Tech is great but does not last

Hello!  Tonight I find out that my controller for xbox 360 is broken :(.....  Not like destroyed broken but one crucial piece of the functionality is busted on it. I discovered it while playing battlefield 4.  I was getting upset as to why my guy wasn't sprinting on command.  After several failed attempts at sprinting my friends on live suggested it wasn't the game but actual controller failure. The part I am talking about that makes a character on Battlefield 4 or any game with sprint is the clicking of the left stick.  I click and no sprint.  Taking consideration of my LIVE friends suggestion i switched controllers and indeed thats what the problem was.

So with all that said and done.  All things manufactured and produced in the world doesn't last forever as much as we want it to it won't.  Unless you preserve it into an unusable state but thats beside the point.  Regular care for what we own in technology whether be a cellphone, game console, PC/Laptops, TVs, they need care just like we do.  

As a gamer I know how hard that can be when we rage over stupid things and we all do it.  I've heard reports of things where controllers are thrown across rooms, thrown at TVs.  Thrown out windows simply because of natural reaction to the rage of the game.  Me I haven't done that at all.  I have more control than that.  But this isn't about me just a concern out there for most people who know that electronics can be fragile.  As great of magic they are to humanity, they can break easily.  My controllers simply get old and fail.  Only damage I do to them is using them and occasionally dropping them on the hardwood floor in my room.  I've chipped pieces of the Sticks off from dropping it.  I try but it happens.  

Heres a picture of the "broken" controller, looks ok, works fine for games that don't need you to click the left stick for anything.  The left stick does "click"  but nothing happens.  I'm thinking that the spring or the part that bounces the button of the left stick has worn out from wear and tear from usage from excess sprinting on the map.

So yes just be mindful when your electronics get old, components will fail.  Don't fault them just remember they need care like we do to.  When they fail you can either be skilled in electronics and fix it yourself or you can just throw it away and purchase a new one.  Economically you can throw it away and buy another for a more cost effective way and plus it wont void any product warranty.  With the Xbox One coming out I don't know if the 360 controllers are still up in price but I think they will drop in price in favor of making more money with the xbox one controllers.  Those my friends are a whole new generation of gaming control.  That will be in a new post coming soon.

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