How to Make Your 360 Crash




Posted by blade527

http://s14.invisionfree.com/console_gaming/index.php?showtopic=13&st=0




Posted by Klarth

not a future system anymore
stop advertising or celine dion will eat you




Posted by blade527


Quoting Klarth: not a future system anymore
stop advertising or celine dion will eat you


Technicaly the xbox 360 is a future system until it is released across europe. And if you plan on sending this message to everyone whos posted a topic regarding the xbox 360 recently on the 'Future Systems' section you got a lot of typing to do.



Posted by Klarth

I see three threads other than the identical two you created. And hey, two of those three are half-decent threads.

Fail.




Posted by GameMiestro

[quote=blade527]if u plan on sending this message to everyone whos posted a topic regarding the xbox 360 recently on the 'Future Systems' section u got a lot of typing to do.

[quote=Klarth]Fail.

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Posted by Angerion the Brave

I wouldn't put any of it past Microsoft, though I'm sure the Mole might've been embelishing.

Heck, PS2 scratches discs regardless.




Posted by Lord of Spam

Who could have guessed that Microsoft would release a buggy and low quality product just so that they could crush the competition?




Posted by Axis


Quoting Lord of Spam: Who could have guessed that Microsoft would release a buggy and low quality product just so that they could crush the competition?

Everyone who I've talked to hasn't had one problem with their Xbox 1 when they've had it. Same case this time around, I've heard very little. Oh yeah, and if you wan't a company that releases bugged machines to crush the competition I suggest you look around. *COUGH*Sony*COUGH*



Posted by Prince Shondronai

Indeed. I hope sony doesn't solve the melty ps3 problem by 2007, and they still release it with a tray around the bottom of the stand to collect the drops of molten plastic, and sell extra blocks of plastic to place on top of the system once a week to keep it coated.




Posted by Klarth

Sounds like the sort of thing they'd do.

And I just remembered this: http://www.usd.edu/~bwjames/humor/ms/microsoftdin.html




Posted by Lord of Spam


Quoting Axis: Everyone who I've talked to hasn't had one problem with their Xbox 1 when they've had it. Same case this time around, I've heard very little. Oh yeah, and if you wan't a company that releases bugged machines to crush the competition I suggest you look around. *COUGH*Sony*COUGH*



Thanks for sucking the fun out of that joke, fanboy.



Posted by Skitzo Control

It's actually to the point where I ignore everything anybody on VGC says about the Xbox, because the strong majority of you people are fanboys. What exactly is wrong with the Xbox? Superior graphics? Great games? The best online service? A controller that has only proven inferior to the PS2's in fighting games? HDTV compatibility? Come the f[COLOR=white]u[/COLOR]ck on, you idiots, stop hating the system because of the name that's behind it.

And now with the 360. It has very few good launch titles (what system ever had more than 2 good games good at launch?), sure, but almost all of the feedback I've heard from the system has been positive. I've a friend who is a Nintendo Fanboy, and he proclaimed, "The 360 is just the best-feeling system I've ever played." Also, he hasn't had it crash on him. I'll tell you all the same thing I tell new girls in the porn industry: try something new, you might like it.




Posted by Lord of Spam

It. Was. A. Joke.

Jesus ****ing christ, get a sense of humor, people.




Posted by nich

Tgis thread is really stupid. If you wanted to let people know when not to do something to avoid a crash then by all means. This seems like instructions for someone stupid to do something stupid. Every system has Its share of problems and microsoft said they recieved less complaints about problems with a system than they expected.




Posted by Big Boss


Quoting Axis: Everyone who I've talked to hasn't had one problem with their Xbox 1 when they've had it. Same case this time around, I've heard very little. Oh yeah, and if you wan't a company that releases bugged machines to crush the competition I suggest you look around. *COUGH*Sony*COUGH*


Actually, the Xbox is well known for having a very crappy Thompson disc drive that doesn't do well with dual-layered discs, and after extensive use it doesn't do well with any disc. This problem is so common that there are several websites up to deal with this issue, and going to message boards like BioWare's will reveal a bunch of people that have had the problem (Jade Empire is dual layered). Unless you bought an Xbox recently, only luck would tell whether you were purchasing an Xbox with a good drive or not, as the box doesn't tell you.

As for the 360, the only issue I've come across was when I wanted to play Quake 4. At startup, the game would tell me, "This disc should only be played on an Xbox 360" in different languages. I looked over to make sure I had purchased an Xbox 360. I looked at the disc tray, and indeed it said "Xbox 360." So, I tried it again and this time it'd run. Then, I found out you can't play split screen. Then I realized the only problem I had with the 360 was that Quake 4 sucks.




Posted by Skitzo Control

[quote=Big Boss][FONT=trebuchet ms][COLOR=yellowgreen]Actually, the Xbox is well known for having a very crappy Thompson disc drive that doesn't do well with dual-layered discs, and after extensive use it doesn't do well with any disc. This problem is so common that there are several websites up to deal with this issue, and going to message boards like BioWare's will reveal a bunch of people that have had the problem (Jade Empire is dual layered). Unless you bought an Xbox recently, only luck would tell whether you were purchasing an Xbox with a good drive or not, as the box doesn't tell you.

