Microsoft hardly has its act together either

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

For all the flack that Sony gets for their inept online infrastructure, and lack thereof on Nintendo’s end, MS isn’t exactly doing the best of jobs either. In fact, they flat out suck.

First, via Giant Bomb is a bug on Xbox.com; in the following, we see how one can accidentally purchase something on the XBL Marketplace instead of just nabbing a demo, if you’re not careful…

MS claims that they’re working on. Cool story bro. And here’s one that’s not; it’s pretty much a nightmare scenario in fact: Destructoid this morning wrote about a woman who discovered that her Xbox Live account had been hacked and over $214.97 worth of crap was charged to the card that’s connected. MS responded by giving her a complimentary 30 day code (which is not worth two hundred bucks, that’s for damn sure) and stating that her Live account would be frozen.

Well, turns out, that’s not true. Hence why the thief was about to charge an additional $124.98. When the woman pressed MS for insight into the matter, they literally confessed to not knowing what the hell is going on. It gets even better: in a totally cocky (but ultimately stupid) move, the victim was added as a friend by one of the thieves, and from that, she was able to track down the identity of her robbers. Though most of the things the victim had to resort to could have been easily accomplished if Microsoft gave a rat’s ass. But they don’t.

In other news, remember the UFC on Xbox Live debacle last week? Well, MS has since clarified things a bit; according to Joystiq, it wasn’t 25,000 but 30,000 folks who weren’t able to watch UFC 141. Along with who knows how many that actually paid for the damn thing.

So the good news is that all 30,000 folks who couldn’t get it will be getting a future show for free, but it may not necessarily be the very next event after-all. Oh well, UFC 143, headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit, is somewhat more exciting than UFC 142, José Aldo vs. Chad Mendes, IMHO. Still, the main issue is how MS has yet to acknowledge all the folks who couldn’t see the last bout but actually paid for it.

And finally, despite loving the look of the new Dashboard, the bloom is off the rose; it may be easy on the eyes, but functionality-wise, it totally blows. Though the one group of folks who hate it the most are those that created games for the Indie channel; the new set-up has made searching for stuff literally impossible. Which was why one guy decided to make an Xbox Indie game about it. Though it’s also neat that you get to shoot cats and how old consoles litter the landscape…

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