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Just feeling like a little rant, haven't done this in a while!
So...I bought my Xbox 360 when it first came out, fresh from the production line...the first stock ever to arrive at London's Virgin Megastore in Tottenham Court Road. Had it going strong for a few years to come with the dvd tray occassionally getting stuck as time went by, and then bang, December last year it gives me the RROD. After lots of cursing and phonecalls and emails it came down to a point where there wasn't really anything I could do to make use of the warranty as I bought it in London and was now back in SA. So eventually I had it repaired and it worked again, albeit never running as smoothly as it used to before the RROD.
Since the repairs it's been running a bit on the rougher side and on those slightly warmer or odd days it would just freeze up every 2 min after switching it on. So I bought myself the Guitar Hero 5, thinking I'll jam a bit on Saturday and all "good excitement" turned bad as it kept freezing from the moment I get to the songlist screen. Tried on all my other games, same problem and at that point I know, this is not a game issue. Try running the game without the hard drive, still no luck. Not happy! You know the feeling, new game, just can't play it! I left it there and thought to retry on Sunday, managed to play 1 and a half songs and it all started again. Followed same procedure as previous day, and well, no luck! So at that point just had enough, went out to the shops and picked up a new Elite box.
Yay, so at that point I feel happy that I have a new console and some freeze-free gaming ahead, not to mention, an extra 100 gigs space even though I'm like over R3000 poorer. Alas! All this effort, only to realise that I now need to get hold of a transfer kit in order to actually get my data from the 20 gig hard drive to the new 120 gig hard drive! All my nice little downloaded content such as guitar hero track packs, COD maps, Halo maps, Burnout map & challenges etc. Stuff I actually spent points on!
Should've probably checked it out beforehand, but ugh...does xbox always have to have a specific peripheral for a specific task? It's Microsoft FFS!
...And today it dawns on me like the atom bomb over Hiroshima at the end of WWII, what good will this transfer kit do me anyway? All those download content I spent MS points on is probably copyright protected and not transferable anyway!
FML!!!
/rant over
So...I bought my Xbox 360 when it first came out, fresh from the production line...the first stock ever to arrive at London's Virgin Megastore in Tottenham Court Road. Had it going strong for a few years to come with the dvd tray occassionally getting stuck as time went by, and then bang, December last year it gives me the RROD. After lots of cursing and phonecalls and emails it came down to a point where there wasn't really anything I could do to make use of the warranty as I bought it in London and was now back in SA. So eventually I had it repaired and it worked again, albeit never running as smoothly as it used to before the RROD.
Since the repairs it's been running a bit on the rougher side and on those slightly warmer or odd days it would just freeze up every 2 min after switching it on. So I bought myself the Guitar Hero 5, thinking I'll jam a bit on Saturday and all "good excitement" turned bad as it kept freezing from the moment I get to the songlist screen. Tried on all my other games, same problem and at that point I know, this is not a game issue. Try running the game without the hard drive, still no luck. Not happy! You know the feeling, new game, just can't play it! I left it there and thought to retry on Sunday, managed to play 1 and a half songs and it all started again. Followed same procedure as previous day, and well, no luck! So at that point just had enough, went out to the shops and picked up a new Elite box.
Yay, so at that point I feel happy that I have a new console and some freeze-free gaming ahead, not to mention, an extra 100 gigs space even though I'm like over R3000 poorer. Alas! All this effort, only to realise that I now need to get hold of a transfer kit in order to actually get my data from the 20 gig hard drive to the new 120 gig hard drive! All my nice little downloaded content such as guitar hero track packs, COD maps, Halo maps, Burnout map & challenges etc. Stuff I actually spent points on!
Should've probably checked it out beforehand, but ugh...does xbox always have to have a specific peripheral for a specific task? It's Microsoft FFS!
...And today it dawns on me like the atom bomb over Hiroshima at the end of WWII, what good will this transfer kit do me anyway? All those download content I spent MS points on is probably copyright protected and not transferable anyway!
FML!!!
/rant over
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