OK, I just have to rant here, I know this is not a new problem, but it is really fucking annoying. This problem existed before I got my new 360, but for some reason I didn't mind as much back then, but now that I've had to deal with the Red Ring I guess I have become more and more impatient.

Why the fuck do 360 discs get scratched so easily? I take very good care of my shit, I live in a house with other responsible guys, and my discs don't come anywhere near being "abused". Yet, my Halo 3 disc is messed up to where I can't play The Pit in multiplayer, and more recently my CoD4 disc has become unable to play several multiplayer levels. Rock Band has also become pretty beaten up, not to the point of fucking up songs(thank God), but it still makes me angry having to look at a scratched back of a disc when I know it has only been in either the 360 or the case. In all my years of gaming, I have only had two game cd's that have gotten so fucked up that the gameplay suffers, and they were two early released PS1 games (Tomba! and SaGa Frontier), and that was back when I lived with my younger brothers, who were apt to be rough with things of mine.

Is the 360 scratching them? My 360 remains horizontal, as I've always been terrified of it being vertical and getting tipped over. As I said earlier, my games literally are constantly either in the 360 or a case. And really the thing that pisses me off the most is that I know the only options I have (concerning the Halo 3 and CoD4 disc) are to go buy new copies if I want to play some hassle-free multiplayer. RAGE!