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01-07-2008, 02:46 PM
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Microsoft sued over Xbox Live outage
Microsoft sued over Xbox Live outage
Irate gamers demand over $5 million in damages following slate of reported problems over holidays. By Ina Fried, News.com Posted Jan 4, 2008 6:33 pm PT Microsoft now faces a lawsuit over recent problems with its Xbox Live online gaming service. Three Texas residents filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of themselves and others who have had trouble connecting to Xbox Live in recent weeks. The suit, filed in US District Court in Houston, claims Microsoft's outages represent a breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation for which the software maker is liable. The suit doesn't claim specific damages, but notes the amount is in excess of $5 million. In the suit, the plaintiffs allege that Microsoft should have known strong holiday sales would tax its servers. "Microsoft knew the increase in subscriptions would increase game-play on its servers, yet failed to provide adequate access and service to Xbox Live and its subscribers," read the filing. Microsoft has apologized for the outage and said it would allow Xbox live subscribers to download a free game. A Microsoft representative was not immediately available for comment. finely MS got the ass kickd  Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6184323.html |
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01-07-2008, 03:00 PM
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I'd be willing to give my lawyer a call if I knew it would make them hurry up and fix it. But I'd imagine they have something in the ToS to cover their arses, and anyway, no amount of pissing them off will get it fixed any faster.
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01-07-2008, 04:41 PM
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Possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard since debating with Robbo and Soucy yesterday
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01-07-2008, 05:06 PM
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Seriously, what's their problem? Do any of them know how much trouble it is to get a good server infrastructure up? I'm pretty sure none of them tried gaming online on the PS2...
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01-07-2008, 06:41 PM
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Yes, I'm sure the most profitable/powerful corporation that has defended itself in the Supreme Court is scared shitless of a suit by 3 guys from Texas. Yuuuuuuup.
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01-07-2008, 07:04 PM
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01-07-2008, 07:11 PM
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I heard of a lawsuit about a.. A man tried to rob a house but got trapped inside the garage and couldn't get out. The family who lived in the house was out of town on vacation. When they got back, the man who tried to rob the house sued them for not having water or nutritional substances in their garage.
Another one was a man tried to rob a house by getting through the chimney but of course he got stuck. When he was rescued, he sued the owners of the house for not having a chimney wide enough. |
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01-07-2008, 08:57 PM
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01-07-2008, 09:37 PM
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Micro$oft has made me pretty engry over some of their products lately, mostly M$ Flight $imulator X.
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01-08-2008, 12:56 AM
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I guarantee you they are covered. You'd have to be a retarded lawyer not to clearly state in your TOS that you are not liable for things like this. While I can see why they are complaining, MS will spend a couple days in court at the most, and get it tossed. They might settle for a very small amount of money if its looking really bad, but most of the time very little comes of things like this.
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