Saturday, November 24th 2007
Californian Gamer Starts Class-Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft over Halo 3 Errors
Microsoft and Bungie have received both good and bad press from Halo 3. On the one hand, they claim record sales and profits. On the other, a sizable portion of the disks were faulty anyways. Thanks to a trivial packaging mistake, most of the "Legendary edition" disks came loose and scratched themselves during shipping. Even when the Halo 3 disks arrived in one piece, there was a certain chance that the game would not even load correctly, which Microsoft was well aware of. This inability to load correctly causes Xbox360s to "crash, freeze or lock up". That's the case that Californian gamer Randy Nunez is making against Microsoft. His class-action lawsuit seeks $5 million USD, and claims that Microsoft should have recalled Halo 3 after they knew about the crashing, freezing, and locking-up that Halo 3 would cause. What could really win this case in favor of Nunez is the fact that quite a few gamers get disk read error messages in the middle of a Halo 3 battle.
Source:
Reg Hardware
36 Comments on Californian Gamer Starts Class-Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft over Halo 3 Errors
I love the "let's sue the b******ds" culture....
Sue them for $5m? Where did he get that figure from?
The most powerful thing he can do is to not buy the game, or anything else from MS.
If enough people are peeved off about it, MS will feel the hurt financially.. well, kinda
What basis does he have for this claim?
He bought a product, it was faulty and he had an exchange or refund.
I fail to see how the company owes him 5 million dollars
Maybe they will settle to avoid bad press, but that makes a total joke out of your/our society. Even if he only gets 1% of his claim, that is 50,000, which would take most people years and years to save up. But instead it's more profitable to think of a petty lawsuit.
Why would Microsoft be any difference.
I hardly see this creating 'bad press.'
However, I can actually see this going somewhere if Microsoft didn't recall the bad Legendary cases. Who's the idiot that designed that? He needs a good :nutkick:
And then I want to see him get mugged for his winnings and given the thrashing of a lifetime.
If anyone needs me, Ill be on youtube, praying...
:roll: that makes no sense. Btu then again, neither does bitching about a scratched CD.
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