How am I supposed to feel? Like, is this bad or good?
Is the internet really a thing you want to tell you how to feel/think?
Anyway he was appointed to the board of directors of gamestop (I assume you are generally familiar with the notion, for the super quick version then they are the dominant dedicated game seller and second hand game trader in the US with spinoffs all over the world. They have had more than their share of controversies, some meaningful, others less so and were generally suffering somewhat as various game making and buying types shifted to downloadable games).
At the time, both generally and seemingly because they had caught the eye of some short sellers, they were an ailing company on the slow march to oblivion.
Now the board of directors has little real power within a company as instead that belongs to the CEO and other C?O staff that are generally full time employees (though many places the CEO and other C?O types might also be on the board). The board mostly meets a few times a year and represents the shareholders, as part of that though they can however vote and fire the CEO and generally if the board calls the C?O will listen. Moreover in the case of failing companies you might bring some power players onto the board (and Reggie was noted as doing well for Pizza Hut in reversing their fortunes back and and game wise was something of a big deal within Nintendo of America and thus could be expected to have contacts and clout throughout the industry that could be funnelled Gamestop's way) with the expectation they will help right the ship.
Apparently in this case according to an earlier poster this board membership (which was likely very well paid for not a lot of work -- there is a reason many old business wonks sit on multiple boards of directors, probably getting more than your and my annual salaries combined per gig, and only doing very little work at each) was only a temporary one to help out for a while and then expected to leave after that. This is common enough and if in that year the ship was righted you don't necessarily want a person well versed in cost cutting and connection making handling it during different economic times.
To that end you probably want to be asking what position Gamestop was in, is now in (including what might attributed to him), is likely to be in (even if you don't like them then is it a case of better the devil you know? If they die and it goes to instead be mom and pop shops, super nerds online and whatever remains of best buy and walmart in a few years being the main suppliers of games), what effects his coming, leaving or theoretically staying might have had and I guess if you like him as a person for some reason then you could contemplate that too.
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