Exactly. Starving artists are wonderful people, yes, but if you can't support yourself and find $100 to push this through, you absolutely should not be focusing on making games. Not by yourself.

... You need to go away now. Right now.

It's more I'd love a way to signal to Mike that "Hey, I'd like this to be considered." If it's not there, probably shouldn't be posted to Speak Up. Just a thought, but thanks for answering!

Why are you just pulling things from TAY to go in Speak Up? I didn't mind necessarily having my rant about GS get brought up there, but I wish I'd known that could have happened. I would love for the ability to only have things considered for Speak Up if there were a SpeakUp hash tag.

I adore mine. I cook everything I can in that skillet. It's also very very tolerant of mishandling; mine got a little rust on the bottom, but scouring it with salt and just giving it an oil treatment fixed it right away. It's perfect for all my cooking needs, and I plan to get another, bigger one for those bigger…

I could go in circles all day with you folks. :) I understand the pressure—I was there when it got going, and I can see how it has only grown. However, if this guy wanted to improve and get even more subs and reservations, he needs to be aware of things any given customer might be interested in, especially if he hopes…

Want want want WANT want.

Totally agree on both your points. Still doesn't excuse the other rote repetition. Heck, I could have had a discussion with him on the ending!

Sigh. Once again, even though he knew nothing about me, he could have made the valid assumption that I like story based games and RPG's, and upsold me on that basis. I don't understand what you don't understand about that statement, or why you ignore it or disagree with it.

And I wish those people had been in the store that day. Yes, I know he's required to ask those questions. Yes, I know there are employees out there who will give me the time of day and take the time (when I'm the only customer in the entire store) to chat with me about games. The problem lies with corporate—this…

And that would have been fine! I would have welcomed that! The deeper problem is that it never happened. He never tried to suggest anything other than what he'd been told to pitch. If the experience is no different than visiting a web page with advertisements, why bother going into the store? Heck, a web page would…

And if I were getting paid to do this, perhaps I would have distanced myself enough to do an expose on this, maybe sat down and interviewed the guy and the management. Alas, I am not. We've both done his job, we both know he could have done better. We both know that his failure is indicative of the larger problem,…

I know this will get buried, but a few salient points need to be made.

Wait, so why are you bitching at me? We're on the same side—I hate what's happened to GS too, I used to love the store and shopped there even if Amazon were cheaper! When was I ever an asshole to the employee? The dialogue is as accurate as I could make it short of having had my phone recording him against his will.…

I'll give you that—I consider Heavenly Sword to be more RPG than other games because it has a coherent story, predetermined from the start. While that's not the standard definition, perhaps I should have used something like "story heavy game". It's certainly a far cry from Madden.

I am extremely jealous. I wish I had a GS that nice. But consider what that store has done to get your exclusive patronage—they've paid attention to you, they know you, they took the time to make your experience positive so you'd come back again and again and again. There was never a sense that this guy cared about me…

*hugs* I understand why people think I'm just a whiny bitch. I just wish they'd not just glaze over when they see "person was harassed at gamestop" and actually consider the alternatives or how it could have gone better.

The renewal of the card is useless if you don't give me something to spend it on. As I've said before, if he'd suggested I preorder Dishonored, or Borderlands 2, or Bioshock Infinite, those would have been better than just repeating what he'd been told. If the experience is no different than visiting a web page…

The one thing he could have done to avert this rant, and the bad taste in my mouth, was to try to offer me something he had a pretty surefire guess I'd be interested in. "Oh, she's looking at role playing type games with strong narratives. I should recommend Bioshock Infinite, or Borderlands 2, or even Dishonored."…

I agree, and I wish they'd found a more substantial post from someone who was actually screwed over. I was pissed off, but only because I knew what he was doing and how he was failing at it. As I said in TAY, the problem lies primarily with corporate, but the employee has to shoulder some of the burden for not trying…