Microsoft Shorts the Customer…Again
By Matt • About: Gaming, Xbox 360 at 6:34 pm on February 12 2008I’ve been looking forward to the North American release of Lost Odyssey for the past couple years. Every time E3 rolled around I would wait for new videos and screen shots that might show any new kinds of information. Now, on the eve of it’s release to mass market, certain gamers have gotten a hold of copies through local retailers. What does this all amount to?
Not many US gamers played Blue Dragon, the first game from the beloved Hironobu Sakaguchi and his new Mistwalker studio. Upon opening the case you were treated to the picture of all three game discs stacked upon one another in one slot. It seems as though Microsoft has done it again, only this time they have made it worse.
First off, we have the Asian release of Lost Odyssey. Notice the wider case and separate spokes for the discs.
Here you see the treatment gamers in the US receive.
What you see above is exactly what you get when you open up your copy. The first three discs are stacked in one slot while the fourth and final disc is kept in a paper sleeve. This is so incredibly lazy, and fully devoid of class. I thought that Microsoft would have made the case a bit better this time around judging by how heavily they are advertising and pushing this game here in the US…but I guess I was wrong. We can only hope at this point that Microsoft will revise the case and ship out replacements for those who bought a copy.
(Many thanks to NeoGAF users boco77 and vexvegaz for the example pictures)
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Matt can be found in the Milwaukee area going to college. He'd much rather be playing on his Xbox 360 or reading his weekly comic purchases, and as we all know, all work and no play makes Matt a dull boy.
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booooooo microsoft!!! fucking cheap asses! didn’t people who bought the mid range version of halo 3 have scratched discs because of the stacking? so we have to worry about scratches being on one or more of the discs, which can suck big time if you’ve already put in like 30 hours before you get to the bad disc. this also increases the chances of losing a disc. thanks for this bullshit microsoft!
That’s pretty shitty right there.
that is weak sauce to the max.
Sofa king ghetto.
This surprises me because MS is always looking out for the consumer’s best interest. I expect this from Sony. Booo.
Oh wow, that’s pretty fucking lame. Does the import copy support English? Are 360s even region free? ’cause yeah, maybe that’s an option.
What utter bullshit!!! Talk about sleeping on the jorb!!!
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Stop being a whiny girl, enjoy the game, eat your vegetables and live a happy, care-free, life.
It’s just a game in a case. I’m playing said game in case and I am enjoying it very very much.
As far as I’m concerned paper sleeves also make great coasters.
If you’re using it as a coaster, what do you do when you put the game away? You certainly don’t have a nice case to put it in.