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This man is so passionate about his video games, his rant sounded more like a speech, it’s changed my view on video games forever

Gamestop staff SHOULD be knowledgeable about games, just like people who work at a hobby shop know a lot about the majority of what's in the store, and like car salesmen know a lot about the cars on their lot.

Genius. He gets paid to talk about what he got paid for. What a legend.

I tried reserving the PS4 slim after the announcement. 😍 But this GameStop chick kept arguing with me about its existence. 😑 "You mean the XB1 S?" "There is no PS4 slim." "I think those are internet rumors." Ugh. 😲 I left & didn't return until one of the actual gamer associates was working. He helped me very quickly.

My local GameStop for a few years had four guys who were knowledgeable and extremely nice. They made going in there so pleasant but they got a new manager last year and she progressively got rid of the old staff now nobody knows much and it's just overall not as great to go in. I used to be able to have conversations with the guys who worked there now it's go in get out they might ask what you're looking for or need help.

Oof, I feel this topic in my soul. I interned at a bookstore last year, and while the staff was knowledgable of the newest releases and, I guess, the genres they were into, something that struck me was the absolute lack of passion for books outside of what info could be used, when trying to sell and/or upsell the product they were pushing. Not one of them could name a podcast they liked to listen to about litterature and the subculture behind it. Not one of them knew what booktube was. Not one of them could tell me what books they were looking forward to personally in the coming months. Not one of them bothered reading anything that hadn't been published in my country in Danish, so I got blank looks, when I mentioned English releases that was all over my Twitter feed. They all just looked blank, when I asked how to expand my knowledge, so that I could to help customers find the right new book for them, and I just... couldn't believe it, man. Between that, the pressure to sell as much as possible at all times, and the fact that my boss probably only took me in for an unpaid internship because I was free labor and then proceeded to stress test my autistic ass until she ultimately was the one to concede defeat and sent me to the back to try and low-key force me to quit, I learned that I just don't want to work in a retail setting, if I can at all help it. I was ready to make a go of making it a career. I wanted to share my love of stories with people, and I really thought that was what it took, y'know? But now I know what it's like behind the scenes, and I really don't want to become a retail zombie devoid of passion beyond what's necessary. Back to school it is, I guess.

I don’t know why but I enjoy your solo videos more.

I went to gamestop to buy big chungus, and they had the audacity to tell me they didn't have it.SMH

Finally the sonic hat made a return lol but great video and I agree with you that GameStop employees need to know more about games or at least know the basics lol

Knowledge of video games should be a requirement for working at GameStop

It’s cool rewatching these old videos. Really makes time go by fast.

One time I was shopping at EB Games (many years ago) there was this lady who asked the clerk if Wii U was backwards with Wii games? The clerk (being clueless) told the lady "no". I owning (and still own) a Wii U, walked over to the counter and told her that the Wii U is backwards compatible. The clerk gave me the dirtiest look because I gave non intentionally better customer service than he did. I bought a Toad Wii remote plus (still have it). My buddy and I had a good and long discussion about games a week or so afterwards and I told him about that event (we laughed a bit).

Even if GameStop dies, physical media will still exist through Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon, and eBay.

Keep tales for retail! Don’t let them be history of the channel. Keep it up doing your amazing work!

same with auto parts stores. Some of these people cant wipe their ass or even look up a part. I have an employee that couldn't spell Acura.

I’ve been binge listening to your videos while working night shift at Albertsons. I actually appreciate working there now

If I see a new game I’ve never seen before that I might be interested in, I look up a video review on YT put my headphones in and walk around the store listening to the game’s reviews before I purchase.

I'm just glad I was born in a time period that videogames exist. =]

Reminds me of calling GameStop and asking if they had a complete copy of a game and they were clueless.

At one point in my life I too wanted to work at GameStop. Video games were a major part of my life and it still is today. Not having many irl friends in my childhood, video games were one of the things that helped me get through hard and stressful times. I still love them today and when I have free time, I’d pop in a game and relieve memories and creating new ones. Great video, Fanta! Love your videos!

My daughter and I play games every single day. It’s how we bond. She has been playing since a baby. I have a video of her an infant at the time driving a tank in multiplayer Battlefield getting a lot of kills for a baby. lol

I feel this way about DisneyLand. If you are not passionate about Disney why work at Disney Land.

