I am making this thread for entertainment purposes where we share our experiences with incompetent employees in game stores that dont know their products, spread crap out of their mouths and try to impose their personal opinion onto an innocent consumer who only wants to play games.
Here is a story I encountered recently. I often go to a game store for some "eye shopping" and chat a bit usually with some employee.
So there is that chubby short girl employee there (who is an XBOX fanatic). She is kind of crazy, fan to talk to and I chuckle everytime she tries to show off how XBOX is the ultimate console. Well she was showing me a few games on offer, and one of those games was Castlevania on the 360.
I asked her "do you have the offer for PS3? I prefer to have it on a single blu ray disk instead on 2 disks that I will have to swap"
Oh my God why did I ask that question? The other XBOX fanatic employee heard me, got offended for wanting the PS3 version, he gets angry and starts to make fun of me! "You want the PS3 version? How can you want it? The 360 games all run at 1080p whereas on the PS3 its just 720p. DO YOU WANT WORSE GRAPHICS?"
"Dude they are both running their games on the same resolution, the resolution on the 360 box mentions all upscale modes regardless of the game's native resolution. The difference is that the 360 renders it to 720p and upscales it to 1080p ny itself and the PS3 renders it at 720p and your TV upscales it instead of the console"
Why on earth did I want to use "scientific" language they couldnt understand? They were both making fun of me. The guy was telling the girl sarcastically "just tell him yes" "yes yes" "Then why do 360 games look better eh?"
"Its not the God damn resolution running 720p om PS3 and 1080p on the 360. The difference is insignificant in most cases and in the few cases where the 360 version looks better its usually other stuff that contribute to the image quality! Go to Digital Foundry or some proper forum to get your information"
"IF YOU DONT LIKE YOUR XBOX WHY DONT YOU SELL IT"
"I like both! Why should I sell it?"
I realized it was simply impossible to make a logical discussion with those two guys. After a while they both went back to the game shelf and were discussing, the guy was infuriated and talking about me.
He comes back and tells me "There are no good games on the PS3! Only Uncharted and maybe God of War and DONT tell me you liked Gran Turismo"
"Ofcourse I did" I said and he started laughing.
"Yeah have you tried to play the game at 1080p? The car goes too slow. It barely moves. And in 720p it moves normally"
Obviously I had no idea what he was talking about since I own the game and this has not been reported anywhere. So I asked him why on earth does he think that happens?
"Well its because its Blu Ray maybe and when it's 1080p the graphics data are big because they are 1080p and it cant read them fast enough from the disk to keep up with the speed of the car, so it reads it slower and the car moves slower"
He wasnt referring to data streaming or the Blu Ray drive speed mind you. He was thinking that the console reads the graphics just as it reads a 1080p Blu Ray movie.
My face gesture changed to that of a face in Picasso's Guernica. "Do you have a clue about the way the products you sell work?"
Anyway they were doing the most stupid comparisons ever to prove their point. Like comparing the speed of Blur with Gran Turismo 5 etc
How on earth can these people work in a game store where they sell all kind's of consoles when they dont know the products they are selling and they sabotage a product in favor for the one they like?
I saw many times a poor consumer who doesnt understand a word about hardware (like a 45 year old dad or a mom or some kid), that only wants to play games and they start to bombard them with technical stuff or features that the average joe doesnt understand or care about. The consumer makes confused faces trying to understand stuff they werent expecting to hear. Not that the employees know half of the stuff they are talking about.
Here is a story I encountered recently. I often go to a game store for some "eye shopping" and chat a bit usually with some employee.
So there is that chubby short girl employee there (who is an XBOX fanatic). She is kind of crazy, fan to talk to and I chuckle everytime she tries to show off how XBOX is the ultimate console. Well she was showing me a few games on offer, and one of those games was Castlevania on the 360.
I asked her "do you have the offer for PS3? I prefer to have it on a single blu ray disk instead on 2 disks that I will have to swap"
Oh my God why did I ask that question? The other XBOX fanatic employee heard me, got offended for wanting the PS3 version, he gets angry and starts to make fun of me! "You want the PS3 version? How can you want it? The 360 games all run at 1080p whereas on the PS3 its just 720p. DO YOU WANT WORSE GRAPHICS?"
"Dude they are both running their games on the same resolution, the resolution on the 360 box mentions all upscale modes regardless of the game's native resolution. The difference is that the 360 renders it to 720p and upscales it to 1080p ny itself and the PS3 renders it at 720p and your TV upscales it instead of the console"
Why on earth did I want to use "scientific" language they couldnt understand? They were both making fun of me. The guy was telling the girl sarcastically "just tell him yes" "yes yes" "Then why do 360 games look better eh?"
"Its not the God damn resolution running 720p om PS3 and 1080p on the 360. The difference is insignificant in most cases and in the few cases where the 360 version looks better its usually other stuff that contribute to the image quality! Go to Digital Foundry or some proper forum to get your information"
"IF YOU DONT LIKE YOUR XBOX WHY DONT YOU SELL IT"
"I like both! Why should I sell it?"
I realized it was simply impossible to make a logical discussion with those two guys. After a while they both went back to the game shelf and were discussing, the guy was infuriated and talking about me.
He comes back and tells me "There are no good games on the PS3! Only Uncharted and maybe God of War and DONT tell me you liked Gran Turismo"
"Ofcourse I did" I said and he started laughing.
"Yeah have you tried to play the game at 1080p? The car goes too slow. It barely moves. And in 720p it moves normally"
Obviously I had no idea what he was talking about since I own the game and this has not been reported anywhere. So I asked him why on earth does he think that happens?
"Well its because its Blu Ray maybe and when it's 1080p the graphics data are big because they are 1080p and it cant read them fast enough from the disk to keep up with the speed of the car, so it reads it slower and the car moves slower"
He wasnt referring to data streaming or the Blu Ray drive speed mind you. He was thinking that the console reads the graphics just as it reads a 1080p Blu Ray movie.
My face gesture changed to that of a face in Picasso's Guernica. "Do you have a clue about the way the products you sell work?"
Anyway they were doing the most stupid comparisons ever to prove their point. Like comparing the speed of Blur with Gran Turismo 5 etc
How on earth can these people work in a game store where they sell all kind's of consoles when they dont know the products they are selling and they sabotage a product in favor for the one they like?
I saw many times a poor consumer who doesnt understand a word about hardware (like a 45 year old dad or a mom or some kid), that only wants to play games and they start to bombard them with technical stuff or features that the average joe doesnt understand or care about. The consumer makes confused faces trying to understand stuff they werent expecting to hear. Not that the employees know half of the stuff they are talking about.
