Microsoft Hit With Class Action Over RROD (source: kotaku)
Last edited by 7th lutz; 10-15-2008 at 09:15 PM.
Loved the first comment.
Woo Go California! We sue everything here.
I'm not a big fan of microsoft, but haven't they had enough?
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As a Xbox and 360 fan, I like their games. But even I have to admit that they totally screwed the pooch on hardware design of the 360. I do feel that they hid how severe the bad design flaw was, only to fix it with a three year get out of free jail card. As time goes on, I think we are going to just see more hardware failures and this will ultimately hurt future business.
On a side note, I am the only one of all my friends who has a day -3 2005 with no probs. I won it, and got it shipped to me three days before launch.
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Originally Posted by theChad
It happened to Sony with their DRE on the PS2, it had to happen to MS's RROD sooner or later.I'm not a big fan of microsoft, but haven't they had enough?
I guess paying a billion dollars in extended warranties and repairs doesn't give you a "Get out of lawsuit FREE" card.
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I remember when the systems were first getting the RRoD. I posted angry messages everywhere because I thought I was one of a few people it was happening to. The Xbox 360 forums over at xbox.com were being flooded with angry people with systems breaking. Everybody thought it was Dead Rising that caused systems to crash at first and everything. The people running the site were deleting people's comments about it and trying to cover it up and everything. "Please contact microsoft support blah blah blah" just so they could tell you that you need to pay them $150 to fix the RRoD. Luckily they did away with the whole charging people for thier mistake, but it was only a matter of time that RRoD would cause a lawsuit. I'm suprised it didn't happen sooner. I'll admit I like the 360s games and online service, I bought a used one for cheap when my last 360 died with no RRoD (so I would have had to pay AGAIN). I think its a fun system to play, but I think it may go down as the most unreliable game system ever made. I don't know of any that are worse than that unless somebody can correct me.
Agreed with milkman. I finally broke down and bought my 360 a few weeks ago. Recently I've had nothing but problems. Fortunately it's not the RROD yet... but it has:
Frozen because it's hooked to live
Frozen because I played it too long(?)
Frozen just because
scratched deep deep rings into my copy of Bioshock.
Fortunately, I was able to save it.
Last edited by otoko; 10-16-2008 at 11:48 AM.
My 360 did that to my Oblivion GOTY disc.
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To think all of this would have been avoided if Microsoft just spent more time fixing the problem and less time trying to cover it up when it first happened. This will probably go no where, the only thing that's going to come from it is another headache.
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Mailman: Xbox 360 hardware issues are VERY LOOSELY comparable to
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The Atari 5200
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While two are computers and the Atari just had Controller issues, The three above all had big fatal flaws that either kept them from being entirely successful or millions of dollars to fix
The 360 is very successful, but at the cost of 1+ billion dollars in hardware fixes.
They screwed up bigtime, and only time will tell how bad it will affect them
I for one will be more hesitant on getting any MS hardware in the future.
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omg that first comment is hilarious. Why does everyone hate on microsoft when the fat ps2 systems were pieces of crap. 360 is so much better than ps3, many will argue against that, but just look at the numbers and surveys and game selection.
ps3 was the bomb when blu ray players were 1000. Now they are down to 200 for certain ones and sometimes even come free with a tv.
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I personally hope M$ get taken to the cleaners with this one.
I understand that the machine is a very complex bit of kit, and as hardware gets more complex, so do potential problems. But iPhones, PlayStation3s, the Wii etc. are all very complex new technology, and they don't have 30%+ failure rates. The Xbox 360 simply wasn't ready to release upon the market, M$ knew this and went ahead anyway. They made this business decision as a company and now they have to live with the consequences.
Man I hate M$ now due to this. I have went through eight, that's right I will use the number so we al know (
Call me a fly hitting a lightbulb but I love my 360 and I only had it repaired once over the course of almost 2 years. Best games in my opinion.
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Ok, your a fly hitting a lightbulb.
but sony told you to go f yourself. MS is replacing consoles left and right. i think these people are douchebags. the company already agreed to give you new consoles untill they stop breaking! stfu and play some games. jeez.
yes and they paid over a billion dollars for their "mistake". wtf do you want them to do? go out of business because of this (wont happen but still -- wtf you want?!)
Like I said, M$ made a business decision, and they have to live with any and all consequences. There's absolutely no reason why the 360 couldn't have gone through the standard product testing cycle and had all the bugs ironed out before release. However, M$ chose not to do this, they knowingly released a fault ridden piece of hardware onto the market.
Why? First to market = [potential for] greater market share = more money. M$ wanted to make teh monies, it's as simple as that. But that's no excuse for releasing a broken bit of hardware on the market.
So it's cost the company over $1Bn so far to fix these problems. Who's fault is that? M$'s obviously.
It's not like the failure rate is small. It's rediculous: over 30% of machines dying. That is absolutely beyond totally unacceptable. That's millions of consoles and a huge amount of customer's money.
Now if only they could be sued for making buggy, unsecure computer Operating Systems we'd be onto a winner.
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