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Perhaps a better title for this would be "How to self destruct your company in 24 hours" by getting into a pissing contest with a customer - who just happens to know a guy named Mike Krahulik.
Also known as... Gabe. 
The Meltdown:
http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html
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Awesome. 
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Pwnerated!
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This didn't take long at all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqV9kx40RG0 (Warning, Very NSFW Language!)
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They're already getting eviscerated in Amazon reviews, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Avenger-Xbox-360-Adapter/product-reviews/B0051JSJ44
The best of them claim that it destroyed friendships and gave them AIDS.
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Koneg posted:
This didn't take long at all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqV9kx40RG0 (Warning, Very NSFW Language!)
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That Guy alienated a lot of potential customers. 38 year old should realize the power of the internet and how many people will ruin your life for the "lulz"
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What a dumbass.
I also liked how the guy was clearly sorry that he got caught but that's about it.
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What I find completely hilarious is this guy actually did attend PAX East several times - and never once made the connection between "Penny Arcade" and... Penny Arcade eXpo??? 
That's some epic stupid. 
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amazon review posted:
Awful, awful, deceptive product. Broke the day I got it...poor, cheap construction. Difficult as it is to believe, customer service from this company is even worse. Also I threw up after using it for the brief moment I could before some of the pieces broke off...related???
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wait what is the product supposed to do?
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Wow this guy is a moron...
http://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocean-marketing-gaming-pr-rep-to-avoid-at-all-cost
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What an orgy of small minded pettiness. All around.
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tl;dr
Essentially some Penny Arcade guy ordered something and got screwed, got a bad treatment and then went into a full nerd rage?
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The customer was very patient and was fairly mild mannered considering he was just dumped on
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The customer was very patient and was fairly mild mannered considering he was just dumped on
Twice, really.
After being essentially ignored twice.
Serves the seller right. This will (and already does) happen more and more with social tools and the net. And it should. "Community" is now more virtual, less vocal.
This went a long way toward convincing me Penny Arcade is a community I want to be a part of as regards gaming/gamers.
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There's no doubt the guy was a dumbass but holy crap, enough with the righteous nerd power trip. After a while everyone comes off like an asshole.
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Such petulant children, all around.
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There's no doubt the guy was a dumbass but holy crap, enough with the righteous nerd power trip. After a while everyone comes off like an asshole.
The guy is reaping what he sowed. He's an Internet tough guy who doesn't give two shits about anyone other than those who can elevate his own career. It's not so much the treatment of the original client that is damning, but his response to Mike once he became involved. That said, his fate is in the hands of a crowd something akin to Anonymous now, which is a pretty ugly place to be. I suppose the moral of the story is don't declare yourself the president of a social media organization if you don't have the people skills to pull it off.
And before you start throwing stones, watch out for that big window named Joel Poremba in your way.
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Such petulant children, all around.
Somewhere under that storm of righteous nerd fury was the contention that these units might actually help disabled kids play games. But that doesn't matter as much as pwning some dude because he's an asshole. 
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Consumers often feel powerless when dealing with uncaring corporations. I have said many times that the best weapon the little guy has is information. Because of this episode, consumers now have the information they need to know whether they want to deal with this corporation.
People treat each other like shit because they think they can get away with it without anyone finding out. This is a great reminder that those days are coming to an end. Any bad thing you do can get out to a million people. This will make smart people think twice about doing bad things.
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Somewhere under that storm of righteous nerd fury was the contention that these units might actually help disabled kids play games.
That sentiment has been echoed a few times throughout this, even by the original purchaser who cc'ed Penny Arcade. N-Connect has fired Ocean Marketing and whoever was doing the ongoing updates stated that the manufacturers shouldn't be punished for this. Unfortunately the digital mob does not discriminate once it is mobilized. The poor Amazon reviews, while comical, are over the top, but I'm assuming they can be wiped once Amazon gets wise to what's going on.
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It's sorta like all the best and worst parts of the internet rolled into one thread.
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The developer may have a closer relationship to this Ocean Marketing guy than just being a business associate, too. They at least had another LLC set up together, but that doesn't mean much. At this point I don't think the legions of scorned Internet detectives are going to be able to sort fact from fiction regarding this.
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I think the main question is who really gives a rat's ass?
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Let's not forget this whole thing started because the company shipped preorders up to three months late after taking peoples money. The whole hiding behind handicapped kids thing is disgusting to.
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On one hand, sucks for the company that made the product, who's pretty much forever associated with those marketing guys for better or worse.
