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Skriven 2006-11-05 09:05:08 av /m (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 13712 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: MS zaps Xbox360 users trying to sniff out hackers?
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From: /m <mike@barkto.com>


Interesting site, that 1up.com.  Part of Ziff-Davis empire.  Looks like it has
the attention of the gamers, and a good place to spread the word about gaming
issues.

btw, I like this blurb:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3154908

I wonder if Walmart will be open at midnight for the intro of Vista?


  /m


On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:57:42 -0500, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote:

>And it appears that MS customer service isn't sure how to handle their
>attempt at making Xbox 360s into bricks.
>
>http://www.1up.com/do/userFeedbackDetail?cId=3154864&r=7588572&ct=NEWS
>
>WOW, just when i thought it couldn't get any worse, i call xbox 360 customer
>service to flip and see if i can get compensated for my troubles in any way
>for my update bricked 360, if you flip you usually get a free crappy game. I
>get some dude in India, i spend 1 hour on the phones partly because i had to
>repeat myself so many times and they wanted to verify everything except my
>blood type. So after flipping for a bit, this rep on the phone said he can
>send me a free game out of 5 possible games for my trouble, PGR, PDZ, FIFA
>06, Kameo, he didn't know what the fifth game was, now these are games that
>can be found for 19.99 and I have all of these except FIFA, so i said what
>the hell, i'll take this free piece of crap, the rep puts me on hold for 10
>minutes and comes back and says "i'm sorry, i've just been informed that we
>don't offer FIFA" im like WTF, just been informed??? You put me on hold for
>10 minutes to tell me you cant give me something you just offered, i have
>worked in customer service for 15 years, this guy would have been fired
>where i have worked, Microsoft is getting away with murder and no one is
>calling them on it.
>
>
>"/m" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
>news:bfsok2hh2imuj5ep4utate3da86h44mege@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:52:25 -0500, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Looks like the wga infected mindset is hard at work f**king up Xbox 360
>>>users now
>>>
>>>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2050948,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0
000532
>>>
>>>When Microsoft issued their anticipated fall dashboard update on Tuesday,
>>>1080p support wasn't the only new feature, as several use started
>>>reporting
>>>ERROR CODE E71, which essentially "bricked" their console, rendering it
>>>unusable for surfing Xbox Live or playing games -- you know, everything an
>>>Xbox 360 is useful for.
>>>Initial reports suggested these problems were isolated to users who'd
>>>modified their firmware to play back-ups, but that's not the case.
>>>
>>>The two are related, though. Microsoft's attempts to sniff out hackers has
>>>resulted in crossfire with users who don't even know how to crack open
>>>their
>>>case. 1UP user ReverendSlim ran into the problem not long after Microsoft
>>>had repaired a completely unrelated problem. "Got my 360 back from
>>>Microsoft
>>>today after 2 weeks without it, plugged it up, it downloaded the update,
>>>and
>>>now all it will do is flash ERROR CODE E71 when you turn it on. So much
>>>for
>>>playing Gears or CoD3 next week," he said.
>>>
>>>Microsoft says they're aware of the issue, however, and that "less than 1
>>>percent" of users have been affected."
>>
>> If Microsoft are admitting to "less than 1 percent" being affected, you
>> can be sure the actual number is considerably higher.
>>
>> The Xbox audience is not one that is going to suffer this Microsoft
>> customer-hating attitude kindly.  As the news of Microsoft's efforts to
>> turn the XBox into a brick spreads around, how many teens are changing
>> their Christmas list to another console?
>>
>> "less than one percent" -- too funny....
>>
>> /m
>

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