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News Room Contributor  Posts: 3846 Joined: 21 Feb 2008     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 109 Joined: 5 Nov 2008     | Hahahaha well isn't that rich? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 126 Joined: 18 Jun 2009     | Thats awesome power to playing people for chumps |
Master Archivist  Posts: 9221 Joined: 5 Mar 2009     | Why go through all that trouble, they could have just mailed him the box with rocks in it. lol now im wondering if it was signed "steve" all over the front panel in permanent marker. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 778 Joined: 7 Jun 2008    | Well, see, it's more about just having it to look at. Appreciate it. Don't stare to long, and definitely don't use it. I'm more interested in where he signed it. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 675 Joined: 13 Mar 2008    | yep...another overhyped Molyneux project that falls on its face :P |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1355 Joined: 22 Feb 2008    | I can't help but have the feeling that someone noticed the problem, but decided to keep his mouth shut for one reason or another. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 729 Joined: 15 Jan 2009    | FRAME FAIL |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1655 Joined: 11 Jan 2009     | Wow. That's really sad that they tried to scam the guy. And now he has a broken (ish) 360. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1165 Joined: 4 Mar 2009  | Damn, they're even cheaper than I thought they were. Way to drop the ball again Peter. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2248 Joined: 16 Feb 2009    | Further proof of that Molyneux has problems keeping what he promises, lol. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1621 Joined: 14 Apr 2009  | Heh. They're so crap, they're 'practically' giving them away. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1196 Joined: 22 Dec 2008     | Well it's not like he paid for it, is it? He could just look at it. I'm sure having that dude's signature has SOME sort of good side. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2069 Joined: 6 Feb 2009 | Always look on the bright side, atleast it'll never RROD. :) |
Paperboy  Posts: 19 Joined: 23 Jul 2008   | The guy got a signed 360 for a prize, if he wants one to play he can go to Best Buy. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1892 Joined: 24 Jan 2008    | There's two ways around this. 1: Rip out the case, and shove it in a new 360 case. 2: Just slice off the bit of plastic, and VOILA. You can plug the damn cables in! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1131 Joined: 6 Oct 2008   | Phahahahahahaha. That's gold, right there. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1389 Joined: 29 Mar 2009    | Is this worse than RROD? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3001 Joined: 9 Sep 2008   |
You can't even plug it in to power it up to see the RROD. |
BANNED  Posts: 11268 Joined: 3 Jan 2009   | God the Molyneux luck extends to consoles to! How do you fuck up that badly? User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 633 Joined: 29 Jun 2009   | He'll take it out of the case, plug it in, and voila!... A RROD. No warranty. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 135 Joined: 3 Jan 2009  | So....why did Lionhead think that this was a good idea? Surely the plastic casing isn't expensive, they could have just bought a box standard Elite, sprayed on the logo, and made Molyneux sign the damn thing, rather than trying to cram one thing into another, which is time-consuming and also expensive. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4900 Joined: 29 Jun 2008  | To everyone who had anything to do with that Xbox (Excluding the person who won it:) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 124 Joined: 29 Jan 2009 |
Well, the "traditional" RRoD is three red lights out of four. If you plug in a 360 and turn it on without an A/V pack attached, the 360 flashes four red lights. 4 > 3, so, yes, I would say this is worse. ;) |
Brand Manager  Posts: 2376 Joined: 8 Oct 2007     | Wow. Wonder who got fired on that one due to laziness. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1947 Joined: 28 Apr 2008    | I'm sure the dude who did this knew what he was doing, and just wanted to piss the winner off. |
Paperboy  Posts: 41 Joined: 1 Jul 2009    | If that was me, i would be sooooo pissed. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3283 Joined: 8 May 2008   | Well... they do say any publicity is good publicity... Although getting a reputation for being stupid may not exactly be the best approach for them, certainly the most fitting but... Anyway I neither know nor care who Peter Molyneux is but I would not have bothered keeping it anyway. Would have sold it right away before it could RRoD. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4329 Joined: 8 Jan 2009  | Man Lionhead can't seem to do anything right... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1631 Joined: 27 Aug 2008   | Wow.....way to go team way to try for a new 360 design |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1076 Joined: 23 Oct 2008  | That's so sad! I mean, the winner must have felt as though he was on top of the world after winning a contest, and this probably smashed his hopes and dreams into tiny pieces. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1164 Joined: 11 Jun 2009 | Hah, 360s, they always make me laugh. "Buy the PS3, It's THREE TIMES better than the first!" |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1189 Joined: 9 May 2008  | porto-fail. and I second anybody who called them idiots. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1402 Joined: 16 Dec 2008  | Well, as with everything touched by Peter Molyneux, you don't get quite what you were promised. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1031 Joined: 12 Apr 2009  | lol oh well peter go away and use your brain more. |
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Signed 360 Not Quite the Prize it Seems
Winning a custom Xbox 360 signed by Peter Molyneux sounds like a pretty good prize right? Wrong.
Lionhead ran a competition a little while back to celebrate the release of the See the Future DLC for Fable II, with the winner scoring a custom Xbox 360 signed by Peter Molyneux.
So when 'NeoxDonut' won the grand prize, imagine his surprise when he tried to plug the console in, and found the AV port totally unusable.
Apparently, the guts of the console are from an Xbox 360 Elite, but the case is from a first generation Xbox 360. Check out the picture if you want to see exactly how messed up that looks.
Looks like Lionhead, and Microsoft of course, really dropped the ball on this one.
Source: Kotaku
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