Had Enough of the 360 now

[Uriel Septim]

I just got my 3rd brand new 360 3 days ago, and earlier today i was playing chromhounds and it froze again, i have sent an email to microsoft telling them about the problems i have had with the 360 and asked for a refund, when i phoned xbox supportthey were not helpfull at all he just wanted to send it in for repair again and i was saying to him, that i wanted to get a refund.

Just hope microsoft get back to me

[just Jam Man]

ooer! Really gutted for ya mate! I think your just one of the unlucky ones! Hang in there oyu might get afixed one some day!

[phatmuther]

that blows, i hope you get your refund (Y)
then you can buy a wii instead (Y)

[linkofhyrule]

Ah mate, you shouldn't've done that! It's Chromehounds' problem not the 360!

Highly doubt they'll give you a refund though :(

[Uriel Septim]

Ah mate, you shouldn't've done that! It's Chromehounds' problem not the 360!

Highly doubt they'll give you a refund though :(

well if it is just on chromhounds only time will tell, but if they do reply and dont give me full refund that is only way i will be keeping my 360.

p.s have you had same problem with chromhounds?

[linkofhyrule]

Yes I have m8, it's a known problem.

I wouldn't return my 360 because of just one game :(

[ArtG]

I don't think they will give you a refund, I really don't. Just keep sending them in and highly doubt the next one will bust on you.

[linkofhyrule]

You probably wouldn't get a total refund anyway because I think the store adds a little bit to the price. Otherwise they wouldn't make any money :s

[Uriel Septim]

I don't think they will give you a refund, I really don't. Just keep sending them in and highly doubt the next one will bust on you.

lol dude this is my 4th 360 thinkin about it, 1st one had hardware failure, second one a few games freezed like graw then had disc tray problem so sent that back, then they sent me a brand new one, and chromhounds froze on that so i sent it back with hardrive then they sent me a new one and chromhounds did the same thing today and i have had this console for 3 days, so i dont think another 360 is gonna solve this problem, thinking a bit about it, is most likely chromhounds but games should not just freeze while playing, liek i said before no ful refund i wil keep and if it gets pretty bad i will just trade for wii then

[linkofhyrule]

If it's been CH twice I really doubt it's the console.

Sell the game if it annoys you that much, but not the 360!

Or has it been doing it for other games too?

[Tobes]

I'm sure I told you the other day that Cromehounds has a bug and the game freezes.

[Uriel Septim]

I'm sure I told you the other day that Cromehounds has a bug and the game freezes.

ye you did but the reason i sent my 360 back then was because the disc tray was bust, oh and it has froze in single player and in the online mode on chromhounds, well unless ms dont give me full refund i wil be keeping the 360, but if any other games i get like saints row freeze i wil just end up tradeing 360 for the wii, the thing is now i am wondering well if i buy this game it could just freeze like chromhounds,

[Uriel Septim]

If it's been CH twice I really doubt it's the console.

Sell the game if it annoys you that much, but not the 360!

Or has it been doing it for other games too?

no it has only been happening with chromhounds

[Dcontrol]

Thats some bad news there again for you Uriel you don't have much luck with the 360's do you! I've had mine since the official UK launch day and mine has frozen a couple of times (around 7) and thats about it and usually only on GRAW twice on Oblivion though too. Apart from that I have no problems.

I would send an email or a letter to microsoft customer support and tell them the problems you have had and how many 360's and tell them that you will be informing I don't know a programme like Watchdog about their faulty product and poor customer service. You might just get somewhere then. Best of luck to you fella!

[linkofhyrule]

ye you did but the reason i sent my 360 back then was because the disc tray was bust, oh and it has froze in single player and in the online mode on chromhounds, well unless ms dont give me full refund i wil be keeping the 360, but if any other games i get like saints row freeze i wil just end up tradeing 360 for the wii, the thing is now i am wondering well if i buy this game it could just freeze like chromhounds,
If your only game that has frozen so far is CH out of all of them that you have there's not a very big chance of Saint's Row freezing. It's a chance ya gotta take though m8.

[Uriel Septim]

Thats some bad news there again for you Uriel you don't have much luck with the 360's do you! I've had mine since the official UK launch day and mine has frozen a couple of times (around 7) and thats about it and usually only on GRAW twice on Oblivion though too. Apart from that I have no problems.

I would send an email or a letter to microsoft customer support and tell them the problems you have had and how many 360's and tell them that you will be informing I don't know a programme like Watchdog about their faulty product and poor customer service. You might just get somewhere then. Best of luck to you fella!

ye i already did that earlier sent them an email with all the consoles i had and problems that occured with each one

[linkofhyrule]

If you included that only Chromehounds was crashing I'm not sure they'll take it back m8, they'll probably tell you to talk to the developer.

