<![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> OK, enough of this crap already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freespeech

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I'm wondering what's the fascination with getting your xbox signed and playing it.

Sure to each their own, but if i was going to do something like this, there is no way I'd be using it for everyday use, for the above reasons or the fact that some freak accident around the house could wipe them off.

I'm a bit neurotic though.

FunKrusher

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Hmm I'm thinking I should just make up names on a 360 so I can get a chance to either meet these people or at least get some signage done. Though I'm wondering how this happened twice after the first debacle.

Jacktherip

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Don't customize your 360!
If it's decorated, it will be removed, and if you mod it so it's more likely to survive and it DOESN'T, the warranty's toast.


fuchikoma

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> My Xbox 360 console was signed by Charlton Heston. Microsoft's Repairs Department removed the signature.
And Heston is now dead. What will Microsoft do for me?

XbhaskarX

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Gannoc:
Did not think of it that way. Damn...

Demaar

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Demaar: The instructions are probably "All consoles must be returned clean. If you're caught shipping back a dirty console, you'll be fired."

Gannoc

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> The kid has a 16 game, and he DOES NOT look 16. He probably isn't.

I wish Microsoft would realise this and tell him to GTFO their console for playing a game while being underage. Yes, I'm being Devil's Asshole. Kid shouldn't get a thing. Sign a piece of paper, it lasts longer.

kPod

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @my spoon is too big: Bravo!

Shiryu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> what the problem? microsoft are only making sure the children dont catch foot and mouth disease from a dirty console.......

Bill Gates "clean them all!! muhahahaha"

Raikkenon

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Why do these people still have their jobs? Seriously, can't they follow simple instructions, or are they just jerks? Either way, sack em.

Demaar

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> From Internal Microsoft memo:

"STOP FUCKING DOING THAT IDIOTS"

Allfather Black

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @gnudna:

Umm..I'm not 100% sure about what it is you're trying to convey, but I sort of get it. Maybe the Xbox is the kids most favorite thing in the whole world, maybe its the most "special" thing he has. You don't know that, so give him a break. He's young. He's 9.

I remember when my younger brother was even younger he use to carry around N64 Cartridges (in particular Super Mario 64 and Bomberman 64 if that makes any difference) everywhere almost like a teddy bear. He would carry it when we go out, to restaurants, absolutely everywhere. Sometimes even near the bath, although he wouldn't put it in of course. The pictures on the cartridges would fade and peel off because he carried around so much. To him, it wasn't so much about the game that he could play with inside (as he was even too young to play the game, he just watched me and my other brother play) but the I dunno, attachment he had to it.

So yea, I can definitly understand why the kid was carrying around his xbox and had it signed by the wrestlers. It was probably a merging of his two most favorite things.

NeVeRMoRe666

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> shawn michaels for the win, they bleed. it's not tomato juice

Sweet Tooth

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Mr Fortitude: "What are they going to do when some smart ass signs his console as jesus christ? What can they give him then?"

Saaaaalvaaation!

NeVeRMoRe666

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Maaxxx: dude, can you shut the fuck up? it's called Entertainment for a reason. and not all of it is fake you goddamn troll.

Sweet Tooth

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Chef: While I agree with you, I gotta say that the parents should have used alittle common sense. I mean, there's no guarantee that Microsoft is going to do what they say they are going to do. I would have either gotten something in writing or told the kid........actually, if it were my kid I wouldn't let him bring the 360 outside of the house to an sporting event to get signed; but that's just me.

CALL ME CUKU FOR COCOA PUFFS!

jp182

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> how many times must this happen? where is the refurb factory? is it a non-english speaking country like where these are made??

i'm pretty sure it isn't sent down to mexico so I don't see why these are cleaned to the Nth degree.

jp182

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> SHAWN MICHAELS FTW!!

daklog

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @LordPotato:
There shouldn't be a RROD in the first place :S

Grey_Fox

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> So Let me get this straight cause this one sounds laughable.
Kid goes to see wrestling show and bring XBOX 360 with him for what? to weigh in himself for a match?

