Octopus Overlords

Take it for what it's worth, Gamestop will soon be giving you more for your trade-in's.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/05/more- ... in-policy/

Also, improving their customer service. (I'll believe it when I see and hear it, in person.)

http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/05/games ... n-walmart/

As much as I don't typically do business with Gamestop, I have taken advantage of their trade-in values for Rewards members. I got $42.50 for Infamous and over $30 for Watch Dogs. Considering I don't have to go through the trouble of trying to sell and ship them, those are really good numbers. Also, I really like Game Informer magazine, which is worth the annual membership by itself.

As far as customer service, it really depends on who's working there when you go in. Most of the folks at my local stores are really nice. Yes, they try to push pre-orders and warranties and crap, but they're just doing their job so I don't really fault them for it.

It's great they're getting some competition though.

This would have been interesting news to me 5 years ago when I still purchased physical media. The PC's digital distribution model is far superior even if I can't sell back the disk.

It's still good for console stuff. For PC if you wait for sales you never feel the need to trade it anyway. I've gotten ridiculous deals on trading stuff in when they are running promotions. I traded in my 1st gen xbox 360 + 2 controllers for something like 150-180 bucks last year because of a double credit deal.

For me it's not still good for console stuff at all, I buy digital for console now exclusively. Swapping disks is bullshit