[phatmuther]

talk to the developer?? :D
ha! i would love to see you talk to the developer about it :D

[Uriel Septim]

If you included that only Chromehounds was crashing I'm not sure they'll take it back m8, they'll probably tell you to talk to the developer.

no ok here is a list of the games that have froze on all the 4 consoles i think it is now

1.Graw about 8 times sent it back to gamestation
2.Oblivion twice
3.Call Duty once
4.Chromhounds like 3 times
5.Far Cry Once

But on the last two i have had only chromhounds has froze and last two consoles i have had liek 12 days because they sent me a brand new one then chromhounds froze and teh when u press teh power buttonit was making a weird noise and so i sent that off and gt new one 4 days later and chromhounds froze in single player

[linkofhyrule]

I mean send the development company an e-mail and yell at them about how unstable their wicked sweet game is.

[Uriel Septim]

I mean send the development company an e-mail and yell at them about how unstable their wicked sweet game is.

ye i will send sega an email telling what a beep job there programmers do

[linkofhyrule]

I think it's FROM Software not Sega. Sega's just the publisher, they didn't have much to do with the actual game.

[Uriel Septim]

I think it's FROM Software not Sega. Sega's just the publisher, they didn't have much to do with the actual game.

oh ye thx for the correction

[Blaze Lord]

I thought the one with the broken disc tray was the second one? Didn't Chromehounds freeze on the third?

[Shoitaan]

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/chromehounds/news.html?sid=6154332

I haven't had any problems and god willing it'll stay that way... but it seems CH is causing quite a few people grief..

[linkofhyrule]

it's happened for me personally just a few times but I've heard cases where it's quite bad

[linkofhyrule]

I'm now afraid I might be having the same drive issues you had.. It just took me 3 tries to open the bloody thing. Might have been a one time thing.. I sure hope so :s

[D4VY]

heh.

i was even thinking of selling my 360, need some extra cash and if im honest mine just sits there collecting dust.

[The tengu]

My xbox only ever freezes online when i get a message or when a friend appears online notificaion.Doesnt really bother me as long as it is still working .

[AK.]

that sucks man, i cant see them giving you a refund though they will be pretty tight imo, but this being your 4th xbox just get a wii

[phatmuther]

my girlfriends 360 drive sticks when its standing upright, and only a few times when flat, but shes gonna replace it when they get a another one in her shop (Y)

[Uriel Septim]

I thought the one with the broken disc tray was the second one? Didn't Chromehounds freeze on the third?

ok list of 360s lol

1. Hardware Failure
2. Disc Tray Problem (Certain Games freezing)
3. You are correct Chromhounds Freezing, and would make a weird noise when i turn it on so i sent it back
4. And now with 4th one and Chromhouns has froze

well just checked my emails and my email i sent to ms has been delayed, meaning it has not got to them yet

[Blaze Lord]

Whatever man. Have fun with this.

[Tobes]

1. Hardware Failure
2. Disc Tray Problem (Certain Games freezing)
3. You are correct Chromhounds Freezing, and would make a weird noise when i turn it on so i sent it back
4. And now with 4th one and Chromhouns has froze

I don't understand why you are sending this one back. It's not a problem with your 360. If it was fair enough I would be quite wizzed off. But it's the game not the 360.

[Blaze Lord]

Sounds like Xbox Munchausen to me.

[Uriel Septim]

I don't understand why you are sending this one back. It's not a problem with your 360. If it was fair enough I would be quite wizzed off. But it's the game not the 360.

well i am only sending it back if i get a full refund if not i will be keeping it, but its just gets on my nerves i had no problems with the xbox, and loads with 360, it most likely is the developers problem. But thing is i dont want to keep spending like 50 pounds on a game when it could just freeze like chromhounds

[Blaze Lord]

You never had anything freeze on you with Xbox1? ..Okay.

[Uriel Septim]

You never had anything freeze on you with Xbox1? ..Okay.

no i did not why u think i am lieing or something

[linkofhyrule]

No it's just hard to believe not a single game crashed a single time..

Nothing to say if you get a Wii it won't have problems too..

[Kalou]

Oblivion has froze once for me while loading, but once in over 70 hours of gameplay isn't that bad, what is bad though is the fact this is "next gen" so nothing should be freezing, somehow I feel robbed with the 360 as I only have one game I play which is Oblivion.

[Tobes]

Wow. My Xbox froze on me quite a bit. Normally cause it couldn't cope with something or I was to quick for it.

When I restart a game I can normally remember the buttons. ie Start, down down, a , right, a. Do it so quick that it doesn't like it lol.

But fair enough I can see where you are coming from. You defo wont get a refund though as the Xbox 360 is not faulty. Believe me when I say I know about these things. I have taken a company to court. I won but the product was faulty so the situation is different.

