Very upset....prepare for rant :P

• Posted by Soleiya November 7, 2011 - 801 views

  As I've said in many previous posts, I've got Skyrim pre-ordered for a midnight release at Best Buy.  My fiance knows this very well.  He's been privy to most of my plans for how to rearrange my life this week to better accommodate the release of Skyrim and give myself a maximum amount of playtime before real life must resume.

  So I got a text message from him (the fiance) this morning while I was in a meeting (he is still in college, so presumably he was between classes at the time).  I didn't check it until I got back to my car about a half hour later.  It said something like this:

  "Some guy here on campus has a bunch of copies of Skyrim for Xbox....how much would you be willing to pay for one?"

  Wait. WHAT?!?!?!?!? ARE YOU $#!&ING ME?!?!?!?!?

  This is the point at which some of you will probably think I'm crazy, but this REALLY ticked me off. He knows how I feel about pirating games/music/movies/ebooks/whatever.  He knows I believe in supporting artists, etc., and that I take a firm stand against anything to do with stealing or dishonesty, on any level.  The fact that he would even suggest this was, frankly, insulting and infuriating.  Plus, I knew that even though I would never accept such an offer, that not everyone would be so upstanding, and therefore there will be people here in my very own town who are playing Skyrim before me, because they are willing to cheat.  MADDENING.

  But here's the best part.....I called the fiance up, to chew him out for all of this, but then he told me that this guy (he refused to tell me who) had a whole stack of Xbox copies of Skyrim....and they were all LEGIT.  The guy even showed him a receipt where he had purchased them from a major retail outlet (he couldn't remember which one.....Wal-mart, Kmart, someplace like that).  And the guy was trying to sell these games for.....wait for it....

  FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS APIECE.

  If it had been possible for flames to literally come out of my mouth at that moment, I'm sure it would have happened.  As it was, I had to pull over to the side of the road to keep from road-raging myself into some kind of accident.  Because somehow this guy had gotten ahold of not just one, but MANY (he said there was "two short stacks" of game boxes) copies of a game that doesn't release for 3 more days--supposedly from a retailer, although I'm not sure I buy that story, receipt or no receipt--and was trying to profiteer this windfall into a ridiculous profit.

  As I think about it now, I'm still so angry, I could spit.  If I knew the guy's name, I would have called Bethesda myself and reported his sorry ass.  And I'm still bloody angry at my fiance for even suggesting that we support such utter larceny.

  Ok....I don't really feel better about the situation, but at least I've vented.  Thanks for reading.