Behold the face of idiocy: Swedish gamers already camping for GTA IV
11 April 2008This post brought to you by Destructoid.
I guess a few Swedish gamers didn’t get the memo that you can actually pre-order games in this dazzling 21st century. The above image is one of several insane Swedes who are actually camping outside a store for Grand Theft Auto IV — damn near two and a half weeks before it even arrives. In comparison I could head into town and most likely pick up two copies on launch day.
Maybe there’s some videogame shortage I didn’t hear about in Sweden, but this borders on the slightly braindamaged as far as I am concerned. I don’t know what’s sadder, that these people feel the need to spend over two weeks outside for a videogame, or that they have so little going on in their lives that two weeks are simply that disposable.
I guess this is what hype does to the human psyche. I can understand camping out a few days for a launch console — barely — but over two weeks for a continually pressed disc? That, my friends, is ridiculous. You can see more pictures of the insanity at the source — a Swedish retailer that has captured these crazy people on camera.
Oh well. They’re happy … I guess. They really shouldn’t be, though.
