Monday, November 19, 2012

Waiting in lines

How long would you wait for something you want to buy? Would you sit outside in the middle of November waiting for a store to open at midnight simply to purchase this item?

Well gamers certainly would. Gamestop, the video game retailer titan that has bought out most of its former competition (RIP EB Games, Funcoland and others), has fairly regular midnight releases for big name titles.

Most recently it was Call of Duty: Black Op II. Now the Call of Duty series has rough 9 titles in the main series now, and to me they all seem pretty much the same, except for the various accents of the people you're shooting.

But, every time these midnight releases lead to lines like this...


And crowds like this...

So how long would you camp out to be one of the first to get what you want? I guarantee there's a nerd out there who has waited longer.


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