Game midnight launches:For weirdos or part of the gaming experience?

[Pull My Finger]

Talk about nerdfest.

[inboundpaper]

I am a little jealous that you get to go to the MW3 one. I did have fun at the Reach, Cata and BF3 ones. Met some interesting people at all of them.

[Deleted]

I love how people call gamers anti-social, yet at these types of events everyone mingles (at least in my experience)...

You don't see 'normal' people in the queue at tesco chatting do ya...

[Deleted]

live like 10 mins walk from a massive supermarket which is 24/7 but ive never been to a midnight launch. i might for skyward sword though.. can pick up some krispy kreme's while im there. awesome.

[Deleted]

Whilst they can certainly be fun, usually the biting cold and queuing up puts me off. I can definitely see the appeal, but I'd rather just grab the game during normal hours and then sit at home and play it.

[Protoman]

You're just weird dude.

[Deleted]

I've only ever gone for WoW releases (with the exception of Starcraft 2, and that was because I wanted a CE which I hadn't pre-ordered), which has landed me a fair few posters and t-shirts by now

I personally go for the social occassion, to meet up with other local WoW gamers and share memories of the past expansion.

Edit: IIRC the best one was BC launch, since I met a guildie, whose girlfriend was kind enough to do the shuttle between Gamestop and the local 7/11, bringing hot coffee for us (this was in the middle of January, so absolutely freezing). And being one of the first in the queue meant having to walk past the looong line with my CE box held high

[Aeriedk]

So i was just on another gaming forum and got called a weirdo for going to the upcoming MW3 midnight launch at midnight tomorrow (Tues 8th).I go for the usually good free stuff (free msp,t-shirts little extras) and the experience of sharing the event with fellow gamers (collecting gamer tags for mates to play with on live,sharing exceptions and the like).

So is it for the jobless weirdos like myself or is it part of the fun of being a gamer?

Its all part of the fun, if you got called a weirdo it was prob because it was a MW hater.

[namelessone]

I've been to all WoW midnight launches so far, but not for any single player games.

[PACOX]

I actually just happened to be driving pass a Gamestop at midnight when Dark Souls came out so I went to pick it up. Most of the people their didn't fit the image of stereotypical "nerdy gamer". Mythbusted

[Merrena]

I don't live in an area that has any large midnight launches, so if I ever went, it'd just be so I could play until midnight the next day while being loaded on Mountain Dew. Although, the day before Wrath came out, at around 8 at night, I was driving past Best Buy and I saw a quite large line of people waiting.

[Deleted]

Me and a couple of friends always go to midnight releases for the fun and the hype. Its the one time I actually feel really nerdy, but I like it.

[Alraml]

There's midnight releases for everything these days so it's just part of the experience

[pickley]

If gamers who get midnight releases are weirdos, so are all the people who do it for apple products, new Jordans, and every other product/movie you see people get the second it's released.

IMO it's the pot calling the kettle black. If they're on a gaming forum, they're the type of gamer that would go to a midnight release whether they believe it or not.

This seems very black and white. Not everyone on a gaming forum would go to a midnight launch.

[obdigore]

I did before I moved for my job. Not having a couple people to show up with makes it weird and not as fun. Meh. Yes I have, will I again? Probably not.

[Raldazzar]

I used to work in GAME many moons ago, I worked the MW2 release.. and it was mostly mouthbreathers. there was NO social interaction with other people in the line. just the people they came with. they shifted in, got their copies and left.

Im a gamer, I 'get' midnight launches, but lets not pretend its all a big party all the time. gamers ARE socially awkward more often then not.

[Event Horizon]

I've been to a couple of midnight launches, go with a couple of mates, some beers and get there an hour or so before hand. Get a bit drunk and turn it into a night

[Valexie]

I've been to the midnight release's of Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and Cataclysm (the two latter with my friend). The event's themselves are a awesome place to meet players in your area and to socialize with them. You can also score freebies by attending the release party... for example during Wrath's release me and my friend left GameStop with two WoW TCG decks, and a WoW Miniature Game Starter Kit for free. During Cataclysm's release we scored free pizza from Little Caesars next door to GS.