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My name is Jarad. I live in Sterling, VA. I work full time in Arlington as an IT support/helpdesk technician for a company called Carlson Wagonlit Travel/SatoTravel. I finish school for Computer Networking in December, which is exciting. Im highly athletic, in addition to loving video games.
My first experience was getting a NES for X-mas and playing 'Duck Hunt' 1 inch from the screen,(HAHA, give me a break i was young) and ive never looked back. My favorite games of all time include SOTN, FF tactics/6, King of Dragons(SNES), any NES Castlevania/MegaMan(not using boss weaknesses, using megabuster for them all, very rewarding!) I can play almost any game, and if i start it i usually need to beat it to feel accomplished. I am definately more a fan of old school games where you actually had to figure things out and attempt stages and bosses more than once, although i guess its nice that the learning curve is lessened nowadays in order to expand the industry consumer base. Its all good.

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Currently i am playing Halo 3, The Orange Box, Call of Duty 4(greatest multiplayer ever?), Guitar Hero 3, and Assassin's Creed. Will the games ever stop coming?!
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Atari, the worst customer service ever.(RANT alert)
kaneka | 12:34 PM on 01.22.2008 9 comments


So, the time is 8 days ago. I buy D2 to play with some friends cuz its a great game and an old classic and i decide to pick up Neverwinter Nights : Diamond pack also. I go home play some D2 and when my friends all go to bed i decide to pop Nights in and maybe create a character and do a quest or two before bed. NOT THE CASE. apparantly there is a HUGE problem with people getting no Cd keys, or 3 identical Cd keys for the main game and the expansions. My case being the later.

No big deal i tell myself. Ill just contact customer support and they will send me some new ones right away so i can play this great game ive been hearing about. You think it would be simple to just email me some numbers, but no, its been 8 days. Granted the email response said it would take 7-10 business days so ive not reached that yet, so im not too upset until..

I go on the forums for Atari support, or lack thereof, and find that its happening to a large number of people some of whom have had terrible luck like this guy who posted on the Atari forums.

"FYI, I followed the recommended procedure THREE times! It's been almost 1.5 months now, and still no response! I actually have no intention of playing the game now, but I'm still curious how long it will take to receive a response." -Aoradek

AND there are a number of forums started full of people who have been waiting anywhere from 2-60 days for this simple fix. Its ridiculous that these problems occur and that Atari has said and done NOTHING (that i know of, ive been looking around) to fix them. A recall, a dedicated email address just for these problems, a coupon, a webpage where u enter the false keys and they give you new ones or anything. This just pisses me off.



It just sucks that they follow great products with shat-tastic customer service.



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maxio098ui's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/22/2008 14:43
maxio098ui
isn't atari dying? so i think your cd keys are last on their list. sucks tho
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/22/2008 14:48
king3vbo
At this point, the only thing I can suggest is to download a keygen. You probably will never hear back from them.
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/22/2008 14:57
mistic
man that sux! another reason to get a no-cd-check or key-gen :-)
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/22/2008 18:39
Eschatos
Valve isn't that great, but no where near as bad as them. Took them two weeks to reply to a help request from me.
Dynamic Sheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/22/2008 23:53
Dynamic Sheep
That avatar is hot!
kaneka's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/23/2008 09:24
kaneka
yea the problem with keygens is that its hard to find one that works online and i wanted to play with some buddies. finding one to play single player is caketastic tho. oh well..i do still have a bunch of games to finish on 360 ..maybe this is a blessing in super secret ultra disguise.
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