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Forums - Gaming - BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft Xbox 360 "Disc-Scratching" Legal Battle! Hot Coffee Edition.

 

The Battle Continues.

I want revenge! 35 51.47%
 
I was lucky. No scratch. 14 20.59%
 
It was my fault. 1 1.47%
 
results 18 26.47%
 
Total:68

I had a launch 360 for 5 years before it got the RROD and I had to replace it.

Never once had a problem with my discs



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Zekkyou said:
shikamaru317 said:

Never had a single issue with discs being scratched by my 360. Probably a McDonalds hot coffee-esque lawsuit.

Wasn't the coffee case actually pretty valid? :p


yea i had to look this up because it was on the down low. the case settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

https://www.ttla.com/index.cfm?pg=McDonaldsCoffeeCaseFacts



deskpro2k3 said:
ReimTime said:
If the case goes somewhere, what will the settlement be?


Maybe free game(s) ?


Yea probably; although that would be mostly useless in 2015 (if you are talking about replacement copies of the games that were scratched)



#1 Amb-ass-ador

The launch 360's were the worse console ever released in terms of quality.



shikamaru317 said:

Never had a single issue with discs being scratched by my 360. Probably a McDonalds hot coffee-esque lawsuit.

 [Editted picture out, due to gore. Go to google and type mcdonalds coffee burn pictures.]

 

So.... you mean valid in every shape and form?

"McDonald's admitted that its coffee is “not fit for consumption” when sold because it causes severe scalds if spilled or drunk"



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360 was a shitty built and rushed console. Coming from the Original it was a terrible step back. Although I never had 5 or 7 consoles lol that shit is unbelievably funny. I did have mine replaced twice because RROD



shikamaru317 said:

Never had a single issue with discs being scratched by my 360. Probably a McDonalds hot coffee-esque lawsuit.

You know that that lawsuit wasn't as frivolous as the media made it out to be? The woman suffered severe 3rd degree burns and needed skin grafts because the coffee was, indeed, way too hot. There's regulations in place now that keep coffee from fast foods at a much lower temperature.

Also, she, initially, only wanted McDonald's to cover her medical bills and lost wages, to the tune of a $20,000 settlement. It's because McDonald's fought that (only offering her like $800) and took it all the way to court that they ended up paying millions of dollars.

It wasn't some BS ambulance chaser type lawsuit where nothing really happened the woman, and she just sued for millions because she could. No, she suffered severe physical damage, because McDonald's coffee was entirely too hot (negligence), and McDonald's only paid millions because for some reason, $20,000 was just too much money for them or they though that 200 degree coffee "wasn't that hot", so the allegations were bunk.

If the disc scratching is anything like the McDonald's incident, it means that there's a legitimate gripe and Microsoft is trying to deny its legitimacy. And when the courts found out that hey, these allegations are true, Microsoft has to pay only because they let the lawsuit go too far instead of owning up to their defective product.



kowenicki said:
ps. "BREAKING NEWS!" is a bit dramatic and not really apporpriate for a story that broke... yesterday.


Yea it was one of those dramatic effect kind of things. Had to be



Kerotan said:
The launch 360's were the worse console ever released in terms of quality.

True, disc scratching wasn't the only issue, and I remember reading about it that the failure rate was up to 54.2% based on 5000 xb360 owners. MS had to design a new box.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2009/08/19/survey-xbox-360-failure-rate-is-54-2/

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-360-failure-rate-542/1100-6215590/



Maybe Shik was talking about this clown http://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-charged-alleged-fake-mcdonalds-coffee-burn-case/story?id=26912011