The fact game charge you £5 more to collect in-store compared to their own online shop is a joke. The excuse was on the lines "it's our stocking fee."
I stopped using game around 5 or more years back. I'd pop in looking for a real bargain, but rarely find anything.
I'm not surprised they're going out of business, they could not get with the times and they definitely could not compete with online when greed was the forefront.
Today Telltale Series has confirmed to TechRaptor that it has laid off a number of employees, while the games currently in development remain in the pipeline for the time being.
Sadly, this is Deja vu, with Telltale going through this type of thing before in 2018 - thoughts are with those affected. Games companies and all sectors always follow each other, with the bad press reducing as each new announcement is made - sad times we live in.
Supermassive Games has failed to innovate since its breakout hit Until Dawn and its games are getting more stale, something that sadly echoes Telltale Games' downfall.
Trash article. More jaded commentary from individuals that play so much of something, they get pulled out of the very thing they liked before. Or think everyone is as jaded as them with the genre. Thing is, the developer wouldn't be making these games if they didn't think there was an audience. And, they are not in financial trouble as Tell Tale was. Try again.
Critiquing is fine as we want developers like Super Massive to stay the course of making good games. Especially after rushing games out too quickly after their break out hit. But to go on and say they are on a decline when the very game they just released was received well by the gaming community is jumping the gun. Not only that, but Until Dawn: Rush of Blood was a hit on PSVR fool. Not everyone gets nausea from VR.
Not only that, but the ignorant opinion that Quantic Dreams has declined when Detroit: Become Human is a great game for its genre, was received well by gamers and sold well, speaks volumes about this person's opinion.
Tell Tale's biggest mistake was attaching their works to huge existing IP that requires big royalties. They didn't invest in bringing new ways to interreact with their games or even improvements to graphics/mo-cap.
Supermassive is the complete opposite. Their games are completely original works, they own their own titles, there is a level of exploration in their games and the graphics continue to be worth a look.
Agreed. This article is complete garbage. The games it compares The Quarry to are hardly competitors and nowhere in the league of the game.
These type of games are about the choices and the story. Some of the later releases may have faltered in those areas making them not as good as the original. But i don't see how this author wants them to innovate. It just seems like the author wants to play a different genre. What they need to do is come up with better stories and choices.
The reason that telltale fell into financial ruin was the amount of money they had to pay out for the big License fees. Batman, Borderlands, walking dead, they had to pay through the nose to get rights to use them. Supermassive don't have that problem, although I would love them to do a Nightmare on Elm street, Friday the 13th or Halloween game, the rights to those properties would likely be too much to warrant the cost.
Dumb, uninformed take.
Telltale went under due to, mainly, piss poor management. They grew the team way too big, and took on way too many projects at one time; stretching the key talent far too thin.
Then constant crunch pushed much of said key talent to move onto other studios.
Tied into the fact they kept utilizing antiquated tech instead of moving onto a new, modern engine.
None of this applies to Supermassive, thus a pointless and uninformed article we have here.
gotta try this game soon. I need to overcome my instinctual rejection of all TV/movie-based games
i tried the free episode... got bored half way thru didnt excite me.
2nd favorite game of the year. A must play.
Awesome game and look it doesn't have MP mode. Just goes to show that not every game needs it *coughgodofwarcough* humm..... *coughtombraidercaugh*
Yeah, I picked this up during the xbox christmas countdown for 10 dollars. So far I'm enjoying it. For ten bucks I couldn't go wrong.