WoW, that’s a lot of people

January 16, 2007 by Nitin Dahyabhai.

The 16th is the official “street date” for the Expansion to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. As they did two years ago when the game was first released, midnight launches were held by EB.

It’s hard to tell because of the low light level, but only half of the line stretched across the entire front of the strip mall building. The rest were curved around the outside of the nearly-full parking lot (you can see some of the more brightly dressed folks in the distance), and it wasn’t even midnight, yet.

While the original release was two days before Thanksgiving (with many people taking Wednesday off already), I just don’t see the point to waiting in line for hours to pick up a game I’m likely not going to have time to play until the weekend, especially when I’m working tomorrow.

It doesn’t make the picture any less funny to me, though.  NERDS!

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