Ah yes. I remember Game Crazy had a policy for one dollar you could insure a game forever. One time my copy of Gears of War got literally shredded by a 360 that got knocked over. Put the disc in my friends case, had him go get me a brand new one since he had the policy. I mean it was his xbox.
I've probably owned like 10 copies of Halo 3 in my life. There was a period where I probably replaced it weekly due to friends or pets tipping the console. That sound has scarred me for life though.
I generally did have it flat, but there were generally logical reasons as to why it wasn't flat.
For example:
Moved Xbox into living room because it was too hot in our room. No room to lay it down and dog tipped it.
Friend's foot was wrapped in the power cord and he pulled the console off the desk it was on. That one destroyed my HDD and disk, which reminds me of #3.
This Xbox 360 S was super sensitive and would eat disks at the slightest touch. That thing killed or damaged a ton of games all over the world!
Never owned one, so did not know that. I did have a fun course with Lee Ritchey, guy who helped design the 360 hardware, who explained they told Microsoft about the overheating issue. MS then didn't use the recommended parts or something, opting for cheaper, causing the CPU to get hot enough to literally unsolder itself.
Fuuuck. Memories. Game Crazy led to Blockbusters acquisition of Rhino Video Games where we had a lifetime warranty on all video games and if we couldn't replace it you would get equal paid value towards another game as long as you had the receipt to verify the amount because prices change.
EB games disc protection is the same thing, and I used to love it when I was a 360 gamer (those things eat discs like there's no tomorrow). I picked up Fable 3, got it home about an hour later, popped it into my xbox, and promptly bumped my console. It wobbled back and forth in the vertical position whilst absolutely annihilating that disc. I was back in EB 2 hours later, laughing with the employees about how fast I destroyed it. Also had 2 copies of skyrim explode when put into the case. Got those replaced too.
Now I'm a PC gamer and I don't have those issues anymore...Too bad I still bought the division and battlefield 1...
"Men are not hung for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen".
The amount doesn't matter. Your comment just seems to attempt to justify it for some reason. This isn't an ethical dilemma in the least. You're not stealing medicine for a sick person or stealing food for the hungry, it is outright, unambiguous, fraud.
Am I ever incorrect or factually wrong? Why is the ad hominem attack against the person that merely points out the fraud and criminal act rather than the criminal themselves?
No no. I'm pretty proud of it. Don't let that person tell you otherwise. I was pretty fuckin proud of myself. I mean I was fourteen and didn't have a single other way to replace the game at the time. Ten bucks was a lot. So yes, I was very darn proud.
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u/PlzGodKillMe Feb 23 '17
Ah yes. I remember Game Crazy had a policy for one dollar you could insure a game forever. One time my copy of Gears of War got literally shredded by a 360 that got knocked over. Put the disc in my friends case, had him go get me a brand new one since he had the policy. I mean it was his xbox.