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Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
by Garnett Lee, May 25, 2012 7:00pm PDTDiablo 3 has strengthened its hold on Jeff Cannata who really only wants to talk about his barbarian, but there's so much more to cover. Garnett returns to the driver's seat after spending last week getting a sneak peek at some of the big games ready to vie for the spotlight at E3. "Indie" Jeff and Andrea Rene complete the adventuring party that gets down to business discussing their varying degree of anticipation for E3, the demise of 38 Studios, and the plight of subscription model MMOs, whether Max Payne 3 actually improves the gunplay over previous Rockstar open world games, and a handful of other games including Lost Planet 3 and Rock Band Blitz. Put a bird on it with Finishing Moves and you've got one massive show to take along on the Memorial Day weekend.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 114: 05/25/2012
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Comments
Honestly, this is first world problems. It's taken what, like 10 years for this game to come out and people have to wait another 24 hours? Sure, it's not ideal, but I think terms like annoying, unfortunate or frustrating are more suitable as opposed to corruption, anti-consumer greedy and broken. Sometimes my power goes out for half a day, sometimes my internet goes down for a day, sometimes a road is closed, sometimes I lose phone service, but guess what? That's life, there's no reason to turn into a white hot ball of jaded, anti-corporate fury. The sooner people learn that not everything goes their way 100% of the time, the sooner that people learn that life isn't always fair, the better off they'll be. It's like people have completely lost the skill of dealing with disappointment. Sure there's a difference between being well and truly duped, scammed or ripped off but I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about life's little bumps. Life doesn't always go smoothly so you can either roll with the bumps or burn with righteous, self-entitled indignation every time you're inconvenienced.
Anyway, that's just what I think.
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I'm not saying we should excuse bad service. But I think some people need to learn how to better respond to disappointment. If you ran a company, could you promise your consumers that you could provide them with perfect service, without fault, 100% of the time? Of course not, no one can promise this. Life isn't perfect and things go wrong, that will always be how it is. So, as responsible consumers we have to expect imperfect service but we also have the right to be heard, and likewise, companies and service providers have the responsibility to apologize and fix our problems.
People these days want the world, they want to be grovelled at hand and foot and be wildly compensated over the smallest missteps. If Blizzard makes a mistake, apologizes and fixes the problem, why isn't that enough? I was raised the believe it was. I think it is.
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