Or lets assume something else kid is a restaurant and brings xbox 360 with him? call me crazy but this osund like fiction or some smart parents who decided me too, after the last story.

gnudna

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @thor79: "a) stop getting a system you play regularly, signed by important people. When you get a system signed retire it. Treat it special like you would treat any treasured signature item. Why is your 360 any different?"

Right. Because people have a couple hundred bucks just lying around under the seat cushions.

"b) stop getting a system signed and get something else signed."

True, though in the case of the Bungie thing, the 360 was very appropriate. Also, the kid likes wrestling, and he likes his 360. So why not?

How is it a mistake to get a 360 signed? A lot of commenters are mentioning that if you use something that gets signed, the signature will naturally become damaged or get worn off.

BUT THIS IS A GAME CONSOLE!

Unless you're Jason Chen, there's no reason you'd have a lot of wear and tear on the outside of your box; it's not a signed baseball or anything. Furthermore, NOBODY KNEW about Microsoft's rumored "drown everything in alcohol" policy, and chances are good that the box was signed before the whole Bungie-B-Gone incident.

So the kid's 360 breaks, and what's he going to do? Of course any rational person would just buy a new box so as not to damage the signatures because they have the loose cash and THEY'RE NOT NINE YEARS OLD. As for the parents, would you buy an extra console for your kid because the current one has signatures, or would you send it to Microsoft because it's perfectly under warrant and THEY SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU THEY WOULDN'T ERASE IT? People here are taking huuuuge leaps over common sense here. OMG WTF is wrong with you people the end.

Chef

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Moral lesson: When getting autographs, NEVER use an Xbox 360.

What im curious about is who the **** would bring a console in an autograph session?!?!?! havent these people heard of t-shirts, posters, and magazines? =/

doesntlikedede

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> An authentic piledriver? That's kinda a dumb statement since the WWE doesn't use piledrivers because it messed up somebody's neck who happens to be one wrestler everyone here knows about and that is Stone Cold.

Fireblast

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @-EDGE-: Dude, send MS a thankyou card!

thewisestfool

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Quine: Boring. Plus, comment was already made an refuted. Count me as another professional wrestling fan. Yes, I know it's scripted. Yes, I know that they're not really punching each other. Yes, I know that they guys look like they're doing dangerous things but at the same time protecting each other.

Even if you don't watch the programming, the performers deserve a little bit more credit than "it's fake." They do highly skilled athletic maneuvers on a nightly basis all year long without the benefit of a second take. It takes a lot of training, dedication, coordination and charisma to do what they do. Hulk Hogan, the Rock, Steve Austin a bunch of others can walk into an arena of 70,000 people, and get the entire crowd to stand up and cheer. What can you do?

DGUW

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> This seems to show how much MS cares about the mistakes they make and fixing them

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> wear in the repair manual does it say "destroy all sentimental value on the system"?

npa190

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> This story seems to be riding on coat-tails, no? Like... i could take my 360 and:

1. forge some signatures
2. send it in
3. whine when the same thing happens to me
4. get free stuff

Sounds like a way to make a dollar out of 15 cents, to me.




XWonka

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @ShaggE: I feel the same way....the fact that they did lug it around to get signatures probably contributed to the fact that the system had troubles.

Is everyone forgetting that this case probably happened around the same time or shortly after the original case of this. Your expecting some pretty quick changes from Microsoft. These kind of procedure changes will probably take several months to implement. If they implement changes at all...have they announced changes would be made to the procedure? Or are people assuming they would be changing the repair process? The first person who got hit with this rightfully got compensated for it. Anyone that gets hit with this from the first on will just have to deal...otherwise people will start taking advantage of this.

Basically people need to either:
a) stop getting a system you play regularly, signed by important people. When you get a system signed retire it. Treat it special like you would treat any treasured signature item. Why is your 360 any different?
b) stop getting a system signed and get something else signed.