As for the 360, the only issue I've come across was when I wanted to play Quake 4. At startup, the game would tell me, "This disc should only be played on an Xbox 360" in different languages. I looked over to make sure I had purchased an Xbox 360. I looked at the disc tray, and indeed it said "Xbox 360." So, I tried it again and this time it'd run. Then, I found out you can't play split screen. Then I realized the only problem I had with the 360 was that Quake 4 sucks.[/COLOR][/FONT]
I have friends who would return the Xbox for an exchange when the drive was bad. Also, I've been at LANs where guys would wait for eachother to fall asleep, then take the Xboxes apart and switch them out. Rippon got in a lot of trouble for that...

Quake was never really good in the first place.;)




Posted by Axis


Quoting Lord of Spam: Thanks for sucking the fun out of that joke, fanboy.

Yeah, I'm a fanboy alright even though I own all 3 and a PC. Oh yeah, your joke wasn't funny either.

[quote=Big Boss]Actually, the Xbox is well known for having a very crappy Thompson disc drive that doesn't do well with dual-layered discs, and after extensive use it doesn't do well with any disc. This problem is so common that there are several websites up to deal with this issue, and going to message boards like BioWare's will reveal a bunch of people that have had the problem (Jade Empire is dual layered). Unless you bought an Xbox recently, only luck would tell whether you were purchasing an Xbox with a good drive or not, as the box doesn't tell you.
I have a Thompson drive and nothing has gone wrong, but two of my friends have had to switch theres out because the drive failed.





Posted by Lord of Spam

It wasnt meant to be an accurate reflectin of Microsofts quality. It was just a joke on the reputation that they have for rushing shoddy propducts. ****ers like you take **** too seriously.

OMG, someone said something bad about a company! Quick! Rush to the defense!




Posted by Axis

Whoa, whoa, calm down there, cowboy. No need to get mad over a little thing.




Posted by Lord of Spam

So says the person who felt the need to try to refute a simple joke.




Posted by KoH

I thought it was funny, LoS. :)




Posted by Big Boss

Ok, enough of that. Get back to topic or continue this somewhere else.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

[quote]How To make Your 360 Crash
Turn it on.




Posted by loony636


Quoted post: I received a frightening email this morning from a guy who claims he was a beta tester for the 360.


Why are you scared? This guy is a lunatic who wants to destroy his beta Xbox 360.


Quoted post: Halo Try this game of profile hide-and-seek. Create a profile with the hard drive attached. During gameplay remove the hard drive and the 360 will reboot. Reattach the hard drive again and the system will reboot for a third time. Look for your profile saved onto Hard Drive, it will often disappear.


Would anyone really remove their hard drive in the middle of playing a game just to see if the profile would disappear? No. Plus there's a more likely chance that doing that would completely wreck the system. I'm sure that the beta testers have to return the console in not completely destroyed condition. My conclusion: bulldust.

[QUOTE]Tony Hawk



Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Useless or not, they're still bugs and should have been removed. That's the job of a beta tester. Bugs are to expected on release, though - it is a Microsoft product.

And pressing the Home button during a loading screen? A lot of people will actually do that. There should be a failsafe for that. It's akin to pulling your memory card out during a loading sequence, on another console. You seem to want to defend the 360 no matter what.

It's not the Messiah, and it get be a very naughty machine. All of them are, and you have to work around or fix the inadequacies, not pretend they aren't there. The power of the machine more than outweighs its faults, but they really should have been fixed.


This is more of an aside, but I had an interview at Game (the English branch of EB, pretty much) yesterday, the day after the British 360 launch. This particular store only got six Premium systems in, and a smattering of Cores -probably about eight - that were up for grabs. They went on the dot of 9am, when the store opened, and when I went in at half past ten the next day they'd already recieved three or four calls from people who'd had it break on them. it seems you don't need to try to make the console crash, and that's a pretty big oversight.




Posted by Lord of Spam


Quoting Wings: Bugs are to expected on release, though - it is a Microsoft product.


Thats the same joke I made, and people flipped out about it. :(


Quoting Wings: They went on the dot of 9am, when the store opened, and when I went in at half past ten the next day they'd already recieved three or four calls from people who'd had it break on them.


Vindication :cool:

And before anyone pulls the "zomg ps2 broke also" crap, yeah, I know, buts thats not the subject here, so dont try to draw form the issue.



Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

PS2 broke (disc errors all over the shop, disc scratching, just plain stopping working), as did the XBox (scratching discs, deleting games ont he hard drive, etc). The only current-gen console that hasn't had too many problems is the GameCube, but even then it can be prone to stupid things like the Open buttons sticking and the occasional disc error.

No system is perfect. I'm trying to make that point. A lot of fanboys just go overboard and overlook the system's faults because of its power or whatever. And I'm talking about actual faults, not OH WOW THE REVOLUTION HAS NO GOOD GAMES LIKE GRAND THEFT AUTO. I have no doubt that the Revo, for example, will be a solid system, with probably a few games not backwards compatible, and a couple of buttons that are hard to reach. But I can expect very few hardware failures. Conversely, a console that fails but with a good controller is fairly useless.