Shannon Smith, plaintiff: "It took me an extra 20 seconds to get matched up on Team Slayer! Waaa, waaa! I want a dollar! Mommy!"

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I'm a big MS fanboy, but something needs to be done about this Live issue. It was total crap. Also, something else to think about - where's our free game we were promised?

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The Plaintiffs in these cases rarely ever stand a chance of getting a significant amount of money. The Lawyers on the other hand generally take home 50 to 80% of the settlement. So someone IS trying to get rich here, it's just the people that are already rich, so goes the American way.

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Ummm, we would be lucky to see 50 cents out of this if they won the class action lawsuit. Lawyer fee =....depends on hours. SOO we might be lucky to see ....10 cents!

I'll stick with the free game they are going to proved us with!

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Fifty cents isnt going to help anyone who can afford xbox live gold.
I would much rather they force microsoft to donate it to some charitable organization rather than to the consumer, if they honestly HAVE to sue over this.
Besides, were already getting a free arcade game.
If its worth even 400 points normally, theyre basically giving us 4 dollars each, which is 8x more than the suit anyway.

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10 million subscribers. yeah, 60% of whom have Silver accounts, so (a): can't play online anyway, and (b): don't pay a cent for the limited service they get, so shouldn't be due any compensation.

So I'll look forward to my $1.20 cheque.

Frankly, the offer of a $4 or $8 XBLA game looks generous in comparison, does it not?

I advise anyone who's offerred the chance to join the class action lawsuit to turn it down. Frivolous lawsuits like this just line rich lawyers pockets. Screw 'em.

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I'm a bit confused: is the only reason we don't know what the game we're supposed to get is (or how we're supposed to get it) because of this lawsuit? Because that would royally piss me off.

Oh, and about the dollar figures: I could legitimately see it being worth up to ~5 dollars, because a 1-month card (which *somebody* must buy, 'cause they still sell 'em) has an MSRP of 10 dollars, and the outage was bad enough to complain about for close to half a month. Granted, *most* people probably paid more like a buck or two, but I could see a court figuring based on the worst-case cost, not the average.

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I'd happily forfeit 50 cents just to keep getting service updates again...

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OBJECTION!
sorry i just had to say it...

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@ Phocas

Get a grip loser. If you don't stick up for your rights as a consumer then that's fine. Don't get on me because Major Nelson twittered. You think that I give a flying **** that he can blog? I didn't do this out of greed. I did this because I paid for a service that has barely worked for the past month and I wanted my month of XBL back since I was unable to use it. Your defending a corporation that needs to be put in check once and awhile. You think I'm going to feel guilty about demanding a product I paid for? This is MS were talking about. Not some mom and pop store that made an honest mistake. And FYI, the lady that I talked to (in Canada) agreed that I was entitled to a month. She's giving me a card code and not cash. God I hate this site sometimes....

but I guess the term "Fanboy" is used.

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xenocidic said...
and you forget the lawyers get a cut, so it's really like $0.25

xenocidic, don't be ridiculous an ethical lawyer will only take 1/3 so, it's about .34 cents.

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Let's be honest the only guy getting paid on this frivolous lawsuit is the scumbag lawyer. I mean you don’t think he’d waste his time and money if the wasn’t collecting some of that $10 million up front. So our $.50 will be more like 5¢, awesome I hope I don’t spend it all in one place.

I’ll take some downtime and my free xbox live arcade game, besides granted some matchups have been slow to find on Halo 3, overall the service has improved 10 fold since X-Mas.

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Okay here it is plain and simple. Xbox Live is a paid service. I don't care if I'm paying 25 cents for it, once you ask me to pay for something, I expect to be able to use it consistently. $5 a month times 10 million users is more than enough to handle the load.

It was more than two days of inconsitency.

Also in a class action suit the lawyer and the initial plaintiffs get a separate disbursement from the settlement for being a "Friend of the Court". In all honesty, there is more credence to this suit than the million dollar I was a dumbass who spilled hot coffee on my lap lawsuit. Granted that's not saying much but you get my point.

I'm heavily pro Microsoft, but plain and simple if I had called regarding the live issues and gotten no response...I'd be calling a lawyer too.

But 5 million isn't even a slap on the wrist when you think about it. 10 percent of the revenue from a month of Xbox Live subscriptions.

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And that's why the points system works. When you get people used to buying stuff with points instead of cash, they might forget the real value of the purchase: 400 points = $5 not $4.

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In the TOS of Xbox Live they don't guarantee that it will be online 100% of the time. They also don't owe us anything, if you cant get a game going...go outside or gosh read a book.

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