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Atari, the worst customer service ever.(RANT alert)
kaneka | 12:34 PM on 01.22.2008 8 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 Destructoid Blog
isn't atari dying? so i think your cd keys are last on their list. sucks tho
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
At this point, the only thing I can suggest is to download a keygen. You probably will never hear back from them.
mistic's Destructoid Blog
man that sux! another reason to get a no-cd-check or key-gen :-)
Eschatos's Destructoid Blog
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.
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
That avatar is hot!
kaneka's Destructoid Blog
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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