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Another Random Gamer Girl Rant: Game Stores

All the gamers know where they’re located.  All of you  know them as well as the maps we use on Final Fantasy or Zelda.

But is the shopping experience at these video game stores different between males and females.  That depends.

Maybe it’s just me and I have had a lot of really mean people talk crap while playing video games, but there are SOME stores that have employees that treat their customers differently.

Here’s a situation that happened not too long ago.

I called into this store trying to inquire about a game I was looking for.  (SOOOOO not going to tell you what the game was other than the fact it was a semi-old game).  That’s not the point here.  As I was saying, I called this store to inquire about their inventory and see if they had the game in stock.  Sales clerk checks his database, or so he says (I hear keyboard tapping).  He tells me it’s in stock and I can come pick it up whenever I had the chance.

Thinking to myself, “Thank goodness I called.”  WRONG!  SO WRONG!!!  I got to the store to try and pick up the game, and the game is not in stock!  I first checked the shelves, then I realized… the shelves are barely in alphabetical order.  So I ask up at the cash wrap to have them track down the game I was looking for.  NOTHING.  The guy at the cash wrap, who by the way, was not the guy I spoke with on the phone, told me the game I was looking for was not in stock and that I should check with another store.  This scenario has not only happened once but multiple times with 3 different stores around my area.  It has me thinking that the guys, and sometimes even the females that work there only dish out information to whom they deem ‘GAMER’.  Everyone else just falls into the ‘STUPID’ category.

I’m not one to seriously gripe not unless something really horrible goes on (like at PacSun and Forever21 –but we won’t go there), but this was just a minute issue compared to other situations I have been in.

Which brings me back to the concept.  Guys / males get far way better treatment at game stores than girls / females.  Parents?  Forget about it.  They’re dead meat!  Everything a parent or parents go looking for, the sales clerk has a plan for that.. counter sales!  So then the parents or parent ends up buying stuff they really don’t need.

Very few video game related stores have associates that will treat their customers equally.  And those very few stores I can appreciate.

The Vent: Accusers

In the gaming world, there are a few who have the skills of a gaming prodigy, a god of gaming if you will. They are unique with their skills, always overpowering their opponents. Some of them are egotistical, and some celebrate in silence. They make their names known and gamers are aware of their existence.  Most of us in the world are oblivious to the prowess these gamers hold. How do most of us react when faced against an opponent as great as a god, when we are sure in ourselves that they are just mortal? We accuse, having this firm belief that they must have bested us by some sort of illegal contraption. The worst part about it is that these accusers do not know when to stop running their mouths.

The Vent: Modded Controllers

Since I am a person who usually gets ticked off from everyday things, I thought it would be best to talk to the people about what troubles me, so they can relate to my problems. This is The Vent, a place where we all can share what bothers us in the gaming world, from minor, to monstrous issues. Since this is a weekly issue, let me start with an annoyance that’s been around for awhile, modded controllers.

Why do you gamers use modded controllers? It’s sickening, the fact that you are ruining everyone’s good time online. Don’t think we do not notice, it’s a dead giveaway when you are using one. Let me stop for a minute before I really ramp it up; to some gamers out there, modded controllers, just the way it sounds, are used in shooters and fighting games to help them overpower their enemies, to give them an edge and a fighting chance to win. Let’s use Call Of Duty, Modern Warfare, for example. Someone is using a G3, and we all know it is a single shot gun, where you constantly have to press the fire button to shoot. You modders could just hold the shoot button down and out comes a stream of perfect G3 bullets, killing everyone in its path. They also use it for Desert Eagles, and single shot sniper rifles too. For fighting games, like Street Fighter, modders could hold a certain button down and they could throw a fury of punches and kicks where we “fair players” have to use our fingers to try and win. Uhg I am already annoyed with this subject, but the rant must go on.