Actually, the reality is, Microsoft is pretty much the world's biggest underhanded-tactical corperation in the world involve space-age computer technology.
The fact is, they're counting on you to be stupid and not find out about it. There are people who just replace the games without asking a single question why their games are being burned with a white ring like it answered a certain phonecall.
This is something of a marketing ploy, since people these days don't even know what the hell a mouse is. Yes, it's actually true, given that I had difficulty understanding why people don't know what a computer mouse is. Somehow, school always teach you things, when you tell a person to "touch the mouse" and they start screaming hysterically about "WHAT MOUSE?!" Anyhow, I digress. The thing is, I have a pal who takes apart 360's to see what the hell's wrong with them, practically reverse-engineering the whole thing to understand the flaws in it, and the biggest flaw is that the laser lens is not covered or secured at all. What he told me is that Microsoft can easily make the lens stable, therefore, if you move it anyhow you want, it would not be burn, and he demonstrated it on his 360, whom he modified the lens to be perfectly stable, which means in his earthquake of a home, he can move his system as much as he wants without having to spend half an hour's worth of elbow grease to repair a disc.
Frankly, MS just wants your money. Ever wondered why you manage to download 350-something kb/s from a site like Megaupload on a DSL connection, and somehow only download 120kb/s from Microsoft? Microsoft, the biggest computer company in the world, is cheap on bandwidth, imagine the irony.
The fact is, the whole thing is a lie. They CAN improve their own bandwidth to provide downloads, they CAN secure a lens in a stable condition. That's one of the reasons Bungie left Microsoft, the underhanded tactics and the inability to provide dedicated support for people who pay Microsoft, such as downloading a Halo 2 map-pack at 350kb/s. Many people complained to Bungie that their games are effin' up on them during gameplay, and Bungie turned into a scapegoat for a bunch of retarded irresponsible idiots who tugged the system with their wired 360 controllers. Imagine Bungie's staff reaction, when they stated that they loved the fans for making them "kick ass", and when they hear this, they're the ones who aren't "kicking ass" for something out of their control.
Simply, don't move your 360 around, and don't yank a controller or anything, and don't take the 360 apart. Microsoft wants you to pay them money for a new 360 when they can legally claim that it's your error, and pay for new game discs. They know, once you get a 360, the amazing graphics, digital sound, and wonderful games on it are irresistible and becomes part of your life, you wouldn't live without one, and it'll be as important as FOOD. Simply, don't play into cheap Bill Gate's hand, he just wants more money (as if 2000 dollars a second isn't alot of money, we slave for 2000 bucks).
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