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I guess it was bound to happen. I picked up three new games. Puzzle Quest: Galactrix was days away from release. My 360 finally loved me.
Then my 360 Red Ring of Deathed.
Dammit.
After getting nowhere with xbox.com/support, I called the customer service number moving through the phone tree like a child creeping through a Choose Your Own Adventure. Every option was bracketed by telling me how much easier it would be to do it online.
By the time I reached a human, I was annoyed.
And the human couldn’t even help me, but she did make it possible for me to use xbox.com/support.
Whatever.
I’m on my third 360 now. Instead of selling them, Microsoft should be leasing them. Or have a service where every 18 months you can trade yours in for a new one.
Also, GameStop manager, if I ask you to recommend a turn-based RPG, do not recommend Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Anyway, back to my Xbox loving me. Back in September I signed up for 360Voice.com, a website which lets your 360 blog resulting in entries like this:
When you get right down to it, when Game Couch decides to play – it’s a good day all around. Our score is 24,291 and always improving! He played Age of Booty, Carcassonne, Puzzle Quest, The Last Remnant, and then Game Couch had to stop for a bathroom break or something… Humans really are bags of mostly water.
It’s fun. It shows a graph of my gamerscore. Mostly, it amuses me – except – it also shows how happy my 360 is.
Keeping my 360 happy is pressure I don’t need, but I didn’t know how bad it was until I returned from a September vacation to a 360 which was SAD. Since then, I’ve been plugging away at making it happy, playing as much as life would let me and finally – FINALLY – my 360 was not only happy, it loved me.
And now it’s RROD time. And I know that while it’s off getting repaired, that love will turn into despair and finally indifference. It’s already started according to yesterday’s update.
Silvercube:
Oh my goodness!
Question: this 360 that just “died”, when was it manufactured?
The 360′s released past April 2008 are said to be much better due to new processors or something like that.
I have never had a 360 red red ring on me. I have only had 2 360′s. The first one I traded into Gamestop for credit as it was over 2 years old and it did not have an HDMI port in the back.
Then I got an Xbox Arcade, and kept my old hard drive :)
Only cost me $25.
Terry:
Is there a manufacturing date somewhere or do I cut it in half and count its rings?
Seriously though, I’m hoping that my next 360 is one of the better ones.
Silvercube:
Lol, ummm the MFR date is right near the serial number:
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2112078/xbox360sn_Full.jpg
Here’s hoping for better 360 days :)