Zombies ate my XBox
After my bad week last week, I figured I needed some relaxing so I picked up Dead Rising for the XBox 360. Popped it into the XBox, and found out that my XBox DVD drive has stopped working.
It doesn’t spin up – the XBox thinks everything is ok (it goes through the “Closing” / “Reading” sequence when I insert the disc) but I never hear the drive spin up.
My van is back in the shop this morning, and my XBox is waiting for Purolator to deliver a box for it to ride off to it’s graveyard in.
Oh, and a little rant about Microsoft: Rather than cross-shipping me a new XBox 360, they’re sending me an empty box. I will put my XBox in the empty box and send it back to Microsoft, at which point they will ship me a new XBox.
When my iPod broke, Apple shipped me a new one right away (I had it in two days), and the box they sent me the new one in was the box I was to return the old one in. Very efficient, and I had working hardware in 2 days instead of 2 weeks.
Does Microsoft not trust their customers enough to ship back the old box?