My son wanted to get the new Call Of Duty XBox game at midnight, so I agreed to go out to the mall with him to pick up his pre order. I remember what it was like to be excited about things such as this, so I wasn't going to be a total blue nose about it. So out we went at 2300 hours to pay for this game, then wait in line to get it when it went on sale at midnight. Imagine that, they were adhering to street date, unlike many in the music industry, who try to gain some kind of advantage by selling the product early. We used to be in the business of excitement. About 350 people, 325 of which were male, willingly waited in a line to get this thing. We are now at home, where it is being consumed. I have mixed feelings about the actual game, which seems to be some kind of a training exercise in counter insurgency. Hopefully some kind of skills will be garnered that will be useful when the country dissolves into bloodshed, so Sam can defend the homestead from some rabid tea baggers or militias of other kinds. In any case, it was good to get out of my usual routine and witness this.........event. Someday, perhaps sooner than later, the gaming industry will be wracked by the same changes that have affected the music industry, but for now, it's business as usual.
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