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Subject: A service gaming companies need to offer

If you're a gamer, you have to deal with the problem of scratched disks. This got me thinking that there are two services that gaming companies need to offer.

Idea #1

If a dollar bill is partially destroyed, you can take it to a bank to have it replaced. So long as you have at least 51% of the total bill. Games are also like that. A dollar bill has no value, it's assigned a value. Same thing goes for video games. It doesn't cost sixty bucks to make a disk, most of that is to pay all the individual people involved in it. I don't know how much it does cost, but it is a lot less.

My idea is that if you have a disk of a game that is broken beyond repair, you can take it to a place where you can be redeemed. Take at least 51% of disk, and take it to a place (I have no idea where) and they will give you a new copy of that game. All you have to pay is the manufacturing cost and plus some.

Idea #2
If you have a game that is scrathed a little bit, you can not play the content on that part of the disk. You can't install the game onto your hardrive either.

So, if you connect to Xbox live, you can install onto your hardrive from there. For a nominal fee of course. NOTE: This is different than buying a game online. You must still keep the disk in order to play.



[Edited on 02.11.2012 3:26 PM PST]

  • 02.11.2012 3:13 PM PDT


Posted by: Destiny 7
Or you could just install your game to the Harddrive and never have loading problems.


Sometimes, a game will get broken from stuff outside the console. For example, have three sisters, none of which put the game back in the proper box, and always put a disk DIRECTLY ONTO A DIRTY SURFACE.

  • 02.11.2012 3:21 PM PDT


Posted by: Machiniman15

Posted by: Destiny 7
Or you could just install your game to the Harddrive and never have loading problems.


Sometimes, a game will get broken from stuff outside the console. For example, have three sisters, none of which put the game back in the proper box, and always put a disk DIRECTLY ONTO A DIRTY SURFACE.


...or you could've installed the game to the hard drive...

  • 02.11.2012 3:24 PM PDT


Posted by: Ex0 Dante

Posted by: Machiniman15

Posted by: Destiny 7
Or you could just install your game to the Harddrive and never have loading problems.


Sometimes, a game will get broken from stuff outside the console. For example, have three sisters, none of which put the game back in the proper box, and always put a disk DIRECTLY ONTO A DIRTY SURFACE.


...or you could've installed the game to the hard drive...


If the Console doesn't recognize the game, it doesn't matter.

  • 02.11.2012 3:26 PM PDT
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If a disc gets scratched at the bottom there is a way to fix it. But if a disc gets scratched at the top where all the info is on then there is no fix for it. Any locale game story offers a fix to scratched disc's if it's scratched on the right side.

[Edited on 02.11.2012 3:38 PM PST]

  • 02.11.2012 3:34 PM PDT


Posted by: Suikoden
If a disc gets scratched at the bottom there is a way to fix it. But if a disc gets scrated at the top where all the info is on then there is no fix for it. Any locale game story offers a fix to scratched disc's if it's scratched on the right side.


It is not guarenteed that the game will work. It is not the same.

  • 02.11.2012 3:37 PM PDT


Posted by: Ex0 Dante
...or you could've installed the game to the hard drive...

  • 02.11.2012 3:38 PM PDT


Posted by: Wumpa Warrior

Posted by: Ex0 Dante
...or you could've installed the game to the hard drive...


AND THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT THE D@MN CONSOLE CAN'T RECOGNIZE IT! What about if you buy a used game? You never had the oppurtunity to install it.

  • 02.11.2012 3:42 PM PDT


Posted by: Machiniman15

Posted by: Suikoden
If a disc gets scratched at the bottom there is a way to fix it. But if a disc gets scrated at the top where all the info is on then there is no fix for it. Any locale game story offers a fix to scratched disc's if it's scratched on the right side.


It is not guarenteed that the game will work. It is not the same.


Then you should've bought a protection plan on it or just hid the game.

Don't try to pin the turd elsewhere OP, the blame is on you.

  • 02.11.2012 3:43 PM PDT

Install the game to the hard drive the second you open the package. Problem solved. Also, when buying a used game, you can't always assume it will work.

  • 02.11.2012 3:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
Install the game to the hard drive the second you open the package. Problem solved. Also, when buying a used game, you can't always assume it will work.


And this is why stores guarantee them...

  • 02.11.2012 3:47 PM PDT

Two things.

1. The developers have no part in this. You should be talking about Microsoft, not companies like Bungie.

2. They already have this program more or less. The Disk Replacement Program. You send them your disk and $20 and they'll send you a new one back. Again, that is through Microsoft, as developers have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this problem. At all.

  • 02.11.2012 3:50 PM PDT


Posted by: Ex0 Dante

Posted by: Machiniman15

Posted by: Suikoden
If a disc gets scratched at the bottom there is a way to fix it. But if a disc gets scrated at the top where all the info is on then there is no fix for it. Any locale game story offers a fix to scratched disc's if it's scratched on the right side.


It is not guarenteed that the game will work. It is not the same.


Then you should've bought a protection plan on it or just hid the game.

Don't try to pin the turd elsewhere OP, the blame is on you.


When you buy a game, you pay for the data on the disk plus the disk itself. Is it wrong to re-download music from iTunes?

[Edited on 02.11.2012 3:51 PM PST]

  • 02.11.2012 3:50 PM PDT
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Inheritor #156 :p

Mircrosoft has a disc replacement plan for some games but it still costs $20. But people should be more careful with their games, that's user wear and tear and nothing to do with the actual product (disc) so a company shouldn't have to replace something what a person didn't take care of.

  • 02.11.2012 3:50 PM PDT


Posted by: tsujen
Mircrosoft has a disc replacement plan for some games but it still costs $20. But people should be more careful with their games, that's user wear and tear and nothing to do with the actual product (disc) so a company shouldn't have to replace something what a person didn't take care of.


They don't have to, but why do I pay 200% for a game? I'm asking to pay 115%.

  • 02.11.2012 3:52 PM PDT


Posted by: Machiniman15

Posted by: Ex0 Dante

Posted by: Machiniman15

Posted by: Suikoden
If a disc gets scratched at the bottom there is a way to fix it. But if a disc gets scrated at the top where all the info is on then there is no fix for it. Any locale game story offers a fix to scratched disc's if it's scratched on the right side.


It is not guarenteed that the game will work. It is not the same.


Then you should've bought a protection plan on it or just hid the game.

Don't try to pin the turd elsewhere OP, the blame is on you.


When you buy a game, you pay for the data on the disk plus the disk itself. Is it wrong to re-download music from iTunes?


Personally? Yes. I take the necessary steps to protect my content.

When I had Zune movies, I always made copies. And you know what? They stopped working. You want to know why? Because Zune lost my digital rights to them.

I take the necessary steps to protect my own content. They even fessed up to it.

So again, don't pin the turd elsewhere

  • 02.11.2012 3:58 PM PDT