EDIT: Got my copy this morning. Then proceeded to finish it in one sitting.

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Crap. Crapcrapcrap. CRAP.

Well, Sonic and the Black Knight is out today. As a winner of the art contest back in October, I get a free copy of the game. The only problem is, it's launch day... and it's not here. Oh dear.

I was told the winners copies were sent out yesterday. I'd known that for a while in advance that they'd only be sent a day before launch, and even then I thought that was cutting it a bit stupidly close.

I could go out and buy a copy then sell the free one later, but then that really is a bit of a hassle, to be honest. Well, that and my Dad'd bitch at me non-stop and call me an idiot for doing so, generally giving me grief about it.

Although, if it doesn't arrive tomorrow, I think I'll have to go out and buy a copy. See, I've booked the weekend off work with the intent of playing the game, and seeing as there's no post on Sundays, the purpose of me taking the weekend off is a bit pointless if I don't actually GET the game over the weekend.

I'm not really sure who to be more irritated at, really. To be honest, I really feel that SEGA should have tried to send them out at least a day earlier than they actually did. I'll accept that there might have been some things beyond their control (although that still seems a bit ridiculous, given that they're SEGA and that people can sometimes get preorders early from places like Play.com and whatnot), but at the same time they must have seriously overestimated the postal service. You think they should have gone for special delivery or something if they sent them as late as they did.

Seriously though, as a contest winner, I certainly wasn't expecting to get the bloody thing late, of all things. If anything, I was hoping to get it a day or two early. What kind of messed-up logic is it that people who win a contest months before the game is out get it later than everyone else who can just go out and buy it?

Now I need to find a way to keep myself busy for the next 24 hours and make the time pass as quickly as possible in the hope that it'll arrive tomorrow.