| mrstickball said: I'm with Parokki - It's an isolated issue with very few disks having a problem like that. Why sue for millions over a $60 game? |
He's not suing for millions personally. It's a class-action lawsuit, meaning there could be potentially thousands of "plaintiffs." He's suing on behalf of a group of people, my guess would be that he's asking for either their money back, or new copies of Halo 3. It would be foolish for him to sue Microsoft for $5 million just because his one copy of the game had problems, as I don't think anybody could be damaged $5 million dollars worth by a video game... Unless perhaps it killed his parents.
Either way, I think it would make more sense to just ask for a new copy of the game, or perhaps a patch (Microsoft apparently is aware of the issue, which leads me to believe they're working on one). Class action lawsuits work better when a large amount of people have actually suffered some sort of physical harm, not a technical defect that the company would seem to be all to happy to replace for them (as evidenced by their free game of Halo 3 when you buy an Xbox promotion). The lawsuit seems to be a pretty poor plan of action, but maybe the guy's just trying to bring some attention to it. Afterall, suing a huge company over the biggest media event ever has gotta make headlines somewhere.
