Poll: I have decided I hate Microsoft

[MiracleOfSound]

Yes, I've felt pretty screwed over by Microsoft a few times.

Thank God for the internet and 'how to fix it yourself' videos.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

first off, Don't fuck with my text, and second, their are no exclusives to the PS3 and a majority of the people here would agree with me, and third your avatars Fucking Gay. That has nothing to do with this, but seriously, get some fucking taste, and eye sight

A probabtion? Really?

Pretty generous if you ask me. I've seen people perma-banned for less.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

This sounds more like you pissed off somebody that dabbles in magic.

If it's a wizard, I approve. Those bastards get more people killed on a wild unicorn chase than Bigfoot steals beef jerky.

If you're sure you didn't piss off anything that can command a cosmic force... then, I don't know what to say, I don't recall having to retrieve my account when I transferred data... or did I? Man I have horrible memory. Regardless, the bit where you were trying to buy Blacklight Tango Down may have been that that part of Xbox Live was taken down due to maintenance.

Can you buy it now?

Oh and I wouldn't buy a PS3 so soon after spending that much on an Xbox 360. Just wait it out a bit and see if it still causes you grief.

TvTropes agrees with that theory. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt]

you are an idiot, everyone's fine with Microsoft and their GOOD exclusive games.

Is this a joke? How does bringing up exclusives affect this discussion, and how is he an idiot for having windows live and xbox live fail on him?

I mean, fuck, if you're gonna troll then be more, I don't know, funny about it. Or inventive.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

EDIT: I hope you're having as much fun as I am bloodshed.

For that, i am reporting you for every one of these reply's you've made
and want too know why?
You hurt my feelings
=(
and why the fuck are you up at 2:15 fighting me (pissing me off), why dont you sleep

I think you should both go to sleep actually.

OP, If you can get an older PS3 with backwards compatibility its definitely a worthwhile investment.

I'm have chronic insomnia, saying that offends me

Everything, and I repeat everything, you have said in this thread offends me.

Everything.

EDIT:

first off, Don't fuck with my text, and second, their are no exclusives to the PS3 and a majority of the people here would agree with me, and third your avatars Fucking Gay. That has nothing to do with this, but seriously, get some fucking taste, and eye sight

A probabtion? Really?

Pretty generous if you ask me. I've seen people perma-banned for less.

Probably because they had a history of rudeness. Something tells me he won't make it that long.

 

[Mr. Grey]

This sounds more like you pissed off somebody that dabbles in magic.

If it's a wizard, I approve. Those bastards get more people killed on a wild unicorn chase than Bigfoot steals beef jerky.

What is it with you and wizards with unicorns?

Let's just say I know things, man... things that would blow your mind like something out of the sixties with all of them drugs.

LOl Mr Grey do you by any chance look like this in real life?

Spoiler

Pfft! I wish I had a beard like that.

The genie says it's against the rules, though. I think he just doesn't want me to have a beard more magnificent than his.

 

[OtakuNinja]

Yeah, I love my PS3, initially I slowly turned more and more to my PS3 because my 360 was doing more and more things to piss me off. Nowadays I barely touch my 360, only for those few good exclusives (Mass Effect). Do it, you won't regret it.

i was the same, so i sold my 360!

 

[TPiddy]

Meh, no system is without it's flaws, MS is more known for having tech issues, but is it really worth the extra money to just get a PS3? Get one because you WANT one, not because you have tech problems.

 

[bloodshed113094]

first off, Don't fuck with my text, and second, their are no exclusives to the PS3 and a majority of the people here would agree with me, and third your avatars Fucking Gay. That has nothing to do with this, but seriously, get some fucking taste, and eye sight

A probabtion? Really?

Pretty generous if you ask me. I've seen people perma-banned for less.

Actually i accidentally did that when trying to report the other guy =(

 

[bloodshed113094]

Is this a joke? How does bringing up exclusives affect this discussion, and how is he an idiot for having windows live and xbox live fail on him?

I mean, fuck, if you're gonna troll then be more, I don't know, funny about it. Or inventive.

OK, first, it doesn't that much but it matters to me so i put it, and he's an idiot for getting so pissed about it when most everyone else would blow it off.

 

[Gincairn]

I never bothered with the 360 myself, there was honestly nothing on it (bar 1 title) that interested me enough to buy one.

