Yeah, it really improved after 2013 or so ;)
More seriously, the more I think about this the more it burns my ass. GI puts out a consistently good-to-great product for PEANUTS – seriously, I can’t tell you how nonexistent that budget is, or at least was – while GS leadership has been comically inept for 20 years running.
I mean, almost literally every single strategic decision has been a full-on disaster. Impulse, for starters. Trying so hard to force mobile hardware. Putting every single egg in the loyalty basket and praying that would change the fundamental realities of a market becoming increasingly hostile to their core business model. Ugh. Fuck them. ThinkGeek I guess actually made them some money, so there’s that.
So congratulations, GameStop. You managed to save some pennies by forcing layoffs from a successful vertical because you have completely and utterly failed to navigate the OBVIOUS TO LITERALLY EVERYONE decades-long metamorphosis of software retail.
Spin off GI to someone who gives a shit already.