If I had Deus Ex powers, that would just be the beginning.
By the way, you did a great job on Extra Credits. I had already seen the episode and was waiting for this comic to praise your work. And I'd love to see more of your work spread across the interwebz!
Susan Arendt said:
Vault Citizen said:
Someone genuinely believed that a Zelda game was on the Xbox 360? I thought Zelda counted as common knowledge for gamers.
You're confusing "gamers" with "people who buy and play games." Lots of folks who buy them are doing so as gifts for kids/husbands/friends, and couldn't tell you the first thing about them. And even people who play them don't know what goes on what system. Many first time purchasers are genuinely baffled that you can't play every game on every system. After all, if you buy a DVD, it'll play on any DVD player, so why should a game be any different? Blu-rays have helped with that a bit, thankfully; now the concept is a bit easier to explain.
The average gaming consumer neither knows, nor cares, about most of the stuff we take utterly for granted.
To be fair, the employee is not always perfect. I went to preorder a game at a Gamestop (The Old Republic for PC) and when I asked, the employees sat there for a few minutes and then told me that I couldn't preorder the game yet. This baffled me. Not only has Gamestop made it a policy to allow customers to preorder games faaaaarrr in advance without a release date for literally every game imaginable, I knew for a fact that I could preorder the game since the official site had announced the preorder bonuses. I then asked if they knew it was a PC game. Both employees thought it was gonna be multi-platform and were looking at the PS3 or 360 lists. Thankfully, I am an informed and polite customer.
Oh, and they forgot to give me my preorder code, so I had to go back the next day to get that.
Of course, I've seen far more uninformed mothers that had no idea what they were picking up, than idiot employees.
Formica Archonis said:
Scrustle said:
Wow someone actually got mad at you as a Gamestop employee for telling them that you can't get Zelda on Xbox? Perhaps they were just trying to troll you or something.
Nope. There's people in this world who hold completely illogical conclusions up as absolute truth and will be impossible to shake from their perch. Would you blame the person who sold you a laptop if it was unable to steal the neighbor's wifi? Would you blame the guy who sold you the car if you got drunk and drove it down a ravine a month later? I have seen these things happen.
But that can be blamed on ego or an absent sense of personal responsibility. Leaving ego out of it, some people can be convinced that they hugged Bugs Bunny [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010612065657.htm] on their trip to Disney World through nothing but hearing someone describe the event in evocative detail or viewing a Photoshopped ad. Yes, people will fold impossible events into their
memories if you're a good enough liar.
Those people are called politicians. They're a scummy breed.
