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Title: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: UncleBob on November 08, 2004, 10:31:52 PM
So I go to the "local" EB Games (about an hour away) to pick up my Brother-in-law's HALO 2 Pre-Order at midnight. I get there at about 10, get handed number 86 and wait in line for over two and a half hours (in the cold outdoors, because apparently the mall management wouldn't let us wait inside) to get the game. When at the register, I ask about getting Mario Power Tennis (something for myself, after all) and I'm told (somewhat briskly) that "No, we're *only* selling HALO 2 tonight. You'll have to come back tommrow if you want that.".

What the crap is this?
Title: RE:HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 08, 2004, 10:42:13 PM
They didn't want to you have fun in any other way other than with Master Chef.  HOW EVIL.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: ruby_onix on November 08, 2004, 10:45:30 PM
I'm not surprised.

What you do is, next time you happen to be in EB Games, just "casually" mention to one of the clerks (or preferably the manager)...

"Hey, Mario Power Tennis! Y'know, I actually wanted to buy this game a couple days ago, while you had that Midnight Madness thing, but you refused to sell it to me because of some "Halo only" thing, so I bought it the next day from [insert competetor here]."
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: UncleBob on November 08, 2004, 10:52:14 PM
>What you do is, next time you happen to be in EB Games, just "casually" mention to one of the clerks (or preferably the manager)...

But... it was the store manager.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: Pale on November 09, 2004, 02:13:10 AM
What you do is, never shop at ebgames again...
Title: RE:HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: joshnickerson on November 09, 2004, 03:12:11 AM
You forgot the single most important fact about EB Games...

THEY SUCK!

But to be totally fair, I doubt they really wanted to be there at midnight, and just wanted to shovel out all the reserves for Halo 2 as fast as possible so they could just go home.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: Savior on November 09, 2004, 07:33:25 AM
Must have been youre EB only.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: MaleficentOgre on November 09, 2004, 08:39:25 AM
gamespot sold me mario tennis at midnight.  The EB in my mall lost costomers to the mall gamestop because gamestop sold other games as long as you got halo.
Title: RE:HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: VideoGamerJ on November 09, 2004, 09:49:53 AM
The reason they wouldn't allow anything else to be bought was because it was only for Halo 2. If they started allowing other things, it would slow things down and in many stores the lines went on and on. I didn't make the rule, but I enforced it. It's only a shame games like Metroid Prime 2 won't get this publicity. Oh well, always Zelda 2005!
Title: RE:HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: Shift Key on November 09, 2004, 01:56:09 PM
EB love money hats, nuff said. The midnight release made it to Page 3 in the local paper, with some geek chick at an EB store in town. ;______;
There were also news pieces from around Australia, and I couldn't help but laugh over one guy getting soooo excited for the camera, bragging he had it pre-ordered since February
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: RABicle on November 09, 2004, 08:17:17 PM
Actually Bob think about how mcuh longer you would've had to wait outside if the 85 people in front of you all wanted to buy another game, or place pre orderes for Halo 3.

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There were also news pieces from around Australia, and I couldn't help but laugh over one guy getting soooo excited for the camera, bragging he had it pre-ordered since February
It doesn't surprise me that weak Xbox losers pre-ordered back in Febuary. After all it's the only decent release on the system since... well since Halo 1. No wonder he was excited! Oh and yeah it made page 3 of the West Australian too. Disgraceful.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: Hostile Creation on November 09, 2004, 08:22:23 PM
And to add to it all, I hear tell that several Xbox gamers are a bit disappointed with the game.  Not all that it was cracked up to be, apparently.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: KDR_11k on November 09, 2004, 09:47:00 PM
And yet all reviews claim it's perfect... Well, at least in score, the review text still points out flaws. According to Penny Arcade MS even dictated what pre-release reviewers are allowed to write.
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 09, 2004, 09:52:49 PM
Nice.  Pre-release copies for glowing pre-release reviews.  Must've been awesome pre-release versions.

What on earff happened?
Title: RE:HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: joshnickerson on November 10, 2004, 02:11:22 AM
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Originally posted by: Professional 666
Nice.  Pre-release copies for glowing pre-release reviews.  Must've been awesome pre-release versions.

What on earff happened?


Perhaps MS took a cue from Atari and Dri3er?

*runs and hides*

Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: UncleBob on November 10, 2004, 04:52:16 AM
> Actually Bob think about how mcuh longer you would've had to wait outside if the 85 people in front of you all wanted to buy another game, or place pre orderes for Halo 3.

Then I would have thought "Gee, I should have gotten here eariler so I wouldn't have to wait behind all of these people."
See, I don't mind waiting so much (though I am a little cheesed that we all had to wait outside in the cold instead of waiting inside the mall...)
Title: RE: HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: Ian Sane on November 10, 2004, 06:57:32 AM
"According to Penny Arcade MS even dictated what pre-release reviewers are allowed to write."

How does that work?  "Sure we'll give you a pre-release copy but you're not allowed to reveal any flaws."

Reminds me of MGS2 where none of the reviewers mentioned that you only play as Solid Snake for the first part of the game.  All the reviews were positive and then once everyone else start playing suddenly this really SUCKY part of the game's design was revealed and there was a huge backlash.  Then later MGS2: Substance came out and all the reviewers told us what they REALLY thought.  Technically I think they were told to not mention Raiden because it was supposed to be a surprise but what can a reviewer do if the surprise severely hurts the game's quality.  They're stuck because they have to somehow site a fault they aren't allowed to talk about.

There should never be any restriction to a review's content.  Once you limit what a review can say you completely remove the purpose of having a review.
Title: RE:HALO 2 Midnight Madness - Isn't this crap? (Not off-topic, I promise!)
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on November 10, 2004, 11:39:02 AM
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
And yet all reviews claim it's perfect... Well, at least in score, the review text still points out flaws. According to Penny Arcade MS even dictated what pre-release reviewers are allowed to write.


Dont you mean that this is a Bizarro Review.