Alright, well I have a 360 death story and I doubt anyone cares but I feel like ranting so I'm gonna post it here.
I bought Gears of War on Tuesday, and by Wednesday, the console was giving me an error while trying to do co-op with zew. It said that the disc was unreadable, and told me to clean it and try it again. Well, I took the disc out and it had circular scratches on it. I cleaned it and tried playing again at least 5 times, only for it to pop up with that message every single time. Okay, I figure, maybe the disc is faulty. I go back to Gamestop and show him the game. He says that my 360 is doing it and almost doesn't give me an exchange. The manager was pretty cool and said that he'd open a copy here and let me exchange it. So I play it without problems up until yesterday, when after playing for a while I check the disc and it has another circular scratch on the outside of the disc going about halfway around it.
So now it's time to call Xbox Support. I call them up, wait for about 15 minutes. Not too bad. I talk to some guy named Paul, who's a pretty nice guy. He says the console (which is a launch console) will be fixed for free, but their computer system is down and that I'll have to call back tomorrow. He also says that there's nothing they can do about the shit copy of Gears of War that I now have. Okay, I figure, and I decide to call them back today. After 20 minutes on hold, I finally talk to somebody. I give them my reference number, and 'refresh' him on the problems that I'm having. First of all, I can't understand this mother
er. I have no idea where he's from. He then tells me that Paul from yesterday screwed up, and not only was this problem not under warranty, but that they would not fix it for free. He said the only way that this could have possibly happened is if the console tipped over or if there has been vibrations under the 360. It's on a
in' dresser. There ain't no shaking or vibrating. It's been sitting there for months. So I ain't havin' this. I ask to talk to his supervisor. I make the mistake of saying that I'll wait on hold. No shit,
40 minutes later he finally tells me that I'll be able to talk to the supervisor. I talk to here and explain all of this shit all over again to a 3rd person. She tells me the same thing that this guy tells me. It's hard to understand her too. She tells me to get a new disc and to try the game without the HD, but that they can't fix it. I tell her at least 3 times that both copies of GOW were new and that I tried it without the HD. She finally gets it through her head that the copies were new and tells me that they'll fix it. They no longer ship boxes though, so I have to find a box and pay for shipping. They also basically told me I was
ed with the scratched up copies of the game.
That was some shit I shouldn't have had to go through.
Yesterday I decided that I wasn't going to be able to live 2+ weeks without my 360, so I bought a new core. I'm still going to send in my shitty one and I'll sell this new one when it gets back. I'm going to be out a few bucks, but it'll be worth it to get to play my 360 during that time. The 2nd copy of Gears works alright, but it did give me an 'unreadable' error once already. Luckily cleaning it fixed that problem. The problems were happening with co-op, and not multiplayer, so that's good because I'll mainly be playing multiplayer. Alright, finally done ranting, but goddamn, that's some bullshit.
Thats not good news.
