September 25, 2007Halo III - Did you sit and wait for it?
Posted by The Ori
The wait was not worth it? For those of you (in the USA at least) that sat in a line or in a parking lot, possibly all night to 12AM this morning, did for no reason. I have been to several Best Buy retailers, and they all had PLENTY of stock! In fact, I bought two at one store.
So, my message to you all is; Don’t worry people, there are plenty copies of H3 sitting on the store shelves of the major retailers. What they are limited in, are the Legendary and Collectors edition, however, I saw wall-to-wall $59.97 versions. There was no reason for people to sit or stand all night in line to get Halo III - when the news came across earlier this week, that there would no absolutely NO SHORTAGE of the item.
What’s special about Halo again?
and answer is.. IT SELLS. STRANGE BUT REAL
Lol, i geuss M$/Bungi didnt want to have people get frustrated and not be able to get it, and i think they also wanted to suck as much money out of it on the release date…when it is most expensive.
:P i wonder what the total copy production was lol
Word I was shopping last night and there were lines everywhere. Thanks to torrents I had my game 4 days earlier. I just laughed when they kept asking how I had it already. Oh yeah free mind you. haha…..
I too had this game well before launch. It is good but not waite in line for hours good. I do think though that most of the people that were in line to get it, wanted to play it that night/morning. I don’t think there was any one that thought for a second that they would not be able to get a copy. For the next couple weeks you will not be able to throw a stone in the gaming world without runnin’ in to Halo 3
Yea I did too. Except i used a private tracker:D and HP Dual Layer Disks
I borrowed one early on Saturday and beat it on Sunday on normal. Great finish to the story…I waited at Gamestop from 9 to midnight and they had a Halo 2 tournament and a raffle so it really was a lot of fun to go to a release party for it. I got the Legendary Edition and it comes with the same game and bonus disc as the Collector’s Edition except there’s a second bonus disc in the Legendary, which contains all the cinematics from Halo and Halo 2-and that is so worth it…
I waited outside my local GS at about 8. My buddy and I were the first there for about 30minutes. It was worth the 4hour wait. It was also cool cause some guy brought a football and we played 4on4 2hand touch to pass the time. Oh, BTW, they ONLY had 6 extra copies.
This is funny, I went to walmart around 11:55pm. I saw a fat line outside, I walked inside. And saw a line,So i asked a Employee, “is this the halo 3 line” he was like yeah. So i just stood in that line for 10mins. And recieved my halo 3 and a Limited Dog tag. PWN!, I went outside i was like, Why yall waiting for halo 3 outside? They thought I was stupid. But hey, went well for me Got the game got the tag:)
i wouldnt wait for any game lol thats really lame i got better things to do like sleep il wait for a pre owned copy to hit GAME in a day or so :D
Games like Halo don’t hit gamestop for several weeks. Hell I hate the game but I’m keeping it just for xbox live.
I sat and waited for around 7 hours for my legendary edition. I ended up being the first in line by around 15 minutes. It was quite nice to be the first one in/out of the store out of the 200+ people there.
I’m just glad I wasn’t the one who got beat up for his copy…..
Oh and people at wallmart are usually pretty thick headed and like 90% will wait outside. The local wallmart here had about 100 people inline for the ps3. I went inside and found the real line with only six people waiting.