Well everyone, big business has found its way to make another striking blow to the little guy. What does this have to do with video games? I will tell you. For those of you, like myself, that are excited for the midnight release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, don't expect it to happen at your locally owned video game store. I, like many, have grown tired of the big businesses that don't carry the old school games that we all grew up with and is all about making a buck instead of the the customer. Back to what I was saying. Yup. If you buy your games from a locally owned video game store, you won't see Black Ops at midnight there. Why is that you ask? Due to many previous Call of Duty games being sold before the date of their releases, Activision will not allow small, locally owned stores to receive the copy until the day of its release. And that is only if they pay extra to have it shipped to them that Tuesday. If they didn't, the will get it later on that week. But what about the big business? Do they get punished as well? Nope... They will still get the game in on time and have midnight releases, if they want to. Why do they not get punished? Because they are "Big Corporations. They never sell the games out early to people, like their friends and whatnot." That is sarcasm if you didn't get it. I can tell you that I know people that have gotten the game before its release and they got the games from the big corporations. So why aren't they being punished. Money pretty much. They help Activision make the big bucks.Rich, Owner of GameXCape a locally owned video game store, said things that I cannot post because of potential children reading this. Pretty much it pisses him off that they are doing this to all small business stores. A midnight release is when he would sell off most of his games for Black Ops but now, who knows how much it will hurt him. Just like other game stores, it will hurt them as well.
So all you people that support your local game stores, be patient with them and keep giving them support. If we didn't have them around, we would be stuck with nothing but expensive games and no place to hang out at.
This is J.P. signing off of here and signing on to my Xbox. See ya next time.
