<![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Look, the kid shouldn't have sent in a freakin' SIGNED xbox and expected to get it back 100% the same. Hell, we all read that kotaku post that had the interview with the xbox refurbashing employee, most people don't even get back the same CONSOLE they sent in. He was naive and silly to send such a collectors item without knowing the risks. He's just lucky Bungie is awesome enough to help him out with his mistake.

4sparta

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> That's beautiful.

PsycheDiver

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @gregdoom:
You know, it doesn't really matter how good or bad it is. There is such a thing as sentimental value, and getting back a (mostly) clean white box erased that value. If I ever had to send in my laptop for repairs, I'd be all kinds of pissed if it came back without the giant purple "AMD Inside" Intel logo on the lid, especially now that the company that made it is no longer in business.

@Annex1:
I can't see them giving him Recon and just leaving it at that. It may be rare, but it's hardly unique. Now, throwing it in as a bonus is a definite possibility, but the main "gift" will certainly be a custom Halo 360 of some sort, likely with a bunch of developer signatures.

Purple Dave

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> This is funny because the same thing keeps getting repeated every time this story pops up. The guy isn't a 'kid'. He's actually a registered nurse.

dealer

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Mr.SithNinja: I would still agree. As I had said, it's unfortunate, but there is definitely humour when you think about it.

Annex1

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I still think it is funny.....

Mr.SithNinja

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @0xdeadc0de: Konami killed Chrono? NOOOOOO...

Annex1

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> The comments on this article REALLY give you an idea as to how the general internet gaming community thinks. There are those who praise Bungie for stepping up and doing the right thing. Then there are those that let the green monter "jealously" set it.

I am a collector, there are things I enjoy collecting. For example, when I was a kid, for a school project, I was asked to send a letter to my favourite company and see if they replied. (Most schools had this I believe.). At the time, I chose EGM magazine. It was the only gaming magazine I was reading back then (Gamepro had GHEY cover art). What I received back from EGM was a copy, 3 months in advance, of their 100 issue! The cover is signed by each of the five major book staff. It's a fantastic little item and I would be terribly upset if something were to happen.
Why is it in the electronics industry (mostly), that we live on this believe now that we don't need uniqueness. This guys 360 was one-of-a-kind. Yet, there are those that believe it shouldn't matter. Some of us celebrate individuality, things like this should live on.

I am quite excited to see what they do for this guy. I am going to go on the idea that he gets a 360 from Bungie, with the most phenomenal Halo artwork you have ever seen...or toss him Recon and a flaming helmet. :D

Annex1

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I have been hearing a rumor that someone looked at the photos of the guys xbox versus the wiped version and they think something is afoul in regards to his system being wiped, they looked at the surface and saw a dent where the wiped version did not, and some other differences.

I really really hope this kid was being legit nice and not trying to cock-block the system.

Is cock block one word or two?

D3Anon

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> In a perfect world, the 360 wouldn't have been cleaned. Everybody would be nice and accommodating, managers wouldn't look at statistics and it'd be 1950.

The rule in any corporation nowadays is CYA: Cover Your Ass.

You do nothing that gives them a legit reason to fire you - and that includes breaking SOP without written authorization.

This guy who wiped off the 360? If cleaning them off is SOP and he was unable to obtain written authorization to leave it as is, they can do nothing to him. He gets fired, he can sue them because he was effectively doing exactly what he was paid to do, and doing it correctly.

If he had to choose between his livelihood and some kid's autographs, then there's no dilemma there.

Koztah

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: I don't see much wrong with your opinion but it seems people here are easily offended when their experiencing a "feel-good" high. Life, I guess, is full of examples where dumb people get saved by kind people :)

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Its nice to see that Bungie is takeing the time to care about their fans, I know that it will keep me buying their products. If only Microsoft would learn from this and A. get some comptent tech service and B. give us back the achivements that we lost during the dark days of server rollback.

fawrh

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Clearly the kid got scammed. You know that techie just switched the cases and made it look like he wiped the console. I mean, come on, who does that? Either way, someone needs to pay.

cybereality

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I think I have my violin right over here...

thedap

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I'm glad they're doing something, but this isn't a kid. He's a registered nurse, so I'd guess at least 24 or older.

catapult37

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I think the funniest thing about this is all the people claiming that some super halo fanboy stole the case and then attempted to re-create some sharpie residue to make it look cleaned up.

That case wasn't really that cool to go through all the effort. Some c-list comic artist drew a half-assed Master Chief and some dudes signed it. Not worth it.

