Dan Shoe Hsu, Hero of the Planet, or: The 360 Gets What it Deserves

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Deathosaurus Wrecks

so...we're suprized that Microsoft would create a shoddy and disapointing product, and we're suprized that a major corporation's hype machine would make promises that the product couldn't follow through on.

i'm seeing this as a PEBCAC issue, not a fault of the industry.

You are mistaking anger for surprise.

If someone comes up to you and lies to your face, does it make it okay if you know they are lying? If that person tries to put his hand in your pocket and take the money out of your wallet, does it make it okay if you expected him to do it? Would you stand there and shrug, or would you shout "Hey everybody, this here is a motherfucker who likes lying to people and picking the money out of their pockets!"?

And frankly what does surprise me is this suggestion that an industry has made poor workmanship, massive campaigns of misinformation, and baldfacedly manipulative, bad-faith dealing with its customers into standard practice and yet this is all somehow to be considered something other than "a fault of the industry."

I just cannot quite get my head around that one, maybe it's just me, I do not know.