Best Buy Fail

Normally, I'm a fan of Best Buy but today the store let me down.

I preordered Champions Online with Best Buy and I chose the in-store pickup since the nearest store is about five minutes away.

They sent me an e-mail Sunday saying that they couldn't confirm that my preordered product was in-house since the store was closed. Very odd. That e-mail was sent to me at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Yesterday, I got an e-mail saying that the game will be ready for pickup today. So far, so good.

I went there today, and guess what?... Best Buy did NOT have the game in stock yet.

I'm not really mad that it wasn't in stock. Games don't always make their Tuesday release, especially in Hawaii. My beef is that Best Buy went through the trouble to send me an e-mail "checking" if it was in stock on Sunday and then "confirming" that it would be available for pickup today.

For my trouble, I got a $25 gift card. Nice. The cost of the game just got cut in half.

I CAN still play the game and I think I have a grace period until Sept. 6 to enter the retail code.

Anyway...

I think I have a serious case of alt-itis: the sudden urge to create multiple characters in an MMO aside from your main character.

Now, you've seen Technoblade who is now at level 21. And I've also shown you Electric Co. Employee.

Here's another two I have made:

Point Blank

I made Point Blank because I was very interested in the amount of Munitions weapons there are that can be created. In fact, the guns you see her holding were self-crafted. Pretty nifty, eh? Munitions is a FUN ranged power set and I hope to eventually max level her.

Island Warrior

I made Island Warrior as a testament to my devotion to the University of Hawaii football team. I've also been interested in the Might power set since many have said it's not very good. Sure, I want to prove them wrong.

I'll post more alts later...

Action Figures In Action!

In Champions Online, you can get what is called an Action Figure. It's basically a non-combat pet. You can get them in-game or get them through a special offer.

In this Early Start weekend, I already have two:

Foxbat Action Figure (pictured, left) - I got this since I bought the lifetime subscription of $199. Foxbat is one of my favorite villains because he's kind of a funny guy. You meet up with Foxbat in the tutorial and he's kind of charming. You'll meet up with him later in Millenium City. Yesterday, big Foxbat got to meet mini-Foxbat:

Mega Destroid Action Figure (pictured, right): I got this through the End Of Open Beta Event this past week. All you had to do was damage one of the level 40 Mega Destroids that were attacking Millenium City. Luckily, the devs let us automatically level up to 40 as well.

I should be getting one more next Tuesday when I input my retail code since I preordered with Best Buy.