Fuck Microsoft, Fuck XBOX360 [rant]

[Bluntzilla420]

Fuck a cheap system like 360...yeah, COD4 is cool but Halo gets old after awhile. Too many 360s break down, it is sad.

I bought a Wii and for a stoner like myself it as given me hundreds of hours of happiness. It is rather inexpensive. The system has never, EVER had any problem with it and all the controllers have never failed me either. Also, the games are getting even better (Star Wars: Force Unleashed, The Conduit, COD:5, NHL 2K9, MadWorld, etc)

[paraDigmX]

Originally Posted by theVirtuoso

So... what fun I've had with my 360. I've had one since launch and my launch ran longer than any of my friend's until it finally started freezing up (much much later than expected). So I sent it in, had the worst time dealing with their customer service or w/e...

They sent me a brand new one, so I was happy. Everything works fine for a long time.

Then, outta nowhere, my wireless controllers wont sync up with my 360. I went through the whole process of syncing them (if you own a 360 you'll understand this part). They would do the whole green light going around, then the green light on the 360 and the one on the controller would blink twice in sync, which means that the 360 recognizes the controller and that the controller is now syncd.... apparently not. It would go back to just blinking like its looking for a wireless connection. After some painful talking with some idiot on the tech support, all he did was repeat was I said and tell me to do what I told him 50 times I already did.... I said fuck it, and went and bought a wired controller, because I just wanted to play.

Time goes by, long time... no problems, but of course still no wireless sync. 360 starts freezing, then eventually whenever I started it, it froze right away, red ring of death... I'm sure you've heard that.

I pretty much just said fuck this and left the thing there for months, before my roommate finally called Microsoft and had my 360 sent in for repairs. It just arrived about... 25 minutes ago. I load it up, everythings fine.

I try out my wireless controller, syncs up (big smile on my face), then the wireless guitar for guitar hero, it syncs up fine (bigger smile).

Then I decide I'm gonna play Guitar Hero since I haven't played in... like a year. As soon as the game was in there and loading, I lost the syncs, and now the controllers wont sync back up with the 360. This is frustrating, now they dont even blink in sync to tell me that they found each other, the green light just keeps going round n round n round.

So here I am... frustrated as all hell, because it seems I gotta deal with those fucks again, and send my 360 in AGAIN....

argggggggggggggg

Go to walmart. Buy a new 360. Take the sticker off the back of the broken one. Take the sticker off the back of the new one. Put the new sticker on the broken 360. Return to walmert. Get your money back.

[digital022]

You only hear negative comments about the xbox because people think the minute they praise the xbox, red ring of death is soon to follow....muahahahahah

[.raGe.]

I feel for you dude. I got a 360 for christmas last year fresh out of the box the sync button on the controller didn't work and one of the memory card ports was broken... so I had to go get another one. Pretty frustrating...

[KboT]

Originally Posted by GolgiApparatus

Oh man... ive saved up around 500 dollars and counting to buy myself an xbox 360.

I havnt owned a system since n64 (never really had the time for video games that much after that and just played on my computer).

Now, after reading your post, im starting to second guess my decision...

I wanted the xbox 360 mostly because of the multiplayer, i would just buy CoD4, halo, and some other games and just kick back and play live for an hour or so whenever i feel like it....

But ive heard so many things about the system messing up so i dont know what to do...

I currently have enough money for the pro version and the wireless adapter thing ( i need it to play live sadly).

So do you think it would be worth it to save up and purchase the elite version (would it be less prone to breaking down im not about to send my shit in) or should i just stick to the reg version or should i get a wii?

And also on your story that sucks hardcore.... dont worry everything will be fixed within a few days time.

The technology in the newer 360's has improved. In all honesty, I won't let make the decision for you if you're buying a new one now. Not to mention there's another price drop coming for the 360 in a week or so.

That said, I think the PS3 is awesome and I want one, haha. But if you're deciding between one or the other, don't let this 'failure rate' or the 'technical problems' be a deciding factor, the newer 360 systems have long improved and the PS3 isn't perfect either.

[Zylark]

The sync problems you're having, might not be related to MS or your equiptment at all. It could be because there is RadioFrequency (RF) disturbance in the specific RF bandwith (~2.4Ghz) your 360/Controller use.

The simple test for this, is taking your 360 to another part of town (a friends house for example), hook it up, and see if the problem persist. If not, you know there is some (relatively powerful) transmitter in the ~2.4Ghz range in your vicinity, for example a joker who have amped up his WiFi equiptment beyond legal specs (WiFi also works in the ~2.4Ghz range). Then it is time to call the FCC (or local equivalent), who will find the culprit. The RF band afterall, is heavily regulated.

[NJ Haze]

guys the ring of death is caused by 1 red wire that overheats and shorts out. you can fix it if you want i mean its not too hard but you do void the warrenty. I got my 360 first day it came out and no problems*knocks on wood*

[ihugtrees]

gta4 FTW

[SrGrower]

That sucks I had that happen and I plugged in my wire recharger and the controller synced up. Have you tried that? I hope things work out. I would be pissed if I had that problem I spent alot of waisted time playing Call of Duty 4 building my ranks to start over when I prestige.