About Wrestling:
I used to be a fan...when I was like 10-15 (28 now)...but I grew out of it. I can still see why people enjoy it. There's no reason to knock people who like wrestling...it's like any other form of fictional entertainment. I feel sorry though for people who believe it isn't fictional...and that the outcomes are like regular sports, not pre-determined.

thor79

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I wonder if he knows wrestling is fake.

:P

Quine

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @-EDGE-: the signature would reappear three days later...

my spoon is too big

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Myst3r1o: No joke. You'd think after the last episode they'd have put out a memo saying "ok guys, keep scrubbing systems that come in, but if you see anything remotely resembling a signature LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE". Who knows, maybe now they will.

evslin

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> That's the problem with the internet these days, Too much sympathy for dumbasses. Or, in this case, dumbass moms.

Seriously people, stop getting shit autographed that you still use. If it means so much to you, you wouldn't continue to use anything that you had signed for fear of getting it damaged. People are too stupid for their own good these days and there are no consequences for it.

heretrix

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Chef: "bah gawd King he's got some big white object! and he's gonna...oh my god almghty he flattened Shawn Michaels with that one! Bah gawd!"

excel_excel

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> ..and honestly, the only way to truly please a wrestling fan in this situation is to completely replace the console, and have the old one broken(well, *again*) on another wrestler during a match.

Chef

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Lemming To The Sea: I DON'T SIGN NO SEX BOXES BROTHER! LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING BROTHER, IF YOU KNOW HULK HOGAN BROTHER, THAN BROTHER YOU KNOW HULK HOGANS ALL ABOUT THE BIG GAME CONSOLES BROTHER, AH YEAH BROTHER, AND WHATCHU GONNA DO WHEN THE SEX BOXES DESTROY YOU!!.....BROTHER!

excel_excel

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I have no idea what you guys are talking about with all these "mistakes" and crap...

...this is the new Microsoft marketing initiative.

1. Design console well enough to accumulate a good customer base, but also faulty enough to allow for a steady flow of incoming consoles to be repaired.

2. Watch for unique, customized boxes from the repair pool, preferably ones with markings like signatures or drawings.

3. Remove customizations such as signatures or drawings, "fix" console, and return to customer.

4. Wait for customer to die a little inside and contact Microsoft via phone or rabid, frothing, Internet mob.

5. Claim removal as a "mistake", and offer to "fix the situation" using set aside budget to purchase otherwise unattainable products or services catering to the customer's likes and/or hobbies.

The result?: Public image of Microsoft will change as community-generated news spreads, creating image that Microsoft cares about its customers.

Chef

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Holy shit. I should get Buzz Aldrin to sign my 360, send it in for repair, cross my fingers, and hope Microsoft ends up sending me to the moon!

Gannoc

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @J-Fro: Did he break the Xbox's back and make it humble?

@ddollar: I should have commented on this earlier, but while I know Bungie *did* create the 2nd best selling 360 game (or is it first and COD4 is only ahead if you count the other versions?) would anyone actually know Bungie employees by name? If I showed my mom and Xbox signed by Hulk Hogan, she'd know who that was, but if I showed her one signed by Luke Smith she'd just be like "Ok, who's that again? Is he that one actor who tried to kill himself?"

Lemming To The Sea

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> It was The Iron Sheik disguised as a MS Employee!

J-Fro

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> That picture is amazing.

Mit

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Jypsy: oh boy tell me about it, I can't watch WWE anymore anyway because Sky Sports is gone, while TNA is the very definition of a clusterfuck

excel_excel

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Wow... amazing. Amazing at how Microsoft can not yet learn from past mistakes. I mean, don't get me wrong, when I sent in my Xbox 360 for repairs, they were very helpful and they even sent me a replacement unit rather quickly since my 360 was unable to be fixed. However, I didn't have priceless memories written all over my 360 either so I can't really relate to this current situation.

Well... third times a charm maybe? Maybe this won't happen again? Very doubtful.

Myst3r1o

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I wouldn't worry too much about the bronzer since you can just leave it in the sun a couple hours and the hospital white changes to a more natural creamy color and looks more mediterranian, but the signatures are another story.

just a reminder not to have your precious memories on flammable stuff...