But kudos to Bungie for coming through. Maybe they'll get a good Master Chief on that bad boy.

gregdoom

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I went back through the links to the original articles and such, and one thing that I think might be possible is that the person who erased it was a serious M$oft or XBox fan. On the text-only side of the original 360, there were two signatures that blatantly insulted the 360 design (one says not to put to much ink on it or it'll overheat, and the other calls it a "three-shitsty"). If that ended up in the hands of an over-zealous fan, they could have scrubbed it clean out of spite. The other is that the purple smudges might not be evidence that it was scrubbed clean, but simply intended to look that way, to cover the theft of the original cover.

Purple Dave

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Captain Impulse: yeah, Red vs Blue is a great example, a lot of SH such Konami or Blizzard are always sending letters of cease and desist to their fans (Konami killed a lot of fanmade games, some also really good such Chrono Resurrection)

0xdeadc0de

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Good news, he was clearly a huge fan of not just Halo but the Xbox itself and it just sucks he had all that hard work and effort washed away due to some asshole repair worker, when its Microsoft's fault most of these consoles need repairing in the first place.

Sniper_Zegai

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Well i should probably wrap mine up here too...
I see where JDK is coming from even though i don't agree, but realistically this is the internet and never will everyone agree. It's just your outlook on life that decides this one.
>>> I <<<, that is to say me, don't believe it's a fooled people publicity stunt, no Corp. can provide caviar to every consumer, but Bungie itself has had an excellent record for consumer care, it's not the one incident that makes them great, it's their entire system and this incident is one that helps prove that, where microsoft has certainly not.(Did they not just recently dismiss the poor man who lost all his saves[and he didn't even send his console in for repairs]?)
>>> I <<<, that is to say me, believe it is shameful of a Corp. to pull a stunt to increase their positive feedback as well. This isn't the case with Bungie, they interact with their fans all the time, I could personally maybe forge a great map and have it on the Bungie home page, with a post from Frankie himself, and I have yet to see another Corp. do this.
The only thing I am going to call you on is that this quote "people never really said too much about Bungie caring about their customers until they gave away a console or whatever they are doing." i find to be untrue, but it also does depend where you spend your time on the internet as well.
And I never accused anybody who debated my viewpoints on being an idiot, dick or otherwise either. There are always multiple sides to a story... just try and remember that.
My final note is that I am happy to have participated in my first argument on Kotaku (Yay!) and that i sit here and find it to be a little funny that a bunch of individuals can argue in text for an hour over what we think, and it's not going to make a difference in the end at all... In fact, im rather sad I didn't just shrug it off at 11:30 and gone to bed, I might have passed that Physics test tomorrow =P

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: What Bungie did here was help a fan out who had his custom 360 taken away from him (I'm talking about the artwork, of course) and got attention by posting his story on the internet. You have to realize that Bungie IS NO longer part of Microsoft (they still work with them but are not own by them anymore) so there is no need for them to anything for this guy. In fact, I don't even think I have yet read Microsoft apologizing to the guy for "wiping" his 360 clean but we see here Bungie at least doing something. I understand your point about Bungie being a company and "using this kind gesture" and "spinning" it to give their company a good image but I do find faults in that point. For one thing Bungie is very well respected as a gaming company and always had a good image. If there was an "ulterior motive", please tell me what it is because all I see is a company helping a fan out.

dhunter

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> That is great to hear. That guy got the shaft and Im glad the powers that be are stepping up to make things right.

yashichi8bit

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Also, to address an earlier question: when has Bungie done something for the gaming community? Ever heard of Red vs. Blue? Yeah, those guys are making money using Bungie's game for their rather popular machinima show, and aren't taking a cut of the profits. I'd say that shows a bit of love for their fans.

Besides, somehow I don't see Bungie execs sitting around the board room table, strumming their fingers and plotting with evil glee how they're going to capitalize on this situation to garner some positive press. Last time I checked, they were doing pretty damned well financially and with the sheer volume of players still playing the hell out of their game, it's pretty obvious that other than the VERY vocal anti-Halo minority, people are happy with Bungie. They don't need "spin" to improve their standing with the gaming community.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Nice touch.

baysideSxoc

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: So, this kid is now SOL in getting that system back. If you were this kid's parents, would you have recommended he do what he did?

Well, I sure as hell wouldn't expect him to hold on to a dead system just for sentimental value. Sounds like the kid did everything he could to protect his investment (repair the system) and the artwork he cared about. I don't see how that was a mistake that he needs to learn from. If anyone, Microsoft needs to learn something from this.

