Some Play to Die.

The Bad Buttons · Post by **The Bad Buttons** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:13 am

I heard a rumor the other day about a group of people standing in line for PS3s. Supposedly there were only 10 left and one guy bought them all and got shot for it. Anybody else hear about this? If this is true, thats definitely fucking ridiculous.

ski_dude_andy · Post by **ski_dude_andy** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:09 am

cant imagine that would be true for a second.

MegaKitsune · Post by **MegaKitsune** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:12 am

Well, a guy DID get shot, but I don't think it was over that...

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:30 am

I heard a better story: A Wal-Mart in Wisconson was only getting 10 PS3 units in, and there was a massive crowd of anticipated fools outside the store, not forming any line to speak of. So the manager got a beautifully boneheaded idea: go out with a bullhorn and explain the situation, then sit 10 chairs in front of the store and announce that whoever takes these seats first will be first in line to buy the systems.

Several people were trampled and one guy was sent to the emergency room when he crashed headfirst into a pole.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:20 pm

No store would allow one person to buy all of their stock.

The Doc · Post by **The Doc** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:42 pm

...So, the fates of these $600 PlayStation3s were determined by a game of Super Musical Chairs?

Post by **Delphine** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:44 pm

Exactly. With big sales, there is usually a limit to what a single person can buy. I imagine that the limit on PS3 sales was one per person.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:31 pm

People who want the PS3 for play = Good

People who want to sell it on Ebay for 20,000 = total morons.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:33 pm

What are they going to play on it? The ports or the other ports?

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:34 pm

And thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s one of the reasons I never get a console on the release...

Post by **Delphine** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:10 pm

SegaSonic wrote:People who want the PS3 for play = Good

People who want to sell it on Ebay for 20,000 = total morons.

Um, no. You sell it for a ridiculous amount now, and then when everything dies down and there are enough PS3's to go around and actual games to play for it, you buy another one.

MegaKitsune · Post by **MegaKitsune** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:19 pm

Notice how it's all the people who DIDN'T do this that are complaining about it.

Seriously, if they went out and made $20,000 off of a couple of $600 systems, I think "moron" is the LAST word I'd use to describe them.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:37 pm

I dislike rich people who only want to get richer.

whats worst is that they waste their money on cars, houses, liquor and clothes.

Post by **Delphine** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:09 pm

Why? They want to and are able to live their lives with a lot of money. So?

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:31 pm

I know, I just dont like greedy people.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:54 pm

So you don't like capitalism.

Post by **Delphine** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:02 pm

SegaSonic wrote:I know, I just dont like greedy people.

The money you spend on an internet connection could feed a homeless person. You're greedy.

Heroic One · Post by **Heroic One** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:11 pm

This happened near where I live.

Some guy was waiting 48 hours in line for a PS3 [three actually] for Wal-Mart.
Two punk kids showed up wanting money from all of them. [The people in line, I mean.]
When they got to him, the guy said no.
They shot him and high tailed it out of there.

Funny part: When the employees of Wal-Mart came rushing out, he handed them his money and told them to buy his ps3's.

In an interview, he said it didn't affect him psychologically at all, and will be out there buying consoles again.

Karma part: He's some loser with no job that lives with his parents, so he had to sell the ps3's on eBay in order to get some cash flowing. Serves him right. <_<

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:11 pm

The money you spend on an internet connection could feed a homeless person. You're greedy.

Heh, no Im not, Im poor and my father who lives on another place is paying for it. Plus I always give any money I have to any needy person.

plus, Im a student of a Game Academy I need the net more than you.

CE · Post by CE » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:35 pm

SegaSonic wrote:plus, Im a student of a Game Academy I need the net more than you.

Which one? There's two video game colleges I respect, and I've graduated from one of them.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:00 am

And which two would that be? I can think of a few, myself, but I wouldn't know who would be qualified as "good":

DigiPen
Full Sail
Whatever that "tighten up the graphics" one was (Westwood?)
Maybe DeVry?...

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:06 am

Mine is IADT.

it is kinda new and kinda unheard of because its main focus is Fashion Design and Internet and Flash design.

My Academy got Game Design like about 2 years or so ago. But its got awesome teachers!

I got to it because It is very near of where I live!

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:51 am

I thought you were like 12.

Timestones · Post by **Timestones** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:40 pm

I keep hearing people talking about selling PS3s on eBay or other such places for enormous amounts of cash.

Have. . . have any of you guys actually looked at how much the PS3s are actually selling for on eBay? You may be surprised.

Senbei · Post by **Senbei** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:15 pm

According to Games Are Fun, eBay's figures say the average PS3 sale has been more than twice the normal price -- $1186 between the 20GB and 60GB systems -- while the Wii has been selling for more than 1.5 times its normal price.

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