I wish I could sue Verizon for all the times they keep dropping out on my internet connection. I mean seriously, how is it that everyone envies the FiOS I have to struggle with every other morning?

In America, you can literally sue for anything! It's the law.

The hard part is winning. ;)

Interesting when someone actually explains why Americans sue so much. Thanks Maxvest.

I'm a new user of XBL. I got it right after Christmas. It took me 2 hours to transfer my gamertag to my 360. I then played Bomberman online for FNF and then shit started happening. I couldn't hardly even log on the rest of the weekend let alone actually play against someone. They new people were coming and yet MS didn't prepare. This is a pay service. I'm not saying it should have 100% uptime, but the same shit happened when Halo 3 came out. They weren't prepared.

Back to the fact that it's a pay service. You pay to use their service, which means that they should easily have more cash around to make sure their servers and bandwidth are ready to go (in comparison to someone like Sony who's service is free). If it hadn't been for Major Nelson and his Twitter feed I wouldn't have had a clue about why I couldn't log on.

What they should have done is send you a text message on your 360 when you could get signed into XBL stating why the gaming and store parts were malfunctioning. At least in my case you could sign on, and receive messages, but it wouldn't stay on long enough to game. So, a message could be received even with the problems they were having.

The question I pose though is... How long of a down time is OK? Seriously. An entire weekend after you just purchased your new system and a years subscription to XBL sure leaves a bad taste in my mouth. There are obviously people who have much lower thresholds than even I. I wouldn't consider suing until at least a week of down time and that's only if they weren't going to credit me back the time or offer me some compensation.

I think what this lawsuit does, and others have hinted at this, is it keeps MS accountable for it's actions. We pay money and they give us a service. It's simple. No service and they get to keep our money? It's not right.

At least that's how I see it.

Please I work in the court system, this shit happens all the time. People file lawsuits for much less then this.

trial lawyers deserve to be 'burned to death'??

the angst in most of the comments, the angst in the post itself, tells of some childhood terror involving lawyers. did a lawyer with a red maw and two voids for eyes wearing a skinny top hat burst out of your cakes during birthdays?

deep-seated fear aside, what the fuck? since when do people start spitting and warbling and trying to defend microsoft, a corporation which jabs pygmies on stakes and sets them afire?

i'm ashamed for you. i always thought the future of the net would be one where the rebels fought the empire. but i guess luke is, in fact, pushing aside darth's black codpiece and taking that hot half-robot action without recourse to the force.

What total douches unless the lawyers are doing this for free in the first hour alone these 3 lost far more money then Microsoft will ever give them. Morons.

You're right Jim, people are viewing this as a MS article instead of an article that's here to remind us all how stupid people can be. Texans in particular. Desperate bastards are what these guys are.

Brokeback moment?

@ balth

You're not staying at the right hotels.

The angst in the grant's post itself, tells of some childhood terror involving corporations. did a corporation with a red maw and two voids for eyes wearing a skinny top hat burst out of your cakes during birthdays?

Deep-seated fear aside, what the fuck? since when do people start spitting and warbling and trying to defend lawyers, a breed of scum which jabs pygmies on stakes and sets them afire?

this knee-jerk response to lawsuits an lawyers is JUST like how the republican party demonized words like hippy and liberal and feminist, creating negative connotations. they knew once they anchored these connotations deep into the mass consciousness, drawing on them would be as simple as snapping fingers.

I want half.

@Grant

You do know she removed the lid and placed the coffee between her legs before driving off, right? I'm sure any other coffee would have burned her through sheer stupidity.

I'm going to give myself an enima with my Wii controller and then sue as there is no label on it saying I shouldn't stick it up my ass to play Mario......someone will do this, we all know it and they will become stupid rich.

One reason why America sucks. How utterly petty and pedantic, like a lot of the legal system in America. Absolutely stupid. Too litigious.

Grant: I'm sorry, but as I've said on our podcasts before -- Capitalism: Viva La It. I like big corporations, they get shit done. They make the computer I am typing on and the chair I am sitting in. They make the games I play and the Televisions I play them on. If your principals are such, stop using such items.

Jim Sterling is a fanboy. Just read his comments about PS3 stuff and then read his MS stuff. PS3 sucks, to him, and the mighty MS cannot do evil. Grow up and quit sucking butt. PS3 obviously did something a ton better than MS and that was investing in Blu-Ray, obviously the winning source. I'm sure if Sony had failures galore and MS didnt have any, and someone sued, Jim would be right on this saying "Yeah, take 'em down!" like the rest of the MS tools on the internet.

360 is great but PC overall rules.

Lawl-yers and cor-poo-rations.

See what I did there?

Origim: Dude, some of these guys can even turn a story about a game remaining a PS3 EXCLUSIVE into accusations of me being an MS fanboy. It really is jaw-dropping how people will twist everything to suit their victim-complexes.

Sorry, am I gaming journalist now? Last I checked I was a writer, a blogger. I deal with opinions and I don't pretend otherwise.

Nice try though. Seriously, E for effort!!

Fuck 'em all Jimmy if they can't take a joke.

@ jim

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unfair journalist ... like most of the readers here ... too many M$ fanboys.

By the way PSN is up and online play is flawless ;-))) also it's free :-)))"[/i]

This is the kind of hilariously ironic statement I wish I could bottle.

Also Quest is your name Chad Warden?


i was ironic ... just to show you how M$ is not better then anybody else. SONY have their problems ... but M$ also have a lots of problems ... but when it's M$ it's not a big deal ... but for SONY it's always THE BIG DEAL with every single negative news.

I'm sure you don't even have the PS3 you were supposed to get last summer .... how can you bash all the about a console you don't have.

By the way i do own a 360 , PS3 and a WII call me a PS3 fanboy if you want :)))

Jim Sterling says:
01/06/2008 12:50
I don't bash the console though. If you'd actually read my posts instead of over-reacting every time, you might work that out.


Over-reacting ??? Come on Jim ... please don't make me copy and paste all your negative comment about the PS3 ... it would take a month just to do that :((((

Not cool.