First Night Stories and Events

Zyla · 01/16/07, 1:33 AM

So...

We're live. What's the best story you have from either waiting in line or waiting in game?

On Gorefiend we've organized a strong defense of the portal to stop the horde scum from getting through. It's been quite effective, as of 12:30, we'd only let about 5 horde through the portal. We've already spawned angry forum posts. Man, who knew that a pvp server would be so wussy about things. The first guy thru the portal got spammed with so many tells we think we might have crashed his client. ]

One of my guildies was talking about how he almost got jumped by people in line behind him when he walked out with 4 copies for all of his accounts. Another ran from the store as a man in line attacked the manager because they couldn't find the CE.

Man people are goin nuts!

EDIT:Apparently I'm a murloc druid. :woop:

I'll take it :D

virtuzoso · 01/16/07, 1:44 AM

The guy in line in front of me, his cellphone rings.

"Hello"

(Short Pause)

" No dude, I dont know where Mankrik's wife is"

Everyone around him busts out laughing.

hellsoap · 01/16/07, 1:46 AM

saw a bunch of people from mal'ganis and talked to some EJ and Auroruaruara people

it was sweet we had to go sit in the arts and crafts section

Northerner · 01/16/07, 1:46 AM

Ok, I would have chuckled in fact.

I had been intending on grabbing a copy at a local midnight event myself but early reports led me to think that I'd end up killing people. I'll find one tomorrow I'm quite sure but I'm getting too damn old to put up with what BB launches turn into far too often.

Sicks · 01/16/07, 1:58 AM

It's rather startling easy to accurately guess what race and class people play just by appearance.

spotmaxdog · 01/16/07, 2:00 AM

Went to walmart to pick up a copy with the nefarious plan to return my preorder when it comes. About 100 people, there were more than enough copies and they were handing out Collector's Editions left and right. Everything was smooth until we hit the checkout line....

120 people.... 3 open checkout lanes.

/facepalm

♦ Praetorian · 01/16/07, 2:01 AM

On Mal'Ganis I hung out in front of the Dark Portal for an hour and helped keep Alliance out of Outland while secretly wishing I could do the same to all the Horde. Then I logged off to get some sleep for an early meeting tomorrow and the prospect of a painful day at work wondering what level everyone will be when I get home to find my preorder tomorrow night. Then I decided to dick around on the forums instead of sleeping. Ah well.

Sicks · 01/16/07, 2:01 AM

A Night Elf Druid silhouette? :((

hellsoap · 01/16/07, 2:02 AM

Originally Posted by spotmaxdog

Went to walmart to pick up a copy with the nefarious plan to return my preorder when it comes. About 100 people, there were more than enough copies and they were handing out Collector's Editions left and right. Everything was smooth until we hit the checkout line....

120 people.... 3 open checkout lanes.

/facepalm

the one spankydoodle, weyoun, sixfeetunder and myself went to only got 6 CEs and 24 regular copies

Dozer · 01/16/07, 2:04 AM

Kel'thuzad to 13% and on the way to a server-first kill when the server restarts to open the portal.

Falk · 01/16/07, 2:05 AM

Originally Posted by Sicks

A Night Elf Druid silhouette? :((

That's right. Rogues now do Druid-like DPS.

(Are the default Avatars seperated solely by race and gender? Still pretty cool. I finally have a visual to go with!)

Sicks · 01/16/07, 2:09 AM

Sad but true.

Whorpe · 01/16/07, 2:13 AM

I sat in front of my computer studying for a real estate exam tomorrow morning while repeatedly clicking "refresh" with slim hopes to see a confirmation from Best Buy stating my CE had shipped.

Chemoshvt · 01/16/07, 2:22 AM

I work 3rd shift...but I pass by a gamestop so I figured I'd preorder and pick it up on the way to work. By the time I passed by it was like 11:45 PM, and there was a line outside of at least 50 people. I'll just pick it up in the morning =P

• Wodin · 01/16/07, 2:32 AM

Checked Best Buy and discovered that not only is my order only "in process" instead of "shipped" but that they don't even have a tracking number for me. I'm rather infuriated by this rather horrific level of service, and pissed at myself for not realizing they would do so badly.

Edit:

Status: 1 item(s) backordered.

I'm going to filet them if they don't get it right.

Edit 2: Hah, the customer care line is permabusy.