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games and consoles
Xbox Live Gold Cancelled
Feb 26th
Well its was due for renewal so I cancelled my xbox live subscription as I said I would.
Firstly its not worth paying for a service I rarely use, most friends being games developers don’t actually play on the xbox they play PC games, as work provides them some uber box.
Secondly as I said before now I’m on my fourth dead xbox 360 I will not send good money after bad. So no more money from me to MS. If I want a game it’s the pre-owned market, this may have some effect on the newly purchased market but its minimal, I’m just not giving my money to a company that has blatantly screwed over its customers by not replaced the 360 with a newly designed working system and endlessly recycles MB’s doomed to failure, or so it would appear.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=4&entryid=1653
With the warranty period due to end this year can you really blame me ?
I cancelled my OneCare renewal as well, due to high cost and this episode has tainted my dealing with Microsoft.
With blu-ray the winner, the PS3 is looking mighty tempting, just sort out that emotion chip and slap a big drive in it and I’ll buy it tomorrow, oh More >
Xbox 360 came back
Jan 23rd
Well yesterday I got the xbox back. Two weeks and one day since they received the parcel, total turnaround from leaving my hands was 18 days. Under the 3 weeks but only just. Internal processing took two weeks examining the UPS info, there must be a lot of repairs going on.
In my comments of a previous post it was suggested that I might get the new version with hdmi ports and better fans, well no such luck. This is now my fourth xbox 360 and two Christmas holidays curtailed, I could be a drama queen and say ruined but it is only a console, but my son was not chuffed by a long shot, to him it was pretty dire. Taking that into consideration it would be the least that they could do.
Apparently not the least they could do is repair it, (new mother board, new dvd drive) and give me a months subscription to Xbox live gold. Big Whoop! I already have a gold subscription to live.
The design of the 360 is at fault, instead of fixing it and doing right by customers an endless stream of recycling repairs seems to be going on as its probably cheaper More >