Like they say, all's well that ends well -- and that's certainly true in the case of a gamer named Nathaniel.
If you'll recall, the Xbox 360 owner had sent his very personalized console into Microsoft for repairs, making very clear that the signed and drawn-on system had great sentimental value to him... which the technicians in Redmond promptly ignored. After the console returned to him wiped clean of the aforementioned "value," it seemed like all hope was lost. Luckily, the kind souls at Bungie have taken it upon themselves to try and right the wrongs perpetrated in this case, and have mailed Nathaniel a super-ultra-mega awesome package, featuring a Legendary Edition helmet signed by most of the Bungie studio staff, the soundtrack disc signed by Martin O'Donnel, a jacket, t-shirt, limited edition wireless controllers, and much, much,
much more. Hit the read link to get the full story, and check out Nathaniel's thanks to the gaming community and Bungie.
[Thanks, Saad]
posted Mar 7th 2008 11:31PM
And only one drunken party away from taping it to his head, yelling "SPARTANS!!!!!!" and running into a door.
way to make me laugh out loud in public..
btw here's a video of him unboxing the stuff bungie sent him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
lmfao!
These are some of the worst Rick-Roll attempts of all time.
Whoa, these jokes could get people fired from work for bursting out laughing too hard! I loled hard at that one
Damn, Rick Roll'd again.
damn. got me.
I hate you soviet vexxer
*falls to his knees*
DAMM YOU THEDRINKTAAAAAAANK!!!!
Thats the fourth time i got rick roll'd today
This was a triumph, I'm making a note here...
(okay i'll stop)
Aw.. What a happy ending.
This is why Bungie & the Halo community rocks.
Yes, we are all united in the power against evil[erasing bastards from microsoft]!!
Bullshit, how do we even know they were real signatures?
"...Nathaniel had numerous people to back up his story, from personal mutual friends to people who actually signed his box to Xbox MVPs he knows in real life. He also saved all of his correspondence with Microsoft and reference numbers from the phone calls. His story could be verified."
read the article?
Bang bang, you shot your self down KEROLiUKAS, bang bang.
You, my friend, reek of regurgitated moronsauce.
That was real cool of them.
Thanks for caring Bungie.
I'll buy every game you release (as long as it doesn't suck).
I said that about blizzard till they came out with that sorry excuse for a game boy viking game...
Hey, I am saad !
"...the technicians in Redmond promptly ignored."
you mean the FOREIGN technicians?
North America Xbox repairs happen in Texas jerk
'cause we all know nothing /ever/ gets by people at Microsoft.
*cough*
Where is Texas jerk?
Is Redmond in Texas?
Yeah, because Gumby was calling out the comment about Redmond, not the comment about FOREIGNERS, right?
Unless you're outside the US, TEXAS is NOT foreign, therefore, the workers are not foreign.
anyone to thinks the workers are not foreign needs their head exposed. Texas and mexico is separated by a river you can walk through. Also, pay illegal immigrants pennies a day or pay a legit citizen minimum of about $6 per hour?
So they were illegals then.
Somehow, I think if Microsoft was hiring illegal immigrants for pennies a day within the borders of this country on a regular basis, they'd be found out pretty quick. They might be hiring immigrants, but certainly not illegal ones. Big corps don't mess with that crap.
@ tom
Quick someone tell Wal-mart!
i like twix, how bout you? oh, im sorry. i was too busy enjoying a delicious race-free twix when i was supposed to read this original post. also, can you fix a hardware problem in an xbox 360 w/o using a towel trick or gum? yea, i didn't think so. biscuit dough bread boy! biscuit dough bread.
Karma +1 for Bungie
I think their karma deserves a bit more than +1 for this response.
Its the nature of Forum Karma, +1 at a time.
Well, actually, if you do something you lose a point...eh nevermind.
fine +2 then
I wish Microsoft would ruin my stuff....
Isn't the entire XBOX 360 pretty much ruined out of the box? Last I heard, 16% fail...sounds like they ruin a lot! :-P
I wish they would ruin your stuff too.
Haven't they already?
That is pretty damn awesome if you ask me. Mad props to Bungie! ;)
Kudos to Bungie for stepping up even though they really had nothing to do with the whole debacle. Shows that there are still companies out there who care about their fans and customers.
I love halo!!..but so far played only halo1 on my pc.Will play the others someday.
RROD and paid online gaming kept me off xbox360..so got myself a ps3.
Good work bungie.
PS: Whatever happened to the kid with the meanest parents??
I have so much respect for Bungie and Microsoft (the game division anyway.) They continue to go above and beyond to take care of their customers. I'm so happy this had a happy ending, and SERIOUS respect to Bungie for doing this, especially since they aren't even part of Microsoft anymore.
in the end, he got terrible-game-memorabilia autographed by why-the-fuck-are-we-making-terrible-games-with-our-talent developers
i love happy endings
Why do you feel the need to be a dick?
A man once said: "Jealousy is lowest ranked".
jealousy? Call me when he's got a tetris themed xbox with alexy pajitnov's sig, then we can talk about jealousy.
Just because every jackass in the world plays Halo doesn't mean it is a terrible game.
Kudos to Bungie
Wow, that's amazing. I'm really glad to see Bungie took care of him. Makes me glad to buy their products (even if I'm not the biggest Halo fan).