SOMM Soapbox

The days of getting the most for your gaming dollars are gone. A trend brought on by the digital age. The digital age was once herald as the end of high costs for many products and their respected industries, especially videogames. I fondly remember reading an article in Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) as a teenager about how digital content would forever change gaming. Buying video games digitally would be much cheaper and would allow developers to release patches, game expansions (remember those?!) and other digital content to you quickly. The article was partly right on the latter part, but as for the cheaper prices, we’re still waiting

One of Call of Duty: Black Ops's many DLC packs.

There is a new trend going on in the game industry. This trend is to curve or somehow destroy the used game market. GameStop Inc is enjoying huge success and most of it is due to the sales of used video games. On one side of the coin are publishers and developers looking to find any way to slow down the sale of used games and on the other are consumers hurting from an economy that just won’t pick up and are trying to get the best value for their dollar.