MCV

And no doubt they'll also continue the trend of overworking the shop floor staff while still paying them a low wage, isn't that right Ms Morgan?

Seriously MCV, when are you going to stop giving this supermarket video game store free advertising? What makes it even harder to swallow is how you continually heap priase upon them. GAME do not give a toss about our beloved hobby, its just a product to sell and make money, that is all; they might aswell be selling fried chicken.

Hi RG. This is not really free advertising - as you can see, GAME Group has appointed two new executives to run GAME and Gamestation. It's news that will interest everyone in the trade and marks an important step in how GAME plans to manage the acquisition of Gamestation - by keeping the two brands separate. If we didn't report on this, MCV wouldn't be doing its job properly. But thanks for posting - if you'd like to talk more about life as a GAME employee, please do send me a mail.

I agree with RG, this is not really news and does nothing for us consumers, just shows who is running the show from behind the scenes.

If they were to say 'We will be making changes to pricing structure to offer the consumer better deals...' THEN its news that benefits the consumer instead but alas we are never going to hear something like that now are we?

Gamestation is a far better store, my local one talks to the gamers since they are gamers and the shop looks like a game shop with lots of cool stuff AND they offer better trade ins.

MCV's a trade website, so it is news...

Isn't MCV at trade paper, and as such this news is of particular interest to people who work within the industry? It's not supposed to be a consumer publication anyway, so this is relevant and interesting to the demographic of MCV...

Chuck - you do know MCV is a trade mag, right?

Agree 100% with 4 & 5. You beat me to it by a minute! This place has become overrun by "fanboys" and it is important to know what is happening in the industry and who is running what. As a direct competitor to both stores as an independent it's important to know what the competition is up to and to see if any changes they bring on board affects us. This site is for trade news, and not a site for consumer news. Just read the "About Us" below...

I thought thats what the sister site was, it says this is the Home for Home Computing and video games...

@Neil:

OK, I agree that you have to report news about the key movers within this industry, but, putting this news aside, I used to be a store Mananger for GAME for several years and I can tell you that its far from the rosey 'we're just one big happy family' picture that MCV paints every issue.-whether purposely or not. If MVC wants to dig a little deeper and look into how GAME practices its treatment of its staff all in the name of 'profit' then I'd be more than welcome to offer some rare insight. There's many a talk at the moment of retail chains piling on unfair pressure, hours and unobtainable goals onto their staff to get results regardless of the concequences it may have on the people they've employed. If my 10+ years working within the retail sector has taught me anything its that GAME are perhaps one of the worst when it comes to its unfair treatment of shopfloor staff. Its the reason I left the company, I didn't want a breakdown due to the preasures that GAME heap onto the sholuders of its shopfloor staff and, not suprisingly, I'm not alone.

Yes GAME had a great 2007 and their profits were soaring, but at what cost? Maybe MCV should ask around.

I doubt MCV would challenge Game on the issues of their treatment of staff, (I used to work there to and yes, its appalling), and even if they did Game will only cook up some half-baked story, (perhaps blame middle management), and avoid answering any uncomfortable questions directly. Honestly, do you think that when Lisa Morgan sold her couple of million shares that she was thinking of the overworked, underpaid and unvalued till monkey? Of course she wasn't, she's just another overpaid acountant in a sharp suit trying to keep other share holders happy.

@8

well your a pillock then

Cant people make statements or express their personal views anymore?

From what I read, RG was just making a statement about how he feels about GAME and MCV. (?)

Everyone is giving this guy grief just because he has an opinion? The title of this headline is 'Game unveils new management team', all of a sudden the posts are about fan boys and whether or not this is a trade mag/site or not.

I dunno..........

i should imagine the reason people are being given 'grief' here is that they're talking absolute nonsense. firstly, there's the goon w****aned about this site covering trade news. then some tool is saying that mcv shouldn't be covering corporate news, and instead should be reporting about the staff's wellbeing! come on - thats obscene. firstly, all retail staff think there treated like ****. mostly because its a **** job. secondly, new appointments and job changes at game is genuine news. what ra is talking about is some sort of investigative expose that would reveal nothing more than dull people moaning about how dull their dull lives are, and the fact that it is so unfair that the people who've actually made something of thier lives and worked their way up the organisation are daring to tell them what to do. are you seriously suggesting mcv does a story about staff welfare at game? grow up and get serious. this is news, mcv is exactly the sort of website to report it and none of the complaints ive read here are valid. are you actually implying that straight reporting of restructuring moves in any company is in some way biased, or demonstrating favouritism? wake up. if you want to talk on this level head over to gamefaqs please...

that sounds about right

@ Oliver

MCV continually champion this company, regradless of how their success is obtained. I simply think it would make for an intresting read, seeing the flip side of the coin. Other publications manage it, infact MCV touched it not to long back.

Its because of the attitude of "Oh well, that just the way it is", from people like yourself that many things in this country are just passed on by. Learn to read, wake up and get some balls you iggnorant ********.

