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Planned Obsolescence

Last night, sometime between 7:00 and 8:00, while I was playing Assassin’s Creed,
my Xbox 360 emitted a horrible grinding noise from its optical disk drive. The game gave a couple of audio glitches, but the drive quieted down and everything seemed fine, and I was happy to pretend like I wasn’t in for another repair process.

Today, on starting up the console, the drive made several funny noises and refused to read the disk or any other disk. I logged on to the Xbox support site to request a repair and got this:

Oh the consumer rage.

It was short-lived though. After calling the support center, I was told that my repair would still be covered under warranty. I will believe it when I see it, but I will never again scoff at a “the warranty must have just expired” joke.