

Most of GameStop’s inventory has shifted to being gaming accessories, trading cards, and merch anyhow, so game sales are less important to them than they used to be.
Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Primary account history:
@Zedstrian@kbin.social (2023) @Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com (2023–26) @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz (2026–)


Most of GameStop’s inventory has shifted to being gaming accessories, trading cards, and merch anyhow, so game sales are less important to them than they used to be.


Reposting Reddit content in bulk to Lemmy (versus individual users reposting their own guides or informational posts) does nothing to organically build communities here, instead leaving a bunch of empty posts that make their communities look dead. It’s a chicken and egg problem, of course, but simply copying Reddit content wholesale isn’t the answer.
Edit: Just want to clarify that I’m not doing any downvotes here, and see the logic in that having the best of the best Reddit content here could help convince some people to look at otherwise dead communities. The problem is that relying on such content encourages Lemmy users to be consumers of content rather than producers in their own right, and therefore think that maximizing opportunities for Lemmy users to contribute in their own right is for the best.


The overlay could be removed with an ad blocker, or they could switch to Desktop View, or they could switch to Old Reddit.
Even better, they could switch to the Threadiverse and not need to deal with a company progressively tightening the belt on user freedom for profit maximization.


Surely a non-AI slop pile of money illustration could have been used instead?
In future, it’s better to link to articles directly instead of to a news aggregator like MSN.