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Guess what tonight's update did to my Xbox?
BluDesign | 10:17 PM on 08.06.2008 56 comments


Most people would guess RROD, right? amirite?

It's only happened to me twice so far, so it makes sense, but no, not that. That's too easy.


DVD only wishes he were this happy right now.

See, I can't do shit with my Xbox 360 because today's update DID do something to my console. It made the wireless controllers stop syncing with my console.

Yesterday, day before, weeks prior, my console synced up with my controllers (I have two). But tonight, I boot the console to see their request for me to update my console. I grab the controller, hit the button and suddenly the normal thing that happens, doesn't. It stops working, leaving me with a guitar controller and jack shit to do with it.

I call up Microsoft about this problem and their solution? $99.

Fuck you. FUCK YOU. No, seriously, FUCK YOU.

I would rather wipe my ass on this console than give you $99 to repair it. Because you know what you're gonna do? You're gonna toss it in your goddamn mountain of RROD consoles and box me up and out a new one that's the same as all the RROD'd consumers that sent in systems that came before it. So, MS, if when the techie's supervisor picks up here in about 15 minutes DOESN'T comp me a repair on the console, I'm going to go put this in the bedroom where it'll become a media center ONLY console waiting for that Netflix update that lets me stream TV and movies from the internet. And when it RROD's from that point forward you'll swallow that $99 repair like a hot fat shit of a fecophiliac.

I'll go buy a new 360 before I give you that $99 satisfaction. You know why? Because that's defeat in my eyes. To give you money for something that should not break under undue duress.

It's a sentient wireless card in a console. When's the last time a wireless card broke on someone? Fucking never?

So, yeah, to stress, screw you Microsoft. For once, I'm keeping my dead system and it'll wait till YOU have to repair it for me and you'll like it.



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Dao2-SKP's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:46
Dao2-SKP
Wow :o Hateful, deffo try call again and stress it was the update that messed up your shit.
liam2015's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:48
liam2015
REVOLUTION!!!

Seriously, that sucks man. I like the stance you're taking on this issue.
Arttemis's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:49
Arttemis
That's such bullshit.
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:52
Spartacus
I'm not familiar with the hardware, but can't you plug it in, or does that only charge it? Regardless, that's some stupid shit.
liam2015's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:53
liam2015
Also, that picture doesn't look happy at all. It looks like it's staring into my soul.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:57
BluDesign
It's my avatar feeding my hate into your soul.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:57
king3vbo
layme
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 22:59
A New Challenger
If you buy a new one, MS has won. Steal one.
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:05
Clockwork
I'll go buy a new 360 before I give you that $99 satisfaction.

I know you're upset, but think about that statement again.
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:08
nebones
what was the update actually supposed to do?
Gantz's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:12
Gantz
It gave birth to 100 Babies!

Am I close?
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:12
BluDesign
I don't see it as crazy. If the console RROD's, I can send it in for repair, and then have back a working console that I can do whatever I want to with. Like sell or return.

We all know the RROD will happen again eventually. It always does.

Besides, it's a matter of principle. MS wants money for a free repair. I don't want to pay for that repair. I need a working console either way, so I might as well wear the old one out until it has to be repaired at which time the repair will be free and thus, I win the $99 argument. The cost of a new Xbox is one that will be absorbed in time and in pride in not kowtowing to MS's shitty warranty for their out and out broken hardware.
TheDreadHawk's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:16
TheDreadHawk
Well boy does that suck.

"In before two people on the internet say their system got bricked by the update and there's suddenly a huge epidemic of broken 360's."

Mxy called it. :3
JiR INC's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:17
JiR INC
Warranty FTW get a new one for free and get your new hardware like pads and so on. :) anyway 3 rings is a guaranteed new consoles due to microsoft's policy so I hear but, you be waiting sometime
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:28
MechaMonkey
Wrap it in towels.
Skribble's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:32
Skribble
So happy I haven't bought a 360 yet, its fucking ridiculous the way M$ treats its customers. $99 to fix a console thats under a fucking warrenty that was made unusable by a fucking patch that THEY released!?

Has the world gone MAD!?
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:34
Excel-2011
I've had enough hate for 25 life cycles, thank you.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:36
Bob Muir
Mine is still working, thankfully, but damn if you haven't had the worst luck with your console.
Conrad Zimmerman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:37
Conrad Zimmerman
Have you tried plugging the controller into the console (with a charging cable) and then seeing if it'll connect?
Rifter01's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:42
Rifter01
Well, I haven't updated my XBox yet, I've been using its ethernet cable for a test computer in the other room.. Now I wonder if I should update it or not.

Only thing I can add is a wired 360 controller is alot less than 99 and less than a new wireless controller. I love my wired 360 controller since I'm always running out of rechargeable batteries.
Rifter01's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:44
Rifter01
Also, are you sure it isn't the controller? Maybe try the controller on someone else's 360 if you can? I just had a Wii remote that was working just fine stop sensing motion the other day. It will come on, and I can use it to point at the screen, but no tilt action. :(
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:45
Furnimus
HELP IS HERE!!! (maybe)...

The same thing happened to me today, and I thought my Xbox troubles couldn't get any worse (please read my latest blog about my RRoD). Anyway, it did the same thing to me (on my wireless controller, plugged in charging, which JUST turned the Xbox on!!!!) and wouldn't sync for a long time. Finally, I unplugged the battery pack, while the Xbox was still looking for a controller, plugged it back in and hit sync, and ta-da. Try it, I hope it works for you DVD! Good luck.
jackal27's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:50
jackal27
Wow... That's REAL stupid...
randombullseye's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:51
randombullseye
Try rebooting your system.
Ryfael's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/06/2008 23:54
Ryfael
I hope FURNIMUS is right!

