i just purchased a game online .
Everything went perfect for me .
Maybe you might have not done your transactions properly or something like that.
But i would like you to know that there is no problem in the block chain server.
So you can just show your receipt of the purchase , or if you are not receiving something
then ask that person to check his transaction log.
I would love to enter into your alternate bitcoin reality sometime.
what he failed to mention was his transaction IDs and looking at his account and what he described this is what really happened:
he waited at least 112 minutes to get his weekly payment and then spent it and waited at least 377 minutes for that transaction to be confirmed too. (and that is just for 1 confirmation not the usual 3 which services wait for)
so yeah everything is perfect