A general rule I live by, there have to be 5 games on a system that I must play before i'll even consider buying one.

The PS3 made it past 5 shortly after release, the 360 never made it past 1, mind you, I stopped looking after I got the PS3 anyway, even then I wasn't well off enough to buy a backwards compatible model, but that doesn't bother me either, I have a PS2 sitting next to the 3 and it's been used a total of twice in the 2-3 years that I've owned a PS3, oddly enough about the same amount of times as the Wii has been used. (Wii is the daughters not mine, therefore immune to the 5 titles rule)

 

[Bat Vader]

Is this a joke? How does bringing up exclusives affect this discussion, and how is he an idiot for having windows live and xbox live fail on him?

I mean, fuck, if you're gonna troll then be more, I don't know, funny about it. Or inventive.

OK, first, it doesn't that much but it matters to me so i put it, and he's an idiot for getting so pissed about it when most everyone else would blow it off.

There is no reason to insult the guy just because he got mad about windows live and his x-box 360 not working. Also, it is against the rules to insult another member of the Escapist. That is what gets people suspended and banned here.

 

[Free Thinker]

Did you perhaps piss off a gypsy witch?
Voodoo shaman?
Leprechaun?
Or a warlock?
If none of these, the world and all of it's variables and probabilities hates you. I still have my 360, no rings, no errors, and I have a PS3 and proud of it. Both are pretty good in own aspects. Your choice now.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

you are an idiot, everyone's fine with Microsoft and their GOOD exclusive games.

fixed it for you. After my third RROD I said fck it and won't be buying anymore poorly made xboxs; I will miss Crackdown though. (thats Crackdown, not Crackdown 2)

first off, Don't fuck with my text, and second, their are no exclusives to the PS3 and a majority of the people here would agree with me, and third your avatars Fucking Gay. That has nothing to do with this, but seriously, get some fucking taste, and eye sight

Infamous, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, and Metal Gear Solid 4, Little Big Planet, Gran Turismo 5, Infamous 2, Uncharted 1-2, Twisted Metal, God of War Collection, God of War 3, Heavy Rain, Warhawk and Demon's Soul. The PS3 might have few exclusives, but they are pretty damn good ones. There is a big difference between a few damn good exclusives and none. So your statement that it has no exclusives is flat out false. Implying that it has bad exclusives implies that you have a very different sense of taste from millions of other gamers.

I like Alan Wake, Gears of War, and many other Xbox exclusives, but the many problems I have had with Microsoft have been annoying me.

There I fixed the list for you. I don't want to start anything but PS3 does have more GOOD exclusives. (Oh and FF XIII versus is exclusive also can't wait for that )

 

[Danpascooch]

Earlier last month, I had this problem:

I ordered and downloaded Blacklight Tango Down on Steam. Initially after installing I tried to sign in with my windows live account. The program tried to update my windows live data. I got an error message, specifically, I got OX80072751. I looked around, and found out this is the error message you get when windows live hasn't been updated. So the game couldn't update windows live...because I hadn't updated windows live.

Well, I went to one of microsoft's sites, directly downloaded the current version of live, and that solved that problem. But then, when I opened the game again, and tried to log into my windows live account, again, I got another error message. this time I got OX80151911. I went to a website, specifically I went too
http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/785.aspx

I took his advice, ran the suggested command line in command prompt as administrator, and it still didn't work. To my knowledge I literally cannot play this game no matter how hard I try. The game will *not* access window lives servers no matter what I do.

I can however access my windows live account outside of this game. I have also done a full system scan with Avira anti-virus premium security suite, and found no malware. Hence, the problem is apparently not with my computer. I have deleted and reinstalled the program several times. I have deleted and reinstalled games for windows live. The game still does not work.

Immediately after that, I got the red rings of death on my Xbox 360. I then bought a second Xbox 360, an elite with 250 gig harddrive for $320.00. I hooked up a transfer kit($20.00), and went out to a resturant, because it would take about an hour to finish the transfer of my old harddrive data to the new console. When I got back, I found out it had only finished 1/8 of the download because, and I am not kidding, the console wanted to know whether I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d. I wound up wasting an hour sitting around waiting for the transfer to finish....just because the console wanted to know if I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d.