And no, I'm not an Micro$oft hater.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> This is going to be my final comment on this article:

The act of erasing the artwork was messed up. Yes, the person who erased it is a lousy guy... this doesn't imply that Microsoft is a heart-less corporation among all the OTHER corporations that do nothing but love and love their customers. In any case, I bet if you guys knew the kid sent his priceless console off to Seattle as it happened... you'd bet there was a decent chance something wrong was going to happen... a probability that something was going to wrong and SURPRISE it did.

So, this kid is now SOL in getting that system back. If you were this kid's parents, would you have recommended he do what he did? Hell no! It's just not very smart at all. This should be a lesson learned...

Regarding Bungie's acts... it's just shameful that through the standard business procedures of any company trying to look good, people are fooled into thinking that now Bungie is full of big ol' fluffy Care Bears that cares about them, even though Bungie has never done anything to care about them personally. Some guy picked by Bungie to go around jazzing up a console for a sad kid doesn't make Bungie great. Same as how one guy who erased the pictures doesn't make Microsoft a bunch of demons... people never really said too much about Bungie caring about their customers until they gave away a console or whatever they are doing.

And I never accused anybody who debated my viewpoints on being an idiot, dick or otherwise. There are always multiple sides to a story... just try and remember that.

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK:
Bungie is a professional software house not santa claus, their goal is to make good games for you and make moneys, they are doing something that's both good for that fan and for themselves, so what's wrong with it?

0xdeadc0de

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> but i think we can all agree on:
1) Microsoft, you shouldn't have done dat...
2)Yay Bungie for patching Microsoft's mistake
3)Microsoft, let this be a lesson to you

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @ Jdk in your third or second post up here you make a good point, and i do see your underlying argument but what we are clear on is Bungie IS doing a good thing and that it wouldnt have happened if the guy hadn't sent in the priceless XBOX, but what is failed to be seen here is that it sounds to me like you think he was wrong for sending it in and that microsoft did him a favor, i don't believe this...
in an isolated case of 360 failure i would blame the boy and share your wievpoint but, lets face it, our beloved XBOX has some bugs that will never go away...
in other terms, this guy sent his 360 to be restored, just like you had sent in an old painting to be restored, but the restorer provides a service, and he knows that if the painting says picasso, he had better be damn careful with it
i am almost concluded by saying what have you done for bungie? I dont mean send donations but this boy showed that he was a halo fan true to the core by all he did to get and protect his artwork, and others have recieved their recon armor for spectacular maps, or tournament stats, point being you get out what you put in, cause as much as id love bungie to cater to me too, theyd need some more employees per online halo player...
I FINALLY sort of CONCLUDE by saying we are also seeing the small picture here,
there are a number of variables such as the man who did the wiping, he was hired to remove things from xbox consoles, and if he doesnt do his job, he gets fired... also the possibility that he has gotten his however many weeks notice and decided to be a not nice person, maybe the man who wiped it down just got divorced and wanted to crush someone elses dreams, maybe i have typedfar too much on this page already and should shut up =)

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: It's a sad world you live in where every good deed is just a "spin" for positive press.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: He did something stupid... kids do stupid things every second of every day.

Your quote. He did something stupid. What exactly did he do that was stupid?

And you still haven't answered my question: what does a company have to do to prove it "cares" for it's fans? Send you flowers?

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: I'd agree if the signatures and stuff had been on there in a reasonably easily cleaned-off material, but this was permanent marker and the staff would have had to actually /try/ to wipe it off, and put a lot of effort into doing so. And I can't see any justification for them doing that, really - it wasn't exactly going to affect the performance of the console, and it was pretty clearly not just a random kid's scribblings.
Not commenting on whether or not Bungie is actually made up of a series of Mother Teresa clones or whatever, but the fact is that the original problem is still pretty messed up.

Achenar

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Captain Impulse: I never said his actual Xbox was stupid... so why don't you go re-read my comments.

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Captain Impulse: Dude, nearly every single business out there does these things. Charities... foundations... Coca-Cola donates stuff all the time as well.. but all they've done is sell me soda. McDonald's have their Ronald McDonald Houses... but still offer fatty foods to kids. My point is that this is called a "spin"... don't get trapped.

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: And how exactly is it "stupid" for a kid to customize his Xbox with his own personal artwork? What about the guy who customized his Wii with a No More Heroes motif that Kotaku posted about a few months back? Is he stupid because he did it, or would he only be stupid if the Wii broke and he had to send it in?

