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The scene at many Canadian Futureshop and Best Buy locations was that of controlled chaos on Saturday morning, as thousands of gamers descended on the stores to follow the somewhat crazy free game deal the Financial Post and Post Arcade reported on Friday.

This weekend (between Saturday, November 9 and Monday, November 11) Future Shop and Best Buy locations across Canada are giving out free copies of Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Battlefield 4 to anyone who trades in a current generation console game. So basically, free.

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That is if supplies last. Many locations reported lines wrapping outside the building. Post Arcade contributor Anand Ram said that the mood from the line was mild confusion, as no one could figure out Futureshop’s money-making angle on the whole thing.

“Still scratching our heads over potential reasons they’d do this,” he wrote in a tweet from line.