Mr. Nosuch

I guess it's way too much work to put in the lede that the patch is NOT out for the 360 yet. Even though the article is tagged "xbox".

I'm used to not trusting Joystiq, so this comes as no surprise.

It's Rock Band NETWORK. Not the main music store. It really does take less effort to read the full post and understand it than it does to write a response, yet here we are.

So Microsoft Game Studios had to license some kind of Flash runtime to do their menus? This is the best they can do? That's not innovation, that's just giving up. Good choice of technology, there, since Flash is so well known for its performance.

Oh, wait.

They are calling it Live 365, huh? I wonder how the Live365.com people feel about that.

Link to the Saint's Row 2 official blog is broken.

The link should be:

http://community.saintsrow.com/blogs/?p=497

I'm not sure why being stupid enough not to remove the hard disk and carry that on (the only element of an Xbox that isn't trivial to replace.) entitles someone to a million dollars.

The data loss is his stupidity. Even if the item wasn't stolen, don't check a hard drive, duh.

He should be entitled to the replacement cost of the equipment, period.

If you have a special, custom xbox console, don't travel with it. Get a "travel unit" and carry on your hard disk. Problem solved.

I can't hear the airport next door over the sound of my Xbox 360.

Though once I install games to the hard disk, I can finally hear those 747's coming in again. Ahhh.

Any new achievements with this DLC?

Yeah, no major company would do that. Like Amazon, for instance.

Oh, wait. They DO.

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200144510

The point isn't the inability to get a refund, but there's no way in the store to even SEE the product. You can't have it both ways. Unless you are Microsoft, of course.

The fact that Microsoft doesn't provide either a web site like this themselves, or the ability to preview from the NXE itself, shows how much they know the products are generally crap.

That's why they slap "THERE ARE NO REFUNDS" on these purchases. It might as well say "If you buy this, you are stuck with it, even if you hate it."

Nice for the community that a third-party has made the effort to do what MS should be doing, though. Wake up, Microsoft.