By the way, I ♥ the hate in this post.

Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 00:05
Samit Sarkar
Ugh, that is such bullshit. Don't quote me on this, but I think Sony will fix/replace your PS3 for free if a firmware update bricks it. Of course, that pretty much guarantees that you're going to lose all your data and whatnot, but at least you know you're not getting ripped off.
Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 00:16
Aertyr
I have never suffered an RROD, it is fictional in my eyes until it happens. I have a feeling when it happens it'll hurt. Bad.
bam2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 00:23
bam2003
this is the worst post ever, full of horrible ideas, you wouldnt want to spend 99 bux for microsot to loose another 150? you would rather allow microsoft to earn more by buying a brand new one, this guy nothing but an idiot
kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 00:55
kwaselow
What you're all forgetting here: Microsoft will profit from the $99 repair, but they'll lose money on the sale of a console (remember, they're not Nintendo, so they don't make money on the sales of consoles)
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 00:59
Excel-2011
@Samit Sarkar:
I don't know about you, but losing data to an official patch and its subsequent undoing is still a rip off, especially since said patch is expected to keep it untouched.
bahss's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 01:05
bahss
I'm saddened by your loss. But, you have the best, most ass kickin' avatar ever.
Respectable Gentleman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 01:14
Respectable Gentleman
Tell MS to put there hands on your console. Then say, "Can't you feel it's pain?"
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 01:15
BluDesign
@Bam

Even if I didn't have good news to report, you'd still be wrong. I can take a repaired system and sell it on Craigslist, whether I do it now or months from now.

As it stands now, I got it fixed. The second tier guy told me to go buy a wired controller. I did, wiped out the cache, redownloaded the update and it worked. Fucking updates are bullshit.

But the upshot is that I only have to return a wired controller and now I don't have to mess with MS's warranty department again for a few months.

Much love to Workmeng for calling me minutes after I returned from Walmart.
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 01:18
pendelton21
Ouch.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 01:39
Sharpless
This is sad. Let's hug it out.
thinkfreemind's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 02:32
thinkfreemind
Who else hates the current consoles and all of these associated problems? Who else wishes they were back in the days of old where there were no RRODs, no updates for whatever these updates are supposed to do, no DLC to rip you off, and a whole long list of other isht?

I know I do. My 360 hasn't had a problem yet, but I just count myself lucky. I'm waiting for the day my PS3 goes bad because somehow there it too much dust in it ro something and Sony tells me that it's my fault the vent holes are on top. I mean, my SNES could have crushed up moldy Cheerios inside of it (which is gross but it makes a point) and still run.

I really do wish we were back in the good ol' days.
Aziel13's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 02:51
Aziel13
sorry for your lose man
Aurain's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 03:00
Aurain
At least the online's free ! o wait.
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 04:25
linuxguy
here's an idea : make it RROD so they have to repair it for free
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 04:42
wardrox
Paying to fix something they broke? Sounds like current gen consoles to me.
jimzzor's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 08:06
jimzzor
Fucking A-men. This is what we should be doing. DONT STAND BY IN SILENCE - MS ARE TREAT THEIR CUSTOMERS LIKE SHIT. WHY SHOULD WE PAY FOR THEIR POOR DESIGN? PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLACENT IN THIS ARE FUCKING SHEEP!
Y0j1mb0's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 08:25
Y0j1mb0
Wait ... wait ... Yes, there it is. I knew I sensed a Fuck you Microsoft rebel yell being emitted from this blog.
Aurvant's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 08:25
Aurvant
@ThinkFreeMind - Welcome to "How to properly clean out your PS3 instead of just letting dust collect inside of it until it breaks down from your negligence".

Step 1: Turn off console
Step 2: Cover up the vents except for a small portion
Step 3: Put Vac-hose (go for the lower power settings because high pressure could damage. maybe. dunno.) over section you left uncovered.
Step 4: turn on Vac.
Step 5: Whistle tune while waiting.
Step 6: inspect your work. If you see dust then your not finished. Use cans of air (make sure you get condensation out first) to knock loose large clumps of dust. Don't stuck nozzle directly at insides of PS3 step back from vent and then fire.
Step 7: Rinse and repeat until finished.

Takes about 5 minutes and your PS3 is squeaky clean on the inside. It will run cooler and quieter from there on out.
JonDarkwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 08:30
JonDarkwood
Were you talking to the stupid little peons at the first level of customer support? You should start shouting and acting really mad right away so that maybe they'll escalate you to someone who knows what the shit they are talking about.
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 09:04
galagabug
do wired devices work?
NotAZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 09:14
NotAZombie
@ Sharpless

Group hug!
PetiePal's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 09:44
PetiePal
Can it be wrap your 360 in towel times?
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 14:12
bleep
Damn that SUCKSASS!!!!!
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 14:18
mix
After reaading I was going to say:

Shitty Deal

but after rading you got it fixed:

Nice!
thinkfreemind's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2008 15:00
thinkfreemind
@Aurvantoid: Oh! I don't actually have that problem, I was just using it as another example of something that could happen with the PS3, based on somebody else I know. It was just to make a point. I pretty much always set a small piece of cloth over the top when I'm not using the console to prevent dust.
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