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Microsoft Apologizes for Issues, Extends Halo 3 Beta
Yesterday, despite assurances that Crackdown owners would be able to participate in the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta, Xbox 360 users were tied up in knots by unknown technical issues. Though a fix was eventually released, Microsoft is now apologizing for their mistake. They have extended the Beta period to June 10th to compensate the folks who may have taken off of work to play, and for general annoyance. "It's been a long day for a lot of people but we're happy to announce that effective immediately, a title update for Crackdown is available on Xbox Live that will fix the issue that previously prevented you from downloading the beta. The Microsoft team just deployed this fix and when you launch Crackdown you should receive a prompt to download the update. Please note that it could take up to four hours for your console to receive this update based on various factors. However, the good news is that we're in the clear and Halo 3 gameplay is just over the horizon."
halo sucks. this is not news.
Yes. That's truly interesting. Perhaps they feel more is at stake in the gaming market, whereas with OS problems, other than those (let's face it, relatively few) of us willing or committed to trying/using other platforms, maybe they don't feel as threatened. Of course threatening patent violations does seem like the behavior of a threatened creature. The other reality here is that in big M$-sized corporations, the business units behave drastically differently, so, for example Sony Music is more likely to behave like asshats and install rootkits on your PC, whereas their home electronics unit is more likely to just shoot itself in the foot with bad marketing tactics on good products (i.e. Beta, Minidisc, BD).
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