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Originally Posted by Nosmo Rex
Woe is me. I'm sending my 360 in for repair. :sad:
It stopped reading any discs yesterday, so I called M$. They said to ship it in. The standard $140. They'll send a prepaid shipping box, extend the warranty for another full year, plus another month on my XBL sub. I got mine on launch day, so I guess I've been lucky. :shrug: Chris |
Originally Posted by Nosmo Rex
Woe is me. I'm sending my 360 in for repair. :sad:
It stopped reading any discs yesterday, so I called M$. They said to ship it in. The standard $140. They'll send a prepaid shipping box, extend the warranty for another full year, plus another month on my XBL sub. I got mine on launch day, so I guess I've been lucky. :shrug: I gotta be honest Rex, I ain't shocked reading this post. :lol: I swear you're on when I log in, and your on when I get tired and log off. In fact it's rare for me NOT to see you on. :lol: I'm kinda shocked this didn't happen to you sooner. Not that I wished this on you or anything like that. Either way, good luck on the new one. :up: To be honest, for the 1st time in my gaming life I've been playing 2 or 3 hours at a time especially on LIVE. I've had this nagging feeling that this is going to kill my system sooner or later. :( |
You're right, Robo.:)
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Originally Posted by Nosmo Rex
They'll send a prepaid shipping box, extend the warranty for another full year, plus another month on my XBL sub. I got mine on launch day, so I guess I've been lucky. :shrug:
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Originally Posted by BigDaddy
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.en...y-xbox-360.jpg
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/08/x...er-attachment/ Chris |
Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
Now see that is bullshit. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. I've had two systems go out and in all probably been w/o a 360 for two months total. I tried getting reimbursed for Live and they were adamant about not doing it.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Music
Weren't you under the warranty and didn't pay for the repair?
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My 360 took a dump last week. Fortunatly I live a few hours away from the repair center so my shipping was done in a day and I already got my "replacement" system. They did give me a free month of Live, but would not replace the two games my system scratched. Microsoft also had the nerve to tell me my system wasn't under warranty, they said it was a 2005 system. I said "it must suck for y'all not selling a 2005 system until May of 06". Fuckers. Anyway, I was waiting for it to break, just not ready for it to start scratching games.
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Originally Posted by pinata242
What he's saying is that he wasn't given a free month or 2 extension on his XBL account since he couldn't use it in that time and that is verifiable to Microsoft.
Now it looks like those that are out of the warranty and pay for a repair, get a warranty for 1 year and a month of XBL to help swallow that $140 repair fee. (Although they do not mention anything about XBL in regards to paid repairs, just the 1 year warranty) |
[Will Smith] I have got to get me one of these! [/Will Smith]
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Originally Posted by Mr. Music
Now it looks like those that are out of the warranty and pay for a repair, get a warranty for 1 year and a month of XBL to help swallow that $140 repair fee. (Although they do not mention anything about XBL in regards to paid repairs, just the 1 year warranty)
It's only $8, so not a huge deal, but the principle remains. |
Originally Posted by jediwicz
My 360 took a dump last week. Fortunatly I live a few hours away from the repair center so my shipping was done in a day and I already got my "replacement" system. They did give me a free month of Live, but would not replace the two games my system scratched. Microsoft also had the nerve to tell me my system wasn't under warranty, they said it was a 2005 system. I said "it must suck for y'all not selling a 2005 system until May of 06". Fuckers. Anyway, I was waiting for it to break, just not ready for it to start scratching games.
Didn't they just start covering -some- scratched games? http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13175/...ram-Kicks-Off/ |
Originally Posted by edstein
[Will Smith] I have got to get me one of these! [/Will Smith]
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Now they cover scratched games but at a 20 dollar price. Stupid thing is, that sounds to me like they are admitting the system scratches games. When I was arguing with MS on the phone, they told me "movement" scratched my games. Yeah, movement inside your shoddy system. Two games in a row got scratched and MS was nonchalant about it, I even volunteered to put in a third disc when I was on the phone with them but it wouldn't do any good, my system was bricked. It just sucks that one of the games was a Microsoft published game (Crackdown) and the other was NBA 2K7. They wouldn't even replace a game they publish (and I've seen the gifts GameStop managers get at Christmas - 20+ free games). Fuck Microsoft.
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my system was exchanged for a brand new one about 3 months ago, and it scratched my Gears of War game without me moving it.
the game still plays, but has a terrible ring near the outer edge |
Dude, yup, same thing. A big ole ring. Thankfully the games still play.
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thankfully, I have a friend who is a manager at a game store. He said if the disc every stopped working, he would swap it out for me.
