You don't have to hurry on the extended warranty thru Microsoft either. I spoke with them the other day because I was afraid I couldn't get it since 90 days had passed and I was told that I could get it right up 1 year from the original purchase date. I decided to wait on it since I may get an Elite if there is a price break in the summer.

That is because they extended their 90 day warranty to a 1 year warranty last year.

You do realize that these are not sequels of each other, as in, you don't need to have played one in order to understand what's going on in the next. Furthermore, Infinity Ward did CoD2 & 4, not 3. CoD3 was done by a different developer, and IW was kinda pissed that Activision called it CoD3 instead of giving it some off-shoot title.

COD3 also plays nothing like (except in the barest sense) COD2 or 4. You really are better off skipping it.

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Chris

I called Microsoft Live support because I've been unable to add a credit card to my account and they were completely useless. Even though 3 different credit cards and one check card were all rejected because "Your credit card information is not valid. Please verify and try again." their suggestions were to 1. Try yet another credit card; 2. Call every one of my banks and find out why each of the cards is being rejected by the same vendor; or 3. Purchase Points cards.

When I told the support person that I found it hard to believe that they hadn't seen this problem before, he said "Oh no, it happens a lot. Some people it works, some people it just never does." Way to make it difficult to give you more money.

Agreed, just skip COD3 and go straight to 4.

Just in case no one's informed you yet, skip COD3.

OCD3?

I have some bizarre OCDish quirks, making it very difficult to do things out of order or not from the very beginning. I know it doesn't make sense, it's a sickness of sorts.

And I wish one of you had told me not to play COD3. It really isn't very good.

I apologize. We've failed you.

Yup, you can purchase it anytime the initial warranty is still valid (the 1 year
section).

Hey Trevor, just so you know, make sure you skip COD3 and go straight to COD4.

On the advice of everyone here, I skipped COD2 and bought COD3 then used the disc from COD4 to play catch with my dog, Herodotus.

Overall a good decision. At least the dog will get the most photorealistic game of catch ever.

Just be sure to cook the disc before tossing it to him. Otherwise the indicator will let him easily avoid it.

It may be the address on file with the credit card not being the same as the address on file with your current MS/Xbox account.

I recently had to change mine when I bought the Halo 3 maps and it didn't initially accept it. Looking closer I then realized I hadn't entered the correct expiration date. I re-submitted and had the transaction go thru with no problem.

I'd thought maybe it was something like that, but the address I entered for my Xbox Live account matches the address on file with my credit card companies to the letter. My associated Hotmail account had a different zip code listed, so I even tried giving Hotmail all of my correct info in case it also checked against that, but it still didn't work. Then I tried setting up a fresh Microsoft live.com email address and account with all of my info and attaching that to my Xbox Live account, but again it didn't work.

I think I'm ready to give up. From what my support person said, I don't think they've ever successfully helped someone whose credit cards were getting rejected.

Skip COD5 when it comes out too.

So, they're like Star Trek movies?

Hey, I like Star Trek III!

Ok, I've got a few more questions. I ordered the 20GB console yesterday and it'll be delivered tomorrow. Tonight I got the 120GB drive at Best Buy.

1 - Should I swap hard drives before turning the 360 on for the first time? I was thinking that would save me the trouble of having to do a transfer with the wires. Or does the pre-installed drive come with any software/programs that would require a transfer?

2 - Does the hard drive store any account or personal info? Or is it just for game saves and demos? I'm concerned about selling the drive if it has any personal info on it.

3 - What's the best place to sell the 20GB drive? Is there anything I should know before selling the extra drive? Is there any good reason why I would want to keep the extra 20GB drive?

Thanks for all the help!

The 20GB comes with Hexic HD. That's about the only thing on there that you can't redownload off the marketplace.

BigDave,

Yes the HDs do keep your personal information on them, but you delete your gamertag off it if you do sell the 20g.

Personally, I keep my 20g as a backup (my 120g arrives tomorrow actually). They only sell for $30-50 on ebay, so that's as low as $23 after fees. Not worth the hassle for that little in my opinion, and I have piece of mind/backup/portable gamertag.