HMV Oxford Street - WoW takeover Comments by Patrick Garratt

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jeeeeee-sus :)

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A load of MASSIVE GEEKS

By the look on their pasty faces, some of them haven't been outside for months. I'm surprised they didn't just pre-order the game online.

this is just plain WRONG, surely?

lmao - look at the guy pointing at him and the other staring at him!

Jesus, the police wanna nab them both!

Not much chance of any of that lot procreating... but on the off-chance: Use protection. Like a bee-keepers outfit.

Geeks are the only people who turn up to these things, and they're fucking ugly.

i gotta say, those models are delicious - altho i don't think they will be impressed when you tell them the power of your axe.....

or will they....


hmmmmm

Those models were absolutely fricking minging. That's why they went to a geekfest, because they couldn't get employment anywhere else that their direct rivals were given a score out of 10 depending on how many pixels their tits took up.

I'd say the models were ok.

But anyway, what the hell is this about?! It's not like a console launched or anything. Is this Burning Crusade a sequel or is this the kind of thing WoW players do when they getting excited about expansion packs?!

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Looks like a scene from Dead Rising

Quote from IT Crowd...

"What are they like?"
"STANDARD NERDS"

I can't help but feel had HMV fallen into the Earth in the middle of the night that the world would be a better place this morning.

Wow, look at all those people queuing, and yet there's not a single life between them.

I hate mmorpgs with a passion (on principle, never played one) but at least it seems to keep this bunch happy. They looked really friendly. Keeps them off the streets aswell, don't have to have their ugly mugs polluting our towns :)

this is absolutely stunning dweebery, looks like it's their first time away from their PCs in years! and those sad costumes, and they make their kids wear 'em too!

just confirms what I'd always suspected: there's us (console players with lives) and there's them (MMORPG players whose lives are MMORPGs)

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Non minger spotted !! (being eyed up by the zombie in back ground !)


Bloody hell, I was just about to post about the amount of ugly bastids there - and discovered everyone else agreed with me.

Gestalt me up.

Kill, rend, frag, DESTROY!

I was having a pretty normal day until i stumbled across this little beauty of an article.

i haven't laughed this much at work for a long long time!

Thanks you MMO players for making my day!

/goes back to work

Yeah, I guess you're right. Maybe us WoW geeks really should turn our PCs off, spend £350 on a console and £50 on a game every 2 weeks, start wearing Burberry clothing and cheap shit phat gold chains bought from argos, head into town of an evening, get fucked up on a combination of shit lager and low grade weed because obvously it's far more socially acceptable to be a rude, obnoxious, aggressive, drunk cunt.

I've seen the light! Quick, I need a crap car so I can stick plastic and lights on it to be really cool. Get this man a rusted old Vauxhall Nova right now! Proper Bo!

Is that Jessica Simpson on the far right?

Quote : Waffle - I am a geek



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Lets' see, I play WoW and a bit of Guitar Hero, I listen to a very wide range of music and I enjoy films, from standard holywood action blockbusters, through french, german, chinese and japanese cinema across a spectrum of genres. I also read books. Yes. Actual books. With pages. Made of paper.

What you would call a geek, I would call a well rounded individual.

waffle

You said : "Maybe us WoW geeks really should turn ....."

You called it mate. THEN got defensive.

Lets' see, I play WoW and a bit of Guitar Hero, I listen to a very wide range of music and I enjoy films, from standard holywood action blockbusters, through french, german, chinese and japanese cinema across a spectrum of genres. I also read books. Yes. Actual books. With pages. Made of paper.

What you would call a geek, I would call a well rounded individual.



Are you the guy with the beard in the middle of this pic?

waffle quote: "I put on my robe and wizard hat, and cast level 7 meige spell on you."

I find some of the comments in here rather ironic.

I'd have to agree with you.

Hmmm... people posting on internet gaming forums calling other people geeks...

:S

lol
Just... lol

Argh

Aaaargh

AARGHGHRGHGRH

What is it, a "Knightmare" reunion?

@Poisse :just confirms what I'd always suspected: there's us (console players with lives) and there's them (MMORPG players whose lives are MMORPGs)


Are these the same console players who spend far too much time on online forums (usually on a PC) arguing rabidly over which one is gonna win the "War" to realise that the PC is superior anyways?


Anyways, I actually find all those comments about how sad those people "may" be were quite hypocritical considering we all sit infront of a PC/console at some point enjoying games so just get over yourselves and realise that those pictures could be or worse ARE you!


/slams fictitious door

What about those that find time to play console games AND MMOs?

btw, fresh air or sunlight WILL kill me due to my weakened immune system :P

TBH even saying that these people have no lives is a bit of a misnomer. A lot of them clearly have jobs, and girlfriends, wives and children (more than what some of you have, im sure - reguardless of what you 'claim'). Just because they spend a couple of hours a day running around in a MMO world for entertainment doesn't justify some of these comments. And they probably don't care what you think...

Need i remind you that there was over 1500 people at this launch, and just because EG decided to post a few pic's of the more eccentric of the bunch, doesn't mean that you should paint everyone with the same brush.

Oh, and my joke about fear of sunlight and fresh air aside, i'm happily married (to a non-gamer) and i work too...

You're all hypocrites, as you can find time to post on the forums of Eurogamer... Surely thats a bit nerdish?

I dunno what the little girl is dressed as, but she's cute as the proverbial button.

BTW, I hope all you people leaving kind comments are going to post your pictures on teh internets so we can see just how *fabulous* you look.

Go on oi darez ya!

Funniest thread I've read in ages.

I'm not calling anyone a geek.

But lets see, as has been pointed out, people posting on a games related forum on the Internet, which to me means they have a fairly large interest in gaming, meaning they probably spend a large amount of time in front of a screen, are calling WoW players geeks?

Sorry, but WTF?

Hands up who has gone to any sort of midnight opening for a game related purchase or a queued for a console? Im gonna guess a fair number of you... How does that makes you less geeky, or better than those in pictures? (i got the impression a lot of you thought you were better than them)

And hand up who likes playing games like Final Fantasy or other Japnese/anime RPG's?

I've got news for you hypocrites, to the average person we are all a bunch of geeks.

I play WoW, and guess what? I have a girlfriend, and even more shocking, I live with her!! And I also go out and socialse with my friends. guess I need to get a life.

Anyway i'm will to bet that most of the people in those pictures are more friendly than the judgmental pricks we appear to have here. What gives you the right to judge someone from a picture or by their hobbies? Doesn't really tell you much about what the person is like, how they live their life and what other things they might do in the spare time.

And at the end of the day, even if you are geek? Who gives a damn, there are much worse things to be in life and do with your spare time.

All the cool cats posting here are presumably just taking a time-out from their hectic "Fonzie" style lives of screwing hot chicks and driving fast cars.

funny how the increase in subscribers says differently...

this is so wrong

The things you hate about other people, are the things you hate about yourself. You're just jealous that you can't sit in front of a computer all day playing games.

"Hands up who has gone to any sort of midnight opening for a game related purchase or a queued for a console?"

well not me... nor anyone I know to be honest. I did buy the gamecube on launch day (I think) but I did not queue with a load of geeks in costume through the bloody night.

I queued for a Wii and A PS3 on launch, although I wasn't dressed like a wizard :D