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Xbox's are not PC's!!! I shouldn't have to upgrade my Xbox if a new and better game comes out. Besides I'm a student I don't have like $100 bucks to shell out to the idiots that -blam!- this up in the first place. Just like Rayons said before, on the cd case it says made for Xbox, which SHOULD include all versions of Xbox.

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  • 10.07.2009 10:32 AM PDT
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woot 2001+

  • 10.07.2009 10:42 AM PDT
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Gotland Rulez!!!!

Maybe they will include something that might fix this in the Fall Update, it's coming pretty soon you know...

  • 10.07.2009 10:56 AM PDT
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We bought 2 games (one from Wal-Mart and one from Best Buy). Both froze in campaign mode during firefight.

When we first got the second one home we loaded it to our hard drive and played in the same spot and still got the disc is unreadable error EVEN THOUGH WE WERE PLAYING FROM THE HARD DRIVE...wtf

  • 10.07.2009 11:04 AM PDT
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From the beginning Bungie has been trying to downplay this issue. They were more worried about having it removed from Wikipedia than fixing the issue. No other developer has had this issue, nor will they. This game has been a rip off since the beginnining when it should have been a map pack. GOW2 added maps and levels for $12 Bungie charged $60 for a game that doesn't even work. Good job Bungie thats why your being replaced.

  • 10.07.2009 11:29 AM PDT

Rawr. My cut out during the scene transition back to rookie after the Buck. My just does it randomly. I guess I don't have it as bad as some of you, but I still get it occasionally. Grumble.

  • 10.07.2009 11:35 AM PDT

Posted by: Shanerc310
From the beginning Bungie has been trying to downplay this issue. They were more worried about having it removed from Wikipedia than fixing the issue. No other developer has had this issue, nor will they. This game has been a rip off since the beginnining when it should have been a map pack. GOW2 added maps and levels for $12 Bungie charged $60 for a game that doesn't even work. Good job Bungie thats why your being replaced.
Bungie is not responsible for the price, that was Microsoft. Bungie never planned on it being a gull retail game. They intended an expansion retail game. In the end, as far as price goes, you can blame good old Microsoft for that one. And obviousley it is the xboxs messing up, so bungie is just on the recieving end of this. They most likely can't say anything because MS won't let em.

  • 10.07.2009 11:39 AM PDT
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Well good for you and your new Elite. I have an Elite that is 18 months old. And you think I should upgrade? I have a 20 year old Nintendo that still works, but I should spend hundreds of dollars every year and a half to replace my 360 for the same system? That is the dumbest comment I've read on this board.

I'm actually going to try the comment about deleting the updates and disconnecting from XBox live and see what happens. I had been stuck at the beginning of level 2 even when it plays at all, but for some reason I was able to complete a few other levels today before it locked up. When I restarted and continued the campaign, it started me over at the 2nd level again. Very frustrating to have a couple of hours worth of game play wiped out.

Still waiting on my call back from XBox support on the issue. And you do have to mention "Disc Read Error" if you talk to them. If you say "freezing" they just tell you there is nothing you then can do except send your system in for repair. Was on the phone with them for 30 minutes but as soon as I mentioned the phrase "Disc Read Error" it seemed to unlocked the magic door and they promised they were looking into it.

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  • 10.07.2009 12:04 PM PDT

[Insert Catchy Phrase here]

My 360 still hasn't been the same since I tried to make a grilled cheese in the disk drive

  • 10.07.2009 12:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: ChrisSzc
I dont believe there is anywhere else to go unless we get everyone affected to write to every videogame journalist on the internet and bombard their inboxes with well written thoughtful letters asking that they shine the spotlight on MS for trying to downplay the topic....Maybe I should compile a list of videogame journalists emails to share with the forums and then everyone can email them as they see fit.


Yes please do. I would love to email them directly. It is rather disheartening that the gaming community has completely ignored this problem despite the fact it is affecting thousands. Two+ weeks with no answer and all of us being jerked around by Bungie and MS support. We need someone to champion our cause.

  • 10.07.2009 1:16 PM PDT
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Dude, this isn't the place to advertise some tournament.