VakeroRokero

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> thats a weird item to bring for autographs from wrestlers.

Maybe it was an event for the game?

NutManIV

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> How can this one be an accident? Microsoft are professionals at crushing children's dreams.

jambe

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @excel_excel:

Yeah the junior's division was pretty bad.

At least Hornswoggle is entertaining right now.

problem is he is a really talented performer that is sadly being used as a silly gimmick.

Jypsy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.: They had midget wrestling on WWE about a year ago, I believe they called it the 'junior division' it was horrifying

excel_excel

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I would only watch wrestling if midgets were involved.

No offense to midgets, but I find the mere thought hilarious.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> OHHH the internet really needs to shut the fuck up! It was only a matter of time before someone wanted to cash in. It's crossed my mind to write my name in chalk on my 360, brick it, and then send it out for my prize package. I'm not that smart so I'm sure there are people on both sides of the spectrum of my intelligence who have gone as far as to execute this plan for their Xbox Apology prize. Fucking piranha! *sigh*

okenny :)

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @ddollar: er...cause maybe he's a wrestling fan? I wonder if these little kids actually think John Cena is as awesome and the Rock and Stond Cold....sigh

God I've just got this image of the guy who erased the signature being an old school wrestling fan "Back in my day, champions weren't rappers! I'll clean this off that'll show that fucker!"

excel_excel

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @CreamSodaSlurpee: Also, CreamSodaSlurpee, that wasn't to hang responsibility on you. It was just the first thing that came to mind.

Owen Good

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @CreamSodaSlurpee: That fuckin' protocol needs to change, until someone can explain to me what purpose it serves other than to create even greater disaster for Xbox PR leads than they already have with RRoD, power supply, drive failures and HD-DVD.

The XBox's problem does not extend from a signature on the casing, nor any kind of dirt on the outside of it. It's because of the terrible design flaws inside of it. I can't even imagine it has to do with working in a "clean environment" either although I'm sure I'll get some best-practices nonsense about that, when I've replaced internal components, set clock chips, cleaned exhaust fans and done all manner of things inside a desktop computer without having to clean the case, just attach a grounding strap.

Secondly, Microsoft practically encourages this behavior by the creation and licensing of swappable faceplates.

I'll have more on this, and a more humorous take, I promise, in my weekend posts. But the percentage of cases modded in this way has to be so low that Microsoft can't just say, you see something that looks like artwork or a signature on the box? Leave it alone. I don't give a damn if my Xbox doesn't come back clean anyway. I want it to work.

Owen Good

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> An authentic piledriver? I can haz one?

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> The point of this whole thing is not that wrestlers signed his 360 or that he was using it to play games. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is removing something of value to the owner. Who the hell cares who signed it or what they choose to do with it? If I got my 360 signed by anyone, be they important or not, and I am forced to send in my 360 for repairs, I don't want some guy to clear all of that off when it's not even the problem. I want my 360 fixed and sent back to me the way I sent it in.

It doesn't matter if the signature is famous or not, if it means something to me, what gives them the right to remove it? It'd be like if someone gave me an iPod with a special signed faceplate to fix (hypothetically, of course) and I replaced the cover with a plain white one. What gives me the right to change what they obviously wanted on their iPod? It's the same with this problem. People send in their special 360s to get them fixed and they completely remove all that was special about it. I think it's a travesty that it's still happening.

armchairnixon sees you doing that thing there...

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> So, like, my Xbox had autographs from all of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on it and they got erased by Microsoft. Yeah. Give me money.

Roto13

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @LittleBigPlaneteer:
oh i missed that

ddollar

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Did he have photo's proving this or is he just full of shit looking for a freebie?

irnchriz

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> microsoft needs to set up hidden cameras on the guys cleaning those xbox' so we can see exactly what the hell they are up to.

Jobbo_Fett

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @JustJake: The Undertaker does weird submission moves now...it seems so out of place for some 7ft dude.

But yeah...kind of weird that you would lug your Xbox to a WWE autograph signing. Kid must really like wrestling. :)

henhowc

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> 360 is like a wishing well, scribble what you want on it, play it to death and your dreams come true! and ponies.

