Friday, March 07, 2008 5:49 PM
by
DirtyDiva
The Case of the Wiped 360
Recently, the story of
Nathaniel and the "wiped" console hit the interwebs. Nathaniel was the
owner of a prized possession. He had an Xbox 360 that had several very
cool signatures and drawings on it. He had to send it in for repair and
tried to make sure
that he would get the same exact console back that he sent in. He did
get the same console but the signatures and drawings were lost along
the way. People at all levels of the
Xbox organization have taken this case to heart and are using it to
make sure our repair processes can lessen the chance of this type of
thing happening in the future.
We have been in touch with Nathaniel, both to express our sympathy
(as gamers, we appreciate what he felt seeing a "clean" console staring
back at him), and to let him know we’re working on righting things for
him directly. We haven't let on to anyone
exactly what that is but, personally, I think it's pretty sick (in a
good way!). While this has already been reported on other sites, what
hasn't been said is that we told Nathaniel that it would take a few
weeks to get to him. I still think it will be worth
the wait.
As well as working internally to resolve the issue, we have been
working with Bungie and other external sources (No, I'm not going to
tell you who, yet). As you’ve seen, Bungie stepped in and sent him some
awesome swag while we’ve been working on our project.
Coming from someone who lives and breathes community, that was a
wonderful gesture.
Again, please be rest assured that there are many of us working
hard to make sure Nathaniel will be the grinning gamer in no time.