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Game Tester Fired For Going On Record About Xbox 360 Defects

VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi recently published an exhaustive history of the manufacturing issues that have surrounded the Xbox 360, resulting in still unknown numbers of defective consoles and a $1 billion price tag for Microsoft's games division. Hypersensitive readers who pined for the day when we could all just "move on" from the story weren't the only invested parties who took issue with the exposé. Microsoft fired one of its own contract employees over his participation in the story.

dktxx25761d ago

Fired for telling the truth? What a sad place this world is becoming.

mfwahwah5761d ago

Problem isn't that he told the truth, it's that he broke a contract (NDA), and that requires termination.

Getting sued though, is a bit much though. What he said has no substance as "dirt" on MS. It's simply a "This did cause RRoD, but I found the errors and reported them to MS, leading to a fix for those specific problems."

SkyGamer5761d ago

Never bite the hand that feeds you.

Seriously, is he mentally retarded in thinking he can talk smack about his employer and thinks that they will not do anything? If he does not like Microsoft, why work for them? It would be like you telling your boss for him to go $c#w himself. He/She probably isn't going to be to happy with you and you probably won't be employed much longer. Besides imagine the recommendation that they would say making it harder for him/her to get another job. Not too bright.

rroded5761d ago

meh this kind of stuff is typicla in the big corps...

Sad tho that you can get fired for telling it like it is

tho that molson guy who got fired for having a pic in the paper holding a bud was sadder.

StephanieBBB5761d ago

It's amazing how bill gates can sleep at night knowing which kind of jacka**es he has left behind to run microsoft. If I was billgates I would fire all of those socially retarded monkeys and hire some people that can run a corporation without cheating/lying/boasting. Then maybe, and just MAYBE people will start trusting in the products again.

EL MAESTRO5761d ago

sorry dude but thats how it is. every single company does this. its sad yes but nintendo, sony MS and every single company in the world lies. its about making money not about giving the best. Do the math they got a head start, making tons of money, even after rrod they still have millions of dollars of profit. any company would have done the same if you still make money who cares what the consumer says or feels. I have a 360 and I'm fine with it. I suggest you dont get attach (loyal) to any company cuz theyre not loyal to you. I leaned my lesson with sony. Never be loyal to anyone.

STIKUP ARTIST5761d ago

He's a snitch. Cant have those on your team.

dle5761d ago

This is not about telling the truth, but it is all about loyalty and protecting the image of the "hand that feed you". All companies keep certain quality control issues from the public. If Microsoft built a hidden routine to steal user confidential data in the system, then it maybe appropriate to go forward. But for this it is hardly appropriate. If this employee is not punished, all hell will break loose at every major corporation on earth.

JoySticksFTW5761d ago

M$ would love nothing better to get rid of the faulty hardware RROD stigma. Heck, they didn't even want to admit it in the first place.

I believe that M$ has been trying very hard to eliminate the RROD issue and it's been paying off with some people believing that the RROD problems were only in the earlier units and are now a thing of the past.

You may have to fire the guy, but suing him just brings him and his admissions about the hardware defects to light again. You have media members already clinging to this story. Big mistake on M$'s part for letting anything related to hardware defects make the headlines.

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Freezingduck5761d ago (Edited 5761d ago )

"He was quoted by VentureBeat on two separate "red ring of death" scenarios, one that could be triggered by a reproduceable crash , citing NBA 2K6, and another related to dashboard update bugs with Capcom's Dead Rising."

So he lost ~two months (or how ever long it takes to call, get send a package, pack your box, send out your box, wait for repair, wait for it to get sent back and do again) without his Xbox360 while having to pay for LIVE, sounds like a reasonable complaint

InfiniteUnfloppery5761d ago

We here at Sony will gladly employ the Fired Microsoft Employee,we believe he will make a Great Public Speaker on the Effects of Associating one self with a Flop Corporation and a Flop Product.

theKiller5761d ago

they r using the same policy the american government use in the war of iraq and Afghanistan which hide and deceive people by controlled information and news!

Microsoft = G.W. Bush = must go down!

v1c1ous5761d ago

you want a guy who breaks NDAs and blabs sensitive company information to the media working for Sony?

you didn't think that comment through much did you

SteveBallmer SonyRep5761d ago

God my old company suks the only reason i stayed was that Bill Gates had a big c0ck

TheOtherGuy5761d ago

uUuUmm you didnt READ his comment through did YOU?!?!? "....we believe he will make a Great Public Speaker.... " kinda self-owned urself since you didnt READ that part of his comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JoySticksFTW5761d ago

"I wonder if they like taped a pic of the RROD on his cubical or something to let him know he was fired.

::Sees red ring picture:: "What the fvck?"
::Flips over:: "YOU'RE FIRED" "

Funny stuff right there :)

Pain5761d ago

and breaking it will do that.

