"blog:Tom Chick - 11/22/04 3:00 AM

"The joke's on me, since I'm the last one of us to be playing World of Warcraft. Which is to say, I'm not even playing it yet. cheap wow gold I was one of the apparently 5,000+ people to drive to Fry's in Fountain Valley, California, only to find the store only had 4,000 copies in stock. The difference between this and the midnight sales for Doom 3, Halo 2, and Half-Life 2 is that those games had sales all over the place. As far as I know, there weren't any other places in Southern California selling the game at midnight. There certainly weren't any with a gauntlet of Blizzard employees offering to sign your box as you came out of the store. We saw people emerging with their Collector's Editions festooned with what looked like silver graffiti. And since we got a flat tire on the hour-long drive down there, and then almost ran out of gas, we arrived at a quarter to midnight, which put us near the end of a line that circled Fry's twice. wow power leveling Twice. Do you know how big Fry's is. Maybe you don't. It's big. Wal-Mart big. wow goldYou could park a pair of 747s inside a Fry's Electronics. And the second circle of the line didn't even have the luxury of hugging the building. It swung wide around the outside of the parking lot, as lonely and remote as the orbit of Pluto. And the line was moving slowly even an hour after the doors had opened. The prospects of us getting to the front door before daylight were looking thin. really cheap wow goldSo at about 1:30am, the guy from our group who had a job interview the next morning put the kibosh on the idea of waiting around to see if we might luck into one of the last copies. Which was fine by me, because it was a bone chilling 55 degrees out there and Bruce was on my cell phone telling me about how his server already had people queuing up to kill a named boss. Is that what we're in for. fast wow gold A bazillion people crammed into the newbie areas, all doing the same quests. Maybe I'll get lucky and won't find a copy for another week or so, after the population has spread out a bit. Or maybe I'll just try another Fry's or a Best Buy first thing tomorrow morning. " .