KenogaBrave

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @ddollar:

The kid is 9 years old, give him a break. Every 9 year old I knew, including myself were into the WWF

LittleBigPlaneteer

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Groodle:

I completely respect your opinion, I don't enjoy Hockey because I don't like the sport.

The only thing I guess that makes me wonder about your opinion is simply that because you know it is a predetermined outcome, it ruins the suspense? Do you know who is going to win, I mean do you have a spoiler in front of you?

To me personally, I feel that there is more possibility for exciting outcomes in pro wrestling, since when a top tier sports team plays the bottom rung team, it really is a forgone conclusion (barring some craaazy situation, which can be fun too)

I guess we each see it differently, which is allright, I see wrestling as a story myself, with lots of pointless plot twists and often stupid turns.

Jypsy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> How stupid are Microsoft's Tech support? I mean honestly after the first incident, shouldn't they be warned about removing stuff like signatures and what not? Terrible Microsoft, simply terrible. I'm glad they have to pay so much to cover their asses.

LittleBigPlaneteer

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Why the hell do they wipe off the signatures? That makes absolutely no sense for them to do that.

Wubbytoes

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @ddollar: He's nine. To a nine-year-old boy, professional wrestlers are heroes.

Americo

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Honestly, if I were MS I would be asking the repair department why they feel this need to wash the outside of the 360 case so thoroughly? Is it because they have a guy who is related to a Bungie employee? Does Tony Shaloub work there "in character"?

Seriously, if the tech department is thinking that whatever technical problems are being caused by some John Hancock's on the case, then they need to re-evaluate their hiring standards.

Well, at least they're doing right by the kid instead of feeding into some PR nightmare.

Timber317

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @kingofallcosmos:

Thank you for being reasonable and phrasing the wrestling thing better than I could, and in a lot less space.

I tend to rant.

Jypsy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Groodle:

Derp. I said "TV" but meant "Wrestling".

Groodle

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Jypsy:

Actually, I don't enjoy wrestling because I don't enjoy wrestling. However, if there was some element of suspense to the outcome, I might be able to enjoy it a little (see: Hockey, Basketball) even if I don't enjoy the core sport.

And sure I can enjoy movies about dodgeball, or whatever. But to compare a movie, or even TV series, to wrestling is (to me) a really unfair comparison.

Soap Operas - where there's an endless string of nonsensical story lines and forced content because they have to keep up what is essentially the exact same storyline or plot thread in each and every show - is the closest I think TV comes to soap operas.

Believe me, I enjoyed some wrestling awhile back during my more drunken college years, so I can relate. But having been able to enjoy it even knowing it was fake, and now thinking I would poke my eyes out with my own toenails if I ever watched any again, has made me think about why.

As I said, just my opinion.

Groodle

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @kingofallcosmos: That is fucking crazy I was just wondering why they never do piledrivers anymore. Then I read that. lol

JustJake

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @arstal:
The Undertaker can use them in every match because the Tombstone Piledriver is his finishing move and he has had it for nearly two decades now. Kane can use it when they are wrestling together, but otherwise, no one else can use it. TNA does piledrivers all the time, so they must not have a similar rule.


kingofallcosmos

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @PurpleMonkey: Actually, it sounds like if you get your 360 autographed and send it in for repairs you'll get a MAJOR profit from it. I'd get mine signed by the first celebrity I came across!

psychobaka

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I love how Microsoft doesn't mind pedophilic face covers but signatures of game devs and wrestlers SIMPLY MUST GO!

DaveKap

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Wiping down consoles with an alcohol based substance is a standard procedure, because i think MS would have a lot larger problems if they spread some new plague because of infected 360 repairmen than if a nine year old lost his WWE signatures. I'm not saying the boy deserved to have them wiped, but on a similar note a reastraunt who had a celebrity come in and say sign a plate, they wouldn't keep using it and not wash it like the rest of the plates just because it has a signature, they would wash it. If the signature is that important to them, they put it behind glass.