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Freezingduck5761d ago (Edited 5761d ago )

It's just stupid, getting fire for telling the truth - I mean he wasn't bashing on the Xbox360 saying "OMFGBBQXBOXSUCKS," he was just sharing his "factual" experiences.

Sympathy.

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OptimusDK28d ago

There are different games. Some have gamplay at it highest priority, some have the story, some have the replay value and choices... There are a lot of different game experiences.

It is laughable that just now graphics does not have anything to do with that experiene. We have had many games of that type over time. This is just the one that have come closest to feel like playing an actual movie. Just look the the Digital foundry walkthrough it is a masterpiece in that perspective and hence wrth trying. But yes do not do it for the gameplay - but that was never the goal of this experience.

GamerRN28d ago

It's because it's on Xbox. When Xbox has amazing graphics, they don't matter. When PlayStation does, it's a game changer!

Lightning7728d ago

Pretty much my thoughts. They were technical marvel's on PS and still are. The moment Xbox puts out a graphically intense game is doesn't matter suddenly.

4 years ago this month would the UE5 tech demo debut with the girl flying (tech demo said it was only possible on PS5 because of the SSD. Glad to finally see it in its glory.

fr0sty28d ago

FFS, gaming journalism has really gone downhill. At least hire people with a basic grasp of grammar... "Me neither" means the exact opposite of what the "author" is trying to say. That's like saying "I could care less"... lol.

S2Killinit28d ago

Maybe because the gameplay being dull allowed it to have the amazing graphics and people are not as impressed by graphics alone anymore? I mean there is a lot of sites saying the story and the gameplay are lackluster. So what are we supposed to enjoy then? Cgi graphics are beautiful but since they arent interactive, they dont impress me as much as they used to. Thats an extreme example, but you get my drift.

Terry_B28d ago

When Playstation (Sony) does it..its usually a great game and not a cinematic experience..or at least something new at the time..like Until Dawn back in 2015.

1Victor28d ago

@gamer:” It's because it's on Xbox. When Xbox has amazing graphics, they don't matter. When PlayStation does, it's a game changer!”

The game looks as good as any other PlayStation game in my eyes why can’t you and the other hardcore Xbox be happy about it and drag PlayStation into every conversation and force PlayStation hardcore to look into the game and find flaw that most games have in one way or another.
@light: “ 4 years ago this month would the UE5 tech demo debut with the girl flying (tech demo said it was only possible on PS5 because of the SSD. ”
Yes at that time it was only possible on PlayStation SSD how ignorant of you to think that after 4 years the technology wouldn’t evolved and move to a industry standard 🤦🏿I wish your mentality wasn’t so naive and narrow to post stuff like that 😩 in a year or 2 a new game will come out that might look better, it’s the nature of the industry.

Now that the distraction is gone I feel that is a good thing that the graphics in games are starting to hit the rooftop and hopefully the developers will put more thoughts into story and gameplay mechanics than just the next shiny oily skin of old.

Reaper22_28d ago

So true. Not surprised by all the negativity. It's a really good game and looks better than any game I've ever seen. GOTY nominee for sure. Like I said before, sony screwed up big time by not purchasing Ninja Theory.

Asplundh28d ago

Pretty much. It's like how the Switch and Steam controller using haptic feedback in their controllers wasn't a big deal but then Sony did it and it was then a "game changer".

fr0sty28d ago

The game runs at as low as 21fps... That isn't much to brag about no matter how good it looks.

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MajorLazer28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

We've had graphical gamechangers before, such as Crysis but those games still had gameplay to compliment it. Hellblade pretty much has none, and only achieved such graphics through being incredibly linear and having very small, closed off environments where very little is happening.

Vx_28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

GFX does not mean anything if the game is boring. It is simple like that and these major companies need to understand this simple concept.

Games are like your lady, she may be beautiful to look at for a while but then it gets boring if her character isn't interesting and fun to be with.

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Kneetos28d ago

Mario kart 8 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sonic188128d ago

Horizon forbidden West has great graphics and great gameplay

GamerRN28d ago

Yeah but graphics don't matter, remember?

anast27d ago

@RN

I've been pretty consistent in saying that we need both.

GamerRN26d ago

So until dawn, too human, or whatever those series of games were... Graphic masterpieces it garbage with no gameplay?

VincentVanBro28d ago

I agree and I actually think Forbidden West looks better than Hellblade 2. I easily prefer looking at it at least.

Sonic188128d ago

It does look better in my opinion as well. I don't know why it looks better but there's something about the Decima engine or that guerrilla games is using tricks that we don't know of

Abear2127d ago

Can you fly a mount under water in Hellblade 2? I think not! One of the best moments this Gen

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