[Blaze Lord]

Yeah, KOTOR froze on me all the time, and it's still one of my favorite games.

The idea that "next-gen" means bug free games is, heh, a pipe dream. If anything, it means more bugs. Luckily, most of us don't notice the majority of the bugs in a game. Like one pixel being the wrong shade of green in a cutscene, and so on.

[Chuck]

I was deleting videos on the dashboard and mine froze...

[linkofhyrule]

Yeah it seems 360s crash most when you do tasks like sending messages, deleting stuff etc..

Hopefully it'll be fixed in a future Dashboard update

[HotFish]

Ah mate, you shouldn't've done that! It's Chromehounds' problem not the 360!

Highly doubt they'll give you a refund though :(

Yeah chounds does have a prob. Esp'lly when you open your guide in the map main lobby it freezes.

Last night it was terrible

CYa

:)

[just Jam Man]

Actually guys my xbox 1 never froze once! Thats the reason i loved it over ps2! Coz ps2s crash all the time especially on GTa games!

[Raisedbyflames]

games crash all the time on pcswith windows 95 and 98 so igot used to it the360 dontcrash nearly as much mainly when im in the guide mine crashs they need to sort that out

[RiLu@]

yesterday while playing FULL AUTO, my 360 didn't stop but the sound just stopped and evrything in the game just got locked like in the beggining. this all happen right after i had a short-cut with a spot-light. I went mad I thought all my saves went to dust, but NO! everything it's like it was, just restarted the 360 and FULL AUTO and it's fine!

[Steve]

Why do you still play Full Auto my norwegian friend?

[linkofhyrule]

yesterday while playing FULL AUTO, my 360 didn't stop but the sound just stopped and evrything in the game just got locked like in the beggining. this all happen right after i had a short-cut with a spot-light. I went mad I thought all my saves went to dust, but NO! everything it's like it was, just restarted the 360 and FULL AUTO and it's fine!
Yeah.. that's exactly what happens when 360's crash. You don't lose anything you just have to restart

[Steve]

Systems freeze left and right. When you switch to the dashboard and send messages while in heavy action you 360 can and sometimes will freeze. And if it doesn't get red lights then it is not broken. Has it ever gotten Red lights before out of the 4 you listed? Cromehounds is a e game. And I have played it with some friends and it was terrible and froze alot. So you went through four 360s and took two 360s away from poor innocent childeren in afghanistan.

[AK.]

Systems freeze left and right. When you switch to the dashboard and send messages while in heavy action you 360 can and sometimes will freeze. And if it doesn't get red lights then it is not broken. Has it ever gotten Red lights before out of the 4 you listed? Cromehounds is a e game. And I have played it with some friends and it was terrible and froze alot. So you went through four 360s and took two 360s away from poor innocent childeren in afghanistan.

i used to get that quite alot playing graw very annoying, they should try and fix it

[Uriel Septim]

Systems freeze left and right. When you switch to the dashboard and send messages while in heavy action you 360 can and sometimes will freeze. And if it doesn't get red lights then it is not broken. Has it ever gotten Red lights before out of the 4 you listed? Cromehounds is a e game. And I have played it with some friends and it was terrible and froze alot. So you went through four 360s and took two 360s away from poor innocent childeren in afghanistan.

yes it had got red light son teh 1st 360 i had, and second one had disc tray problem other two certain games kept freezing

[Blaze Lord]

So, you had 2 bad consoles and a bad game.

[phatmuther]

So, you had 2 bad consoles and a bad game.
well to be fair i think that constatutes to having enough of the 360, he shouldnt have had any bad consoles or games

[Blaze Lord]

"Should"? Mmm. I suppose not.

On the other hand, he bought the system at below cost, and exchanging Chromehounds for another game is a lot simpler than getting a refund from MS after returning (possibly with free shipping, even) two systems he didn't need to.

[phatmuther]

but he purchased chromehounds to play chromehounds, not to trade it for another game

[Raisedbyflames]

and chromehounds rocks so he shouldnt want to tradeit in

[linkofhyrule]

yeah but it crashes

understandable that it annoys him but it's not Microsoft's fault

[Uriel Septim]

"Should"? Mmm. I suppose not.

On the other hand, he bought the system at below cost, and exchanging Chromehounds for another game is a lot simpler than getting a refund from MS after returning (possibly with free shipping, even) two systems he didn't need to.

well guys on the subject of me trading in chromhounds i got a credit note at gamestation not another game

[RiLu@]

what can you do with it?

get another game?

[Uriel Septim]

what can you do with it?

get another game?

you just get a piece of paper with the value of the game say 20 pounds and can use that on anything in gamestation lasts until you use it i have like 2 worth 58 pounds lol

[RiLu@]

good for you here in norway there's a few EBgames i think they have something like that but that's all!