Oliver, I think I'll post where ever I like. No one put you in charge, prat.

i'm not proclaiming to be 'in charge' of anything. what im talking about is your apparent idiotic inability to grasp what the function of a site like mcv is. game is the biggest games retailer in the uk. mcv is the only magazine focusing on games retail. do you not think mcv would be keen to talk about game? a lot? in fact, would it not be a scandalous deriliction of their duty not to? if game really are a group of evil slave-mongers then do something about it yourself. join a union. go to citizens advice. get another job. just stop talking ill-conceived and uneducated ********.

Judging by Olivers total lack of grammar and his view that the abuse employees suffer at the hands of the coporate entity is a subject that shouldn't be tackled on any level suggests only one thing-he works for Game.

Either that or he's just a total ****. Or a Nazi.

Oliver has it spot on... store staff are always moaning about **** wages and head office makin em work.... If you don't like it leave. simple. problem solved. Or, as seems to be the case with most of these muppets, you could stay on and whinge non stop about salary, having to work sa****ay morning and how much head office get paid.

Maybe a few less hrs gameplay and few more hrs on yr social and life skills is in order.... you might get a proper job then.

yes, yes - abuse my grammar if that helps alleviate you from the agony and eternal purgatory you suffer at the hands of the evil game. but i assure you i certainly dont work for game or any retailer. i'm just a user of this site who's tired of reading the mindless waffle of idiots such as yourself. foolishly i thought i might be able to inject a bit of logic into the discussion.

Shankhunt, well done, you've just insulted and looked down your nose at the majority of the working class in this country.

Pompus, arrogant a'hole.

nonsense. I'm working class, from a council estate in the north east... It didn't mean I laid down and got shafted just cos my family was skint. I worked hard and if i didn't like something I left. Its a simple principle.... I'm just saying you have options...use them, don't cry about it and blame some else for yr rubbish situation.

So if not laying down and allowing yrself to be screwed over by a company (and getting on with yr life without whinning like you lot) is pompous then yes I am.

Gadzookes!!

Anyone would think this guy had chained himself to the house of commons and had been protesting for the last two weeks!!

It was one post where he expressed his views.

Now theres name calling, digs at people social status and poor ol' RG is being told to quit his job by people that dont even know him!

This is quality, can we kick this o***ain next thursday and turn it into some sort of text based version of Sunset Beach?

Whaddya reckon?

Boys Boys let's play nicely :) At the end of the day people should be able to voice their opinions without being shot down in flames. At the end of the day it's an opinion nothing more nothing less. If we all agreed with each other on every topic it would be pretty boring wouldn'**** healthy to debate but let's not turn it into World War 3

Anon - are you a footballer?

At the end of the day... when all's said and done... its a game of two halves....

;)

Funny you should mention I do play and I also coach very perceptive of you :)

I'm trying to lighten the mood around here far too much testosterone flying about :)

So the game who made game a hated corporate monster is now inchange of the indie style gamestation. That is NOT good for us gamers. soon gamestation will be £5 dearer on everything like GAME, have arrogant rubbish managers lording of his gang of underpaid kids.
This is the first step in the Death of the last remaining decent place to buy games on the highstreet.
That damn corporate **** cant see anything that doesnt fit in an excel sheet column, looks like its online only for us all from now on ..

I can tell most of you havn't worked for game or gamestation before otherwise you wouldn't be spewing so much verbal dia****a. you may think game is over priced but it really is'nt. the reason people like play, argos, tesco, asda, woolworths etc sell so cheaply is because they can make their profits elsewhere, game have to rely on every customer that walks in the door. what do you expect a company to do when they only make an £8 profit off a £300 machine (PS3). i take offence at anyone who says we dont know what were talking about because i am an avid gamer i make sure i keep up to date with the latest goings on. just because you've had a couple of unpleasent dealings with game dosn't make them the axis of evil. you can go into any shop and some of the staff wont know what your talking about because to them it is a job that pays the bills, but at least with game there is someone there the majority of the time who has a clue. if you work for them and have a gripe then leave but i guarantee where ever you end up you'll have the same complaint's. shop online if you want but don't start complaining when you think you've been misled by a review and you have no recourse at all with the retailer. as for mcv publishing this article, it is not biased they are simply reporting on a story relavent to our industry and seeing as game is the leading retailer (like it or not) it has a huge bearing on all aspects of this country's industry. i havn't seen anyone complain about their coverage of activision, ea, e3, etc. keep up the good work.

@28

I agree with all of that. sensible post. more of that on mcv please. less of the RG and chuck norriss.

@ 28

Ha, ha, ha,ha. That is, with out a shadow of a doubt, the biggest pile of ****e I've ever read on here. What a complete jobsworth. "Leave my employers alone, you nasty men!"
Ha, ha, You utter jobsworth.

@30

nothing crypticaleagle said is illogical. i just wish some people were able to make the mental link between their perception that their job is **** and the reality that working on the shopfloor in retail is always ****. to identify game as some evil entity is simply stupid. and i'll emphasise again - i dont work for game. i used to work in retail. hated it, got out of it. felt that was better than simply chundling along moaning about how **** it is.

