OrigamiElephant

@PenguinDust: And violated hard. I haven't heard much about money being stolen from the PSN breach, yet we are talking 10's of thousands of dollars if we extrapolate this thread out to the actual number of affected accounts.

Xbox needs to make a statement about this shit. I don't think mine had to do with Fifa, because whoever jacked my tag used it to download points, and purchase arcade games.

Honestly a system where you can easily recover gamertags and use them to purchase things is looking to be a pretty hazardous thing. I think they need to just not allow console to console recovery of tags without the help of customer support, that's all there is to it. Yeah it might be more inconvenient, but people are getting ripped off here.

[EDIT] Badass that sucks. I hope that it doesn't take 58 days for them to recover me, but I can't imagine I'm going to get any luckier than you. Honestly, head down the to courthouse and file a small claims case, it's unacceptable that it is taking this long for them to investigate. In most cases, like I'm sure yours as well as mine it should be easy enough to see that my tag was recovered to somewhere (most likely out of this country) immediately used to purchase points, and then buy things off marketplace. How hard is that to see on their end. Especially as the MS reps put it "With their Men in Black" on the case.

I've about had it with this waiting, I'm trying to be polite, but I'm not some 15 year old kid that has shit like this happen all the time. I'm 31, I like to play games sure, but when I trust a company with my personal information, and a financial outlet, I expect to be protected. I certainly expect prompt service when their lax security service allows for a situation where I get stolen from.

I wonder what my rights are if it turns out that whoever stole my tag lived in the states. In reality I would think I was entitled to the information so I can press charges.

@MulletStorm: This here is exactly what happened to me. Only it was 75 and not 70. They ripped me off Sep 9th, I called and had the account locked immediately, but was able to recover my gamertag immediately, (they only managed to change my secret question, to something in Chinese) changed all the security info and Email and locked the account down myself.

They bought a bunch of games while on my tag, instead of transferring the points off to their own tag (Idiots) and I was able to do a license swap to move the licenses from the games he bought to my console so he couldn't play any of his/her ill gotten gains.

What is pissing me off at this point is that it's been over about 25-26 business days or something and still nothing has happened with the investigation. I'm not about to dispute the charges with my bank, because it wasn't my banks fault, it was Microsoft's fault and I want THEM to pay me back.

However if nothing happens this week, I'm calling and going nuclear on them. There is no way a simple return of money and security switch should take this long. So it's probably going to have to be a threat of small claims court action or something to get their stupid asses in gear.

Of course watch, if you sue them to get what you lost, I imagine the ban your gamertag, you lose access to all your games from here on out, and yada yada yada, capitalism is awesome.

Just like with anything else, there needs to be a very real difference between current gen, and next gen to really make users jump.  I think there is one last leap in terms of real graphical improvement.

While a new console in a year or two would be irritating for those that just bought a Slim, or Kinect, the reality is it's no worse than Apple (Especially with their new is better, brainwashing scheme they got going on over there) releasing hardware iterations every year, with only nominal improvements. 

If you waited 5-6 to get into Xbox gaming, and especially because of kinect, one or two years is pretty much the most you could hope for in my opinion.

The rest of us have been with the system for 5+ years now, so a new console honestly wouldn't be unsurprising.

That being said I know myself personally, that as long as they make (and at this point it shouldn't be a big deal) backwards compatibility seamless, along with keeping the XBL community continuous (Gamer tags, XBL content transferred) and I see a very real fidelity, and speed (possibly audio) upgrade, I'd be happy to purchase a new console.  It might even be cool to get marginal upscaling capabilities with the old 360 titles. 

Still if a new console means I have to abandon the content for my old console straight out (this sort of mindset is unacceptable now) it's probably going to be a hard sale for me.