Haxpor

Let’s continue on this Part II.

For this part, it was all about waiting waiting waiting and waiting !!
Curious about that ? Then I will clarify this for you.

After I was there, my final destination, Zest at Digital Gateway, Siam Square via BTS, I was shock at first to see several gamers waiting at front of the shop !

Let me tell you first the condition.
As Zest announced that there will be only 20 boxes of Collector Edition of Starcraft 2 available today, then first comes first serves.

My purpose today was to get that Collector Edition only and only.
At 8.30 I was in front of Zest shop, I just grasped around and roughly count the number of people there, above 20, this would enough let me not to count no more, my heart went down, my feeling flashed away, and finally I just had no idea what to do next.

I was standing still at that position thinking what should I do next, I had failed at this point. More and more people just flew in in front of the Zest shop waiting to be opened, and the time was 9.00.

I want to make sure that those guys waiting around me aren’t here for Collector Edition, so I asked a nerd computeristic guy near me about that registration for 20 person for Collector Edition.

The answer from him clearly depress me further.

“The registration began at 3.00 AM, and ended around 8.00 AM”, that guy said to me.

How’s come ? How could that be ?
The first comes first serves doesn’t mean the one who comes when the shop still closes right ?
Did anyone mention about that ? Not at all.

I can’t do anything, just to accept it. But my mind was trying to get out of the box, to know what’s really happen.

Fortunately, my white horse came just in time. P’Em (from Skeek Team that won the 1st prize in Software Design, Imagine Cup 2010).
He came with one of his friend, P’Tai, which in fact I thought I could remember him or at least have seen his face once ago in the past.

We started to talk, and this was very great. It delayed time for me not to immediately go home with nothing.
They also targeted for the collector edition, but at this point, they realize they weren’t gonna get it, so they switched to standard edition instead.

“What an easy decision !”, I said to myself.

I decide to wait in the long line just to have a talk with them for a while before I go back home.

But …

You know that as I have talk with them, exchanging the idea of software development, game (especially starcraaft 2’s history), etc, this completely changed my perspective !

I incrementally changed my ego with the only want for that collector edition into standard edition, reduce the karma for what is not going to be reach within today.

We have waited in the very long line for about 3-4 hours. For me, it was one of great waits happened to my life.

Collector Edition can give you everything you targeted for at the first place, but in this case, standard edition, although it cannot give you all your want but it gives you more than that; the different perspective, different opinion, different idea. I have changed in a good way after this happened to me.

In addition, I also have been interviewed by Future Gamer’s staff about feeling and opinion on this event “First Attack !”. I have met much of people whom I knew beforehand.

Thereafter, I got back home with something valuable in my hand included joy along the way.

Till next time my friend, some great events may occur to you soon. It’s up to you whether you wanna grab them or let them slip.

Take care !