I heard from another Ghost Recon player on my friends list. Apparently his 360 broke a couple of days ago. So now out of 29 people on my friends list, I’ve had 5 responses, 4 of which have broken 360’s. So, 80% of those who responded to my question have a broken 360.

Again, even if everyone else on my friends list responded back with “No, my 360 works fine”, I’d still be at 4 people out of 29 have broken 360s. This is 13.79%, not a good breakage rate.

My broken 360 got shipped out to the repair center yesterday. I’ve been without it for 3 weeks now. So I’ll be interested to see how long before I finally get back to playing the 360. I still haven’t even decided if I’m going to sell it on ebay, or try and renew my faith in Microsoft. Even if it’s an immediate turn around time, I’ll still be looking at 1 month out of the 10 months I’ve owned being unplayable.

Currently I’m working on a GamerTag Vote for the site. It’s my first attempt at PHP and MySQL. You enter your gamertag, the # of 360’s you’ve had and the # that broken. It verifies that the gamercard is a real gamercard. I’m going to add just a few things before I put it up.

• I’m going to try to work out a system so that I can send a gamertag authorization # through xbox.com. Then I’ll be assured that the voter does have that gamertag.

• Limit the # of 360s a person can say they own. Probably put an upper limit at like 5. So that people can’t try to skew the results.

• Limit the # of posts from a particular IP. So people can’t skew the vote.

Next, I plan on working on a repair database for 360s. So that people could come and enter the information on the 360 Serial # they sent in. If enough people participated then when someone got a console from the repair center that was different than the one they sent in. They could see the history of when it went in and why.