Microsoft Performs Mass Xbox Console Banning
Here's a Halloween surprise you probably weren't expecting.
by Jim Reilly
October 30, 2009 - Wake up this morning only to find your Xbox Live account has been banned? That's probably because you had a modded console and were playing illegal, pirated copies of games.
"We have taken action against a small percentage of consoles that have been modified to play pirated game discs," a Microsoft spokesperson told IGN. "In line with our commitment to combat piracy and support safer and more secure gameplay for the more than 20 million members of our Xbox LIVE community, we are suspending these modded consoles from Xbox LIVE."
Though Microsoft wouldn't confirm specifically when these bannings took place, a quick look over on its official forums suggest it's been going on over the course of this past week. Plenty of users have created threads on the technical feedback forum reporting of having their Xbox 360 console banned.
Microsoft also added this is a standing policy and isn't tied to any specific time-frame.
"All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs violates the Xbox LIVE terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox LIVE," the spokesperson added. "The health of the video game business depends on customers paying for the genuine products and services they receive from manufacturers, retailers, and the third parties that support them."作者:
celeste 时间: 2009-10-31 15:30
On October 30 of 2009 a Ban Wave hit #fw. This page will document bans.
Cases:
Case 1: 1.51 FW. Banned. Friend of
Case 2: <gamerscom> modded twice with console power, played borderlands, buddy played borderlands with same release and is fine. running 1.51, banned by 9:30 this morning when I tried to get on. no one else seemed to be banned when I checked fw. came back later and the place was in a riot with people getting banned. looks like there doing it in different time chunks. I dont play any games before release dates
Case 3: <igiddyuup> I have a friend what was banned. NOt sure which drive he has (either benq or lite-on) with 1.6 The most recent games he played where madden, odst, and nba 2k10
Case 4: <KevinD> just checking in to report a ban. no pre-release, all wave 2/3. ixtreme 1.6 all games full stealth with abgx cod4/cod:waw/halo3/odst/halo3:mythic/ufc 2009 were the only games i played
Case 5: <[tk]> I got banned this afternoon, using LiteOn with 1.6 only played CoD 4 and HAWX on live retail HDD and both cds still pass abgx verification
<[tk]> I've never played a game pre-release and Ive only played verified games on this console
Case 6: B-Z Have a box that was just banned XBOX 360 Elite
Case 7: BANNED <+sta0g> been playing nothing but madden 10
<+sta0g> since august
Case 8: <GameFroze> i just put in retail game hoping to get unban.. lol fu M$ BANNED
Case 9: <CorteX`> a mate of mine just modded his box a few hours ago, went on live with a stealth checked copy of gears of war 2 and got banned just now, it was the only copied game he player online so far ! how is that for confirmation.. i'm telling you they can somehow detect modified firmwares now.. BANNED