If your signed console is worth enough to you to ask for special treatment, why dont you give it special treatment yourself and put it away, or on display, or have a professional local repairdude fix it?

It's also possible that because they are signed, the clever MS ignored employee is switching the signed case with a blank case and selling the new one black market style...

Psychotic173

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @enewtabie:
In both this case and the previous case (the Bungie incident) the Microsoft people had assured the customers that they would preserve the signatures.

@Groodle:
I don't think he was being defensive, but I do think it is hypocritical to be condescending towards wrestling fans. I was a fan when I was a kid and I rediscovered it in college and have been following it for about 10 years now. It is athletics with the focus on the story and on the action. Most people know it is predetermined, but the athletic components are real and it is about the action.

I love football more than any other sport. After the Super Bowl, I am focused on the draft and after the draft I am focused on training camps and then the preseason. I could save myself a lot of time and just review the scores each Monday without watching the games. It isn't about the outcome, it is about the journey. The outcome is important as part of the story of the season, but unless you are gambling, the fun of football is on the field.



kingofallcosmos

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I thought the WWE banned piledrivers. The Undertaker and Kane are allowed one a year under a grandfathering clause.

arstal

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @-EDGE-: They figured it would just appear back three days later.

Callidux

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> An Xbox 360 without a signature by John Cena is much better than an Xbox 360 with a signature by John Cena.

Soap.

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I think pretty soon society is going to learn- don't get your 360's autographed. It'd be a better idea to get a faceplate signed instead. Either that or get as many signatures as possible and wait until it breaks, and await the free merchandise. On second hand, it looks like you can't go wrong.

PurpleMonkey

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> You'd think they would have thought about that after the last fiasco struck... Oh well, I guess lightning does strike twice if you're Microsoft... in the genitals.

Pezdispenser

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Wow, I wish my 360 had the steroid back signatures that this kid's 360 used to have!

Shuskefuji

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Maaxxx:

To the kid I guarantee these were his heroes, no different to him than Adrian peterson, or Brett Favre, or Jerry Rice to other kids.

I know personally how difficult it is to attain autographs of WWE main eventers so this would be a traumatizing incident.

An important memory with his heroes was erased, especially since it was such a young kid, it must have been devastating.

Jypsy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Who the hell carries a 360 around to get signatures on it? I'm assuming John Cena didn't come to this kids house and that he either brought it to an arena, or some Car Show/Monster Truck/Etc thing where Cena was giving out autographs.

WTF? You get a shirt autographed, a picture autographed, but when did it become a new thing to get expensive electronics autographed.

This is why you should've kept the console black Microsoft.

whiptcracker

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Aren't 9 year olds only suppose to be the ones playing wiis. Also the smack down game he got is for teens and the show is TV-14. Good old Microsoft.

Neodiablo22

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> This is exactly why I didn't put the stickers that came with my Aqua Teen Hunger Force Vol. 5 DVD on my 360 or my Rock Band guitar.

AnEternalEnigma

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> This is almost becoming moot now.

Listen, if you have a 360 there's a good chance it will one day burn with the red fires of hell, then, Microsoft will douse that mutherfucker clean and send it back to you, stripped of the all the markings from it's former life.

The lesson here: STOP DRAWING SHIT ON YOUR CONSOLE!

PaulHunter

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Groodle:

So you cannot enjoy wrestling as a fictional show, because it has predetermined outcomes?

Keep in mind Professional wrestling is not a sport. It is "Sports Entertainment".

Do any of you enjoy movies such as dodgeball, Days Of Thunder, or any of the million sports comedies or dramas? Same thing. It is entertainment and that is that.

Some people do choose to allow themselves to pretend it is real, and that is fine too, just like those that allow themselves to love soap operas or shows like Prison Break.

I fail to see how it is any different from any other fictional programming.

If you feel it worries people that others like watching "men in tights throw each other around" then they have some serious sexuality issues.

It is a soap opera in spandex, plain and simple. It is fine if you don't like it but to arbitrarily bash it because its not a "real sport" is like saying GTA4 is going to be the best game ever without even touching the controller....

