Tim and Daan had a chat with LBBonline - Little Black Book about our values at BiA, the importance of creating a good culture at the office, and the trends and fads we've seen come and go in the last 10 years.
Build in Amsterdam founders Tim Weers and Daan Klaver speak to LBB’s Nisna M. about their 10 year anniversary, choosing the right tools to get results and why we should look to gaming for trends.
I am a customer of this shop and have bought many physical copies of games (consoles as well) over the years due to the store's competitive prices. However, increasingly, I find myself buying digital versions of games. This is especially so for PC games, where platforms like STEAM and EPIC. These platforms make it so convenient to buy games digitally. EPIC literally gives out free games weekly, as long as you have an account and check in religiously. Prices are also eye-watering during major (meaning there are promotions ALL the time) sale periods like Summer Sale. It is a similar landscape on the console side of gaming. For example, the PlayStation 5 has a digital only version that does not come with a disc drive. It is cheaper and you get your games via their e-stores. These digital shop fronts run sale all the time as well. There is no headache to store the plastic cases for each game and believe me, these take up a lot of space as your game library expands. Also, physical copies can get destroyed with breakage, mould etc. If you have a digital copy, you just re-download the game. Theoretically, digital games live on forever. They can be patched up to the latest version instantly, whereas with a physical version, you will only know there is a patch if you pop the disc in. My point is this - this store should not survive at all, much less thrive, if price is the deciding factor. However, there are merits to owning physical copies of games. - You can pass your game around to family and friends after you have finished it. (One can argue you can do the same on digital platforms like STEAM family sharing, but let's not go there). - You can resell physical copies once you are done with the game. You save $ towards the next game and you have no clutter too! - Rare physical copies can fetch crazy prices for collectors, especially special edition ones that come with exclusive figurines or some form of game memorabilia. So, are you a physical or digital gamer? I guess everyone is a bit of both, just like you need to be omni-channel in retail? Anyone collectors interested to buy my physical copies of PS3 games, some still in their original plastic wrapping? :) #retail #gaming #brickandmortar #physicalretailisnotdead
I don’t know about you, but my house is sorely lacking in Genshin merch So with Hoyoverse announcing another tour of its Genshin Impact pop-up shops, my wallet started crying. The Teyvat Goods Europe Pop-Up Store Tour - try saying that five times fast - continues on and adds a new date London later in the year after previously announcing Berlin, Paris, Lyon, and a ‘mystery city’. More details on the dates and location will be available soon. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eeM5tNWP For all the latest mobile, Nintendo Switch, and industry news, follow Pocket Tactics, the biggest mobile and Switch gaming site in the world! #gaming #mobile
🔈 Virtual e-commerce is taking off and Roblox is leading the charge! Roblox is on a mission to become an all-encompassing destination for virtual life, offering huge potential for connecting all types of brands to e-commerce. As leading game developers for Roblox, our CEO Marcus Holmström has commented on the wide variety of brands that can be connected to e-commerce in the recent Digiday article. The article highlights the incredible opportunity for brands to sell physical goods through Roblox and generate a concrete revenue stream 🚀 #Roblox #Gaming #Ecommerce
Hasbro fails to understand both their primary and secondary markets in relation to Magic The Gathering. As of recently they've been flooding the market with both new sets as well as reprints of old sets. For the casual player this would seem like a good thing and in fact it is healthy for a normal player, but for both LGS (local game stores) and collectors this entire year has been setback after setback with greed spelled out plainly by Hasbro, who now owns Magic. By reprinting so many older cards many collectors have found themselves with vintage cards that are far more common which in term affects the value that the cards originally held. Then we have the newer sets (2022) in which we had more than double the amount of released content from 2019 where we went up from 15 to 39 sets from major releases, secret lairs and assorted commander sets. Though it is understandable as to why they put out more content to attract more players, the simple rate at which they put it out was too high for any casual player or even LGS for that matter to acquire most of the content all at once. My impression of the entire situation is that it just feels a lot like a cash grab from hasbro and though the game itself is still alive and well, the fatigue of constantly buying new sets will eventually set in on both buyer and sellers (LGS) and will ultimately drive more players away from the game than in.
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In the era of easy access to gaming through online marketplaces, how has it affected retro game shops? We talked with the owner of Retro Giant to find out
