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Microsoft-Have no clue on anything.

I recently purchased Halo 2 for Vista, and I am installed it. I got to the menu, and a Live thing came up. I was like "I dun wanna play Multiplayer online now.." so I clicked Back. I clicked what it said again, and it popped back up. So I said "Beh, I'll use the Free 1 month Gold Trial I got.." so I did everything. Whaddya know? Error. I went to the Live forums, and asked why. It said that until next week you can't connect to Live, like everyone else. Lazy much? But anyways, I wanna play the god damn story mode but apparently I can't :mad:
 
It's because of the huge influx of people on XBOX Live during the holidays. It got so bad that the Live servers actually crashed.
 
You guys better watch what you say about Microsoft, they are listening...

Microsoft can afford to eff up like this because their MICROSOFT.  Besides using a MAC or Linux, we are kinda stuck. 
 
jbart321":3nfadsz1 said:
Besides using a MAC or Linux, we are kinda stuck. 

i have a theory - people only use linux to be an elitist fag about the fact that they use linux.

btw how didnt you know about the xbl outage dude? its all over the damn internet that nerds everywhere are pissed off
 

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Cruelty":2k5akf9a said:
i have a theory - people only use linux to be an elitist fag about the fact that they use linux.

Aint that the truth... gahh the amount of times I've had some little scrawny I.T Fiend thinking they are superiour to me purely because they are on Linux is uncountable >_>
 
Lol @ "downgrading" to XP xD.

Live has issues, and you need to be signed into Live (for your gamertag to save progress) on the PC version from what I heard.
 
Cruelty":w89hu7x2 said:
jbart321":w89hu7x2 said:
Besides using a MAC or Linux, we are kinda stuck. 

i have a theory - people only use linux to be an elitist fag about the fact that they use linux.

btw how didnt you know about the xbl outage dude? its all over the damn internet that nerds everywhere are pissed off

I use linux because it crashes less and it's more utilitarian :>.  But really I only use it on my home desktop, which I use less than other computers anyways.  They probably should've seen the crash coming and done something about it, but hey they didn't, big deal.

And Halo on computers hasn't really worked out, ever.  Maybe in 2 years when they put halo 3 on computers they'll figure out how to do it correctly.
 
Well, I cursed the fuck out of them with an email and they replied..


"We know about the problem, and it will be fixed shortly." One god damn line?! XD

Anyways, I tried again and it connected.  ::)

My Reply:
"Free game plz thx."
 

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I generally find Apple to be better as far as customer service and the like are concerned. Or maybe I'm just cursed to perpetually meet the nicest people.

However, being unable to open .exe files is a big tripping block. Apple has its own unique file type (disk images,) but the problem is that Windows is the operating system. The majority of things come formatted for the computer most people have. That said, Windows does crash and stall much more frequently than any Mac I've ever used, and I hear from a friend of mine that Linux (Ubuntu, specifically) trumps both. I'm not totally sure what files will run on Linux, so I'm just sort of tossing that over the fence.

I've used both the Mac and Windows, and I've come to this conclusion:

Get a new iMac and use Boot Camp.

If I wasn't so destitute, I'd consider doing that myself.

Wouldn't it be sweet if they released RMXP in a format that was compatible with ordinary Macs? Then I could just steal my dad's Macbook and use that all the time... They'd need to come out with FL Studio for Mac too, though. It'd benefit from it, for sure.

At any rate, I find it in bad taste to antagonize them for server issues that you yourselves caused with holiday traffic. They didn't take anything from you except maybe one week of a free trial you might not have used anyway, so why demand freebies?

Like, let's say an LRT tunnel is under repairs, so the trains aren't running. You don't start demanding free rides when it gets back up, especially if you and your buds caved it in to start with.
 
Well if you ever used a mac and got a so called "Hardware Malfunction" then you would say like me "Screw you apple". What I think to call this so called "Hardware Malfunction" like me you would know its a virsus but, apple cannot accept the fact that they have computer virsues.
 

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zenrdy":1akxhvpa said:
Well if you ever used a mac and got a so called "Hardware Malfunction" then you would say like me "Screw you apple". What I think to call this so called "Hardware Malfunction" like me you would know its a virsus but, apple cannot accept the fact that they have computer virsues.

For the most part, they don't. The Apple operating system is largely ignored by virussmiths, and Windows viruses are mostly incompatible. There are still antivirus programs for Mac, in the case a virus does show up.

In short?

It was a hardware malfunction.
 

mawk

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And you may call that swimming thing a fish, but I like to call it an airplane.

At any rate, did you try giving it over to a Mac dealer for diagnosis? They make the machines, and the chances of them being wrong about something they've had to assemble and reassemble (and debug, etc.) as part of their jobs are slim.
 
I wanted a Mac for Christmas. But damn, cheap parents. :P

Mac are awesome.

Anyways, I was kicked off XBL because over like, millions of people joined at once and ..*crash*
 

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