Modern Warfare 3 Nutcase Threatens to Blow Up Best Buy

[Strazdas]

as i expected, cod madness begins. but dont worry, skyrim is coming!

 

[The Lugz]

Oh god, here comes another video game rant.

You don't see stuff like this happening because of Assassin's Creed or Skyrim do you?

No, because they're not out yet.

Have 6,000 copies of Skyrim or Assassin's creed been stolen at Armed gun point?

Has this happened when previous Assassin's creed games have been released? Or when Oblivion was released, did someone threaten to storm a Bestbuy with weapons from middle earth?

This type of behaviour is only being brought forth from video games such as MW3.

^ this, exactly this

i honestly cant recall a news article on a pokemon fan threatening to throw hedgehogs at staff because his booster pack was a day late
( this would actually rather amuse me )

or threaten to drive a gocart into the store because mario kart was out of stock.

it's a competitive game having degrading effects on people that are psychologically .... weird.
and it's a fact
sure, there are a few semi intelligent cod players who can handle the stress a competitive game brings, and shrug it off as a laugh
but most of them REALLY don't.
ive played cod for a good several hundred hours and i just quit because all you get is the same droll repetitive lame comments over comms, chat and rage-quits children screaming and flying accusations of hacks if you get even 1 lucky shot

all

freaking

DAY

as soon as black ops was released i stopped playing cod, i was damned if i was paying to play with people that are so immature.

 

[Glerken]

I've been to that Best Buy; I can very much relate to his general sentiment.

But in all seriousness, it looks like Fox is already putting some anti-video game spin on it:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/09/nationwide-violence-greets-release-new-call-duty-video-game/

Not really.
Violence has met the release of the new Call of Duty game.

A quote from the article

Rarely does virtual violence led to such real world violence, however.

 

[geizr]

This doesn't sound like something endemic to CoD fans(I know of many fans of many other series and various other activities that would have similar reactions). This sounds like just some guy that has a history of not being mature and able to control himself. The real moral, in my opinion, is that some people need to grow up. Screw-ups happen; no one likes them when they happen, but they do happen. The trick is to remain calm and reasonable to deal with the situation in an mature manner.

 

[RJ Dalton]

This whole event really doesn't speak well in the fanboy's favor.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

When it turned out that the store didn't have his game, Sar became "irate," according to the manager, and instead of angling for a gift card or a free upgrade to the Hardened Edition, he started asking employees what time they were done work - so he could shoot them in the parking lot as they left. Then, for good measure, he threatened to blow up the whole damn store.

No one ever seems to realize that threats like this have consequences...consequences that inevitably entail the loss of the thing you were making the threats over.

Fearful employees, unable to determine whether Sar was a lunatic or just a kook, called police, who pulled him over as he drove away from the store and charged him with disorderly conduct. "Investigating officers issued a criminal summons to a man who threatened to carry out his own version of Modern Warfare at the electronics store," Detective Bob Friel told the Aurora Sentinel [http://www.aurorasentinel.com/email_push/news/article_d480b74e-0a53-11e1-a1b2-001cc4c03286.html]. "Fortunately, this situation did not end in violence."

Unless there's a sequence where players murder electronics store employees for petty reasons, I don't think it would be a very faithful adaptation.

 

[DarthSka]

Honestly, I think the people at the store took this way too seriously. Yeah the guy was being an ass, but I just don't see how they could really believe he literally meant that he was going to do any of this. It's like the calling the police over someone calling you a fag and threatening to beat you up over Xbox Live because you've been beating them constantly.

 

[Jinxey]

I love the way the Escapist community is completely against the idea that violence, and bad behaviour is caused by video games.....

except for MW3, just as long as it gives people another petty excuse to whine about how they hate the game so much.

If this customer had been buying any other game, and did this it would have been the persons fault. But because it was MW3, it is MW3's fault. the logic is outstanding, isn't it.

Hear hear!

The Escapist is starting to become so yellow that Fox is actually looking fair and balanced...and that scares me.

 

[Magicmad5511]

Knowing of the massive influx of people who will blame gaming for this incident I would like to step forward and say on behalf of the entire gaming community everywhere:
He's not with us. We have never met this man before in our life. We do not support his ideal or enjoy his company.

