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Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes
hikeran writes "The Register has an article about how Xbox live service is now apparently banning Xboxes that have been mod chipped. Basically it seems this is one of the many uses of those unique id's used in Microsoft's software. Next up bannings for using foul language on Xbox live service?? Be careful what you say.. you may be playing with an Xbox Live admin..."
And now they're gonna control what we say!
Your point was lost amongst your idiocy.
Next up bannings for using foul language on Xbox live service?? Be careful what you say.. you may be playing with an Xbox Live admin...
YOU obviously work for M$!
Surrender YR pattent!
Noone seriously runs linux on an xbox.
Noone legitimately backs up their software.
Noone uses the iso images they leech off their friendly neighbourhood Gene6 ftp server to 'evaluate' before making a purchase.
Modchips are so you don't have to pay for the games. Everyone knows that. Be a man and admit it.
All this hiding behind completely phony virtuous excuses is pathetic, and makes pirates look like a bunch of sniveling whiners.
I don't give a shit about backups, linux, or crappy mp3 players. I am, however, sick of the price gouging in the industry. A game being 60$ one week, 30 the next, then 20, then eventually 10. It's crap. I refuse to pay an unreasonable price for a game. So I pirate them, with not the least tinge of guilt.
I have hundreds of legitimately purchased titles, to boot - so anyone who wants to lay the 'you're killing the industry' bullshit on me can eat it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Damn, I'd ban your sorry profane ass so fast it'd make your head spin.
You have one big twisted and distorted world view there. Amazing you're allowed out in public.
Well, as far as I could see, the XBox audience consists mostly of PC-users that love high MHz numbers and are used to pirate games.
Why in the name of holy hell was this modded up? This statement is as ridiculous as saying "All MP3 enthusiasts are music pirates that also kill newborn babies and drink their blood for both fun and profit."
Pre-requisites to XBox life? What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Here are the pre-requisites that I can see:
1) Buy console
2) Rent/buy game
3) Nothing else
The overwhelming majority of people who buy a game console never do anything to its innards. Granted, this is an unfounded statistic with no factual basis, but I'd wager that _maybe_ 1% of people buy a console for the express purpose of modding it.
The majority doesn't have broadband and the few broadband owners are - you guessed it - even more likely to have modded their XBox.
Yet another statement that makes so little sense that I don't know where to begin picking it apart. Maybe, just maybe, broadband users simply like having a faster internet connection.
In short: I completely disagree with the logic of your post and have no problem calling you another stark raving lunatic who uses MS bashing to get modded up while contributing absolutely nothing insightful or remotely informative to the conversation at hand.
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