I work for a grocery store and you won’t believe how many clueless costumers I get in a day some crazy moms have even dared to ask me to make an entire lunch menu for their kids I’m like I’m not a nutritionist I’m not your kids mom- get lost 🤷‍♀️

2:01 "Jack of all Trades, Master of None"

Hey Fanta, I just recently found you, and have been binge watching your content since. I currently work at gamestop, and we are at the top of our district and basically state. The reason I say this is now ALMOST EVERYTHING, us decided now by who your store manager is. For example, mine does not allow any check out by employees. You want a game you buy it. Also he refuses 10% off for open stock no matter what (and yes that is a thing available in the system, but they will only do it if someones steals the display case for that 'new' game) The only plus side (which my entire district does and most gamestop's do as I know) is GPG now covers anything but theft. As long as you can prove that's the game that had the protection you're covered.

The girl in my local GS was so desperate for a pre-order she swore to me The Last of Us 2 is out in Feb and I need to pre-order it! I'm no shitting you.

And the music in Sonic when you're about to drown always scared me as a kid too, still creepy as adult lol

U da man Fanta. Keep preaching and getting the info out there

I was talking to a GameStop manger once and he didn’t know Pikachu is Poke’mon’s head mascot. Not surprising he hadn’t played Pokémon but I was shocked he didn’t have basic knowledge.

I will say this; Its been a decade that I haven't been to GS but as I can recall, the staff around my location has no knowledge of video games nor its characters in which each gaming mascot represented. Hell, one worker actually thought thought that Samus Aran is a Sony character. As a customer, my GS experience is poor and happy that I haven't spend money there. Love your videos sir. Keep up the good job!!

The dude in the thumbnail legit looks like LinusTechTips lol

We’re the same age I thought as much. By the time I was cognizant playing video games my parents still had it when I was 5 in 1990. Good times growing up when we did bro..I can relate a lot to your stories because we grew up with the video games advancing to the point they are now.

I'm not kidding when I tell you that I tried to trade in my xbox one a couple months ago, during the test the lady employee put in a PS4 GAME inside the disc tray and we are trying to figure out why the game wont work (I didn't see that she put a ps4 game, I expected her to know what console works with what discs) then her manager told her to switch the game, and it's was a damn attack on titan for ps4. I wanted to bust out laughing but I didn't want to he rude. But in my mind, I was pissed off. Like I'm a regular, and that employee has been there for a while and she MUST KNOW where they keep what games.

Saw an old lady asking an employee about some tv show game for her grandson, some crap like CSI or whatever. She asked if that's something her grandson would like and he looked at her straight in her face and said yeah, it's a great game. That guy was either lying, or was just trying to make a quick sale.

When you were talking about how people feel when talking about games that mean a lot to them, that they love, it definitely hit the nail on the head. Halo 3 was a defining game of my teen years, and I could go on forever about it.

I don't live in the US but if they're working at Game Stop, then they should have some basic knowledge. However, if they don't get paid a lot then what incentive do they have? I'd imagine if the Game Stop hierarchy gave a dam, employees probably would. Sonic is awesome, your hat is cool and Aquatic ruins in Sonic 2 is cool.

weird as you were describing the linear game variety i was thinking bioshock and you mentioned it right as i was gonna type it lol

runescape is one of the greatest MMOS in my opinion of all time. the community of this game game is amazing, ive had the privelage to talk to zezima and many other rs legends. and their experiences with quests, bosses, and skills are the most intriguing thing about the game. they didnt have guides, only fellow mates to to help out and do things together and having fun.

I like the sonic hat, I missed seeing you wear it. You should totally wear it during a retail or podcast with Eric. I wonder if they have hats with all of the sonic characters like knuckles and tails. You could get them and hang them on the wall just to piss of Eric, I don't know maybe if they were cheap enough.

Ya know, I think that if you were to manage the entire retail part of GameStop, they would be a much, MUCH, better company than they are now.

11:19 "Fat Ass Baby" or not GameStop should re-hire you as a trainer for new employees, Fanta

I feel the same way about hardware stores. If you don't know the difference between a socket wrench and a monkey wrench or don't know what a claw hammer is..... you shouldn't be allowed to work at a hardware store. And yet (the very few times) I go to a hardware store I have to work my way through 3 people to find someone who knows where anything even is much less WHAT it is. Same thing with video games. Yur selling electronics and a specialty item, not potato chips or something else inconsequential.

Dude, I'm the same way when it comes to opening a NEW game. I stopped going to gamestop because every time I bought a 'new' game from them, they would take an open case, go and open a cabinet, pull a disc sleeve from the cabinet, and put the disc in the case. I would walk out of the store confused (I didn't know much back then, but I knew that I didn't get what I wanted) and irritated. I hear what you say and look back and wish I hadn't let them get away with that. If I bring a case from the floor that has the NEW sticker on it, as well as the price tag, then I want and am paying for an UNOPENED copy of the game - not the bullshit they gave me. I think I went back to the store once and asked that they exchange the used copy they gave me with the new one I paid for. That may have been the last time I ever bought anything from them.