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Major Nelson announced the "official" details of the next Dashboard update(week of May 7) and confirmed the keyboard attachement. Here is a list of what the update will include:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/...07/0408-im.htm Other New Features Beyond Windows Live Messenger, the Spring Update for Xbox 360 includes hundreds of new features and enhancements including: -A richer Achievement notification pop-up will showcase the name of the unlocked Achievement and the gamerscore value without needing to leave the game to check the Achievements list. -Enhanced family settings features for Xbox Live communications enable different defaults for video chat and voice chat. -A new Xbox Live Marketplace blade lets Xbox Live members access the content they seek—whether it is game content or TV shows and movies (available in the United States)—from one place on Xbox Live. -Updates to Xbox Live Arcade allow owners to quickly see which Xbox Live Arcade games their friends are playing and join in the fun. Xbox Live members can also compare progress of leaderboard scores and Achievements directly with all friends on their friends list. Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. -Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. -A new option in Auto Downloads provides faster access to the entire collection of free, trial-version Xbox Live Arcade games. -New progressive download controls provide easy access to optimal viewing options by letting people fast-forward, rewind, pause and resume as their video is downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace. -Extension of the background download functionality will allow owners to set their Xbox 360 console to turn off automatically after downloads are complete. The Spring Update is free beginning the week of May 7 and will be easily accessible to every Xbox 360 owner through Xbox Live or on Xbox.com. You may not even notice all the new features, but they are all designed to enhance your Xbox Live experience. Some of the other features in this upgrade include: -The name of game in tray is now displayed in the dashboard. -When the tray icon is highlighted, a list of achievements, game icon and gamerscore for that game is displayed. -Video trick modes are enabled for content that is being progressively downloaded from Video Marketplace. -Playback progress bar indicates download completion. -Improved skip forward, skip back functionality during video playback. -Switchable aspect ratio now available during video playback (Auto to Letterbox, Zoom, Stretch, Native). -Player and friends lists now quickly show session presence information for quick identification of users that are joinable. -Support for streaming WM-DRM protected content from a PC -Folder view for video content on connected devices -H.264 video support: Up to 15 Mbps, Baseline, Main, and High (up to level 4.1) Profiles with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. -Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 8 Mbps, Simple Profile with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. -Show folder hierarchy for video content played from all devices. -Bookmarks are stored for each video that the user plays remembering the users last location in the file as well as the aspect ratio that the user choose for that file. -Video trick modes (fast forward, rewind, chapter skip) can now be used while downloading Video Marketplace content. -Skip forward and backward functionality has been improved to skip to the next or previous chapter. Each video is divided into 10 “chapters” allowing you to quickly skip around video content. -The information bar that is turned on via the On Screen Display (OSD) now shows you exactly where you are in the playback of the video file. In addition it will also show for Video Marketplace content how much of the file has been downloaded and where the “chapters” exist in the file. -Windows Media protected content (WM-DRM) can now be streamed from the PC to the console. If the WM-DRM license is missing or corrupted then a specific error message is displayed to the user. Bookmarking is also stored for protected content. -When the user is in the dashboard and an Xbox 360 game is in the console then the name of the game is displayed in the tray icon of the dashboard. If the user highlights the tray icon then achievements and gamer score are displayed for that game based on the signed in user. Xbox1 games show the name and image of the game. -Bookmarks are stored for each video that the user plays. The user can delete all bookmarks but this will reset all bookmark information for every video that the user has played. The bookmark database is exposed in the system/memory/system items -When a user selects an item for download from Marketplace then the system will determine if there is sufficient disk space for the item and, if not, will ask the user to delete content on the HDD. The system provides a sorted by size list of videos, game trailers, demos and arcade content to aid the user in the deletion process. The same list of items are also available from within memory so that users can quickly see which items are consuming the most disk space. -The console will block the user who attempts to download content onto a storage device that will never have the capacity to store the item without deducting any points associated with the content item. -The screensaver is disabled when playing photos from any source |
I swear to God....
the first person who sends me achievement notifications via "tell a friend" are getting blocked on my list :lol: |
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.en...y-xbox-360.jpg
Also known as: Reason #1 why we don't have a QWERTY keyboard in the 360 operating system. Lame. Give me a damn digital QWERTY keyboard already. |
How 'bout some COD2 tonight. I'm getting a little burnt out from Gears lately.
-Golucky |
... but the new game mode "annex" comes out for Gears today
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Mine had started scratching some discs several months back before i got it replaced. They did the same thing to me on the phone - acting as if i was doing jumping jacks while playing to "vibrate" the system or implying i moved it from horizontal to vertical while in the middle of the game. :lol:
After shutting all that down i got them to replace it under my extended warranty and they sent me my exact unit back with a new disc drive and it works wonderfully now. It is a really quiet drive (as opposed to the previous horribly loud one). |
So, um, no new games will be added to the backwards compatability list in this next update?
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