We've all heard of the constant horror stories about the plague known as RRoD. Hawty McBloggy brings word of possibly the worst case of RRoD yet. Nathaniel suffered the RRoD syndrome just like a majority of Xbox 360 owners out there. Usually it's just a simple process of shipping off the console to get repaired. Unfortunately for Nathaniel, it wasn't just as simple as that.
Nathaniel has taken his 360 with him to various events where members of Rooster Teeth, Bungie and the Xbox 360 team had signed his console. Not only that, but the comic artist over at Rooster Teeth had drawn an awesome looking Master Chief on the 360. Nathaniel contacted Microsoft before sending in his 360 who ensured Nathaniel that he would receive the exact same Xbox 360 back from Microsoft. Nathaniel even included a letter with the 360 to insure no harm would come to the unit (which you can read on Hawty's blog).
Well, Nathaniel did receive the exact same 360 back, but some jackass decided to clean the Xbox 360 case. Keep in mind that all the custom work was done with sharpie so some jerk really took their time to destroy the work of art on the system. All that was left were a couple of smudge marks.
Seriously, how in the f*ck does someone look at the signatures and drawings and think for one second that they should clean the case down?! Microsoft assured him that he would receive his one of a kind Xbox 360 back unharmed and some guy who had way too much time on his hands destroyed the system. Hopefully he'll be able to run into the people who signed his system originally and get them to sign it again. It's pretty doubtful Microsoft will do anything to help the kid out.
[Via Simmons 2pt0 C-Blog]
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10:20 PM on 02.28.2008
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Seriously though... Someone yanked his case. And put a new one on and masked it with some smudges. there is no way they would've cleaned it like that. Plus, being a close personal friend of permanant markers and plastic, you'd never get all the ink out of the plastic, since its porous.
Why does this sound like a perfect to fuck u set up. Honestly, if I was the kid, that Console should have kept it as a collectors item and not a playing console after it got signed by so many well known gaming developers.
Karma is a bitch.
11:38 pm.
Yep, a sad story to ruin my over wise mediocre day.
That really sucks.
Jerk cleaner is a jerk.
Still that fucking sucks and I would be really fucked off at Microsoft and just wouldn't even bother with the fucktards and go to Sony
But Occham's Razor and all, so maybe MS is just full of dumbasses.
And where is your god now, MS fanboys? Where?!
LMFAO.. :P
sad, yes.
but come on man! WTF were you thinking sending something like that in??? should have just kept it and got a new 360.. i hear the newer ones run cooler too..
Damn shame.
Thats xbox's is worth alot of time and probably a good bit of money!!
But it's a little too late for that isn't it? And even if he gets all those signatures back it won't mean anything; It's different to have an object in your hands being signed in front of you (accumulating signatures over the years)and receiving something signed already.
ARGH. I hate stupidity.
If that were my 360, there is no way in hell those signatures would be leaving my sight.
a)didn't recognize the significance of the artwork, b)recognized it, and was told by a supervisor to clean it anyway, or
c)recognized it, but didn't give a shit, either because he was a low-wage/temp worker and didn't get paid enough to care or because he was too busy (I'm sure the RROD return center is a pretty busy place right now).
Sucks for that kid. Hope he can get some even better signatures in some kind of Sandlot-esque plot twist.