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A real shame the article omits the part about GameStop (the former parent company) being led by an absolute piece of shit.
https://xcancel.com/ryancohen/status/1891884823465103698
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Them actually selling it, and to Canadian business no less, is a blessing for y'all.
This dude is a giant ass. Fuck him.
Yeah, I remember that. I still had a couple GameStop stocks and immediately sold them after seeing that. Happy he actually went through with selling the company though
Funny that the EB Games was changed to Gamestop just a few years ago to now change back.
Yeah, I got a laugh out of "from bygone decades". I'm pretty sure my local stores switched signage like 2 years ago.
Lol what's old is new again
Neat! Did all the EB Games disappear, or were they still around? I see some photos on Google maps that are listed as being from a few years ago.
GameStop, the (former now) parent company rebranded them all to GameStop in 2021, so hopefully they kept their old signs lol
That lines up, the photos I saw were from 2021. Looking forward to seeing the old EB Games signs lol
The anti-American / pro-Canadian sentiment is huge right now. The switch to EB (Electronic Boutique) will bump sales for sure.
Just think it’s a little ironic that it’s a Quebec company that’s saving it.
It could be worse -- it could be an Alberta company branding anything as Canada, and that would be even MORE surprising.
True true! I’m just old enough to remember the big separatist movement from Quebec in 1995 when they narrowly voted to stay a part of Canada.
Here in Quebec I remember also seeing some stores changing their names to EBX I think. I knew it was something to do with Game Stop selling their Canadian assets. Changing the name to Game Stop would potentially violate the law 101.
I'm not sure when it changed but they can have English names as long as there is a French description attached to the sign.
Something like : Gamestop Jeux Vidéo or Gamestop Boutique Ludique
I could swear my local EB never changed, but maybe I just auto corrected the sign in my brain lol.
Time is a flat circle.
This is as it should be. I always thought they were the same place growing up.
Fuck that corpo branding, go back to the original name that actually had meaning
Something is amiss. The original CTV headline is "Canadian game company to be rebranded after sale to Quebec toy maker" but the headline on this article is "GameStop Canada bought by Quebec toy maker, to be rebranded EB Games", a violation of the community rule 1 "Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.'
Headlines often change after publication. Everyone's A/B testing these days.
Hey Daryl, I copied the headline directly from CTV. They must have changed it
I can update it though if you want
I don't want but rule number 1 wants.
Or rule number 1 gets changed."
My post was removed because it violated rule number 1.