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360 Game Tester Fired; Lawsuit Impending
ZServ | 2:44 AM on 09.13.2008 13 comments


This may or may not be late news, but a game tester for the 360, Robert Delaware, was fired for comments made earlier this week remarking that the RRoD was due to shoddy design on Microsofts part.



"Robert Delaware was the only named Microsoft worker (a contract employee) who talked — without permission — to VentureBeat for our story last week on the Xbox 360 defects.

Microsoft had him fired on Wednesday. Delaware worked as a game tester at Microsoft but was employed by the temp agency Excell Data. He reported directly to a Microsoft manager, who told him he was being let go because of the VentureBeat article."

In all honesty, thats low of em. Its 3 years in the past, let it go.

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Too Much Coffee Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 03:20
Too Much Coffee Man
not very good PR. MS should have known this story would spread just as fast as the original.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 03:22
vexed alex
He broke the rules. That's what happens.
ShadokatRegn's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 03:37
ShadokatRegn
Not to mention, it is shoddy hardware on behalf of Microsoft.
Jack8274's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 05:55
Jack8274
@ShadokatRegn

Well, if people finally figured that out there would be a lot more PS3's being sold right now. I don't even like the PS3 but it does have the advantage on longevity.
pinksage's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 07:35
pinksage
excell data is my agency, LAWLS.
ZServ's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 09:51
ZServ
oh well, reaprar. i dont care! :D
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 15:05
Aaron Mxy Yost
Three years in the past? The article came out last week. And he had to have known was he was likely to get fired for it when he gave interview. He made the choice to spill the info on MS's shady bullshit, and he feels he did the right thing regardless of the outcome.
pinksage's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 15:11
pinksage
When you get employed you have to sign all types of waivers and DNA documents saying you will not talk about anything you work on--regardless on what division you work at.
dephect's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/13/2008 16:28
dephect
You stuck up pansy's.

I am glad he came out and said what he said.. it IS flawed and people need to know that its nothing they did, its what they bought.
ZServ's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/14/2008 06:06
ZServ
mxyzptlk; the 360. :p
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