Xbox 360 Respawned

[Hurlshort]

We are all having too much fun playing the Be a Pro mode, but I imagine we will get some games going when that wears off.

 

I played a fair amount of GTA4 online with folks. I played a session with Kor and Pixies, and knocked out a bunch of missions with a friend of Nick, Wiipwnd.

[Nick_i_am]

Who?

[Hurlshort]

Who?

 

He said he knew you! He said you guys game naked together all the time, and it was totally normal!

 

 

 

 

Or maybe he was Krook's friend, I can't recall.

[Krookie]

What's a Wiipwned?

[thepixiesrock]

That's my friend and yes it is completely normal. Don't judge us.

[jaguars4ever]

Xbox Live is down for 12 hours (12:01 am - 11:59 pm PST).

 

This is all your fault Volourn - they finally caught on that web-bots were having late night/early morning NHL 09 festivities.

[Kor Qel Droma]

Lol Jags. Have you tried the Be A Pro mode yet?

[jaguars4ever]

Sadly, I don't think we can access Salt & Pepper Shaker without our accounts.

[Krookie]

I played some of the team play in NHL 09 yesterday. It was really fun, even though I was stuck as a defenseman. We gotta try and get everyone on at the same time.

[Kor Qel Droma]

I have saturday off, if anyone wants to get some team play in.

[Krookie]

I should be around Saturday, or at least during the day

[Deadly_Nightshade]

If you live in California and have/had a RROD you might want to join this...

[Volourn]

"This is all your fault Volourn - they finally caught on that web-bots were having late night/early morning NHL 09 festivities."

 

Heh. Hockey is fun. Screw role-playing games.

 

And, I hope that alwsuit falls flat because it's not like MS doesn't ignore the complaints about RROD considering they replace your 360 FOR FREE if you get hit with it. Just another way where 'customers'/'fans' are scumbags!

 

360 gets hit with the RROD get it replaced... FOR FREE!

[Nick_i_am]

I was in the worst situation, having my box fail literally a month after my warantee expired (non RRoD) but you don't see me whining about it, it's only a freaking console. Let me guess, they're going to claim emotional distress too. Some people need to get a life.

[Hurlshort]

If you live in California and have/had a RROD you might want to join this...

 

I would smack anyone who wanted to join that. Like pretty much everyone, I've had RRoD once, and Microsoft replaced it in a very timely manner (about 6 weeks.) You can't really expect much better customer service there. Sure, it would be nice if the systems didn't have the failures, but they did and Microsoft took full responsibility for it.

[Nick_i_am]

6 weeks? haha, mine was back in a week and a half.

 

Thing I find funny is the fanboys of other platforms taking a highground over this. I mean, PC games can regually be buggy as crap and have incompatability issues and the PS2 had some pretty major failure issues when it launched way back when.

 

Nintendo is the only company that's relatively blameless, though it's too bad that they no longer build their consoles out of Nintendium, the strongest material known to man.

[Krookie]

Yeah, my 360 was back in about 2 weeks. Unless you're like a mega nerd (aka llyranor or pixies), it's really not a big deal.

[Volourn]

Yeah, took 2-3 weeks to get mine back. And, it was FREE. And, while I went through semi withdrawal, I survived just fine for those 2 weeks withoutt he machine. L0L

[mkreku]

Like pretty much everyone, I've had RRoD once, and Microsoft replaced it in a very timely manner (about 6 weeks.) You can't really expect much better customer service there.

Yes, you definitely CAN expect better! Six weeks, and you're still happy about it? You don't mind that Microsoft sold you a flawed console (which they 'might' have known about beforehand, something which the trial will address) even though you actually ended up with the claimed flaw AND had to wait six weeks for something that should not be broken at all?

 

If you had gotten a 'normal' error and Microsoft had fixed it for free, THAT would have been great customer service. But this is something else. The only reason it is free is because they know they have a problem and spent $1 billion to get away from class action suits! Every other repair they do is dead expensive.

 

I can't believe what you guys are willing to accept..

[jaguars4ever]

We're not addicted to the 360. We can quit any time we want to. We just don't want to right now.

[Volourn]

"I can't believe what you guys are willing to accept.."

 

I can accept a working game machine. I got that. Where's the beef?

[Hurlshort]

My console RRoD after about 2 years of play. I can see getting worked up if it was burning up in the first month, but if that happens, the store usually takes it back, so they've covered that angle. 6 weeks (which is probably the upper limit) really isn't a very long time to wait for a repair or replacement console. It's just a game machine, it's not like it's a car that I dropped major bucks on (and cars go into the shop plenty.)

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Same here, except it took 2 weeks and it runs damn fine.

[Hell Kitty]

I was getting problems just out of warranty and had to send it away to get fixed. It didn't cost too much and was back within the week, so I was pretty happy with that.

 

I wish I could have done that with my out of warranty video cards, as opposed to them becoming junk.

[Nick_i_am]

Well, exactly, i've wasted more time and effort on PC issues that I had to sort out myself than I ever did with the 360.

 

I mean, sure, it sucks that MS screwed up on the hardware front, first generation, and we get screwed because of a marketing call, but it just isn't enough of an issue to whine about or boycott. The games are fun and thats all I really ask.