Microsoft bans 1 million XBL players.

[Torian]

It's oh-so enticing: you find a copy of a brand new game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on a pirate site and the temptation to download it is too strong.
Well, that temptation may have cost up to 1 million users of Microsoft's Xbox Live the ability to use that service. According to a report in InformationWeek, Microsoft has banned as many as a million players from Xbox Live for altering their consoles in order to play pirated versions of games.

Source: Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

[Vash]

Holy shite that is AWESOME!!! haha good for them I personally don't like MW2 so I'm happy

[ShadowsRandom]

I happened to be one of ones banned. But we didn't have MW2.
Doesn't matter though we have a backup console.

[Dragonmikoo]

Aaha, damn.
I bet you anything that Microsoft are the ones putting the so called 'pirated versions' out there just to watch people fall on their asses.

That might be true, but mostly you just need a copy of a game to make a "back-up" on it and upload it too a site.

[Irishmitch]

Source: Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

Dam thats not nice
Why dosnt the world just giveing and let hackers be free

[cony]

i think it serves them right. they should by the game...( make me look legit now) but no i didnt download it nor do i have a chipped xbox i dont think its worth the risk.

[HTML]

Is it wise to lose that much money in such a short amount of time? Though, I would bet most of them just recreated an Xbox live account.

[TheDarkAngel]

I lol'd when my friend told me this today at school. Shame! All I can say to people who chip consoles to play downloaded games online lol.

[Crank]

I lol'd when my friend told me this today at school. Shame! All I can say to people who chip consoles to play downloaded games online lol.

>.>

I got banned...well my dad got us banned. He has the idea of chipping it for us, he's a big techie and believed we wouldn't get caught, so he got loads of games. We got Tekken 6 and now MW2.

Next day, BANNED.

Oh well, we're still gona get Assassin's Creed 2, no need for live on that anyway. xDDD

Plus we can still play these games offline and my live was going to expire in a week or two anyway. :/ Lol.

[TheDarkAngel]

>.>

I got banned...well my dad got us banned. He has the idea of chipping it for us, he's a big techie and believed we wouldn't get caught, so he got loads of games. We got Tekken 6 and now MW2.

Next day, BANNED.

Oh well, we're still gona get Assassin's Creed 2, no need for live on that anyway. xDDD

Plus we can still play these games offline and my live was going to expire in a week or two anyway. :/ Lol.

Yeah I found that part stupid, they are still allowing the people to play the games on the xbox, but most game revolve around online (I should considering I have played offline for like 9 of my years out of 10 of gaming :p)

[Pie]

micro soft PWNED everyone lol cause they have the money to >.>

[Adam]

Wow, I would hate to be one of them 1million players lol

[Crank]

I was afraid i was going to get banned last year when my dad's friend modded a controller for me and i was getting like 100 kills streaks on Cod:4

Lmfao.

Win? xD

[Crank]

I was afraid i was going to get banned last year when my dad's friend modded a controller for me and i was getting like 100 kills streaks on Cod:4

With what? o.o Shouldn't the response time between the controller and Xbox always remain the same anyway? So how would modding a controller be of any benefit, cept for LED lights

[SoDangSmart]

Because it turned my shot guns and sniper rifles into machine guns with no throw back :\

Even with that, I doubt you would get 100 kill streaks. You do realize the average killstreak even if you have a modded controller is only at like 8-10.
You would not have enough amo to go with a 100 kill streak. Inhumanely possible. Even if you were to swap out guns with dead bodies.

[SoDangSmart]

Not streaks but like 100 kills 4 deaths, why do you have to be suck a prick every where you go i swear to god.

Still very hard to do. Only possible on shipment...
And like I said before I am an asshole, you just have to learn to accept it.

[Taylor123123]

Gutted ^^
Well played microsoft

[Tobi]

Yea but Playing on live is way funner when you are bored I don't think chipping is worth it even though you save $100's of dollars.... but i don't know haha didint effect me

[Torian]

Which is why smart ones just soft mod their xbox instead of chipping it and ensuring that they only play Stealth patched games. If they were smart, they'd have 2 xboxs. One that remains offline so that they can enjoy pirated games, and one online that's legit for the big name multiplayer games that tend to be well worth the money it costs to get em.

[Eli]

Lol, my friend got hit by that.
I couldn't help but laugh when he told me.
He was using two pirated versions in his house, one on his elite, another on his original 360.

[Severed]

Tsk tsk, shame shame.

[Euphoria]

one word "gutted" shouldnt be silly enuf to go online and get busted XD

[ZeusJuice]

Damn, I've been gamerscore boosting for about a month now and they still didn't catch me. xD

Plus I did it an outdated program too

[Simon Fiction™]

That's hilariously funny (:
I'm a big fan of pirating but i'm not silly enough to think i would gain the same benefits as if i owned the game.
It's fairly obvious that you can't go online with pirated games,
even if at some point it was possible - microsoft would have silent patched it

[Tatsuo]

Serves them right, but still...Somebody will find a way around this sooner or later, in my opinion...Unless it's tag based, but then what if they make a new tag or if somebody finds a way to mod the Xbox to get past the ban?

[Torian]

Serves them right, but still...Somebody will find a way around this sooner or later, in my opinion...Unless it's tag based, but then what if they make a new tag or if somebody finds a way to mod the Xbox to get past the ban?

They have found a way to bypass, but it involves gutting the 360 and sticking new parts in it. Not very cost effective tbh

[Torian]

Haha Microsoft is Greedy there the ones putting up pirated versions and then eopel pay to get their xbox modded ( they make more money)

then they ban them but people get back on and buy even more microsoft live membership (MORE MONEY!)

Greedy

Not really, stores stock up on games before the release date to ensure they have enough to cater for the masses, sometimes, well all the time especially for big name titles, one or more of the workers steal and upload the games. It'd just be silly conspiracy theories to believe M$ are doing it on purpose. The ones doing it on purpose are the people actually modding their console seeing as how all of this is covered in their ToS.

[C0FFINCASE]

I'm friends with one of the greatest hackers on LIVE. He does it all. Bans consoles left and right. Its great Microsoft can even touch him half the time. Throws me points when I need them. Good guy.

If you're gonna play pirated games before they are out you got to do it on a console you're never gonna connect to live.