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  1. ZMaine Video Games Etc.! = EPIC FAILURE AT MIDNIGHT RELEASES

    Player Chronicle -- Posted on Oct 26 2008

    Ok so last year at the midnight release for GH3, I got there with my friend around 11:15 and when we got there there was already 3 others waiting at the door and 3 employees inside taunting us with playing the full version on their kiosk, and by 11:30 there were at least 10 people out there.
    They finally let us inside out of the cold at midnight. Lucky me I got the first copy cause I had it paid off.

    And then I pre-ordered GH:WT from them.

    So I arrive at Video Games Etc.! tonight at around 11:15 again and nobody there.
    No suprise, not worried.
    Looked around, no cars in the parking lot anywhere.
    A little worried to not see employee vehicles there, but figured it's still early.
    11:30 rolls around and still nobody there except some homeless guy walking around. I felt bad for him but there was nothing I could do.

    11:45 and there's still nobody there. I got out of my truck and decided to wait by the door just in case they were in the back room watching the cameras to see if anyone would show up or not.

    At 11:50 I called RyuBlitz to verify tonight was the night to pick up the game, and yep, I'm right.

    12:00am NOBODY IS F***ING HERE.
    12:15 I leave, stopping by Wendy's to pick up some food for therapy. I also put my "Relaxing Piano Music" in my CD player to calm myself down because by this time I was cussing up a storm.

    Bottom Line, as soon as I get my game from them tomorrow when I go back in there, I'm done with this company, they suck.

    By the way, I live a half hour away from them, so they better compensate my gas. :/



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Chronicle Comments

ZMaine has 4 comment s on this chronicle.

  1. ZMaine ZMaine
    Posted On Oct 27 2008

    yeah gamestop wasn't doing a midnight release otherwise i would have went with them.

  2. Gvirus05 Gvirus05
    Posted On Oct 26 2008

    Video Games ETC lost my business a long time ago when the tried to charge me 40 bucks for an NES game.

  3. Dynafire Dynafire
    Posted On Oct 26 2008

    Well, I'm glad I didn't end up going to that with you! :P Seriously though, go to Gamestop. They aren't the drooling mongoloids that everyone makes them out to be. Even though VGE is a smaller local company, I have rarely had a good experience with them.

  4. Silent Bob Silent Bob
    Posted On Oct 26 2008

    That sucks! Meanwhile, GameStop had t-shirts, guitar picks and other swag. Wink

    You have a GameStop nearby? They've been really cool to us.