Comments on: “MS Banned 600,000 from Xbox Live, Aims at 1,000,000″

By: BloodThirstyNogitsune

BloodThirstyNogitsune — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:59:46 +0000

Microsoft caught them off guard

Microsoft : HAH F*CKING OWNED!!!
MS Pirates: oh, it's ON NOW!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:50:14 +0000

lol harsh? not a chance. if MS wanted to im pree sure they can do worse.
plus they deserved it for being getting pirated games.

YAY BAN WAVE XD

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:07:07 +0000

Truth behold, the ps3 is the better console for now....

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:58:11 +0000

may i know who is the artist of the cover picture, and which series are the characters from? they look familiar, but i can't place them...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:15:02 +0000

Why is everybody crying about being banned?. We all knew this was coming and the risks involved, so just do what most people including myself are going to do and buy a console for legit online play and use the banned modded one for offline play. Simples

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:12:22 +0000

If your stupid enough to pay $60 dollars then thats your choice FAG.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:21:12 +0000

To address the best point where your metaphor breaks down: Insurance companies don't come by and steal your engine if you modify your car; and they won't snap your spine and paralyze you from the legs down if they catch you smoking crack.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:17:29 +0000

Yes, because it isn't like Microsoft would do something so unscrupulous as throwing money at a problem to make it go away. /sarcasm

I'm sure the only reason they have lawyers is so they know whose palms to grease in the legal hierarchy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:30:59 +0000

I saw a video of a guy using a Spas-12 at a shooting range shooting away at his xbox because of this

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:48:27 +0000

Honest people: -1 for paying sucker price to publisher.
Big Corporations: -1 for bad press and generating customer hostility
Pirate hackers: +100 for already played games that worthed more than the console's price at sucker rate.

xbox360 arcade = $200
if you managed to play more than 4 games during the life of a hacked console, you win.

and I think most pirates already won.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:19:17 +0000

And by the way, and if you're referring to the Wikipedia excerpt that states: "Warrantors cannot require that only branded parts be used with the product in order to retain the warranty.This is commonly referred to as the 'tie-in sales' provisions, and is frequently mentioned in the context of third-party computer parts, such as memory and hard drives." It won't do any good. A careful reading of the actual Act found in the FTC website (and not just the Wikipedia article) gives an example of a permissible provision: "Improper or incorrectly performed maintenance or repair voids this warranty." Good luck trying to explain to the courts that your console was properly 'repaired/modded'.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:46 +0000

@ Char The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act does not apply. The purpose of the Act is to make warranties on consumer products more readily understood and enforceable. Remember the terms of service that you agreed to (but probably never read) when you first connected to Xbox live? You can thank the Magnuson-Moss Act for that one. If, like most people, you never bothered to read it and didn't realize that consequences of modding your Xbox is actually stated there, then tough luck. And yes, it's very disheartening to hear a lot of people suddenly becoming "legal experts", and imply the limited knowledge they know of the law is better and can suddenly replace years of law school by highly paid M$ lawyers. And for that matter, I won't be surprised if somebody DOES seek legal action for the banning, and have the case thrown out faster than you can say, "Red Ring of Death".

By: ExtrovertedOtaku

ExtrovertedOtaku — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:25:39 +0000

*crouching under your window to accept both consoles*

Hehe

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:59:47 +0000

They ARE getting banhammered, their hardware still works fine, all the online features(game updates, xbox live arcade, xbox live marketplace, multiplayer, etc.) are just disabled because their console was banned for being modded. Microsoft does this because not only can modders be pirates, they can cheat in the online games by modding the data on their disks giving themselves unfair advantages.

Also Xbox Live is free, its called an Xbox Live Silver account, it gives you access to the Xbox Live Arcade, the Xbox Live Marketplace, and some Multiplayer Games.

Shadowrun, Lost Planet: Colonies, Universe at War: Earth Assault, Phantasy Star Universe, and Final Fantasy XI are all completely playable online with a free Xbox Live Silver account.