Anyway, I think the reason for all of this is because there wasn't an update that pops up as soon as you first play the game like it does with other new games. I'm gonna talk to XBOX support when I get home and see if that's the issue.

  • 10.07.2009 1:37 PM PDT
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that happened to my odst it was laserburnt and i got it from gamestop now i gotta wait to get a new copy...im very dissapointed

  • 10.07.2009 1:40 PM PDT
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The exact same thing occured for me both my discs fail on my xbox but work on my mates and I have a newer console has microsoft?bungie helped you yet?

  • 10.07.2009 1:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Colonel Frag
Dude, this isn't the place to advertise some tournament.

Anyway, I think the reason for all of this is because there wasn't an update that pops up as soon as you first play the game like it does with other new games. I'm gonna talk to XBOX support when I get home and see if that's the issue.


Just report him and move on.

  • 10.07.2009 7:46 PM PDT

We mouth the vilest sacrament
And adhere to these tacit skirmishes
All for one day ideal and saffron-drenched
We ate each other's hearts out of serving dishes

I finally got this today, and ive made it through a majority of the campaign (only need to do data hive and coastal highway) and no DRE so far, i'm relieved! Heres for hoping it doesn't happen in the last 2 levels!

  • 10.07.2009 8:01 PM PDT
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Seriously no fix yet? This kinda pisses me off, especially since i can take my brand new game and play it at my friends house but not my own...

Does anybody know if any other games will have this issue? Forza 3 is also MS published so i wouldn't be surprised if we experience the same issue with that game.

  • 10.07.2009 8:45 PM PDT
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if it comes down to MS saying i have to pay for repair or buy a new xbox i thinks its class action time. games machines are sold as out of the box solutions to gaming, there should be no upgrading required to play games. if they wanted to go that route they should release a hardware peripheral and then not advertise the games as 360 playable. ive already been thru 6 xboxs that RROD'd on me or had disc read errors. this is absurd.

  • 10.07.2009 9:34 PM PDT

Let Slip The Dogs Of War.

My xbox was made a year after launch, I puchased it secondhand and has had two or three different drive replacements(original drive replacements) My disk loads fine 95% of the time but it sometimes wont load, all I do is open the tray and reinsert it and it plays. The Halo 3 disk works ok but sometimes it loads with a green screen, all I do is reset the xbox and it reads.


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  • 10.07.2009 9:50 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

Posted by: mark1265542
this thread is still going on??let it die allready


Why? We're still having problems. my H3 disc still won't read, HUNDREDS of people can't read their ODST disc...and MS hasn't said anything for a while.

  • 10.07.2009 9:53 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

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Posted by: mark1265542
this thread is still going on??let it die allready


Why? We're still having problems. my H3 disc still won't read, HUNDREDS of people can't read their ODST disc...and MS hasn't said anything for a while.

new odst disc or new 360?let the thread die


Neither work! It's a faulty patch put out by microsoft. Buying a new HDD won't work, because the moment you connect to live the problem's back. same with formatting, except you can't delete the patch because it's a dashboard update.

  • 10.07.2009 10:06 PM PDT

This is taking way to long to fix. I say we all demand a refund and non stop call microsoft and bungie with multiple telephones because im really taking in consideration in switching to call of duty instead on halo

  • 10.07.2009 11:16 PM PDT

Posted by: llamalizard
Posted by: mark1265542
Posted by: llamalizard
Posted by: mark1265542
this thread is still going on??let it die allready


Why? We're still having problems. my H3 disc still won't read, HUNDREDS of people can't read their ODST disc...and MS hasn't said anything for a while.

new odst disc or new 360?let the thread die


Neither work! It's a faulty patch put out by microsoft. Buying a new HDD won't work, because the moment you connect to live the problem's back. same with formatting, except you can't delete the patch because it's a dashboard update.

You dish up the money to buy a new xbox! sheesh. I guess mine is an isolated event. It only DREs occaisonely. Just happened today at the end of Data Hive. Weird.

  • 10.07.2009 11:22 PM PDT