This Target Call Of Duty Promo Is Either Not Bad Or Chintziest Thing Ever

The new Call of Duty game comes out next week, and various retailers are doing what they can to lure in buyers. For example, Best Buy and others are putting the game on sale at the exact same time nationwide so that the West Coast doesn’t have to wait hours to gripe about the multiplayer server’s inevitable crash, and Target’s Canadian stores are offering what is either a not-horrible Dorito’s tie-in or the cheapest giveaway we’ve seen in years.

A Reddit user in Canada posted this screen grab of the “killer deal” he saw advertised online for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Just casually looking at the ad, you’d assume — and you’d probably be correct — that the deal is for two free bags of Doritos when you buy the game; the ultimate value of that deal depends heavily on one’s love for Doritos and the size of the free bags, but hey — free Doritos.

But if you take the text literally, it doesn’t seem as appealing.

“2 select Doritos chips when you buy 1 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare video game,” along with an asterisk next to the “free” that indicates in the fine print below that items are packaged separately.

We’re just imagining a bunch of hungry CoD fans showing up at Target ready to take home two bags of Doritos, only to find that they are actually getting a pair of individually wrapped Dorito chips.

(Before anyone writes us, we know this isn’t actually going to happen. There is no need to send us a 1,500-word e-mail explaining that it would be cost-prohibitive to individually wrap each Dorito chip.)

And as for the $69.99 price on the games, remember that this is in Canadian dollars. In USD this is only around $62, about two dollars more than the retail price of the same game here.