• 5Apr 08

  What's up with Gamestop employees.

  When did Gamestop start hiring people that don't know jack squat about videogames or the video game industry. I have to drive five cities over just to find one guy in the whole district that knows what the heck is going on. In fact almost everytime I try to strick up a conversation about gaming news the employees always say ' Oh wow you know alot about video games, you should talk to whats his name in Fayettville, he knows about video games too". It use to be everyone that worked there were die hard gamers, heck they were late to work cause they were playing video games, on their breaks they were playing video games.

  My biggest pet peeve was when I asked the guy at the counter if they have any used Wavebirds and the dude just looked at me funny like I was in the wrong store. He asked if it was a video game and I told him no it is the wireless nintendo gamecube controller. He of course had to ask someone else and that person goes 'no I don't think Nintendo ever made a wireless controller, but we have some Gamestop brand Gamecube controllers. Than I gave him a look like he was in the wrong store. This ever happen to you where you just want to jump over the counter rip their name badge off and tell them ' You're fired, you don't belong in this store or any video game store, go work at walmart, you're are a fakeboy!'

  • Posted Apr 5, 2008 5:07 pm PT
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• 11Dec 07

  Nothing sells on the PS3

  I tried to sell nothing to a guy on a street corner for just $5, but he wouldn't get it. SONY has managed to sell consumers nothing for $400-$600? That's truly astonishing.

  • Posted Dec 11, 2007 10:55 am PT
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• 4Nov 07

  Why do 360 fans come onto ps3 news and bash the system?

  Written bynikefreak.

  Once again. Someone having a dislike for something, doesnt mean they are bashing the system, fanboys, etc. If they have legitimate reasons behind it, then thats their opinion. I am QUITE sure that no 360/Wii fan feels anything but humored on the PS3, far from inferior. However, I CAN say, PS3 fans tend to go on whine sprees, whenever the PS3 is spoken of in a less than perfect light. However, people such as yourself, running and calling the waaaambulance, having never even reviewed anything other than Nintendo/PC/Mac/Playstation/Sega games, I doubt have much to back yourself up with on your feelings about the competition. To an observer, you automatically look like the typical Sony fanboy.
  
  Now, for the reason 360 fans tend to come to share their dislike of the PS3, well, I think they have said their reasons over and over and over, yet some (like you) cant seem to understand that, so here is a recap...
  
  1. Games are not the best, nor the most rounded as for selection.
  2. Most good games on the PS3 platform are available on the 360 platform as well, and usually are the same or better, featuring the same or more features/etc.
  3. Bringing a system out for 600.00 and heralding how people will buy it regardless, putting a bunch of nonsense in that causes them to have to take massive losses to even try to decrease the price, and then having to cannibalize parts of your company as well as sell off a factory that produces the main component in your system (Which, if it were SO great, they wouldnt let that happen, especially to a rival who produces HD-DVD ), all to lower the PS3 200.00 in price, in a year, as a desperate attempt to recapture the market they have continued to loose. Then, in a bold move, they release a commercial about having your "Eyes scream and ears bleed", when in fact the only thing the PS3 has made bleed up to now, are peoples wallets.
  4. Forcing tech onto consumers without any option as to if they want it or not, simply to further their own agenda.
  5. The fact that most PS fanboys have no solid reasoning for why they stick with PS platform, and hate on others, other than because it is made by Sony, and the PS2 was big... Previous successes do NOT guarantee future ones.
  6. When a company such as Sony, does what they have done as a whole, and given the attitude they have, people such as myself begin to see them as more harm than good to the games industry, and would rather someone else step up and take their spot. The PS games would then move to the competitions systems, so you would still get your franchises, but we wouldnt have a company such as Sony doing nothing but bad, and trying to rule everything. To be quite honest, I would rather see Sega where Sony is now :
  7. Why should WE, make ourselves blind to the competitions products, as you have done, when that doesnt do anything other than fuel ignorance? I personally feel it is a good idea to keep up on whats going on in PS3 land, even if I wouldnt own one right now - even if it were free. I still want to keep up on that side of the console front, and know whats happening. If you guys keep pushing fans from other consoles AWAY, when they are trying to see whats up with your favorite companies products, you will only further hurt the sales for your said company. If and when, for example, I see Sony change the problems, attitude, etc. that have caused them all these headaches in the first place, I would be willing to get a PS3. However, people such as yourself remind me of part of the reason I am steering clear....
  
  I am a gamer. I buy based on the GAMES. I dont buy based on a brandname, nor do I buy because it looks "so teh coolz!!!111". I dont buy based on "Last gen PS2 was top", nor do I buy based on "Well the PS3 can do xxxxxx theoretical performance", I buy based on what the console actually DOES.
  
  And as far as what it does, and its draw to people like me? Well, lets just state the obvious - draw your own conclusions. The only systems I havent owned through the years -- 3D0, NeoGeo, PS3 -- thats it.

  • Posted Nov 4, 2007 6:03 am PT
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