I gotta say gamers put up with shit that people just wouldn't accept in any other entertainment medium. Imagine you buy a movie and every few scenes the picture goes all pixelated or a few lines of dialog get muted. Would you accept that? Let alone the movie completely freezes at a particular scene and you can't go on.
Imagine buying a book and a couple of pages have smudged out paragraphs you can't read? You you accept that?
Imagine buying a music album and a couple of songs have a second or two where you just hear static? Would you accept that?
Sure we can live with frame rate dips, texture pop-in, screen tearing to some extent, but game breaking stuff is just not OK. But we keep bending over and taking it from behind, and paying them for the privilege, because we're as hooked as crack addicts and they know it.
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