Consumer affairs show Fair Go has tackled the New Zealand Xbox Live disabled download problem by encouraging consumers to purchase a PlayStation 3 over an Xbox 360.

At 7.30pm last night TV ONE's Fair Go investigated a recent problem with Microsoft’s online Xbox Live service where downloads have been completely disabled for those New Zealanders using under-18 accounts.

This includes game and additional content downloads with PG and even G ratings. Furthermore, Microsoft took no measures to prevent under-18s from purchasing Microsoft Points – the online currency used to purchase items on the Xbox Live service – which were then unusable on an under-18 account.

Much like Game Console, Fair Go reporter Gordon Harcourt received brief and largely uninformative statements from Microsoft on the matter . Harcourt went as far as to dismiss Microsoft’s response as “inadequate” and “arrogant”.

However, Fair Go did eventually receive the same statement reproduced by Game Junkie’s Gerard Campbell – as reported by Game Console yesterday – in which Microsoft claims to be working on a fix and offers reimbursement for those with unusable Microsoft Points.

OPEN ME

Thats messed up MS

Ouch.

Pay for your MS points... and then you are not allowed to spend them?

i would be sueing like crazy.

You do know that Gebx got banned for flooding the forums with anti-Sony news? This is almost outshining him

This is more 'Pro Sony' news than 'Anti MS' In my opinion.

Except your opinion is extremely biased towards Sony/PS3, so what makes you think that opinion counts?

Gebx was banned for this, and now BHR-3 is doing the same thing, if not worse.

What's up with all the anti Microsoft propaganda this guy is posting?

gebx was banned because all he posted was anti-Sony stuff.

BHR posts pro-Sony stuff.

There is a difference.

So, you have no idea what your talking about.

Gebx had like 3 Anti Sony stories on the front page at the same time, all had no reference to Microsoft or the Xbox 360 - they were just basically 'Sony is going to die' threads. Can't you see a difference between these threads? I'm not saying any one is better or worse than the other, I'm just saying they are different.

And you have no right going round calling anyone 'extremely biased.'

So chillax  

So you think a piece that upbraids Microsoft (rightly so, in this case) at great length is pro-Sony rather than anti-MS simply because it ends with, "Buy a Play Station"?

Learn to read, IMO.

My above post applies to you too.

IMO