UPDATE: A GameStop representative has denied initial reports that the company’s Pennsylvania business license was suspended. The nationwide store closure and two weeks of paid leave are still intact. The original story follows below.

Shortly following a Reddit post on r/gamestop insinuating that the games retailer’s Pennsylvania business license was suspended, the franchise has finally caved to COVID-19 pressures and closed stores to customers nationwide. Per a news release on GameStop’s website, the company is shutting off customer access to stores, but some locations will remain open. Instead of hounding on-site shoppers with phone trade-in offers and pushing preorders, GameStop will instead focus on digital sales, eCommerce delivery, and curbside pick-up at stores.

In a nice move that is a little surprising for the notoriously mismanaged retailer, all U.S. employees have been told that they may stay home from work if they feel uncomfortable or sick, and any worker whose hours are eliminated will be paid for the next two weeks at a rate determined by their “average hours worked in the last 10 weeks.” The company will also reimburse one month of benefit expenses to all eligible U.S. employees.

It is nice that GameStop is apparently done being a thorn in the side of official COVID-19 mitigation procedures. Still, the decision reeks of the top brass at the company finally seeing the writing on the wall. After trying to avoid closing its doors in California by labeling themselves an “essential retailers,” GameStop stores in the Golden State closed amidst immense public pressure and a possible order from the governor. After facing similar consequences in Pennsylvania, it appears that the company finally recognized that these recent silly antics are not welcome by government officials trying to handle a public health crisis. A looming casualty of poor management and the retail apocalypse, GameStop has been circling the drain for a while now, and these closures are sure to hurt them badly, but public health is much more important than margins for a franchise that nobody seems to care to go to in the first place.