So I had preordered the physical version of Shovel Knight from GameStop, ahead of its October 2015 release date. Shovel Knight is one of the best games to come out in recent years, in my opinion, so I wanted to support the developer even though I already purchased the digital edition as a Kickstarter backer.
The original preorder price was $19.99, which I think is fair. But I just got an email saying, "the price has gone up to $24.99, sorry for the inconvenience, hope you don't cancel but you can if you want."
I cancelled immediately... after all, I was paying for shipping on top of the now $24.99 price of the game, and Amazon still has it available for preorder at $19.99 with free 2-day shipping for Prime members. And Amazon guarantees the prices it posts for preorder items.
All this is basically to say that GameStop has truly become irrelevant. If they didn't have retailer exclusives (which I don't even care about) there would literally never be any reason for anyone to go to them for anything ever again. I only preordered Shovel Knight from them because they were the only ones offering a preorder at the time.
Fuck GameStop.
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