Jypsy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I think I would want the blank one, who would want that horrible stain that was made by some c-list celebrity! Yeah, this isn't as bad a the Bungie thing.

Phantommizzi

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Why would somebody lug their 360 around to get signed in the first place? I'd be far too afraid of bumping it against something. I mean, I love my Xbox, but I'm afraid to breathe on it wrong, let alone carry it around.

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Celebrities, let this be a lesson to you: just say no to signing consoles.

Save the kid the future heartache.

chinesedentist

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> How about a memo to repairs/service? Just fix the machine,it's not your job to wipe it clean maybe?

enewtabie

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @ddollar: your comment hurts my brain.

@Mr.SithNinja: It's still real to me dammit!!

Also, where do I have to be, or who do I have to know to get into places to get my xbox signed? I mean seriously, not that...you know...I'm into things like that.

DataScream

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Quickly, someone with a 360 console get signatures from the GTA4 development team. Then send it in and have it erased.

Presto - Early copy of GTA4

NightMystic

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> this is retarded, i think microsoft should just simply just say it plain out, anything signatures or drawings on the xbox360 will be wipe clean period. so if some idiot has his 360 signed and used the 360 till it PROD then he better get a new 360. I don't understand why people have their high failure rate console signed instead of maybe a ps3 or wii or heck a computer case(if it must be some kind of gaming related device).

UltimateIdiot

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @slowreader: He probably thinks it is real and not scripted.

ghnvt

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Lemming To The Sea:

I can understand why you're being so defensive, but I'll try to answer from my perspective. It's pretty simple in my own mind, really.

I enjoy sports. Football and baseball in particular. Finding out when someone is cheating, or throwing a game, or betting on outcomes of matches they're involved in, it infuriates me. A large part of the drama I get out of watching athletic competition comes from the suspense of heading towards an outcome. When either or both of the competitors already know the outcome, it loses all real tension for me.

I'm not saying everyone should think like me, but I do get why most people look down upon it. In the end, knowing it's fake but enjoying it anyway boils down to enjoying watching men in tights throw each other around.

I think that worries people. :D

Groodle

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Maybe he can be body slammed in from of 30,000 screaming fans. Better yet, they should body slam the sob that wiped the signatures of the console.

Mr Fortitude

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> WWE? Sounds like they did him a favor...

slowreader

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Maaxxx: He's nine, his world probably fell apart :D

Iceking5

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> ...asshats. Maybe Microsoft should just:
A) Not erase the signatures
or B)Fix the horribly unreliable hardware so no complaints could ever be made!

At least he got something out of it. Now I just need to get famous people to sign an already RROD 360 and send it in to get myself a little something.



Pata-pwn(TM?)

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Mr.SithNinja: Someone is trying to talk about a subculture they have no idea about. Having been a wrestling fan for 20 years, I can tell you writing off the sports entertainment business as fictional is about as bad as saying television is worthless because most of it isn't real. Do you have a favorite TV show? Do you like the Family Guy? Scrubs? Seinfeld? None of those shows are real, but does that mean nobody over 6 years old should watch that?

When watching wrestling, it's no different than any other program you can tune into on television in which the events occuring are scripted and *for fun*. I would think that video game players wouldn't have too much of a trouble understanding that, considering their beloved video games are all fictional events too which exist merely to tell a story or provide you with an hour or two of entertainment every night.

Now take that into account and continue to tell me why wrestling is crap but Final Fantasy isn't.

Don't worry, I'll wait.

Lemming To The Sea

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> a boy traumatized no way, spoiled brat instead. backstage passes to WWE event seems a little too much money for that. Wrestling is fake (wwe) a bunch of drama fightning.

Maaxxx

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Lemming To The Sea:
Or Judas...


-EDGE-

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Can't say I'm surprised..

Sileighty

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Why dont gamers just have those famous people sign a controller. For one thing its cheaper to shelve, because buying a new system after having it signed would be too expensive. Also if your system goes all RROD you dont go through the traumatic experience of having something you treasured wiped out.