Ridiculous. Your arguments make no sense, and you just come off sounding like a dick.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @NPlace: Don't take the free stuff literally. My point is this: what exactly has Bungie done to care for me? A lot of people have just said in this very article that Bungie cares for it's fans... so give me an example besides this one! If it's one act of kindness to one person, that's not caring for everybody!

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: What do you define as "caring for their fans"? What does a company have to do to "care" for anyone other than pad their own pockets? Bungie donates a lot of money to charities through auctions of Bungie merchandise. I think it's fair to say they "care" about a lot of things other than just making money.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Psychotic173: I never said this wasn't an act of goodwill... it's the underlying intentions behind it that gets me riled up.

You can't put in special little requests when you get your XBOX fixed. It's a little messed up they erased his pictures, but it was way more than wishful thinking that the system would turn out right... everyone agrees to that. So, if it was wishful thinking, then the resulting act wasn't unheard of. Is it still wrong? Probably... but the lesson today is "Don't send priceless items to people who don't care about your system."

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: It's truly a sad statement when someone expresses so much anger over a good deed.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK but you believe what you will and life goes on, and now that I think about it, it sounds to me like you're a little jealous of the lad heh heh...

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I never said I hated the kid in any way. He did something stupid... kids do stupid things every second of every day. When they do something stupid, they should learn the proper precautions to not do that stupid thing.

Bungie ignores this and instead spins the story so that not only is this kid a cash cow for future Bungie products in the future, now they have everyone in the community believing that they CARE for each and every one of them. That is just plain awful.

When has Bungie CARED for its fans besides this little moment? Insignificant contests? Message board interactivity? Map packs? UNICEF cares for people, OK? So let's all just sit back and think what caring actually means.

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @ JDK also dude, Bungie doesn't have the power to make it free, it's a subscription to XBOX(aka Microsoft) Live that is required, not some magical subscription to Bungieland...
And i hardly think he screwed up either, he had a broken 360, tok normal protocol to send it in, made a special request not to have his artwork damaged, put a courteous letter in with the console so the lowly worker who didnt recieve the message from the phone rep knew what not to do, and still the damage occurred.
And finally, it is your sir, who i believe would take advantage of people's goodwill as you accuse this person of doing.

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: But if Halo was free, then there wouldn't be any Halo, because I product like that takes professionals to create. You can care about your customers while still charging them for your product. Don't be a dick.

NPlace

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Bungie, I and many others stand and give a round of applause to you gentlemen.
Truly warms me to the core to know that there are people out there that realy just care about the consumer as opposed to the get him in, get his money, get him out attitude that companies seem to be taking today.
@JDK - It is for that reason exactly that they are angels --> They DID something
And while every corporation does have the time and money to spare to do something, Bungie is actually spending the time to do it! (And also, if it was just a signed 360 from around the office then there wouldnt be any need to, as read from the article from the link, hide details.
Once again Bungie, a round of applause, you truly care.

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I hate this article for the same reason people hate seeing Paris Hilton as a news story... because it isn't. Bungie has flipped this event on the naive gaming public as some kind of tragedy. Get out of here... if Bungie cared for the fans, Halo would be free. Make the kid accountable for his actions or else he will not learn ANYTHING from his situation. Now he'll think "jeez, if I just keep screwing up some more, I'll keep getting gifts". Nice.

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK:

If anyone on this website had the guts to tear out a kids heart and stab it to death, it sounds like it would be you.

When I heard about this story initially, I died on the inside a little. And so did my friend, who brought it up later that day.
Im glad Bungie is doing something to help make things right.
Whoever erased his artwork should be fired. Immediately.

dantemustdie

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: Just what is your problem?

I love how Bungie is stepping in to fix someone else's mistake. Show's that they really do care for their fans.

Lucky guy. I'm turning green.

Kovitlac

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @JDK: I was waiting for the inevitable cynical response. There we are now.

ABigSmall

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Ridiculous that Bungie can pick a random 360 laying around their offices, spend 5 minutes getting people this kid doesn't even know sign it and look like freaking angels within the gaming community. The kid did something stupid and he learned a tough lesson and that should be that.

JDK

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @RedRaptor: No it would be proof positive that some gamers are nerdy retards. And some are stuiped enough to send a collectors item to a place filled with other nerds that will rip it off. If i was him i woudl have purchased a new console, and kept that one on a shelf as a collectors item.

Sinnbox

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> I'd really like to see them go all-out on this one: A new Halo 3 edition system signed by the Bungie team and re-signed by the original signers of his old console, plus Bungie staff artwork (Mr. Chief included) AND Recon.