In my position as working for Game and Gamestation I can legitimately say Game suck. Having to tell customers that this generic EA game is the best game out and it thoroughly deserves to be number one in the chart is not what I like to tell staff what to do. Selling customers ****py own branded pads that over 50% come back faulty isn't good for the customers or the staff. Gamestation until fairly recently have told there staff to give customers their own personal opinion which customers like and I believe is good customer service. Since Logue left Gamestation it seems to have turned to **** with £300 Wii deals and new incentives to sell ****ty games, I know that it's a business but at least keep some integrity. That is the main reason I left Gamestation because I don't want to work for Game again. Hopefully Zavvi will turn out to be better or I'm going to have to get back into accountancy.

@32
im not saying that these sorts of practices are a good thing. and i for one would be sad to see gamestation take that route. but dont delude yourselves for one moment that game and gamestation are the only retailers to indulge in such policies. thats retail. it sucks, but theres nothing you can do. follow this mans example - if you dont like it leave.

I hate Tesco.

thanks for that

This seems to have descended into a Eurogamer-style arguement between people who think they know about what does on in the industry and people who actually know about what goes on in the industry. RG said something because they misunderstood who the site is aimed at. Neil, quickly came on and calmly explained the site's position.

I honestly can't think of another industry or website where people desperately try to be 'seen' as part of it when they obviously aren't. If you want an example of how laughable some people's comments have been, imagine this sort of thing happening on the supermarket's trade magazine, The Grocer, at the announcement of a new managing director at Tesco. Yep, that's how stupid some of you sound.

i worked for Game about 5 years ago and was on over £20k per annum. I also got a load of freebee's too like a N64, a Dreamcast and god knows how many games from the publishers, most pre-release and I was even sent to Disneyland Paris for a conference once. I cant complain about how Game treated staff, if you work on the shop floor and are doing too many hours then its your manager that is no good not Game! He/she gets allocated x amount of staff hours per week so should simply employ more part time staff to cover those hours. Have a word with your district or regional manager next time they are in if you feel that bad about it. I am not saying that Game is a totally wonderful place to be but it is a business 1st and foremost and as such has to push to stay ahead, if you cannot cope with pressure in a retail outfit then don't bother going for a management role elsewhere because retail is a doddle compared to most.

I went into game this sa****ay and looked at Turok on the 360
the guy behind the couter said it was the bees knees etc... it was 39.99, I though i bet its cheaper in Gamestation a few doors away so i went to look at the price. I was right in gamestation it was 34.99 (not shock there) I took it to the counter and asked "is this any good?" and got the answer "nah it sucks get DMC4 or BO paradise"
I am going to repeat that excercise in a few months time and see if i get better prices and trustworth opinions from decent staff. I hope so but i wouldnt bet on it after this idiot has got his hands on it.

@ hamish_mcham
Whilst this was initially an industry website its safe to say that at least half of the visitors to this site are none industry people AND that most people in the industry are/were gamers.
So to say this isnt a gamers site is WAY of base. Your arrogance is blinding. Are you saying your not a gamer but you work in the industry with no interest in the end product ?

@acerimmer

No, I'm not saying people who are in the industry aren't gamers. What I am saying is that this isn't a site for gamers. It's a site for the business of gaming. Two VERY different things.

And as for the idea of this no-longer being an industry site, 100% of the advertising is aimed at retailers and publishers. Why? Because this isn't a site for gamers. It never has been, it never will be. Why? Because this magazine is a B2B publication, not a consumer title. If you want that sort of thing, go to Edge or Eurogamer. Not here.

@Northern monkey

That was 5 years ago. Much has changed at GAME since then. It true, store managers used to get some good perks but not anymore. Gone have the free consoles, the expensive confrences abroad and the yearly bonuses. GAME no longer provide any kind of reward for their staff at shopfloor level, not tell a lie, I once got a automated letter signed by Lisa Morgan for achieving targets.

Sorry, Northern monkey, but you're comments are wholly outdated. The GAME you once knew no longer exists it only serves to keep the shareholders happy, not its employees.

I read MCV each issue and while MCV have a duty to report all busines related news and is often an enjoyable read it DOES kiss GAME's backside on a regular basis.

Typical Martyn Gibbs......Causing trouble wherever he goes!!! :)Bottom line people here is best of luck Tricia and Martyn in your new roles. Only thing leaping of this entire comment section to me is frustration. Maybe you guys should be checking out some other kind of sites to gain relief for your spotty angst.

I have to agree with most of the comments posted here. I am a Gamestation employee and they are rapidly becoming Game. gone are the days when you could tell a customer your own opinion. I recently had a conversation with a director and he told me that all this coco stuff was a cover and yes they would have a monoply.
The middle management in Gamestation are selfish and only think of themselves, they treat the staff and they managers with contempt and expect them to work for nothing as they take advantage of there passion for games (well the ones I deal with,) and drive sales of none games related product like toys and waranties WHY! because they make the most profit.
You have heard of the saying "jobs for the boys" this is the case in Gamestation as its WHO not WHAT you know, with some Area Managers.