Hi,
I have owned my xbox 360 since it first came out. Here is why they are a waste of time.
I got the Red Right Of Death after I purchased it, just after the one year warranty expired. I had to pay to get it repaired, which is cool, and it was fixed. But it was a huge inconvenience and a waste of time however I got over it.
I then began to get into xbox live. I had to set up a hotmail account and go through the long process of updating my console. I then realized, I had to actually pay for the xbox live service on top of my internet fee's. Why? If you already pay for internet then why should you pay for a subscription? However I payed for that as-well, and had to deal with constant laggy game servers, and my xbox saying that the NAT is set to moderate, and I could not join some games.
I was beginning to get irritated by the nagging inconveniences. When gears of war two came out, the readily put the DVD into the console. After I did that and played the came for an hour the laser burned the disc and I can no longer use it.
A month after that occurred Microsoft in New Zealand brought out this fantastic new update. It prevented anyone under the age of 18 download ANYTHING from the xbox live market place, YESS, even the G rates stuff. I am 17 and cannot download G rated games. I rang Microsoft and they confirmed this. In order for me to play live and download stuff, i will have to set up a new hotmail address and new gamertag, hence loosing all my game data.
How fantastic.
The console itself is garbage. Its noisy and slow.
Live is a profit making scam, as it is very slow, even though I have unlimited download speed and bandwith,
you have to pay for the subscription and expensive accessories to get the 'most' out of it.
Hence why I turned to PC gaming. Cheaper, hassle free if you know what your doing, and better performance.
Theres my rant,
...can't you do ANYTHING right?
Got the latest update for the 360 and Xbox Live pushed to my 360 Slim (now trying the Halo edition--I gave up on the all-black Slims after my last try's DVD/CD drive went all buzzy and noisy with MOST game discs). I've discovered that with certain navigation pathways while in the Dashboard the Slim will freeze up. One is when I'm in the Game Marketplace Channel and nav to the Game Library panel, go into the Game Library then come back out; at this point the Dashboard interface freezes up and the only thing I can do is to reset the Slim by powering down.
Guess debugging still isn't one of your strong suits, eh Redmond?
BTW I really like the Halo Edition Slim, especially PRIOR to the system update; much better reliability (so far) than any of the previous black Slims I tried. No fingerprints (YES), and the Halo shield regeneration sound effect for the DVD/CD drawer is just too cool.

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