Assaultman67 wrote:
I simply hate aggressive advertising and sales gimmicks in general.
Sure, they're annoying, but its fairly easy to ignore them.
Advertising is about waving something in front of someone to get them to buy it.
Yes, yes, it is. It helps sell a product to the general public.
The TF2 store annoyed me because when I bought that game it wasn't implemented. I was happy the way the game was. Now the game is a walking advertisement, every time you start the game it shows you a brand new expensive item in the store you simply cant afford.
You may not be able to afford it but someone else can.
(Sure, you could say "oh, its only 5 bucks" but if you impulsively bought anything you even slightly wanted you would be more than just broke ... hence, there is a certain level of want/price to afford it)
Honestly, just be a smart consumer, if you can't afford it, don't buy it. Easy as that.
So what happens when you cant buy the stuff you want? You suffer from not having it.
Or, you just earn the money and go buy it when you have the cash.
Essentially its all about the Buddhist philosophy of all suffering is caused by desire.
It annoys people because they want it and can't afford it. Then the advertisement becomes a flashing reminder of what you cant have.
Advertisement in general is practically provoking suffering in people. Without said advertisement they would have never of had that desire in the first place and lived blissfully ignorant.
But why live ignorant when you could have Flashy Gold Gun-Rocket-Chair 2000?!! Just three payments of $299.99 + Shipping and Handling. Just
three payments Assaultman67!
Hence, if valve never had this deal in the first place, no one would have been sad about missing out on the deal.
If they never had the deal, Valve would never get the chance to make you buy more things. Three payments!
not to mention that the deal for most people is the early release of Portal 2 which isn't even a guaranteed result! Most of the people buying the potato pack only want it because it will help speed up the process to release Portal 2. Hence this whole deal requires both money and effort and is still not guaranteed.
You could also look at it as extra support for a gaming company that makes products you enjoy.
Its just not worth the money to buy ... yet there it sits, taunting us, reminding us of this offer which we simply cant afford.
See I don't get it, you obviously think its not worth the money, so why are you whining? Someone else thinks its awesome, so they'll buy it and either be disappointed or go buy more stuff. Remember, for a limited time, three payments and this awesome chair could be yours!
... and thats where the anger comes in. Some people realize that valve is the reason for the suffering (ok more like slight inconvenience) ... however they're still responsible for causing it.
Yes, its Valves fault someone doesn't have the money to buy their products. Boo hoo.
Say hypothetically, every single morning a kid goes and puts a cinderblock behind your car tire that you have to move to drive off. Eventually you would get annoyed and you would definitely be pissed at the kid.
At that point you go talk to the kids parents rather than being silent about it and doing nothing.
This is your last offer, before we send you more mail...JUST THREE PAYMENTS FOR YOUR AWESOME GOLD ROCKET CHAIR...200...something....version X!!!
Call....NOW!!!