I love his green tinted face in the third panel, appropriate reaction.
The logo on the news page makes my face turn the same color as Gabe’s…
gmonkey
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Tycho’s mouth in the third panel is right out of Mafalda.
gmonkey
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One of those involving soup would be best. Or perhaps Susanita.
Some extremely childish customer service caught the attention of Gabe and led to the cancellation of the Avenger controller booth at PAX.
This is only the beginning:
You placed a pre order just like any software title the gets a date moved due to the tweaks and bugs not being worked out and GameStop or any other place holds your cash and im sure you don’t complain to activision or epic games so put on your big boy hat and wait it out like everyone else. The benefit is a token of our appreaciation for everyone no one is special including you or any first time buyer . Feel free to cancel we need the units were back ordered 11,000 units so your 2 will be gone fast. Maybe I’ll put them on eBay for 150.00 myself. Have a good day Dan.
Maybe some info is obfuscated, but this dude seems to be the president of the PR company.
Rimbo
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He’s not the president of the company that makes the Avenger controller, I think; he’s the CEO/Founder/President/Chief Douchebag of the marketing firm they hired.
It’s all coming together in realtime over on Reddit.
Apparently all the guys he calls out as his buddies in his email, people at IGN, Kotaku and G4, have tweeted variously that they don’t support the guy or that he is unprofessional. Our friend at @OceanMarketting (sic) responds by tweeting that Scott Lowe of IGN is a douchebag.
Fun!
Edit: In his e-mail exchange with this guy over here Paul does indicate that he’s the president of the company.
Edit edit: Actually, I misread the post, though it’s not like the guy is super coherent. This line had me confused.
“I’m the President of my company not The Avengers so keep your punk smite ignorant comments to yourself. If I wasn’t trying to help you I wouldn’t have emailed you back. Customer service of old is gone were in a new generation now. Sorry for any inconvenience , this will ship tomorrow I’m putting in the order now .”
I read that as him saying that he’s the president of the company, but not an actual member of the Marvel super team The Avengers, so was only capable of doing what a president could do and did not have superhuman abilities. Perhaps it is because I am a nerd, but yes, that is really how I read that at first. Now I see that he meant he’s the president of Ocean Market(t)ing, not the president of N-Control.
I can’t even access the PA site right now. It won’t load.
Okay, finally got it to load. Wow. That guy is just broken in the head. This was my favorite part:
Ocean Marketing: [Bunch of crazy, insulting, hateful shit about PAX]
Gabe: I do run Pax, but I also run a website called penny arcade. It’s kinda popular.
Ocean Marketing: Love penny Arcade !!
Gabe: I’m glad you like it! You will be on it tomorrow:)
Ocean Marketing: Great !! Love PR
What the Hell is this thing?
People buy this?
I get the impression from the e-mail exchanges that it might be aimed at people with disabilities. That’s not a joke; I think it’s for people with physical disabilities.
A flood of new reviews has appeared for the product on Amazon. Here’s a previous response from the comments section from an older review:
[I]gaming pro/david
There’s a review on your account saying that you bought one of these things(and loved it). Now your posting with an email account from avengercontroller.com and offering support for it? You also posted the same negative review for three of your competitors products. I wonder if amazon will want to know you post reviews for your own product while posing as a customer.[/I]
Some people seem to like it, but I honestly don’t understand what it’s meant to do. It looks like an ugly mess to me. I guess it’s for people with tiny hands? Though I fail to see how it would help.
I believe the goal of that monstrosity is to make every button a trigger. Its target demographic is probably autistic Call of Duty players.
Looks to me like it’s designed to make the upper couple of thumb-buttons activate with your fingers. I don’t play enough games that require the full controller myself, but I guess in theory it could improve your response times if you didn’t have to move your right thumb from the right analog stick so much.
Couldn’t tell you what the lower assembly is supposed to do. Attach it to an exercise bike or something?
It does look like the unholy spawn of an RC transmitter and a Borg-ified tarantula, which has to count in its favor, somehow.
Jamie had it right a few posts above yours - it’s for people with physical disabilities.
From what I’m reading, the market that is embracing it is the hardcore FPS players that don’t want to take their thumbs off the sticks. The adapter allows them to do most of the button press functions with alternate “triggers” improving their response times.
