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Some Play to Die.

Post by The Bad Buttons »

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.

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cant imagine that would be true for a second.

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Post by MegaKitsune »

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

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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.
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Re: Some Play to Die.

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

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Post by The Doc »

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

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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.

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Post by SegaSonic »

People who want the PS3 for play = Good

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

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Post by Zeta »

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

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Post by Arcade »

And that’s one of the reasons I never get a console on the release...

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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.

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Post by MegaKitsune »

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.

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I dislike rich people who only want to get richer.

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

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

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I know, I just dont like greedy people.

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So you don't like capitalism.

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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.

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Post by Heroic One »

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. <_<
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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.

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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.

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Post by Shadow Hog »

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?...

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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!

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I thought you were like 12.

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Post by Timestones »

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.

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Post by Senbei »

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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