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Johnny's Midnight Club Experience

Our story today begins with a boy by the name of Johnny. Who is Johnny might you ask? He's just another proud, content gamer who plays it out of the convenience of available fun. Johnny owns an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and while he loves both, he primarily plays on his 360 since he's had it longer, has more friends on Xbox Live and is just more well-acquainted with it. About half a year ago, Johnny bought the then-latest game from developer Rockstar: Midnight Club Los Angeles. While Johnny wasn't too enthusiastic when he first played the game, it gradually grew on him, and eventually became one of his most frequently played titles; thanks to the huge amount of races and the customization options for the cars laid before him. In the midst of this racing and customizing bliss, Johnny heard that Rockstar was working on new downloadable content for the game, which would make a new map section available for free and a few new cars added to the garage; he's filled with excitement.

Days, weeks and months pass and in time, the downloadable content is given a release date. Johnny heads to the nearest Gamestop to purchase some Microsoft Points so he can have them ready for when the content is made available. But the day the content is supposed to be made available doesn't go as planned, as Johnny finds no such content put online. Confused, Johnny heads to his computer, and finds out that the content has been delayed a week. While at first upset, Johnny says to himself "well, I can wait another week" and goes on with his life. A week passes and Johnny once again checks Xbox Live for the content and still nothing is put up. Annoyed, he goes back to his computer and finds a statement from Rockstar saying that they "found a bug" and that the content would be delayed "only slightly." Johnny's amazed by Rockstar in this matter, and starts posting all sorts of derogatory and sarcastic remarks on internet forums about this issue.

But all this still wasn't enough to get on Johnny's nerves just yet. Before long, Johnny learns that the downloadable content had actually hit the Playstation 3's online store and found a video of a PS3 owner driving around in one of the new cars on YouTube. Johnny becomes even more infuriated, not just at the content being delayed or how Rockstar was being so vague and uncaring towards their customers, but how he was shelling out hard-earned money to his Xbox Live service AND on Microsoft Points to get the content when PS3 owners only had to pay for the content and they were driving and customizing away before his very eyes. Johnny begins to lose the respect he once had for Rockstar, still viewing them as lazy, procrastinating idiots who couldn't fix an issue that should've been addressed since before January, when the same content was supposedly let loose to download for free for a short time. Hoping to encourage Rockstar to get to work and resolve this unnecessary issue, Johnny proceeds to customizing a car speaking out about the content. The car can be viewed in the following links:

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/RockstarWebServices/mcla/common/getsakeimage.ashx?pid=0&fileid=103979686

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/RockstarWebServices/mcla/common/getsakeimage.ashx?pid=0&fileid=103979688

And now Johnny waits. Waiting for the promised content to arrive soon. Wanting something in compensation for the inconvenience, but realizing it will never happen. Waiting to at least get the word of when the content will be made available…if only for it to be delayed once again. And today Johnny will continue to wait, even during his grueling 4-12 shift at work tonight he'll still be waiting. Anxiously, impatiently and angrily.