What's Up? Week 11 - 2002

Hot

Xbox
(Launched yesterday in Europe, let's see how it goes)
Metal Gear Solid 2
(Is this sweet or what)
Spring
(Ah, sunshine!)

Cold

Message board
(OK, it's back up now, but we lost all the messages! Damn!)
NIC internet
(Many thanks for the above)
Microsoft & Toptronics
(And enormous thanks for the cock-up with our Xbox)

Games we've played the past month

Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2), Giga Wing (DC), Wave Race: Blue Storm (GC), 4Wheel Thunder (DC), Magical Drop 2 (NeoGeo CD)

Mikko's Rant

It hasn't been very good lately, I have to tell you. First of all, there
was the message board situation... For reasons unknown, it stopped
working and whatever I did, it just wouldn't budge anymore. I finally
reinstalled the entire software, but in the process I managed to lose
700-odd messages... Just great.

And secondly, Microsoft sucks on an entirely new level. Like we told you
a couple of weeks back, Ville won an Xbox. The problem is, he was
supposed to get it well before launch, and as of 14/03/2002, he still
hasn't received it. The first phone call he made resulted in them
telling him "oh sorry, the importer Toptronics messed it up, it will be
in express mail today". When nothing still arrived, he called them
again. This time, Toptronics withdrew from all responsibility and said
Microsoft has to take care of sending the price. Conveniently, the guy
at M$ is unreachable... We'll keep you posted, but for now, they're well
living up to their name.

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