Gamer's erased Xbox 360 story comes to a happy close

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]

[fischju @ Mar 7th 2008 11:34PM]

And only one drunken party away from taping it to his head, yelling "SPARTANS!!!!!!" and running into a door.

[thedrinktank @ Mar 8th 2008 12:54AM]

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

[evo31337 @ Mar 8th 2008 1:17AM]

lmfao!

[Tony @ Mar 8th 2008 2:40AM]

These are some of the worst Rick-Roll attempts of all time.

[Mobius_1 @ Mar 8th 2008 3:53AM]

Whoa, these jokes could get people fired from work for bursting out laughing too hard! I loled hard at that one

[David Vogt @ Mar 8th 2008 4:09AM]

Damn, Rick Roll'd again.

[MARSHAK @ Mar 8th 2008 11:03AM]

damn. got me.

[Kevin McGillick @ Mar 8th 2008 12:59PM]

I hate you soviet vexxer

[voodooni @ Mar 8th 2008 7:24PM]

*falls to his knees*

DAMM YOU THEDRINKTAAAAAAANK!!!!

[Chris @ Mar 9th 2008 3:20PM]

Thats the fourth time i got rick roll'd today

[Taylor @ Mar 22nd 2008 9:22AM]

This was a triumph, I'm making a note here...
(okay i'll stop)

[Mark.Nine @ Mar 7th 2008 11:36PM]

Aw.. What a happy ending.

[Blackstar @ Mar 8th 2008 12:38AM]

This is why Bungie & the Halo community rocks.

[~~Tito~~ @ Mar 8th 2008 1:21AM]

Yes, we are all united in the power against evil[erasing bastards from microsoft]!!

[KEROLiUKAS @ Mar 7th 2008 11:36PM]

Bullshit, how do we even know they were real signatures?

[gozer @ Mar 7th 2008 11:45PM]

"...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?

[Saad Rabia @ Mar 8th 2008 12:06AM]

Bang bang, you shot your self down KEROLiUKAS, bang bang.

[NAKT_1 @ Mar 8th 2008 3:10PM]

You, my friend, reek of regurgitated moronsauce.

[dudeInAmerica @ Mar 7th 2008 11:37PM]

That was real cool of them.

Thanks for caring Bungie.

I'll buy every game you release (as long as it doesn't suck).

[Rafer @ Mar 7th 2008 11:54PM]

I said that about blizzard till they came out with that sorry excuse for a game boy viking game...

[saad khan @ Mar 8th 2008 1:32PM]

Hey, I am saad !

[cbellman @ Mar 7th 2008 11:38PM]

"...the technicians in Redmond promptly ignored."

you mean the FOREIGN technicians?

[GumbyX84 @ Mar 8th 2008 12:04AM]

North America Xbox repairs happen in Texas jerk

[ethana2 @ Mar 8th 2008 12:57AM]

'cause we all know nothing /ever/ gets by people at Microsoft.

*cough*

[Spyvie @ Mar 8th 2008 12:59AM]

Where is Texas jerk?

Is Redmond in Texas?

[Zeus.:God @ Mar 8th 2008 4:59AM]

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.

[Jason @ Mar 8th 2008 10:23AM]

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?

[owl @ Mar 8th 2008 11:57AM]

So they were illegals then.

[Tom @ Mar 8th 2008 12:15PM]

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.

[josh @ Mar 8th 2008 11:31PM]

@ tom

Quick someone tell Wal-mart!

[Joe Anstine @ Mar 9th 2008 6:39PM]

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.

[Mr. B @ Mar 7th 2008 11:40PM]

Karma +1 for Bungie

[Iphtashu Fitz @ Mar 8th 2008 12:03AM]

I think their karma deserves a bit more than +1 for this response.

[Ghen @ Mar 8th 2008 9:45PM]

Its the nature of Forum Karma, +1 at a time.

[Krish091 @ Mar 9th 2008 6:23PM]

Well, actually, if you do something you lose a point...eh nevermind.

[nigjones @ Mar 10th 2008 5:50PM]

fine +2 then

[Yevon @ Mar 7th 2008 11:44PM]

I wish Microsoft would ruin my stuff....

[Jon Graft @ Mar 8th 2008 1:27AM]

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

[Paul Hildebrandt @ Mar 8th 2008 6:44PM]

I wish they would ruin your stuff too.

[skulldriveshaft @ Mar 11th 2008 2:32AM]

Haven't they already?

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ Mar 7th 2008 11:47PM]

That is pretty damn awesome if you ask me. Mad props to Bungie! ;)

[The Angry Intern @ Mar 7th 2008 11:49PM]

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.

[David W. @ Mar 7th 2008 11:53PM]

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.

[D_T @ Mar 7th 2008 11:54PM]

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??

[jdeuel @ Mar 7th 2008 11:54PM]

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

[Tony @ Mar 8th 2008 12:01AM]

Why do you feel the need to be a dick?

[Saad Rabia @ Mar 8th 2008 12:16AM]

A man once said: "Jealousy is lowest ranked".

[jdeuel @ Mar 8th 2008 10:18AM]

jealousy? Call me when he's got a tetris themed xbox with alexy pajitnov's sig, then we can talk about jealousy.

[kr @ Mar 8th 2008 12:28PM]

Just because every jackass in the world plays Halo doesn't mean it is a terrible game.

Kudos to Bungie

[Andrew @ Mar 7th 2008 11:55PM]

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).