I'm in a club
I'm reviewing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm for The Onion A.V. Club so today I dug up the list of PR contacts handling the product and sent the following e-mail.
I'd like to request a review copy of Cataclysm for The Onion A.V.
Club. Please let me know when copies are likely to ship.
Thanks,
Samantha
I've worked with Blizzard before. I reviewed Wrath of the Lich King and named it game of the year when I was at The Daily Herald and covered Blizzcon last year and review Starcraft II for The A.V. Club. I'm on their Christmas card list. One of the contacts I e-mailed was the main person I'd worked with, but I included the others just because I had their addresses and figured I'd covered my bases. I got this e-mail back from a guy I hadn't worked with before:
hahahahhahahahahahhaaha
I'm in a club too! The "we're not going to send people in a club free video games" club! It's the best, who else wants in!?
So I sent this response:
...
Well at least some of your colleagues seem to be in the "helping me
cover Blizzard games for the national publication I write for" club.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty,43658/
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-av-club-at-blizzcon-zerg-worgen-and-felicia-da,32069/
Which was immediately followed by these e-mails:
Hi Samantha,
I'm really sorry, that was a clearly a bad joke and it's pretty obvious that I'll never write for The Onion. :(
Of course we will send you a copy of the game, we've already got you tagged to receive all Blizzard games.
and
On a side note, I just landed in Korea -- I did not have a good flight and I'm horribly sleep deprived to the point where I think everything that spills from my mouth is hilarious.
Again, I'm really sorry. Please let me know if there' anything else I can do to make up for a bad sense of humor.
I do not believe that first e-mail was meant as a joke. I've found that The A.V. Club's video game section is just well known enough that I've had similar but for more professional interactions with PR companies that usually involve me requesting a game, being told that I might get one and then being told by someone else at the same company who has a more impressive title that I would definitely be getting one as soon as possible. I think the guy is just a jet-lagged douche who thought I was writing from a high school audio visual club. I'm just happy I'm tagged to receive all Blizzard games because that's awesome and it means I won't have to have further awkward dealings with this guy.
I'd like to request a review copy of Cataclysm for The Onion A.V.
Club. Please let me know when copies are likely to ship.
Thanks,
Samantha
I've worked with Blizzard before. I reviewed Wrath of the Lich King and named it game of the year when I was at The Daily Herald and covered Blizzcon last year and review Starcraft II for The A.V. Club. I'm on their Christmas card list. One of the contacts I e-mailed was the main person I'd worked with, but I included the others just because I had their addresses and figured I'd covered my bases. I got this e-mail back from a guy I hadn't worked with before:
hahahahhahahahahahhaaha
I'm in a club too! The "we're not going to send people in a club free video games" club! It's the best, who else wants in!?
So I sent this response:
...
Well at least some of your colleagues seem to be in the "helping me
cover Blizzard games for the national publication I write for" club.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty,43658/
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-av-club-at-blizzcon-zerg-worgen-and-felicia-da,32069/
Which was immediately followed by these e-mails:
Hi Samantha,
I'm really sorry, that was a clearly a bad joke and it's pretty obvious that I'll never write for The Onion. :(
Of course we will send you a copy of the game, we've already got you tagged to receive all Blizzard games.
and
On a side note, I just landed in Korea -- I did not have a good flight and I'm horribly sleep deprived to the point where I think everything that spills from my mouth is hilarious.
Again, I'm really sorry. Please let me know if there' anything else I can do to make up for a bad sense of humor.
I do not believe that first e-mail was meant as a joke. I've found that The A.V. Club's video game section is just well known enough that I've had similar but for more professional interactions with PR companies that usually involve me requesting a game, being told that I might get one and then being told by someone else at the same company who has a more impressive title that I would definitely be getting one as soon as possible. I think the guy is just a jet-lagged douche who thought I was writing from a high school audio visual club. I'm just happy I'm tagged to receive all Blizzard games because that's awesome and it means I won't have to have further awkward dealings with this guy.