Gamer, Randy Nunez finds bugs and glitches in Bungie's best selling videogame Halo 3 and decides to take action against this by filing a lawsuit against not only Bungie Studios but Microsoft as well.
Will he win? My guess is no. Is he looking like an idiot? My guess is yes.
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Yes, especially with PC Games there seems to be idea that you should jsut put the game out and people will buy in and they can start playing it a month or so later when it is actually finished enough to be playable and the first major patch is thrown out
its really lame. God, and the PC stuff is so bad now. Bioshock had huge issues with its anti-piracy shit, making it easier to pirate the game than to purchase it, and making the pirated version more user friendly.
someone should be accountable for their product working or not.
How many other products is it considered "ok" for them to glitch and freeze, especially for $60-80 on a $300 system?
Well Microsoft is already in deep shit over the 360 in Europe to the point where a successful lawsuit could severely hurt them and may even force them to leave the video game market.
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Here's what I know. In most countries it is illegal to purposely sell defective products onto the market, hence why Toshiba has been successfully sued by Americans to the tune of several tens of billions of dollars over the years. The established industry standard for "general hardware failure" (bricking) within the first 1.5 years is 3-6%. Now the European Union has an agency that tracks and records product returns and functions as consumer advocates. They went over their statistics and did a study after repeated complaints about the Xbox and the 360 after repeated complaints and came to the conclusion that the General Hardware Failure rate for Xbox and related products is right around 60%. So they decided to file a class action lawsuit against Microsoft to the tune of several billion dollars in addition to an already pending antitrust lawsuit. As far as I know, the Xbox case hasn't come to trial yet.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Angry Gamer sues Bungie, Microsoft
Almost all of the outrageous pay outs either get overturned or drastically reduced afterward, the media typically doesn't find that too exciting and it slips through the cracks.
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"Far-hotter" is very much subjective. What is your definition of "far-hotter"?
And, when I make hot chocolate, my water is boiling just mere seconds before I poor it into the mug.
Edit - Saw the second part of your post. Yeah, she sat there for like a minute. Other coffee would have burned her just as bad or close to that degree, as well.
double edit - I just looked up temperature for comercially served coffee. You could be right.
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I thought it was closer to 170 F for commericailly served coffee.
Micky D's was like 180/190.
That's (ugh....)
76 degree celsius for normal comercial coffee and 87 degrees celsius for McDonald's coffee.
However, what I was reading, the 10 degree difference is the difference between 3rd degree burns and first degree burns as the drop in temperature reduces burns, ove a unit of time, exponentially down to 155 degrees F/68C. (It took a while to type this post out as the math took a while.)
Touche.
What I was talking about is the absurd stupidness and hyperbole of journalism like this, being a cause of the stupid lawsuits and the need for tort reform:
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