Halo 3 game disc floats freely in game box (Source: Hooterville of NeoGAF)
Some report of skipping music as a result of scratched discs (Source: NeoGAF)
Shallow center hub not up to the task of securing Halo 3 discs (Source: NeoGAF)
Shoddy Halo 3 packaging leads to scratched game discs
A lot of people will be buying shiny, new copies of Halo 3
this week, but some of them will get home to find scratched discs straight out
of the box.
Early reports from lucky early owners of the Halo 3 Limited
Edition on gaming forum NeoGAF found
that the game discs have broken free from the hubs that were supposed to secure
the discs into place.
Unlike the regular Xbox 360 green game boxes, the Halo 3 Limited
Edition ships in a black tin box with center hubs too shallow to adequately
hold the DVDs in place. As a result, consumers may find discs that have been
freely floating around inside the box that have been scratched up by the very
hub that was supposed to keep it in place.
“A friend just opened 3 copies of Halo 3 Limited Edition and
with all three copies both disc were loose inside of the package and scratched
to death,” explained the original poster of the thread. “This Limited Edition
has a piss poor plastic nub and foam pad disc holding design that is a major
flaw and the discs pop off with ease.”
Although Halo 3 has yet to launch to the public, forum
participants who work at game stores have chimed in with their own experience
after examining (by shaking and listening for loose discs) their inventory.
“I picked up 2 collectors tins today at work, and they both
felt like the disc came loose in them. This is a horrible sign,” said one store
employee.
The same conditions may also apply to the game in other
territories. “I saw a few PAL copies yesterday … and they were all the same.
Every LE had two loose discs in the box, both badly scratched. The one we
tested seemed to play ok but they're getting sent back as faulty anyway. It's
not like they could be sold in that condition,” reported another store worker
from overseas.
So far, reports of scratched discs apply only to the $69.99 Limited
Edition, but not to the $59.99 Standard Edition or the $129.99 Legendary
Edition.
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