michaelb
10-27-2008, 02:26 AM
Repost in new thread per request (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25612264&postcount=3843) of forum member. Thanks for the wishes of luck.
GREAT post. I'd say put it in it's own thread so people on the hunt for them at stores can see this and/or so Six can see it and give his input.
Good luck with this though!
A post from my second, fruitless, day (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25612234&postcount=3837) of the COG search from Retail Locations:
I live in Orland Park, IL.
Altogether I have checked ALL Game Crazy stores and ALL Circuit City stores with Chicago listed in their address. I have checked into 6 Best Buy Stores and 12 Game Stop Stores with Chicago listed in their address. Outside of Chicago addresses, but a part of the greater Chicagoland area, I have been to 2 Best Buy Stores, 2 Circuit city Stores and 4 Game Stop Stores.
Answers pertaining to the promotion haven't swayed much since yesterday. Most Game Stop answers are: "Maybe for the midnight launch." The Circuit City stores are clueless, period, much like they are with everything in their stores. The Game Crazy Stores flat out have told me no, except for one. The Best Buy stores have been most helpful in trying to help, but I was actually asked to buy something or leave today at one location because security deemed me to be loitering. I guess the whole waiting around hoping you'll find someone with a special pin isn't a welcome idea to the staff. Ironically it is the Best Buy location that I felt would be the *most likely* to have received promotional material. Just because they have a lot of promotional stuff set up that most stores don't have the space to display. (Like a HUGE metal guy from Fallout 3 standing in the middle of the game section.)
Either way, the tone has been different from yesterday. Like I thought at the end of the day, I'm sure they're tired of people hassling them. Some stores still suggested to check in tomorrow as shipments would come in, if it was meant for 25, 26, 27, because they claim shipments don't come in on Saturdays. Which makes sense if UPS or such was used to send the COGs out. Either way, I doubt Six would send us out on a chase if it was meant to truly be those three days. But like I said, I'm pretty worn out in my search. Outside of church in the morning, I spent absolutely all day driving around Chicago going in and out of the stores in the cold and later rain.
I want to continue the search tomorrow, but I fear the traffic that will come with it being a work day. Then again, if it is contingent on a package being delivered, it still will be hit or miss as all deliveries don't happen in the early morning. I appreciate the viral campaign, but even coordinates put you in a better position, because right now it's all too vague. Whether it be stores and their employees not telling the truth, or it be the fact that they really are telling the truth and they just don't have it. But, like I said, I doubt we'd be sent on a goose chase by Six without any real COGs to go after...which leads me to believe it is stores and their employees not telling the truth. And it is true the Six said you have to be at the right place or time, but I was asking the employees at many of the stores, I'm not asking you to give me one, could you just tell me if you're taking part in this promotion? And I was usually met up with the answer, specifically Game Stop, of: "Maybe for the midnight launch..."
Perhaps, as not to inundate the other thread for the "wild" search, we could use this thread to share collective experience in the retail search.
Day 1 Experience (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25608300&postcount=3717)
Day 1 Follow-Up (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25608448&postcount=3727)
GREAT post. I'd say put it in it's own thread so people on the hunt for them at stores can see this and/or so Six can see it and give his input.
Good luck with this though!
A post from my second, fruitless, day (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25612234&postcount=3837) of the COG search from Retail Locations:
I live in Orland Park, IL.
Altogether I have checked ALL Game Crazy stores and ALL Circuit City stores with Chicago listed in their address. I have checked into 6 Best Buy Stores and 12 Game Stop Stores with Chicago listed in their address. Outside of Chicago addresses, but a part of the greater Chicagoland area, I have been to 2 Best Buy Stores, 2 Circuit city Stores and 4 Game Stop Stores.
Answers pertaining to the promotion haven't swayed much since yesterday. Most Game Stop answers are: "Maybe for the midnight launch." The Circuit City stores are clueless, period, much like they are with everything in their stores. The Game Crazy Stores flat out have told me no, except for one. The Best Buy stores have been most helpful in trying to help, but I was actually asked to buy something or leave today at one location because security deemed me to be loitering. I guess the whole waiting around hoping you'll find someone with a special pin isn't a welcome idea to the staff. Ironically it is the Best Buy location that I felt would be the *most likely* to have received promotional material. Just because they have a lot of promotional stuff set up that most stores don't have the space to display. (Like a HUGE metal guy from Fallout 3 standing in the middle of the game section.)
Either way, the tone has been different from yesterday. Like I thought at the end of the day, I'm sure they're tired of people hassling them. Some stores still suggested to check in tomorrow as shipments would come in, if it was meant for 25, 26, 27, because they claim shipments don't come in on Saturdays. Which makes sense if UPS or such was used to send the COGs out. Either way, I doubt Six would send us out on a chase if it was meant to truly be those three days. But like I said, I'm pretty worn out in my search. Outside of church in the morning, I spent absolutely all day driving around Chicago going in and out of the stores in the cold and later rain.
I want to continue the search tomorrow, but I fear the traffic that will come with it being a work day. Then again, if it is contingent on a package being delivered, it still will be hit or miss as all deliveries don't happen in the early morning. I appreciate the viral campaign, but even coordinates put you in a better position, because right now it's all too vague. Whether it be stores and their employees not telling the truth, or it be the fact that they really are telling the truth and they just don't have it. But, like I said, I doubt we'd be sent on a goose chase by Six without any real COGs to go after...which leads me to believe it is stores and their employees not telling the truth. And it is true the Six said you have to be at the right place or time, but I was asking the employees at many of the stores, I'm not asking you to give me one, could you just tell me if you're taking part in this promotion? And I was usually met up with the answer, specifically Game Stop, of: "Maybe for the midnight launch..."
Perhaps, as not to inundate the other thread for the "wild" search, we could use this thread to share collective experience in the retail search.
Day 1 Experience (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25608300&postcount=3717)
Day 1 Follow-Up (http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25608448&postcount=3727)