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Gamer harassed on Xbox Live, Customer Service does nothing
PANZERDRAKO | 9:40 AM on 01.27.2008 19 comments


Xbox Live’s Customer Service has left one gamer “utterly disappointed” after failing to do anything about a member who has harassed his little brother though Xbox Live. According to egmfan89, the member previously harassed his brother at parties, school, and through phone calls. The attacks then turned towards Xbox Live when the member sent a message claiming to be a Microsoft employee and accused his brother of “stealing Xbox Live.” “The username used was soon found by my brother’s keen MySpace browsing under the bully’s MySpace page, and the first name on the boy’s friends list was a mutual friend of the bully and my brother,” egmfan89 wrote. When he voice-messaged the member, telling him that he was not the person he was looking for in hopes that he would leave them alone, the member simply sent more messages, like this one. Fed up with the harassment, he contacted an Xbox Customer Service representative who empathized that a minor should not be harassed while playing games online, but maintained little support. “However, after all my thanking her, she ended by saying ‘well, as long as more people complain about the user we can investigate.’ I then asked how that would even be possible in this situation, and she said, ‘I’m sorry, we’ll look into it.’” He then wrote an email to Customer Service, as advised by the representative on the phone, but hasn’t heard back. His mother then called as well, only to dropped with a response of “more complaints” needed to investigate. “So now Microsoft expects more to complain about this boy harassing MY little brother. How likely is that to occur, really? This has left me very upset with Microsoft’s approach to handling abuse reports, especially if they won’t even look at his message log after this. It’s just a shame that as a paying member of the service my brother or even myself should have to deal with this kind of thing.” *sigh* [pls, mode ironic on] someone can tell me how can i steal xboxlive? [thnx, /mode ironic off]



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Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 10:04
Holyetheline
Microsoft really doesn't care about much. They're just a bunch of cold robots... Unlike the Dtoid community which consists of a bunch of warm/sensitive/loving robots.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 10:28
Jim Sterling
Xbox Live's customer service is useless. Sadly, it's about the only form of contact gamers have with MS' gaming service.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:01
Brian Szabelski
Trying to talk with Microsoft's Customer Service is like trying to run through a brick wall: pointless, and you'll just end up worse off than before.
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:45
Sam Spectre
What did he expect them to do? People get "harassed" on XBL in almost every game I play.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:46
vexed alex
How about, hm, I don't know, blocking this person and maybe calling tha authorities that this person is harassing them? The problem is, what if this kid was calling to complain about some person who beat him at a game of Halo? You can't really just drop the banhammer on people without really knowing and I'm sure they get calls like this constantly. How are you going to weed out the truthful ones from the false ones?

Though I do agree that an an investigation should of happened. If someone has evidence and is not just saying, "this person said this to me" then an investigation should go down. I'm sure the customer service person could of logged in to his account and seen those fucking messages. That in itself is fucked up.
Neonie's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:47
Neonie
@holyetheline

Haha that was great man.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:52
vexed alex
Jim, maybe a front page of this to expose the bullshit would be nice?
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:52
Sam Spectre
Call the cops, some kid got made fun of on XBL.
Gamechamp's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 11:55
Gamechamp
XD He wasn't even TRYING to sound like an actual employee.
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 12:03
Clockwork
There's a lot of douchebags out there. What can we do?
JohnnyWadd's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 12:08
JohnnyWadd
So these brothers know this person? Then i suppose it is time to man up, surprise the little prick at school with a swift beating and quit your whining.
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 13:02
Red TheHaze Veron
@JohnnyWadd

Damn right.
PANZERDRAKO's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 13:17
PANZERDRAKO
not mentionioning the scum shouting in your fucking ear!!1
Electrobes's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 13:22
Electrobes
But you see this here situation does have a soluition. You would think that this involved the Internet Dickwad theory, but he knows who the fucker is.

Time to solve shit medevil style and after that... crotch face him, it's the only thing that's left. Now THAT would be customer satisfaction right 'der.
aborto thefetus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 14:03
aborto thefetus
We should all just help out the poor guy and report this douchebag, or spam him nasty messages.

Also, hard to read picture is hard to read.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 14:43
MechaMonkey
Tell his mom. That'll take care of him lickety split.
PANZERDRAKO's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/27/2008 15:00
PANZERDRAKO
well aborto...if you see the link in egmfan89´s journal....
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