At 10/18/09 12:49 PM, Makeshift wrote:
for fucks sake. You might get the red ring and then have to send it in and get a new one for free. What's the big deal?
The big deal is having to call customer service, listen to them as they try to talk you through steps to test your 360 and you pretend to be doing them, wait for the package to come in the mail to ship it off (or for some people who don't have the paid warranty that I have, spend your own money on packaging to ship it off,) wait 2 - 4 weeks for it to be returned and have nothing else to play if that's your only console, so you sit around starring at these items you spent $60 on that you cannot use, and then when you get a new one worry constantly whether or not it's going to shit out on you too.
It wouldn't be that big of a deal if this happened once. Electronics fail, I get that. But I'm on Xbox number 7, and my current one is beginning to have a hard time reading game discs. I get dirty disc error 20 - 40 times before the game starts working, and then sometimes I'll be 3 hours into a game and it will do it again out of nowhere, and I lose saved progress.
I'm not an idiot, I take care of my stuff very well. I dust my electronics once to twice a week, always make sure they are well ventilated, and never move them while a disc is in motion. I'm pretty tech nerdy, I know how to repair the RROD myself (not using the towel trick, I mean taking apart the 360 and repairing the circuits,) so when people jump on my ass about how it's "my fault" my 360s are failing, I get pissy.
So, seriously now, 7 Xbox's? You can't tell me that's not frustrating as hell.