TheeAhaMoment

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @chronubis: Haha, leave the signatures MS. You are entering a world of pain. You are entering a WORLD OF PAIN!

Kickinstuff13

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> So it was signed by fictional characters??? Trust me they did him a favor. Nobody above the age of 6 should believe that crap is real but still they do.....

Mr.SithNinja

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Witzbold: I think it's procedure. I'm willing to bet that in the xbox 360 repair sweat shop it isn't the cleanest of places. Maybe they clean it up with some really strong chemicals right before it was packed and shipped back.

tnx3

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Sounds like somebody is trying to cash in on Microsofts generosity with the previous machine. I say pics or it didn't happen.

NeoStarr

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @yanthrax:

They should. It will be Microsoft's fault for trying to save face by giving someone special treatment.

This shit has got to stop. People with priceless memorabilia should not be using it for its original purpose. Repair technicians need to stop being brainless douchebags and destroying people's shit. And companies need to stop rewarding people who whine to the press.

What crap.

Groodle

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> What are they going to do when some smart ass signs his console as jesus christ? What can they give him then?

Mr Fortitude

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Dakobah: Really any signing I've ever seen people are willing to sign whatever you want them to. Gencon, wrestling events, local signings, etc, they don't care as long as you're happy as far as I've seen.

Lemming To The Sea

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @Witzbold: They're required, by protocol, to scrub each unit they get in with an alcohol product.

CreamSodaSlurpee

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @chronubis: Tell that to Chuck Norris.

Lemming To The Sea

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> red flag here,

ummm why take your 360 to signings?

most famous people are only able to sign pics of themselves.

whats to say i make a illegible signature on my xbox whip it clean and say its microsofts fault?

just really skeptical thats all.

Dakobah

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> People should know better by now. Your 360 will break, Dont put stuff on it.

Scott3D

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> @-EDGE-: Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

chronubis

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Now why in the hell do they even clean off the signatures in the first place again?

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Did I mention my 360 was signed by Jesus? When it went all RRoD on me I sent it out. It cam back signature gone...fix THAT MS!

-EDGE-

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I can't wait to see the ridiculous amount of people who are going to take try taking advantage of this "signed" Xbox business.

yanthrax

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> You'd think that they'd figure this out eventually.

WTF?

tzaketh

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> What the hell are these guys thinking with the wipes? I understand that some people wouldn't know the exact members of the Halo staff, but when you see The Rock or The Undertaker on a box, can't you take a hint?

Next Headline: CHUCK NORRIS' SIGNATURE WIPED OFF XBOX, CLEANING CREW DEEMED TO BE AN ISOLATED AMISH SOCIETY

RRRansom

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I need to get me a signed 360 and make sure it RROD's so i can get some free shit...

Honestly why are people having their game consoles signed and then using them? If i had a console signed I would shelf it and buy a new one for use.

Have them sign a damn game case people.

parad0x360

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Note to people with signed 360s: DON'T FUCKING PLAY IT. If it's really something you cherish, you should put it behind glass, else wise this kinda thing is going to happen.

GiantEnemyCrab

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> # Bug 33302:

Status: Not fixed
Info:
People still get valuable signs on his xbox removed.
TODO: change prodedure now!!!!!!
Priority: high

Tei

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> This really shouldn't have happened a second time.

LordPotato

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Okay Guys--

DON'T GET YOUR XBOX 360's SIGNED. There are millions of possibilities when it comes to getting your stuff autographed, and it seems like getting your 360 signed is about as lasting as getting your boobs, ass, or bald head autographed.

Namssorg

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> What kind of vindictive bastard would do something like that?

Spiraltribesman

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> At least it wasn't signed by anyone interesting.

chronubis

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> I'm gonna get my friend to sign my 360, send it in for repairs, claim it was signed by some awesome star, then wait for Microsoft to send me a free 360 and a bunch of free stuff.

At this point it's fail proof.

Daiden

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> why do people would his 360 be signed by wrestlers i can understand the bungie guys but wrestlers???

ddollar

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Signature Erasing Rampage Continues]]> Oh boy.

mike566

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