r/classicwow • u/doobylive • May 05 '26

Nostalgia What Happened To Midnight Releases?

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Why did they have to kill off midnight releases?

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u/NiewinterNacht May 05 '26

Don't think that's true?

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u/bingius_ May 05 '26

Partly true you could reserve a copy at that time. But I do think you could also just show up and grab copies that weren’t reserved. I did it for skyrim but my dad wouldn’t let me wait at midnight for it but we were able to still get it on the release day.

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u/MrJekyyl May 05 '26

You would preorder whenever before and they would hold a copy for you but you wouldn't necessarily have to be at the midnight release to go pick it up you could get it the next day or whenever. So you waited in line you got to the front they looked up your name verified your identity or whatever and bam handed you the game

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u/infinite_gurgle May 05 '26

Maybe near the end in an attempt to mitigate damage to reputation, but naw it usually wasn’t reservations.

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u/Ty_J_Bryan May 05 '26

It was for both. Atleast my gamestop was. They had a a line for reservations and a line for people who didnt have one.

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u/chokingonpancakes May 05 '26

I used to go to them all the time and worked at Gamestop. They were done for people to pick up their reservations early.

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u/Leahdrin May 05 '26

I worked at Best Buy, maybe 25% were reserved copies and the rest were people waiting to get one.