Last week, a story circulated the internets regarding Nathaniel, a guy who had to send his autographed, artworked and
Halo themed Xbox 360 into Microsft repair because it red ringed. He took all necessary precautions to make sure the repair center sent him back the exact "shell", because of the autographs and sentimental value it had. He was promised he would be taken care of. But upon receiving his fixed console, he was horrified to find that his Xbox 360 was wiped clean of all Sharpie goodness, autographs erased, artwork gone with only a few smudges left. Darkness swept over the world.
Upon hearing this sad, sad tale, team
Bungie went into action to right any wrongs. And boy did they ever right the wrong. Nathaniel was overjoyed to receive a gigantic swag bag from team Bungie, full of
Halo memorabilia, action figures, clothing, accessories, hardware, music and an autographed Legendary cat helmet. Just take a look at it all! All we can say is boo to those evil monkeys at the Xbox 360 repair center, yippy for Nathaniel and mad props to Bungie for being caring enough to jump in and make things right. Oh happy day!
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3-08-2008 @ 2:10PM
Deck said...
That is just awesome news! YAY for Nathaniel! YAY for Bungie! That is SO SO damn awesome!
As for Microsoft... I am not surprised but holding ill will against them would be unfair (like even Nathaniel points out.) There probably isn't a lot of communication between all the people who work on re-assembling the consoles. Its probably like a assembly line and the last person is the cleaner. It sadly is not that surprising to me that the word didn't get passed all the way down to the cleaner.
Anyway, I love the awesome inspiring story! Happy stories like this always bring a smile to my face!
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3-08-2008 @ 2:20PM
ryan said...
this story has actually caused me to drop CoD4 and pop in Halo 3 again. *sniff* good going Nathaniel!
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3-08-2008 @ 2:39PM
Doom3killer said...
good old bungie :)
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3-08-2008 @ 2:41PM
Josh said...
That is why I like Bungie.
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3-08-2008 @ 2:43PM
bigC24 said...
Bungie is one of the best game developers as far as interacting with their fans goes. I love how they handle their business, and I hope to be apart of the company one day down the road. =)
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3-08-2008 @ 2:57PM
Simon said...
Massive respect Bungie for sorting this chap out with some very cool gear.
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3-08-2008 @ 3:23PM
L4MB said...
@2
so true, makes me pine for the old days, but i probably wont pull CoD out for Halo...
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3-08-2008 @ 3:24PM
bAssackwards said...
Now that is awesome! Way to go Bungie!
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3-08-2008 @ 3:25PM
JAmerican said...
Wow! That sucks! That's nice of Bungie but I'd prefer to have my console back with all the signatures on it and the picture. That is like a one of a kind 360. In a scenario like this, M$ should allow you to remove the case to protect it from the Repair center.
JAmerican
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3-08-2008 @ 3:34PM
JAmerican said...
I fixed my 360 when it started freezing. Never had problems since :)... He should have done the same once it started freezing on him (if he was that lucky).
http://www.jamerican.net/?p=48
JAmerican
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3-08-2008 @ 5:25PM
Mrblonde said...
Because of this, Bungie stands out as the best company out there. More companies need to be like this. Customers first
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3-08-2008 @ 6:50PM
Justin said...
Bungie is awesome at doing this.
Although it probably cost them next to nothing, and probably like five minutes of their time, still awesome.
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3-08-2008 @ 6:55PM
Josh said...
"L4MB said...
@2
so true, makes me pine for the old days, but i probably wont pull CoD out for Halo..."
Don't worry I'll do it for you (takes out CoD and puts in Halo). That wasn't so hard.
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3-08-2008 @ 7:17PM
erivera3 said...
Bungie is the best, and so is Halo
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3-09-2008 @ 10:19AM
Imadogg said...
Agree with the rest, Bungie is awesome.
And I read that story about Nathaniel's sad tale... wow that sucks. Glad he got all this stuff. Though it doesn't bring back the memories on his 360, it helps.
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3-09-2008 @ 6:51PM
Tom said...
And that's one more reason why the Bungie team is my favorite developers of all time. :D
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3-09-2008 @ 10:18PM
colin said...
lol @ "do not erase!"
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