Blockbuster Is Going Bankrupt.

[awssk8er]

Another victim of piracy.

Piracy is one cause, but definitely not the main one. RedBox is.

Also, the Blockbuster in my town went out of business in January.

 

[RupeeClock]

Oh man, I liked walking into block buster and getting their bags of popcorn.
I can't find anywhere else that does a good bag of salted popcorn, and £2 for 2 bags at that.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Another victim of piracy.

Now.... Why does Karate Kid keep saying can't render file........ Hmmmm.....

I doubt it's a piracy issue. Everyone wants to blame shit on piracy.

Anyway, There are rental sites like Netflix and kiosks like Red Box that are taking Blockbuster's revenue. And now that both are offering Blu Ray, while my local Blockbuster does not, that's just the final nail in the coffin.

Also the fact that they have a program similar to gamefly that simply doesn't work with a brick-and-mortar store. For a set monthly fee, you can rent games and keep them as long as you want. This pretty much shafts the people who want to rent one game at a time because all the games are fucking taken. I wanted to rent Dragon Age Origins and the guy at the counter said "good luck on that. We probably won't be getting another copy in for at least a month" Yeah, fuck you too Blockbuster. That's why I went to Gamefly.

 

[1Player]

Blockbuster killed themself
2 movies at blockbuster cost $10
for that price you can have a whole month of unlimited rental/streaming from netflix
and 10 movies from redbox..

even old movies cost alot..bring the fu*kin price down..
I will rent from blockbuster if they lower the price to $2 new release and $1 for old movies..

 

[Sir Spanky]

Blockbuster is still quite big in the UK I think.

I can't see it lasting a huge amount of time though...

 

[Arm73]

No wonder they are folding up.
It's been like ages since I've used my blockbuster card in a video store.
Last I've been there, it was when they sent me discount coupons bout three-four years ago, as it made more sense to rend a movie for $ 2 instead of $5.
But then I got disappointed by the limited choice, and usually the movie I really wanted was out anyway, not to mention the sucky video games department......only the dirties Wii showel ware to be found.

I must admit, movies it's the only thing I don't pirate these days.
With Netflix, I pay about $9 a month and I get to watch (on my PC or in the living room with the Wii ) instantly thousands of movies and TV shows.
If a movie isn't available for instant streaming I put the DVD in my DVD queue, and soon or later it'll arrive in the post.
I used to have 3 movies out at the time plan, but honestly , between the instant streaming content, the quality of the Wii netflix player and my long working hours, I had to reduce my plan to one DVD out and unlimited streaming.
Still, I got so much more on my queue that I really manage to watch ( even if I took a six month vacation I couldn't be done with it ) that makes me wonder when will anybody start a business like that for video games ( i'm aware of gamefly but we are not quite there yet ), so that piracy would be really gone for good.

Really, because of reasonable prices of Netflix and such, I DON"T PIRATE DVDs.
I wish I could say the same for video games.

 

[Santee]

The nearest blockbuster is 3 towns away and has been that way for 2 years I'm surprised to hear that there any left actually.

 

[Deleted_171835]

I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I have a Blockbuster 5 minutes away from me. I used to go there all the time to get my game discs repaired. It cost $2.99. It was also the only store that had a wide selection of movies in my area.

They also sold Mario candy.

 

[Zetta_x]

Block Buster should have died when they started stocking cutting back on SNES and N64 games a number of years ago.

 

[dinofan01]

I still have my blockbuster down the street....I wonder how much longer it'll stand?

 

[emigre]

Hmmmm I might go into Blockbusters when its closing down to get me some cheap games...

I won't miss it. Its been about ten years since I've been to one and there's some many better alternatives. I'm looking at you lovefilm.

 

[Midna]

Ooh, I hope my Blockbuster goes out of business. Then i can buy some used games on clearance.

 

[nando]

i hope it completely disappears. blockbuster is a piece of shit company.

 

[N4RU70 FR34K]

Another victim of piracy.

Now.... Why does Karate Kid keep saying can't render file........ Hmmmm.....
LOL soon Nintendo and Sony will close too

QUOTE(Midna @ Aug 27 2010, 03:12 PM) Ooh, I hope my Blockbuster goes out of business. Then i can buy some used games on clearance.

Mine closed last year and I got a whole bunch of games LOL

 

[DigitalDeviant]

I've actually never rented from blockbuster even in the old vhs days, certainly not now, due to the ease of online downloads, ebay, netflix, etc.

 

[giratina16]

I thought it died ages ago lol. Oh well, I'm not bothered by it.

 

[Canonbeat234]

Well that explains my reason for not getting hired.

 

[zant]

We have this thing called a RedBox........... makes a whole lot more sense than blockbuster! Rent a DVD for a $1, or a blu ray for $1.50! Its only a matter of time before they factor games in!

 

[Guild McCommunist]

We have this thing called a RedBox........... makes a whole lot more sense than blockbuster! Rent a DVD for a $1, or a blu ray for $1.50! Its only a matter of time before they factor games in!

Yeah, RedBoxes are like in every Stop N' Shop. My dad rents DVDs from there and just rips them. I guess it's easier than downloading DVD replicas online.

 

[N4RU70 FR34K]

We have this thing called a RedBox........... makes a whole lot more sense than blockbuster! Rent a DVD for a $1, or a blu ray for $1.50! Its only a matter of time before they factor games in!

Yeah, RedBoxes are like in every Stop N' Shop. My dad rents DVDs from there and just rips them. I guess it's easier than downloading DVD replicas online.

Don't they use credit cards to rent the DVD