wait, this guy worked for a PR firm? i thought your entire raison d’etre was to make everyone love your product no matter how low or high and work your ass off for gleaming customer reviews.
this guy fucked up bad and let his ego and fake ‘i’m a badass video game insider’ swag get to his head and fuel his emails. if i was a PR guy it wouldn’t matter how personally upset i was or angry i’d still be writing those smarmy happy emails like a robot. that’s how you get paid, fool.
This is a classic textbook example of someone who is in love with the idea of having the job, rather than the actual job itself.
" I know the people who run the city inside and out watch the way you talk to people you never know who they know it’s a small industry and everyone knows everyone"
sounds like the guy should have taken his own advice
He works for a PR firm; a different company makes the controller. Apparently, the controller producers have fired Ocean Marketing and are now going to do their own PR/Customer Service.
It’s pretty sad because so many people don’t know this and are probably canceling orders left and right because of that douchetard. Maybe the company that hired that guy should do background checks.
Supposedly he’s been fired, his site was exposed as pure plagiarism, he got caught pretending to be someone else vaguely defending him, the people he name-checked all disavowed him and mentioned their repulsion, etc. Not a good day for the dude.
Don’t anger the internets. There’s way too many people with way too much time.
Dude needs to just stop, apologize…and move on.
Now he’s just being pathetic.
"Please think of my wife and son!!"
Was he thinking about his wife and son when he was treating customers like shit…
not always necessary. i’ve said this before, i’ll say it again: gamers (not all, but most of them) are immature spineless dorks. companies in the gaming industry get away with a lot of bullshit and gamers just take it. hell, look on this site. i remember in 08 when Planet Zero first got outed for screwing those dudes over SBO tickets and posters were like “yo that’s fucked up and i hate Planet Zero. i’m still gonna go over there when they get the SF4 arcade machine though. i have to play it.”
i bet dudes are still letting Marn run brackets.
also note, shit only got real when the dude from Penny Arcade said “wow that’s messed up. hey followers, check this shit out!” (i mean, that goes without saying- but i feel if Dave had posted this on a forum or something, he’d have gotten more cuntposts from cowards telling him to “stop being a crybaby-bitch and wait.” props to Dave and Mike)
That guy from Ocean Marketing deserved everything he got. I only hope that the company making the controllers aren’t being attacked, since they’re the victims.
I’m still trying to get my head around this, someone correct me if I’m wrong.
N-Control are the makers of this controller, who hired Ocean Marketing and this dude to promote their product.
Then they also hired The HAND Media (which just makes me think of how hard the economy must be for ninjas that they’ve had to branch out like this into other businesses), which according to this email from them, actually fired N-Control as clients because of their association with Ocean Marketing…?
[FONT=Helvetica]So N-Control hired multiple marketing companies to promote their product…?[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica]And they were warned about this exact thing happening before it actually happened by the legit marketing company, which makes me feel less sympathy towards them.[/FONT]
Oddly, the guy I feel the worst for is the customer that sent the first email - he really likes the product and just wants his controller, but may have inadvertently started the chain of events that lead to the makers of this product he really likes to go out of business. He’s actually pleading with Mike not to ban these guys from PAX, and now it’s gotten even worse. The real losers are the cripples that want to play Battlefield like normal people. Hi-larious!