Thank you.

 

[mariofan1000]

Admittedly, if they screwed over my pre-order, i'd be pissed, but I don't think I'd be that pissed.

 

[UlytimateDestruction]

I don't think it has anything to do with the violence depicted in the video-game it has to do with a physiological or mental problem in which case he shouldn't be allowed to play videogames and needs to see a psychiatrist. He may also just be fucked up in the head in the first-place. I know it's totally unrelated but I read somewhere else someone got beat-up just for saying he preferred Battlefield 3 over Modern Warfare 3 I mean seriously, is this what the world has come to: people fighting over personal opinions and trying to get you to think like them and people who go crazy at a messed-up order? So he can get a few extra hours of game-play? Seriously, man I'm sure there is other things you can do to entertain yourself and you were going to get an upgrade to the hardened edition but nope I suppose that just wasn't good enough for you and you had to take it to the extreme.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Best Buy tried to Fuck me out of my Collector's Edition of Cataclysm so an employee could take it home.

I got pissed and raised hell, but I didn't threaten to kill anyone. Common sense, people...

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Why cant the CoD fanbase be like regular fanbases? As in buying whatever pleases thier fanboy desires and keeping thier insigificant rants to internet forums.

It's very close-minded to assume everybody is like that.

Every nation, every community, every fanbase has their own little group of assholes that make the rest look bad.

For the halo community, it was the whining kids that plauged Halo 2 and 3, untill modern warefare became the next cool thing, and they moved there.

And I even loath stating this, because it's unfair to say that EVERY kid who played those games, or still does, is a problem. I was one of those kids. Not a whining one, but still.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I've been into that particular Best Buy. I used to live right next to it, actually.

I've met and have had personal interactions with those employees.

...they probably deserved it.

 

[brainslurper]

I will correct the police.
"Fearful employees, unable to determine whether Sar was a lunatic or just a kook, called police, who pulled him over as he drove away from the store and charged him attempting to buy modern warfare 3""

 

[Vigilantis]

Meh, I can understand where this guy is coming from and anyone who has remotely had to deal with Best Buy customer service probably has as well. Hell go to their "community help forums" and you will read many a thread of people being blatantly ripped off.

I too had a preorder unavailable, which is fine and dandy when its a solid copy that they didnt stock enough on an important game (though that in itself is a problem) however mine was a digital copy that should have allowed me to download said preorder 4 days before release date. I wasnt able to get my copy until 7 days AFTER release date. Boy was I pissed.

In the end I think the guy simply said the wrong combinations of words. Hell I've yelled at their customer service reps and they dont give a damn, their monotone voices and complete lack of trying to help you in the matter would piss anyone off. Alas my only threat was "You need to fix this as this in on YOUR fucking end." "You will be seeing me again if this isn't dealt with by tomorrow." Sadly I suppose thats not as much a threat to get me on multiple gaming sites =(

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

Why cant the CoD fanbase be like regular fanbases? As in buying whatever pleases thier fanboy desires and keeping thier insigificant rants to internet forums.

Because the fanbase is so large crazy people happen to like COD also.

 

[Aeonknight]

I wonder how many of the people read "CoD" and nothing else in the article?

It specifically states it wasn't a seperate incident. The guy has a history of behavior like this. This kind of invalidates the whole "herp derp CoD makes people insane!" clause. This guy is the type of asshole who will go apeshit if you put too much salt on his french fries.

He does not represent the CoD Fanbase. Hell he doesn't even represent the CoD Crazies like that one asshole who tried to rob someone at gunpoint. He's just a guy with anger management problems. But of course... if video games are involved, it's news. And if CoD is involved it shows just how horrible the fanbase is! /sarcasm

You people will harp on CoD for any reason that it makes it hard to take any of you serious anymore.

 

[duchaked]

yeah...this sure helps the video games causing violence deal
actually he didn't ACTUALLY do anything violent (psh, that'd take some guts), so guess this just proves video games can cause people to act stupid
which is fine because a lot of things cause it too kk nothing changed then