Xbox Undead
Posted by andyslack on 9 September 2009
It’s updates again. The bane of my life.
A while ago, we got an Xbox; this happened when I noticed that every time Nick got a new PC game as a present, we had to upgrade the PC. You need a new graphics card. And a new power supply for the new graphics card. And a new operating system (Vista, may it burn in hell forever). And so on.
Aha, I thought, a games console wouldn’t do that; it would just run the games, and it’s cheaper than the graphics card, let alone the other stuff. Job done.
And so it was, for a while. And we were at one with our Xbox. Then I decided to add a wireless link to the home LAN and try out Xbox Live.
First, of course, Xbox Live insisted I apply a series of updates, which completely changed the look and feel of the user interface. Then it insisted I change my profile name from something meaningful to something not. (Microsoft – there is more than one person called Andy in the world. Figure out a way to deal with it that doesn’t mean I have to be known forever online as “MeaninglessRubbishUserID8371235406-897.” That isn’t my real gamertag, but you get the picture.)
Then I couldn’t log on. It took about a day to figure out I needed to recover my gamertag – why is beyond me, since I didn’t have one as such, but there y’go – since the error code generated by login attempts wasn’t one their knowledgebase had an article for. Then it trashed all my save files. The saga continues, but I have to say I am not impressed.
