I feel bad for all those silly gamers that get caught up in the whole RRoD issue for the xbox 360. Yeah, it’s usually the Sony Playstation fanboys rubbing it in, trying to make themselves feel better about themselves and their free multiplayer (sad) and such.

Anyway, I’ve discovered a completely free, absolutely simple process to make sure I never have any RRoD problems with my xbox 360. Let me preface that and explain that my xbox 360 is probably from the very first line of production 360’s as I won my xbox 360 from a Mt.Dew contest back when the xbox 360 was first launching and part of the promotion was that the winners got their 360s before it was possible to even buy them so we had our systems and were playing days before the official launch. So that just goes to show, that even with one of the first builds, if not the first production build, with years of service can easily last without the RRoD that everyone seems to think is some epic product quality failure on Microsoft’s behalf. Sure, the failure rates may be amazingly high and Microsoft may not be owning up to the fact that there were tremendous errors made over and over and because of that consumers were screwed…well, that is opinion. Some people, like me, realize that it’s not Microsoft’s fault and just user error in most cases. How else can I still have my original 360 in perfect working order* after all these years?!

Ok, so what you may be looking for…the foolproof method to make sure your xbox 360 doesn’t RRoD on you regardless of which build you have or how new your 360 is. The answer is to just not play it! simple huh? If you don’t turn it on and play it there is almost no chance you will RRoD**!

Here is what I do. I plan out my two play periods for the year. Once on, or around, my birthday (I don’t play on my birthday if it falls on a Friday because of Microsoft’s advanced technology could interfere or something and cause issues…remember, respect the wizardry and it will respect you). For the second time of the year, I play the day after thanksgiving (also known as black friday) because if you are a true gamer and believer in Microsoft’s advanced strategies you will respect their servers and only play when there is likely less people playing online and you won’t cause any problems. If you don’t support Microsoft and pay for the right to be a -~*GOLD*~- player, well, I’ll get to that later. I don’t play online on my bday though, as I know with the percentage of people that may also share my birthday, who may also be playing, well, like I said, show some respect to the elite servers and don’t waste them on your silly games just because it is your “special day”!

So, as you can see, my method to prevent RRoD (which I still believe is a mythical creation) is just to pace myself and play only in moderation. If you respect Microsoft’s knowledge and marketing prowess, you too will see the reasoning and understand that my method is a surefire way to play the most advanced gaming machine known to man and not destroy it by overusing it. Anyone can do it and everyone should respect the 360 for the gaming royalty it is.

Now, back to gaming online with friends…I’ve heard people whine and complain that Microsoft is ripping people off by charging for games and then charging them again to even be able to play those games with friends online. Well for those people I ask, “what kind of friend are you?!”. I know I don’t want any kind of “friend” who thinks I am only worth playing on a free multiplayer service. The friends I have know I care about them because I have the respect to upgrade to -~*GOLD*~- status before even considering playing with them online. How would you feel if one of your supposed friends called you up and wanted to just play a “quick game of halo 3″ but never showed enough respect to you to upgrade to your level of -~*GOLD*~- status to play with you online? Can you imagine the embarrassment that you have for your “friend” when you have to explain that they should never call you again as you, “can not associate with a lower class player, let alone ‘have fun playing online’ with them?!” You don’t have to imagine because I had to do that to a so-called friend once and it was devastating to deal with when I realized he was just not worth my time anymore. I mean really, why in the world would he even consider playing a game online when all he had was a paltry silver account? And to have the nerve to associate me with that kind of behavior! Thankfully Microsoft, in it’s infinite knowledge, protects me from that kind of filth by not letting them near my online playing goodness. I feel bad for those other free online multiplayer services that let just anyone play with “friends” just because they bought the same game lol.

I mean, I’m only playing online once a year on blackfriday, I really don’t want to waste that time with “friends”, let alone strangers, that can’t have the common decency to become real gamers with -~*GOLD*~-

status.

So there you have it. My foolproof method of keeping your xbox 360 in perfect working order and how to be a real gamer and prevent the RRoD that all those noobs are complaing about. They are probably silver members anyway so no wonder why they can’t keep their 360s working kikiki.

* although it was working fine during the last “play time” I won’t be able to officially check the current status until my next scheduled play period which is still several months away.

** at this time I don’t believe there is a chance for RRoD if your xbox 360 is turned off but I can’t guarantee my method will work 100% of the time as there may eventually be mandatory system updates that will automatically give you the latest and greatest Microsoft wizards have created and some users, who usually don’t know what they are doing, end up “bricking” their 360s because they don’t respect the power of Microsoft’s technology. Some of this insanely advanced technology may eventually include upgrading your system even while it is turned off and disconnected and if you happen to not respect the power you may cause it’s failure. Just have faith and you will be fine.

Learn to fix Xbox 360 RRoD yourself, easy!

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