Kotaku
In one short week millions of World of Warcraft players will take their first trembling steps into The Burning Crusade, and GameStop stores across the country will be opening at midnight on Monday the 15th in honor of the forthcoming expansion. Depending on your local store's willingness to cater to MMO geeks, special planned include costume contests, card game tournaments (9 out of 10 real WoW players have no idea how to play it), screenshot character judging, and awkwardly trying to find out why your preorder isn't in the system while you cry tiny orc tears.
Good for GameStop. The expansion is going to sell itself, so this is just a fun chance for WoW players to see each other outside of the game and perhaps chat about raiding, PVP, Blood Elves, Draenei, and god knows what else while I am trying to sit quietly and play my DS. You NEVER mention WoW at a GameStop unless you have a good hour to kill during the resulting conversation.
I'll be there, of course. I've got a collectors and a regular on order. Would have gotten two collectors but the girlfriend said she was too busy tanking to worry about froo-froo extras. Sigh.
GameStop Midnight Opening Participating Stores [GameStop.com via Gamervine - Thanks Joseph!]