Then, after it finally finished downloading, I tried to log on, but I was told that I couldn't use my profile, and that I had to recover my profile rather than just directly using it from the data transfer. So I recovered it. Then I tried to buy Blacklight Tango Down. I got another error message:

"Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later.

Status Code: 801553b2"


How is this much failure even possible unintentionally? Should I just switch to Sony PS3?

This generic message can be a sign that your credit card information is messed up, or someone put a freeze on your account (maybe a parent?)

 

[demoman_chaos]

I'd switch. The updates aren't very often and usually aren't a big issue. It takes time of course, but what doesn't? Plus PSN is free (PSN+ is optional) and uses real money instead of forcing you to buy special points.

 

[RelexCryo]

Earlier last month, I had this problem:

I ordered and downloaded Blacklight Tango Down on Steam. Initially after installing I tried to sign in with my windows live account. The program tried to update my windows live data. I got an error message, specifically, I got OX80072751. I looked around, and found out this is the error message you get when windows live hasn't been updated. So the game couldn't update windows live...because I hadn't updated windows live.

Well, I went to one of microsoft's sites, directly downloaded the current version of live, and that solved that problem. But then, when I opened the game again, and tried to log into my windows live account, again, I got another error message. this time I got OX80151911. I went to a website, specifically I went too
http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/785.aspx

I took his advice, ran the suggested command line in command prompt as administrator, and it still didn't work. To my knowledge I literally cannot play this game no matter how hard I try. The game will *not* access window lives servers no matter what I do.

I can however access my windows live account outside of this game. I have also done a full system scan with Avira anti-virus premium security suite, and found no malware. Hence, the problem is apparently not with my computer. I have deleted and reinstalled the program several times. I have deleted and reinstalled games for windows live. The game still does not work.

Immediately after that, I got the red rings of death on my Xbox 360. I then bought a second Xbox 360, an elite with 250 gig harddrive for $320.00. I hooked up a transfer kit($20.00), and went out to a resturant, because it would take about an hour to finish the transfer of my old harddrive data to the new console. When I got back, I found out it had only finished 1/8 of the download because, and I am not kidding, the console wanted to know whether I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d. I wound up wasting an hour sitting around waiting for the transfer to finish....just because the console wanted to know if I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d.


Then, after it finally finished downloading, I tried to log on, but I was told that I couldn't use my profile, and that I had to recover my profile rather than just directly using it from the data transfer. So I recovered it. Then I tried to buy Blacklight Tango Down. I got another error message:

"Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later.

Status Code: 801553b2"


How is this much failure even possible unintentionally? Should I just switch to Sony PS3?

This generic message can be a sign that your credit card information is messed up, or someone put a freeze on your account (maybe a parent?)

There is no freeze on my account. I was recently able to buy Blacklight Tango Down, and my account is more or less working on my 360. Also, no "parents" control my account. I still have problems with games for windows live though.

 

[Danpascooch]

Earlier last month, I had this problem:

I ordered and downloaded Blacklight Tango Down on Steam. Initially after installing I tried to sign in with my windows live account. The program tried to update my windows live data. I got an error message, specifically, I got OX80072751. I looked around, and found out this is the error message you get when windows live hasn't been updated. So the game couldn't update windows live...because I hadn't updated windows live.

Well, I went to one of microsoft's sites, directly downloaded the current version of live, and that solved that problem. But then, when I opened the game again, and tried to log into my windows live account, again, I got another error message. this time I got OX80151911. I went to a website, specifically I went too
http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/785.aspx

I took his advice, ran the suggested command line in command prompt as administrator, and it still didn't work. To my knowledge I literally cannot play this game no matter how hard I try. The game will *not* access window lives servers no matter what I do.

I can however access my windows live account outside of this game. I have also done a full system scan with Avira anti-virus premium security suite, and found no malware. Hence, the problem is apparently not with my computer. I have deleted and reinstalled the program several times. I have deleted and reinstalled games for windows live. The game still does not work.

Immediately after that, I got the red rings of death on my Xbox 360. I then bought a second Xbox 360, an elite with 250 gig harddrive for $320.00. I hooked up a transfer kit($20.00), and went out to a resturant, because it would take about an hour to finish the transfer of my old harddrive data to the new console. When I got back, I found out it had only finished 1/8 of the download because, and I am not kidding, the console wanted to know whether I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d. I wound up wasting an hour sitting around waiting for the transfer to finish....just because the console wanted to know if I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d.


