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http://www.escapistmagazine.co...-Lawyer-Tells-His-Side
In partial:
Really? This is lawsuit worthy? Really?
"Dude, like, I totally paid fifty bucks for this, and I couldn't play Halo 3 for a whole day. Yeah I know Microsoft is giving us a free game... but fifty bucks dude!"
Doing the math, $50 for a whole year of service comes to a whopping $0.13 a day. Even if it was down for a week your minor inconvenience was worth less than a dollar. Now how much do lawyers cost? I'm assuming more than a dollar. Even if you lost it for a month, well I guess Microsoft might owe you a value meal from McDonalds.
Are peoples lives this easy and trivial where losing your ability to play online games for a while makes you froth at the mouth and sue? My house loses power on occasion during storms or what have you, but it's called life, you deal with the problems here and there and play with your DS until the lights come back on.
Plus you have to factor in that this is a class action suit, where even if the plaintiffs win the amount of money each gets would be a paltry sum at best, while the lawyer takes the huge piece of the pie.
In partial:
Prior to that apology, however, Smith and his co-plaintiffs Keith Kay and Orlando Perez had already contacted Gibson for help in suing for a partial refund of their $50 annual Xbox Live subscription fee. "When you have one person who is mad and they can't get a response, and they can't get their complaints addressed by a company like Microsoft, the only way to get their attention is in numbers," Gibson said. He also claimed that Microsoft must have known that Xbox Live would not be able to handle the Christmas strain, saying, "If they had not anticipated the sales, then they would not have put out that many units of the Xbox to begin with."
"They take the money for the subscriptions, but they don't make sure that the service is going to be there," he continued. "They kind of put the cart before the horse." According to Gibson, he has received more than 500 emails regarding the lawsuit, the vast majority of which supported the effort, and more than 50 people have joined in the suit since it was launched. He also said his clients aren't looking for a windfall with the lawsuit. "What they would like to see is Microsoft fix the problem," he said. "They'd like to be reimbursed for the money they spent when they haven't received the service, and hopefully it will make Microsoft do the right thing in the future."
Really? This is lawsuit worthy? Really?
"Dude, like, I totally paid fifty bucks for this, and I couldn't play Halo 3 for a whole day. Yeah I know Microsoft is giving us a free game... but fifty bucks dude!"
Doing the math, $50 for a whole year of service comes to a whopping $0.13 a day. Even if it was down for a week your minor inconvenience was worth less than a dollar. Now how much do lawyers cost? I'm assuming more than a dollar. Even if you lost it for a month, well I guess Microsoft might owe you a value meal from McDonalds.
Are peoples lives this easy and trivial where losing your ability to play online games for a while makes you froth at the mouth and sue? My house loses power on occasion during storms or what have you, but it's called life, you deal with the problems here and there and play with your DS until the lights come back on.
Plus you have to factor in that this is a class action suit, where even if the plaintiffs win the amount of money each gets would be a paltry sum at best, while the lawyer takes the huge piece of the pie.