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Post by carboncore on Jul 12, 2007 18:00:00 GMT 6
www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000608The suit claims that the Xbox 360 console's laser disc reading assembly contacts and scratches discs.
A Florida man has filed a $5 million federal class-action lawsuit against Microsoft this week, claiming the company is responsible for a defect in the Xbox 360 that scratches game discs and makes them unusable.
Jorge Brouwer of Broward County filed the suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The suit was first reported on the gaming site Joystiq.
The suit claims that the Xbox 360 was "negligently designed and manufactured" in that the video-game console's laser disc reading assembly contacts and scratches discs. "The scratches to the game discs render them unreadable or otherwise inoperable," the suit says. Brouwer said the Xbox 360 he bought in November 2006 destroyed the Gears of War and Madden NFL '07" video-game discs he bought for $50 each.
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Post by markettantrik on Jul 12, 2007 18:01:08 GMT 6
Ya, I remember reading about this. Was gonna happen sooner or later.
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Post by carboncore on Jul 12, 2007 18:08:32 GMT 6
Yeah....I've got a badly scratched GOW disc, by none other than mighty 360. Now whenever I load it in 360, it shows me msg on big white screen telling me to put it in Xbox 360. And I'm like, WTF did I just put it in, Bill Gate's a$$ ??
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Post by aman on Jul 12, 2007 19:14:44 GMT 6
360 is the 1st console to incorporate such an unique defect. kudos to bill gates  |
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Post by HickEnd on Jul 13, 2007 7:09:44 GMT 6
ya afterall who doesnt like nice scratches on their disks?
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Post by brandy23 on Jul 13, 2007 9:49:52 GMT 6
Lolz..My gow disc got damaged too..There r scratches in circle which cannot be done manually..I m gonna get it replaced..
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Post by brandy23 on Jul 13, 2007 9:51:51 GMT 6
They shud increase the warrenty from 3 mths to 3 yrs..  |
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Post by brandy23 on Jul 13, 2007 9:52:17 GMT 6
They shud increase the warrenty from 3 mths to 3 yrs..For the cds |
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Post by markettantrik on Jul 13, 2007 10:59:11 GMT 6
!! Hey Brandy, if you want to make corrections to your post, you can click on the "modify" button above your post while viewing the thread. This can save you from double posting.
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Post by HundredProofSam on Jul 13, 2007 13:40:40 GMT 6
ya and if u do choose to type the same thing twice, then atleast spell the words correctly second time around  peace |
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Post by Hahaman on Jul 13, 2007 15:42:58 GMT 6
whoahoo dirt is awesome...oo wait a sec wrong thread
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Post by KC on Jul 13, 2007 15:47:34 GMT 6
hey sam did you delete the dirt thread.
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Post by carboncore on Jul 19, 2007 23:29:38 GMT 6
Microsoft Hit With A Second Xbox 360 Class Action Suitwww.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201002267Microsoft has been hit with a new class action lawsuit alleging that the company's Xbox 360 console damages game discs.
"Microsoft improperly and/or negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a manner that causes the expensive game discs ... to be scratched, rendering the games unusable," the suit alleges.
The complaint was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Southern California by two residents of the state: Christine Moskowitz and Dan Wood. The suit is seeking not less than $5 million in damages for Xbox 360 buyers affected by the alleged glitch.
Microsoft was slapped with a similar action last week in a Florida court.
In the California court filing, Moskowitz says that in March 2006 she purchased for her son an Xbox 360, along with the popular games Gears of War, Crackdown, and Saints Row. Within a few months, the games bore circular scratch marks and wouldn't work properly, Moskowitz claims. Wood says he purchased an Xbox 360 last December and the unit soon damaged his copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.
Both plaintiffs claim that the Xbox 360 console damaged their discs and that Microsoft refused to replace the ruined games or pay for them.
Earlier this month, Microsoft acknowledged that a hardware defect in the console was leading to what the company called "an unacceptable number" of general hardware failures. To deal with the problem, Microsoft said it would extend the warranty period on the units by three years, at a cost of between $1.05 billion and $1.15 billion.
The company made no mention of a disc scratching problem, however.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Xbox division head Peter Moore was leaving the company to take a position at games publisher Electronic Arts.
In their lawsuit, Moskowitz and Wood argue that Microsoft's scramble to get a next-generation video game system into the market to compete with those from rivals Sony and Nintendo is at the root of the Xbox 360's problems. "Microsoft's rush to market, while positive for Microsoft, was detrimental to consumers because the Xbox 360 suffered from numerous hardware defects," the suit claims.
Responding to the Florida lawsuit, a Microsoft spokesman told InformationWeek that the company has not received a significant number of complaints about scratched discs, despite the fact that "there are millions of Xbox consoles in use."
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Post by HundredProofSam on Aug 5, 2007 12:37:21 GMT 6
Law firm WCC and SKWC have filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court Western District of Washington at Seattle on behalf of a nationwide class of consumers who have suffered scratched game disks while using their X-Box 360 Console. The lawsuit seeks: reimbursement for consumers for the cost of games damaged by the Console, reimbursement for consumers who have paid a $20 fee to Microsoft Corporation under a limited disk replacement program offered on ten Microsoft games, repair, free of charge, the Consoles to prevent disks from being scratched, and/or reimbursement for consumers who have paid for an aftermarket repair solution.
peace
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