Then, after it finally finished downloading, I tried to log on, but I was told that I couldn't use my profile, and that I had to recover my profile rather than just directly using it from the data transfer. So I recovered it. Then I tried to buy Blacklight Tango Down. I got another error message:

"Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later.

Status Code: 801553b2"


How is this much failure even possible unintentionally? Should I just switch to Sony PS3?

This generic message can be a sign that your credit card information is messed up, or someone put a freeze on your account (maybe a parent?)

There is no freeze on my account. I was recently able to buy Blacklight Tango Down, and my account is more or less working on my 360. Also, no "parents" control my account. I still have problems with games for windows live though.

sucks to be you.

Have you called support? yes I realize that sounds crazy considering how not useful phone support for anything usually is, but give it a half hour, talk to a real person, they can probably tell you what's wrong.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

TBH, PC, PS3 and 360 have their problems, if you go one route you'll likely encounter different problems.

I've found Microsoft to be decent, I'm sticking with the 'hate Activision band-wagon'.

 

[Zackary Yakumo]

Well at least they made the best operating system ever and, as far as I know, the best portable media device ever too.

Man, do I want one of those, I say as I listen to my rapidly deteriorating iPod with all its shitty quality, overpricedness and false guarentees.

I say microsoft forget the xbox, and just stick to computers. but then all the whiny xbox fanboys will come ove to the pc or the ps3 and ***** how they miss xbox live. ive had my ps3 for 3 years and have only had one problem which i found this week when i tried to get on playstation home. if you have the money to spend, i say do it. only thinkg i miss is the halo, which i torrented (oopsies) for the pc

Edit: Ipod: The biggest waste of your money ever. Im waiting for mine to die so i can get a zune also.

 

[Zackary Yakumo]

Earlier last month, I had this problem:

I ordered and downloaded Blacklight Tango Down on Steam. Initially after installing I tried to sign in with my windows live account. The program tried to update my windows live data. I got an error message, specifically, I got OX80072751. I looked around, and found out this is the error message you get when windows live hasn't been updated. So the game couldn't update windows live...because I hadn't updated windows live.

Well, I went to one of microsoft's sites, directly downloaded the current version of live, and that solved that problem. But then, when I opened the game again, and tried to log into my windows live account, again, I got another error message. this time I got OX80151911. I went to a website, specifically I went too
http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/785.aspx

I took his advice, ran the suggested command line in command prompt as administrator, and it still didn't work. To my knowledge I literally cannot play this game no matter how hard I try. The game will *not* access window lives servers no matter what I do.

I can however access my windows live account outside of this game. I have also done a full system scan with Avira anti-virus premium security suite, and found no malware. Hence, the problem is apparently not with my computer. I have deleted and reinstalled the program several times. I have deleted and reinstalled games for windows live. The game still does not work.

Immediately after that, I got the red rings of death on my Xbox 360. I then bought a second Xbox 360, an elite with 250 gig harddrive for $320.00. I hooked up a transfer kit($20.00), and went out to a resturant, because it would take about an hour to finish the transfer of my old harddrive data to the new console. When I got back, I found out it had only finished 1/8 of the download because, and I am not kidding, the console wanted to know whether I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d. I wound up wasting an hour sitting around waiting for the transfer to finish....just because the console wanted to know if I wanted to overwrite Hexic 3d.


Then, after it finally finished downloading, I tried to log on, but I was told that I couldn't use my profile, and that I had to recover my profile rather than just directly using it from the data transfer. So I recovered it. Then I tried to buy Blacklight Tango Down. I got another error message:

"Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later.

Status Code: 801553b2"


How is this much failure even possible unintentionally? Should I just switch to Sony PS3?

This generic message can be a sign that your credit card information is messed up, or someone put a freeze on your account (maybe a parent?)

There is no freeze on my account. I was recently able to buy Blacklight Tango Down, and my account is more or less working on my 360. Also, no "parents" control my account. I still have problems with games for windows live though.

sucks to be you.

Have you called support? yes I realize that sounds crazy considering how not useful phone support for anything usually is, but give it a half hour, talk to a real person, they can probably tell you what's wrong.

If you can speak Indian. Lol