Day Four: Still No XBox 360, Everyone Else Is Playing Halo 3. We HATE MICROSOFT.

We detest all those sites that reap Microsoft hate. To be honest we detest any sort of bashing, at least any that is undeserved.

We can however, justify our "bashing".

We're PISSED. (not drunk, right now)

Still waiting for the device at the service centre? THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

If anyone from Microsoft is reading this - specifically anyone from the UK service centre... WHAT THEY HELL IS GOING ON? You can't still be waiting for it - UPS took it away days ago! Do you actually have my 360 or not? If you do then DO NOT implement a system that is supposed to update people with the repair status if it isn't going to actually do that job!

We're not sure how to make it any clearer. Phoning you doesn't help. Emailing you doesn't help. We are at your mercy and it is WRONG. Where is the customer service? You cannot treat all of your customers like this. Well maybe you don't, you may just be trying to piss us off.

Well done, you succeeded.

You can get away with it too, it's not like any of this is going to drive us to buy a PS3. The only thing we can do is to sit and wait or actually go out and buy another 360.

WE WANT TO PLAY HALO 3 YESTERDAY!

We're throwing down some sort of gauntlet here. Your opportunity for redemption. Show the world that you can care. Write a comment on this site. Email Wratty. Publish a statement. Show us that you acknowledge our existence.

Or just happily sit there as always just soaking up the little inferior pieces of negative press that you always get.

three eyed red demon

Yes, these bastards are still sat there staring at us.

Actually, they're not, we're so angry about it we couldn't even bring ourselves to take a photo of it, I had to steal this of some other poor sod's blog. It's just coming up to 5 o'clock, which means that we have about 7 hours to try and fix it before everybody else we know starts playing Halo3. Doing the sensible thing and sending it off to Microsoft is out of the question, as I don't think it would be back in time, so I'm currently just whispering obscenities into it.

Once that plan fails, I'm simply going to remove the LEDs from the front, lets see how clever these little chaps feel when they're sat in the palm of my hand eh!

Still, there must be something good on the telly tonight, tomorrow night, and for the rest of our lives.

How can we become commercial?

Now that we've been officially branded 'non-commercial' we'd like to find out how we can go about making the jump to 'commercial'

The only difference we can really see from our current vantage point is that being commercial means that we would get paid. I'm all in favour of that. I suppose being non-commercial would mean that we could be considered impartial, honest, upright, maybe even 'fair'

Of course, this is far from the truth, we are bitter and twisted individuals who won't stand for any kind of fairness, or any form of honesty in our presence.

Actually, I think we might be commercial, because I think once somebody clicked on the link to play-asia and proceeded to buy a protective skin for their DS, which landed us a finders fee, oh yes. That 8p came in very handy when the council tax bill came through I can tell you.

We've Found Some Definitions Of Non-Commercial

An actual definition: Adj. noncommercial - not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises

Something Swiss:
This policy, mainly extracted from law of Great Britain and Canada, addresses the conditions that an entity must meet to qualify as a non-profit organization for purposes of the non-commercial licensing. When determining whether an entity is a non-profit organization , the entity must meet all of the following conditions:

• It was organized solely for non-profit purposes.
• It is in fact operated solely for non-profit purposes.
• It does not distribute or otherwise make available for the personal benefit of any member any of its income.

In case a group, company or individual does not meet all of the described conditions, it is automatically considered as a profit company, group or individual.

Someone who sails has something to say:
By definition, non-commercial use refers to any use that does not generate income or is not used to promote the generation of income.

In completly unrelated news we would like to point out that we've never pocketed any cash from this site. Ever. We did however get sent a bag and two Piggyback guides once. If anyone would like to send us money, games to review or generic freebies* then please do so.

*If you are going to send anything previously warn please make sure you've attempted to wash it.

Another Return To Microsoft, Male Pride Still Intact

In a fashion that would have the Wratty of yesterday look down upon us in shame, we've done what we can only do when we are met with loss of hope. We're lowering our guns and we are returning the white brick to it's holy temple at Microsoft HQ.

We went into Gamestation today, we opened the box and we saw (much like Elton John when he met David Furnish) the beautiful helmet that we'll be taking home this Tuesday night. The sheer beauty of the Legendary Edition has reminded us that we do indeed love Halo and that we are simply being clutched at the testicles by the Microsoft warranty repair unit. Which by the way, was extended for 3 years was it not? Why did the online request form tell us that our serial number was out of date? We should not be out of date as long as those dastardly red lights will haunt us.

We spent most of last night in a dark room watching those same lights from the opposite corner of the room. We've made our deal with the devil.

The forms are filled in, we are awaiting their email to confirm something. Although we aren't exactly sure what they need 2-8 hours to confirm, are they going to turn up at our door in a minute and check that we're not having them on? Maybe we shouldn't have written what we did in the "Request for service" box...

"I switch on the console I see 3 flashing lights. THIS IS THE 4TH TIME I HAVE SENT MY CONSOLE BACK FOR REPAIR! I put games in I watch movies! I AM BUYING HALO 3 THIS WEDNESDAY. I was looking forward to playing it. How many more times must I send this console back? Any recognition that I exist? Any compensation? Repair request? How about one of those HDMI ports you decided to put in each new console you sell? How much complaining does one have to do to get an Elite? Do I not deserve one now? What exactly have I got by being a loyal customer? For buying on day one? For putting up with this?"

Microsoft, hear us now.

We at Game Over, Yeah have returned from our slumber to wreck as much havoc as we can from this minor blog place that we call a kingdom. We were always on your side, through return of XBox 360 number 1 and 2! This wasn't just bad timing. You shall pay, somehow.

Why We Won't Be Playing Halo 3 This Week

Because our XBox 360 has died.

You couldn't have timed it better could you? Those horrid three red lights that we are oh so familiar with have graced our THIRD XBox 360 since we got it on launch day. This will be the third time we are going to have to send it back.

We have no choice, we have to send it back. We need to play Halo 3. Or do we?
Right now we haven't decided. It's like when you're angry at your girlfriend for something you can't remember but don't want to back down on. At the moment we're going for the higher moral stance here.

NO we're not sending it back. Yes our arms are remaining folded. Paper Mario will keep us occupied until then. If only we had more influence and someone from Microsoft would read this and think "Oh no, poor chaps + bad publicitiy = lets send them an Elite!".

Pissed off? Us? Microsoft you have no clue. You really don't.