I am calling on my fellow gamers to help me put through a ban on Pre-Order boxes for highly anticipated games in stores. To understand why, consider this situation that happened to me just last week.
On Thursday morning the pastor from my church asked me to help him select a new stereo system for his daughter's upcoming birthday (April 6th for those who are curious). I quickly agreed to help him in any way I could and we drove to the local Best Buy electronics store.
As we walked from the entrance to the back of the store where the TVs and stereo systems were, I saw some of the aisles for PC games and saw a book that clearly had the Doom 3 logo on it. I could not contain my excitement and forgetting where I was (and most importantly who I was with) exclaimed "Holy f**k!" which is something I would never say with a right mind! Pastor Groomsfeld was shocked. I realized what I had done and began to apologize when he began to look very angry and told me I was not to come back to the church ever again, because there is no place for sinners with filthy mouths such as mine. He then stormed out into the parking lot and drove away. I looked back at the copy of Doom 3 and saw a small yellow sticker on it that said "PRE-ORDER COPY. NOT FOR SALE."
I was left there without a ride home and banned from the congregation, spirits broken all because of a marketing trick. I am not sure what to do about church now, but the point is we need to get rid of these marketing schemes that are nothing more than devilish trickery for unsuspecting souls and the cause of such terrible situations as the one that was brought upon me.
Please, join me in this ban on Pre-Order game boxes so nobody else finds themselves as ashamed as myself.
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I am calling on my fellow gamers to help me put through a ban on Pre-Order boxes for highly anticipated games in stores. To understand why, consider this situation that happened to me just last week.
On Thursday morning the pastor from my church asked me to help him select a new stereo system for his daughter's upcoming birthday (April 6th for those who are curious). I quickly agreed to help him in any way I could and we drove to the local Best Buy electronics store.
As we walked from the entrance to the back of the store where the TVs and stereo systems were, I saw some of the aisles for PC games and saw a book that clearly had the Doom 3 logo on it. I could not contain my excitement and forgetting where I was (and most importantly who I was with) exclaimed "Holy f**k!" which is something I would never say with a right mind! Pastor Groomsfeld was shocked. I realized what I had done and began to apologize when he began to look very angry and told me I was not to come back to the church ever again, because there is no place for sinners with filthy mouths such as mine. He then stormed out into the parking lot and drove away. I looked back at the copy of Doom 3 and saw a small yellow sticker on it that said "PRE-ORDER COPY. NOT FOR SALE."
I was left there without a ride home and banned from the congregation, spirits broken all because of a marketing trick. I am not sure what to do about church now, but the point is we need to get rid of these marketing schemes that are nothing more than devilish trickery for unsuspecting souls and the cause of such terrible situations as the one that was brought upon me.
Please, join me in this ban on Pre-Order game boxes so nobody else finds themselves as ashamed as myself.
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