[damien©]

Uriel Septims problem with his Xbox 360 is simple...

He enjoys playing the games he CAN play, however when games such as GRAW and Chromehounds end up breaking his machine he's left with a problem.

Both of those games he can no longer play as they kept causing his 360 to broke... (apart from the the disc tray issue). Now if those two games broke what about games that are yet to be released.

Saints Row and Gears of War, What if these cause the his 360 to fail! It's not exactly a joyfull experience some of the biggest games released he has to lose at least £12 every time.

I do think he should get more compensation as at the moment he's only a volunteer beta tester for his own machine at his own cost. If Microsoft can't find out what causes his 360 to fail like this they defiantly need to provide him with more decent compensation if only to justify what seems to be his endless problems!

[linkofhyrule]

The games didn't cause the system to break dude.. The second one broke and was crashing in 2 games and Chromehounds just crashes, nothing wrong with the console.

He's already gotten 2 free games, I think that's fair considering he's lost 3 360s

[Blaze Lord]

Both of those games he can no longer play as they kept causing his 360 to broke... (apart from the the disc tray issue). Now if those two games broke what about games that are yet to be released.

Saints Row and Gears of War, What if these cause the his 360 to fail!There was no causality involved at all. He had one bad original system, and one bad refurb.

If Microsoft can't find out what causes his 360 to fail like this they defiantly need to provide him with more decent compensation if only to justify what seems to be his endless problems!Well, it's definitely not the games that are causing it. I can't think of a single reason why a copy of a game would have some sort of malignant code on it to break a system. If it was true that he is having a string of four bad systems, which I don't think he is, I would wonder what the heat conditions are like in his entertainment unit. Seems is an important word. I have a feeling that both Saints and Gears will be far more polished than the relatively low-budget Chromehounds.

[Uriel Septim]

Got that Over G Fighters yesterday, and it kept freezing when i unlock an achievment,and was getting really annoying because i had to redo the mission then it would not freeze because i had no achievment pop up this happened about 3 times, so to solve this problem i just recovered my gamertag and transfered Over G from my memory unit to my hard drive and its fine now unlocked 3 achievements since and its fine, and the loading on the dash seems to be quicker and it signs me into xbox live quicker, so my profile was most likely went corrupt, just a thought but chromhounds my work fine now lol

[linkofhyrule]

Yup, Over G does that (N)

It's bearable with a game like Chromehounds, which doesn't suck, but Over G, I brought it back after a week

[damien©]

Told you Uriel, just give it to me.

I tell you what I'll make a deal any game that doesn't work on your Xbox 360 i'll buy off you for £20... You can't say fairer than that.

On a more serious note, I must be the exception here as these issuses hardly ever arise me with.

[Blaze Lord]

About 10 hours into frakin' around on Chromehounds, no freeze. But I do have an Intercooler.

[damien©]

About 10 hours into frakin' around on Chromehounds, no freeze. But I do have an Intercooler.

So then that means conclusively that the Intercooler works... were do I get mine. Oh wait, thats right I have no Intercooler and mines fine, thats strange.

Sorry I thought I'd be a bigger prat than normal.

[Uriel Septim]

Told you Uriel, just give it to me.

I tell you what I'll make a deal any game that doesn't work on your Xbox 360 i'll buy off you for £20... You can't say fairer than that.

On a more serious note, I must be the exception here as these issuses hardly ever arise me with.

lol like i said it was doing it because my profile must of been corrupt what it freezes 3 times before at the exact same time then i recover gamertag and i get 3 achievmenst no freeze, thta tells me one of two things either corrupt gamer profile or a corrupt game save, most likely corrupt gamer profile as everything loads much faster end of rant lol

[leeeee35]

I still have problem's with mine all the time freezing,when i play online with cod2 and graw it goes all funny like everthing goes fast forward and then goes off.I don't play online much any more.

[Blaze Lord]

Fast forward? Are you sure you aren't having a stroke?

[WACCOE]

Hahaha.

Ring Microsoft up and get a new one. (Y)

[tom91]

im getting a 360 soon, i hope mine dosent do this. Does it happen mostly in older launch models?

[Blaze Lord]

My system from launch is running fine. Slow downs if I hit the Guide button during a big (Oblivion) loading. Had one freeze from that. Don't remember getting any other freezes.

[WACCOE]

Does anyone else's 360 seem to go slow once you've hit the Guide button. Meaning it takes a while to navigate round the guide. Or was that just my old 360?

:s

[phatmuther]

Does anyone else's 360 seem to go slow once you've hit the Guide button. Meaning it takes a while to navigate round the guide. Or was that just my old 360?

:s

sometimes, but not all the time, once in a blue moon

[Blaze Lord]

Only during a loading screen. But if the game can accept the pause signal from the Guide, it works pretty crisp.