Jim Goldman, correspondent for CNBC, has this article now available on the CNBC website regarding the specifics of the class action lawsuit against Microsoft and their Xbox 360 woes.
I’m not sure how Bungie Studios is tied into this lawsuit. I don’t think it’s anything directly related to a combination of Halo3 and Xbox 360 together, do you?
Goldman doesn’t think there’s much merit behind the lawsuit at all:
One note on the class-action status of the Halo case. I’m not attorney, but wow, good luck. It’s not as if Halo 3 is a drug where customers MUST take it for health reasons, yet if they do, they risk some kind of injury.
This is a game. Customers who aren’t satisfied can exchange it for another copy, and if that one doesn’t work, they can demand their money back. Pretty simple. The attorneys are the ones who will bank the cash. I don’t know: seems like a long shot to me.
He does think though that regardless of the legal merits of the case, the public relations backlash and cost to recover from the further hit on the Microsoft public image will have serious financial consequences as well.
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