Jeremy Duenas

Do you know how frustrating it is to go a month without playing xbox (by choice) and then when you get that urge to play a game or two  you can’t? Its VERY frustrating! I went a month or so without playing the xbox because it was beginning to bore me. I’d spent endless hours killing people in Call of Duty 3 and all my other games just bored me. But then my hunger to game came back to me. I fell victim to the hunger pains and started up the ‘ol 360 to play some Gears of War with my friend Justin. The loading screen comes up. “oh boy!” I thought, “I’m going to kick some ass.”. That’s about the same time that the xbox froze. “WTF?!?!?!” I yelled loudly. “JEREMY! Don’t say that!” my mom yelled back. So I frantically restarted my box only to find that it froze every time I started it up. So I called xbox tech support.

Now I’d heard nightmarish stories about how MS tech support is horrible. And how you’re always on the phone for like an hour. To my surprise, it wasn’t painful. I called the number and was introduced to the automated voice system. After chatting it up with that guy for a while, I was taken to real live, breathing human! I explained the situation to the guy and he pulled up my xbox’s info and informed me that I was till under warranty (Even though I hadn’t red ringed yet). But he told me to do something that red ringed it. Great! So he gave me some information and MS sent me an empty box and packaging material. I was kind of lazy and waited two weeks before I took it…but eventually I sent it off to Texas (that’s where MS fixes/replaces xbox’s). A week later I was freaking out and wanted my xbox. But I silenced that xbox hunger with a healthy portion of World of Warcraft. Swords, dwarfs, giant spiders, and the Defias Brotherhood.. MmmMmmmMmmm. Just like mom used to make.

The following week I had grown impatient, because I’m an impatient person. So I called up tech support and was like “BITCHES! WHERE DA FUCK MUH XBOX AT?!”. or something along the lines of that. :)  The guy informed me that the xbox was scheduled to arrive today. OH SWEET JESUS HOORAY YES! No sooner had I gotten off the phone that the doorbell rang. I seriously made this face- O_O

So I got my xbox back and started it up. It scared me though, because I thought the audio was broken. Turns out one of the p.o.s. gaming cable “router” I bought from gamestop a year ago had a bad audio plug.  So here it is two weeks later and I’ve had absolutely no issues with  my xbox. It runs quieter, actually. Which means its probably one of the newer xboxes.

In conclusion, despite the rumors, despite the jokes, despite the despitefulness, getting a red ring of death isn’t as painful as it sounds. And getting your xbox replaced is very easy. http://xbox.com/support/

Tags: Gaming, Microsoft, Rant, xbox

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