The Xbox Live Gold account has an annual fee of US $50 a year, a yearly fee not a monthly fee, and enables online multiplayer for everything else.

If you have been an Xbox Live Gold member for over a year you can pay US $6.95 for Microsoft to send you an Xbox Live Diamond card. An XBL Diamond card looks like a credit card with your gamertag on it. It gets you discounts at Arbys, Carl's Jr., Gamestop, Sirius sattelite radio, Cambridge Soundworks and other Xbox sponsers. It also gets you a month of membership with 24 Hour Fitness lol.

Thats mostly everything about Xbox Live for the uninformed.

By: JanusVX

JanusVX — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:49:43 +0000

Lets see: MS 1 Hackers/Pirates: 2
It seems MS is trying to get back at the modders of the XBL community a little too late. And it is too well timed to be called a coincidence. Why wouldnt they have started banning people from their hard drives last year? Surely the fact that 1) Their sales have taken a massive beating due to the PS3 Slim, and 2) christmas is around the corner? Its timing is too well placed to be called a fluke. MS screwed up this time, and this is a very lop sided effort. It's a 25/75 throw up, with MS on the losing side. Lets see shall we? With the plague of the RRoD still devouring consoles in every continent, and now this stunt in NA, which group of 360 owners will be left standing and not caught in the crossfire of MS vs Pirates?

By: JanusVX

JanusVX — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:44:28 +0000

pfft. Like everyone said, I believe that its just another hapless ploy to get sells figures up. Tell me is it just coincidence that they decided to do it with christmas around the corner? I dont think sooooo.it really is a 25/75 through up with MS on the losing side of the ratio. Check it: pirates only bought the system in the first place to modd games and stuff. Being the initial and only cost for running decent games was a brilliant trade off. Now that MS has "banned" their HDD's, do you really think they wont find another way around it? I say they will find an alternative before christmas, and MS will be royally screwed over. Im pretty sure, honestly ppl who play on XBL will get caught in the crossfire, and they will lose their already dwindling fan base. Why ban the few (40%) working system? Between the RRoD, and MS, who will survive?

By: cloudninja

cloudninja — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:19:47 +0000

Crap .... I wasn't logged in ... I apologize ...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:18:54 +0000

If this makes playing on Xbox Live a little more quite and mature, I say it's ALL GOOD.

Lol ... quite and mature ... on Xbox Live ... but it COULD happen, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:02:11 +0000

Bah, I got banned,...so what. I'll get a new system black friday cheap from amazon or a used one from gamestop with a extra service contract and use both. Only need live for the 2 games I actually play online any way. Gears, gears 2. I'll DL everything else and buy legit copies of what i wanna play online. After sending the system back to em twice already for repairs , it was gonna break any how. To be honest, im happy the ban wave hit. Now hackers and modder will come up with better solutions and exploits. The same think happened on the original xbox, just to a much lower scale (live ain't have 20 million users then) and it wasnt the end of the world. Modders just got better and bucked the system again. Hell, modder "darkAlex" is notorious for releasing hacked psp FW THE DAY AFTER sony a new FW. MS fired off a huge salvo yes, but this fight is just gettin good........

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:09:47 +0000

Mysterious Voice: "Yet another display of Microsoft's draconian strategies. Planning to destroy 1,000,000 consoles can only mean some legitamite owners will have to fall. Save yourself now! Get a PC." What if there's less then that? There's always the chance that they won't need to ban 1,000,000 owners. Mysterious Voice: "Just wait. I'll prove you wrong."

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:05:11 +0000

You're probably right. I mean, it's not like anyone can hold an opinion diffrent from your own. That can't be right. Nobody really likes Microsoft, they all have to be employees, right? Mysterious Voice: "Yes, actually." ...that's not what I meant.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:55:16 +0000

Honest people : 1
Pirate hackers : -1

By: Myballz

Myballz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:43:17 +0000

You can buy a Used game for around 10% to 30$ there now shame in that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:30 +0000

that's what you get for supporting a Microsoft console (you dweebs!)