I remember when I went to GameStop and bought this game for the PS2 I thought was called "Stratogen" turns out it was called StarOcean till the end of time and it ended up being one of my all time faves. Miss the days when I would pick up a random game without knowing anything about it

shit like this is like when you ask best buy employees about basic shit and they're dumbfounded

I love these videos, always love seeing them on the home screen

A good topic that I would love to see you do a video about is surprise district manager visits. I'm sure you had to deal with that at at least one of those jobs. It was one of the things I hated the most about working at retail.

Been waiting for this one

Just stumbled upon your channel today, and watched a few of you're videos, instant sub!

this video title should change to "i very passionate about video games"

You learn your lesson back on the original NES. At least back then we could rent games before we bought them.

Hey Fanta! Another great video! Keep up the great content, tell Eric I said wasssup!

I played roller-coaster tycoon also growing up, still is one of my favorite games to this date

Only if GameStop would hire actual gamers for their corporate office. Imagine a GameStop RUN by ACTUAL gamers and treated employees and customers with a basic level of humanity.

I love when he talks about how much he hated Walmart because you switch Walmart with school then it’s 100% relatable

"not knowing where it's been" sounds like some bad relationship experience..

assassins creed II got me through a hurricane

Im a new subscriber. appreciate your passion for games and for customers looking for help keep it up man

"Hello everyone, Fanta here, you are watching Fantavision and today I am smoking on some Purple Kush"

It's important to have basic knowledge but it only comes with experience which can take a long time to get. It helps to have an interest in the job you have so you can provide good customer service.

As a previous Gamestop manager (2013-2018) and a manager for 22 years I do not hire people for their knowledge on gaming but their experience in sales and customer service. I was not terminated but resigned for a better opportunity. Knowledge comes in time when they borrow games and take Levelup training. As well as training your staff and development. My store achieved sales and profit for 4 years in a row and I was in the President Club. No associate could possibly know everything about every game. I do agree depending on your store and state location pay is extremely low. Trust me I am not defending GS and I have a channel that I’ll will soon post my past experience. Let’s just say I have a lot of context regarding the Circle of life and allocated payroll hours to shady District Managers. It wasn’t a bad company to work for when you hit your goals. Like every company your supervisor can make the job great or missable. Remember it’s a retail job and if you don’t make profit you can’t pay employees. I will admit for the pay it wasn’t worth the stress and I was a high salary manager.

I work at GameStop now and I’ve been there about 5 months. I love my job tbh but I do see all the shady stuff GameStop does. I try to be a good employee and I think I’ve done pretty well. I love watching your videos! I want to expand my knowledge on games because I tend to stick to a few types. I play on pc mostly but I recently just broke it 😭 so I’m about to finish up RDR2 on my Xbox. Btw love you!

So many videos so short time! Damn I feel lucky! 👍

THE HAT RETURNS

First things first ......i want to start this comment im drinking "The King Of Beers " a bottle of Budweiser. Well i can remember renewing my Power Up Card for another year. & i voiced my concerned "Why Having I Gotten My Physical Magazines"? So the sales associate look into my account to see the problem and i was told at the time my address was mixed up listed as a Puerto Rico Resident......i was like "Huh....Wait" they updated my current address, i love my Boriqua people but do i look like i 'm from Puerto Rico ? I'm 6'4. Tall Black guy with long dreads & talk with a New York Accent......now i can laugh about it but at the time.the incompetent associates pissed me off.....

Its truly sad that people that work at gamestop's aren't real gamers or people informative of games nowadays but at least you were one of the very least who were passionate about your job fanta

Idk how it is for other stores, but my store and co-workers had someone knowledgeable for each platform. I was the PC dude. As useless as that is there I still kept up with information typically before the store or customers even found out.

Fanta RCT was the perfect storm

That linenkugels is such an amazing beer and makes me sad to drink it since I showed a girl it off your recommendation and we both loved it. We dont talk anymore so gotta drink a few shots before hand. As self prescribed lol

As a gamer, I look up info about video games I might want to buy. I watch videos and trailers. And I look up reviews. That’s what I do instead of trusting employees, especially at GameStop (US name)/EB Games (Canada and I think Australia name).

