Rock, Paper, Shotgun

jerubedo says:

Despite this article being a joke that a lot of you overlooked, I see an arising debate here about the technical aspects of the game. I see a lot of people defending poor optimization and lack of DirectX 11 at launch as well as other basic fundamental graphical options which are missing. What I want to know is when did Americans stop caring about quality? You guys are the consumers! You should demand perfection in the products you buy. And this doesn’t just go for video games, this goes for ALL products.

There has been an increasing trend of companies and corporations making defective or imperfect products, and an even more-so increasing trend of the customer base accepting these defects and imperfections. Customers shrug these defects off and say “Oh, that’s just how they’re made. It’s ok.” Well, I got news, it’s not ok.

Older technology, such as, say, portable TV’s from the late 80′s, was made nearly perfectly. Most of those TV’s still work today. They were made sturdily, and there were no imperfections or defects. They were made to last. Compare that to technology sold today.

TV’s – dead/stuck pixels galore. The customers say “Oh, it’s ok. Dead pixels can be expected in a TV this big, ad it’s in a place I can’t see it anyway.” WRONG ANSWER. Your $2000 TV set should be flawless straight out of the box, no dead pixels. Some companies go as far as to say that dead pixels are a byproduct of production and that they are only responsible if a certain dead pixel ratio is met. UNACCEPTABLE.

Laptops – faulty hardware, failed hard drives after only a month of use, insufficient/cheap cooling solutions causing hardware to fry, bad firmware causing hardware failure. Customers say “Oh, well, a laptop is just made with cheaper fans, so heating issues are to be expected. Some times firmware has bugs, it happens. I’ll just wait five weeks for them to ship me the new part. Smaller chips and other hardware just aren’t made as well as the desktop versions.” Guess what? The fans don’t have to be made that cheaply, laptop components can be made just as well as the desktop versions, firmware should be tested more thoroughly before being released as to not BRICK YOUR HARDWARE!

Gaming consoles – Another prime example of how the older technology was made better. I still have perfectly working super nintendos, segas, and fairchilds. Sure, they are expected to fail after a while, but look at today’s tech! Xbox 360- the red ring fiasco! And gamers just sat their and took it like bitches! They all said “Well, Microsoft won’t do anything about it. It’s a powerful system with a lot crammed into it so it’s no wonder it broke. Ah, oh well, it broke one day after the one year warranty, nothing I can do.” NO, NO, NO! Get off your asses, and demand that the units be fixed even if it is out of warranty. An expensive unit like that should last more than a year, and if 70% are failing just after a year, that is a PROBLEM. That is a class action lawsuite. The PS3 also had some problems with melting pieces of the MOBO. UNACCEPTABLE.

Fine china – imperfections galore. Chips, scratches, bubbles in glass, right out of the box. Customers say ” It’s to be expected. These things are mass produced and shipped out from a factory, of course there will be scratches and imperfections.” WRONG. You should get a perfect set with no imperfections whatsoever on your $500 set!

Video Games – Bad code, bad graphics, poor optimizations, lack of support compared to console versions, glitches, bugs, connectivity issues, server issues, etc. What do the gamers say? “The game runs ‘good enough.’ I don’t need the extra polish. I can always debug some of the code myself by taking several hours and modifying INFs and other files. You can’t expect a company to to write near-perfect code for THREE DIFFERENT PLATFORMS!” Ummmm… good enough, is not good enough, it should run GREAT with all the polish we expect out of a PC game according to today’s standards. Since when did I pay $60 for a game to debug it? Yes, I can expect a company to write near-perfect code on ALL THREE platforms!

The morale here is to stop taking crap from companies who are purposely cutting costs, selling you short, and delivering a far from perfect, if not defective, product! Stand up and defend your power as customers. It is the customer that determines how companies run and what the products are like which they put out. You have almost ALL of the power! And if we don’t utilize that power, the quality control and production quality of all of our country’s products is going to keep going down the tubes until we are the laughing stock of the entire world. American cars are already a laughing stock in most other countries, whereas we used to be the best. Don’t let that happen with the rest of our products too!

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