On the other hand,
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Wow this guy is a moron...
http://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocean-marketing-gaming-pr-rep-to-avoid-at-all-cost
Wow. Talk about destroying a guy, a company and their lives!!
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man that is one hall of a lot of energy all parties are putting into it, having had some experience with bullies in the past, I can understand where Gabe was coming from on that, but seriously.....who cares about this guy, he got smashed, let it go and move on, maybe he will earn from it and be a better businessman maybe not, but wtf cares....
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Let's not forget this whole thing started because the company shipped preorders up to three months late after taking peoples money. The whole hiding behind handicapped kids thing is disgusting to.
Except the guy didn't do that. He did hide behind his kid(s)...but you've done that too. 
Rik is right. Only passive aggressive internet nerds who never had any real power in life would get all hot and bothered over this orgy of pettiness. It's like an action movie to them.
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Only passive aggressive internet nerds who never had any real power in life would get all hot and bothered over this orgy of pettiness. It's like an action movie to them.
Yeah - imagine someone getting angry on an online forum and aggressively arguing their opinions. Who would do that? 
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Only passive aggressive internet nerds who never had any real power in life would get all hot and bothered over this orgy of pettiness. It's like an action movie to them.
Yeah - imagine someone getting angry on an online forum and aggressively arguing their opinions. Who would do that?
Fudge packer fans!!
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Only passive aggressive internet nerds who never had any real power in life would get all hot and bothered over this orgy of pettiness.
The Ramones suck.
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vn_nnanji posted:
Only passive aggressive internet nerds who never had any real power in life would get all hot and bothered over this orgy of pettiness. It's like an action movie to them.
Yeah - imagine someone getting angry on an online forum and aggressively arguing their opinions. Who would do that?
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You're comparing the challenged slap fights we have here to this orgy of nerd outrage?
The OP is not like that. Most of us here are not affected, emotional or immature enough to spend a lot of time and effort digging into posters real lives and perpetrating actual attacks on their lives, careers and/or person.
Most of us anyway.
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The ability for the consumer to share experiences is a great part of the internet, but no one should be cheering this frontier justice and stalking. Fat adolescent nerds are going to cross the wrong kind of money enough times that corporate America starts concentrating its lobbying strength on internet regulation.
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...that corporate America starts concentrating its lobbying strength on internet regulation.
Good - then the real war can start. Corporate America needs to be burned to ash and utterly destroyed. I don't care if their heads roll in the street; I hope it is so.
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...that corporate America starts concentrating its lobbying strength on internet regulation.
Good - then the real war can start. Corporate America needs to be burned to ash and utterly destroyed. I don't care if their heads roll in the street; I hope it is so.
Fully half the population is ready to fall on its knees and suck the corporate cock at all times. Corporations have a 130 year head start on shaping our laws and society to their needs. We aren't heading toward a post corporate world, no matter what happens with the Intertubes. We're heading for a post democratic world where corporations render governments more or less irrelevant.
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AzureTyger posted:
...that corporate America starts concentrating its lobbying strength on internet regulation.
Good - then the real war can start. Corporate America needs to be burned to ash and utterly destroyed. I don't care if their heads roll in the street; I hope it is so.
Fully half the population is ready to fall on its need and suck the corporate cock at all times. Corporations have a 130 year head start on shaping our laws and society to their needs. We aren't heading toward a post corporate world, no matter what happens with the Intertubes. We're heading for a post democratic world where corporations render governments more or less irrelevant.
And more than a few posters here seem to be waiting for that time with open arms.
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We went from an intraweb tirade over an obscure gaming accessory to "Burn Baby Burn?"
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AT's comments were nothing more than an ideological reflex ... the thought that something got fixed w/o government being involved is a dangerous precedence to him ... becuase it shows the free market works
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The best part was where the douchebag demanded compensation or he would hold the company's domain name and email accounts hostage (he had total control over the account containing the domain).
Unfortunately for him, the guy he was threatening was smarter than he was and had control over the domain name itself and simply transferred it to a new account leaving douchebag with nothing at all.
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Brother_Tempus posted:
AT's comments were nothing more than an ideological reflex ... the thought that something got fixed w/o government being involved is a dangerous precedence to him ... becuase it shows the free market works
You're an idiot for both the content of your post AND your continued misspelling of the bolded word.
Actually, you're just an idiot.
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Brother_Tempus posted:
AT's comments were nothing more than an ideological reflex ... the thought that something got fixed w/o government being involved is a dangerous precedence to him ... becuase it shows the free market works
Talk about extreme irony.
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