This just cannot be quoted enough.

XBox Live Unplugged is $8 at Amazon today. Great deal. Comes with Geometry Wars ($5 anyway), plus Texas Hold Em, Wik, Bejeweled 2, Outpost Kaloki, and Backgammon, which would run you about $20 on the arcade.

You do have to use the disk to play them (you can't download them, or install them), but for $8...

Got mine too. Cool!

Got mine now as well. I've been on Live since 8/03, so not quite five years yet, but this is my fifth year. Guess that was the qualification they were looking for.

I think it is closer to $40 worth of games.

Going off memory(which could be wrong)

Texas Hold'em: $10
Geo. Wars: $5
Bejeweled 2: $10
Backgammon: $5
Wik: $5
Outpost Koloki: $5

Geometry Wars is obviously the seller here, but Wik is a wonderful game. Very underrated.

There you go, $40 worth. A great deal.

Got mine as well, which is cool, since I changed my gamertag/wasn't sure if I'd been a subscriber for the full 5 years.

And I did the same, Corvin.

The Burnout Team responded to the widespread criticism here:
http://www.criteriongames.com/burnou...errychristmas/

Responded is right...that's all they did. They really didn't answer any questions or criticisms with any substance. They pretty much just say, "this is the game, deal with it."

Their Damage Control Department must already be on holiday.

Got mine as well. Kickass!

Uch, my 360 just gave me 3 red rings. I shut it down and now it's working, although I expect it to freeze on me and then give me the rings again any minute now. I've had mine since launch.

Edit: Now it's freezing but will still start up fine when I shut it down and turn it back on. Will Microsoft replace it if it's constantly freezing but not giving me the rings? At this point, shouldn't they replace every console manufactured with the faulty heat sink anyway?

Yep. There is absolutely no substance there. I'm sure it hurts to see something you've spent a year or two on developing get trashed, but coming out with the "this is the game, deal with it" attitude doesn't exactly help your case.

They've had a helluva record with four top notch games back to back without a stinker. That is hard to do these days. So Paradise is potentially a dud, listen to your audience and get your franchise back on track for the next game.

I haven't received anything about my '5 year' points. I hope it just takes time. I've been in since the beta.

Well, if you leave it on long enough in a non ventilated area, it will probably red ring and solve your problem for you.

Agreed. They obviously aren't going to start from scratch and hold back the release of the game, but they could have taken a different approach to the criticism and possibly stated that they'll address the customer wants in future games. A series like Burnout, any NBA, NFL, etc franchise needs to listen to their customer before coming out with something "revolutionary"... we've been with them thru the long haul and know what we want - so quite telling us it's better than what we expected and to deal with it.

The demo hurt this franchise more than it helped. I cancelled my preorder based on it.

Next time they just won't give us a demo and drop a turd on the unsuspecting population.

eatntae's Xbox 360
Born 10/31/2005
Died 12/22/2007

Tried to turn it on this morning, and it went straight to the red lights. It didn't even freeze prior to its death. I guess it died peacefully in its sleep. I tried to register the repair online, but it I kept getting an error when I entered my serial number. Wound up calling 18004MYXBOX and my coffin should be arriving next week.

On the bright side, my friends are addicted to Rock Band, so they'll probably end up just bringing their 360s to my house whenever we want to get together and play, so I won't totally miss out on it.

Ok, I turned it on this morning and it went straight to the red rings. My coffin is also on its way. I was so proud of having a launch console that hadn't failed. Still, at least it crapped out while under warranty.

That sucks. I'm expecting several games for Christmas and I am off work next week, if mine red-ringed right now I may hit it with a sledgehammer.

My girlfriend got me the wireless headset, and a few HD DVDs for Christmas. Since my 360 add on is my only HD DVD player, I pretty much won't be able to use any of those gifts for 3-4 weeks. Yeah, I knew the risk of getting the 360 add on as my sole HD DVD player, but I got it during the Best Buy deal and it was too good of a deal to pass up. Oh well, I guess its a good excuse to finally finish Mario Galaxy. And as Suprmallet said, at least it crapped out while under warranty.

Honestly, it doesn't bother me. I'm going to get a new system with the proper heat sink. I've got a PS3, which plays all my Blu-rays, a Wii, an HD DVD player, a DS, a PSP, and a PC. If I can't find something to fill my time while my 360 is being repaired, I should be shot.

Is everyone's Xbox Live working? I can't get on. I do the Network test and everything's good until I get to the Xbox Live test and that one fails.

Sounds like today's a good day to stay off this forum

Same thing.

I keep getting disconnected every time I start a game.

As well with me. I have been trying to get on for the last hour & a half. I tried calling Xbox Live support and they had a message stating they knew that "some" people were having problems signing into Live and to wait an hour. That was an hour ago.