I went into Gamestop once to pick up the Microsoft Kinect adapter and I asked for it at my local gamestop and the employee said "We don't have it" then I said " It is right there above your head, look up!!!" Employee "Oh sorry, I didnt know that we had one in stock" I was just irritated because my local Gamestop has shitty service like that and they also always asked a million questions about me returning preowned games when it was within 7 days. As mentioned in this video, you should have video game knowledge and passion if you work at Gamestop!!!!!

It always boils down to what you get paid to do. There is nothing that is really free so you can't really have someone expertly do something if you didn't put the expertise there unless you're a freeloader.

ahhhh nice feed me shirt! 💚 💚

I worked at Lowes and didn't give a crap about tools and it was hell, I imagine this is no different

I'm mixed on this. On one hand, I have a lot of fond memories of old GameStop, even before they started forcing their employees to be really in your face about offering you stuff. On the other hand, their shitty practices make them not worth going to. On a sentimental level, I'm sad to see them go, but on any other level I don't care. They deserve this. I do feel bad for the employees though.

People that just treat it as a job may feel that it is the only job they can get or it may be hard for them to get a job.

They sould know common stuff! Like a had the game stop guy tell me that the Nintendo switch dock are not been made anymore

My local GameStop there was a girl that worked there that didn't even play video games didn't know anything about video games or much less how to do her job she was cute though

I guess I’m lucky my Gamestop is awesome the guys there I became super close with and they always have people extremely happy when they leave their store but with that being said I have been to other stores in my area where the employees were clueless

Water levels are ok sometimes. I don't enjoy them but I don't hate them. Imo the ice levels are the worst. Especially ice levels that include sections where you get KOed for dropping off a bridge that's only a few pixels wider than the character.

Opened, "NEW" games are by legal definition, not new and it's been illegal since the 1970's for GameStop to do that $hit.

When I started the video my phone was at 11 percent, finished the video at 2 percent. Fuck yea

I always wanted to work for gamestop, but the main manager kept saying, are you sure you want to work around guys all the time... It'll be uncomfortable. He didn't like that I didn't play halo type stuff... I was rpgs, nintendogs and animal crossing and anything fun quirky and wild. He wanted bros

I love your vids and i watch most of them, i just wanna ask tho why do u post so early in the morning, i mean u drink beer and chill in ur vids i usually wanna wait and watch while i chill with a beer too, so i wait to watch ur vids at night and have to remeber to watch it and yeah just wondering ahy u upload in morning (usa time of course)

I usually do not do the answer these questions at the bottom of the receipt and write employee:how did i do. I should that way maybe they get a Promotion or maybe even a raise

To be fair I would rather pay 80$ for games than deal with micro transactions.

Dire dire docks was a great water level. Mario 64.

While I don't expect staff to know everything about every game, basic knowledge seems like it should come with the job. After all, in the survey, it asks if the rep recommended any games. How can a rep make a believable recommendation if they don't know what they're talking about? Most of the folk at my local GameStop are pretty good. I can easily spot the fakes. When they give recommendations, its obviously from a list since they don't even know enough about the game to identify the genre (for instance, I said I play JRPGs and they recommended Halo 2...).

Two diiferent things i did in 2 different games it was awesome. I was playing GTA Vice City i had the police after me and i hit a unique stunt jump and drove into the police helicopter and it crashed my PS2. I was playing Burnout Legends on PSP i was going so fast driving off the sides of the wall i flipped my car over and the game crashed.

Hey Fanta I got a question for you I got two friends at Gamestop and both were managers one was a senior manager and the other one was a manager for like 5 or 6 months. The one that was a senior manager has put alot of time and dedication towards her store and co workers. She knew how to run the place got along with everybody great she even hooked me up a few times cause they were certain items I was looking for hooking me up means letting me know that I have something aside for you that I know that you want but anyways I don't want to ask my friends what happened for them to leave Gamestop but what are your first thoughts that come in mind? The senior manager left her store right before New Years.

Watch at half speed for lols during the "what I'm drinking" segment

At my store we get a discount on opened new games 20% off

Bought black ops 4 for my PC because I thought blackout would be fun to get into. Turns out the game is really CPU intensive and feels bad to play on my system. No way to get a refund :( rip $60

"There are some games out there that are just garbage" So you DON'T think Ninja Bread Man is a masterpiece. smh.

I think eb games in Australia was taken over by gamestop very similar stuff.....

Had that beer really it good

I love to sniff me new game the smell of new is nice.

The only water level I remember enjoying was from Shovel Knight

Or staff that lie to you about games.