It'd be proof positive that gamers aren't all mindless, soulless killing machines.

RedRaptor

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Luis: I doubt MS is to blame, They outsource the work, there is a place around here that does it for sony, I bet some tech thoguht it looked cool so he took that dudes case home, replaed the serial number, and then made it look like someone wiped the marker off. Seriously why would they clean his 360? They probably get paid commision based on how many units they go through in a day.

Sinnbox

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Narynan: I doubt it was done out of malice but I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to make a red ring reference... say I had hemorrhoids the other day and....

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Yeah, to be fair this is something MS should have taken care of. Instead they gave him a big F.U. Maybe because they thought it was more about him complaining about the RROD (and them ignoring it) than it was about the art and the personal belongs on the side of the Xbox.

narynan

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Starplate: Exactly, why does "the other guy" have to help. MS is to blame, why shouldn't they be held accountable?

Luis

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Dakobah: LOL... nice ;)

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Nobody else seems to be rooting for the possible sadistic bastard who did this, I'd like to. He might have had a bad day.

Or somebody didn't like an obnoxious Masterchief picture on a should be clean box, and just taking that would have been doing half a job.

Maybe I'm just mean.

RichardChaos

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Haha wow the picture and the article title had me think for a second that Bungie was helping a kid who had amnesia or something.

T6Spades

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Good going bungie.

Rebelphoenix83

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Luke Plunkett: @Touy:

So there we go. Microsoft vs. Bungie, the master vs. the recently split offspring, with opposite powers.

Shweet.

I still wanna work there, LOL.

TalKeaton

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Let this be a lesson if you want cool signatures do not do it on something as disposable as a Xbox360. Hopefully the sign faceplates so he can remove it when he sends it in for more repairs.

jackal888

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @okenny :): yah i don't think he really did that i just threw out a jokester statement, although that would really break my heart if it was a publicity stunt.

anyway its nice to know you listen to TRL, at least we know where the 5th lister is, lol.

Dakobah

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> In a word. Awesome. You don't expect this from a bunch of people who oh so stereotypically are known to be people who enjoy virtual killing. But as a community. We are gamers seem to take care of our own.

I'm eagerly awaiting what comes of this. For the image will be my desktop background for atleast a month.

huginn

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> *tear rolls down cheek*

TinyLightning

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Dakobah:
A blind man could have called it, to be honest.

Drake Lake: Phase Lunaire

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Dakobah: I really don't think sites like the Consumerist would go that far. Not that I mind a site that treats the consumer as innocent till proven guilty (if even) but I take everything I hear with a grain of salt. Either way, I think this is a nice gesture by Bungie but I fear the ugliness in people will rare its ugly head because of this.

The IGN Three Red Lights podcast had to retire the reading of the weeks red-ring incidents when they found out people were fraudulently claiming their 360s died to get their names on air (amongst other reasons I'm sure). People are just opportunistic creatures and will pray on publics will to criminalize everything corporations do. Corporations are run by people as well so the vicious circle continues :(

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @Luke Plunkett: To be fair... I read the original post and my first thought was that the entire staff had gone scientologist and thought they had mental powers or something.

Touy

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @TalKeaton: Game Design Major: Read the old headline from the original post, it'll make more sense

Luke Plunkett

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Good. It's nice to see that they care for their fans.

Old-school Sonic fanboy

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> what if he wiped it of himeself .... question mark

Dakobah

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> @gamadaya: Agreed. From the headline, I assumed that the staff at Bungie had just discovered previously latent divine powers. And I was like, "That's freaking awesome. I want to work THERE."

TalKeaton

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> While I'm happy for the guy that Bungie coming to the rescue , I'd much like to see Microsoft PR bend over backwards for this.

Starplate

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> What a headline.

gamadaya

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Bet it'll involve Recon.

Cutriss

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> glad to hear it, but also freakin jelous

Ahsayuni

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> At least they're doing something, I made the ol' "face of disappointment" when I heard about the arse who decided to scrub it. Seriously, what a horrible person.

Wolfers

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> oh man, there was a guy who called this would happen in the original post, he should get 100 internet points for being right.

Dakobah

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Oh MY.

I Wished I had like a few scribbles of Game Characters and signatures on my 360 before I sent it in.

Ruzzel26

]]> <![CDATA[Bungie Helping Restore Kid's Erased Memories]]> Lucky kid, im going to send my ps3 with some random artwork, and ill cry... maybe i'll get something from sony.. :P

ProroK

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