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Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users
S-4'N3 writes "The BBC reports that Microsoft has disconnected approximately 600,000 Xbox users from Xbox Live because the devices they are using have been modified, either with software or with new chips, to play pirated games. 'Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a "small percentage" of the 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.
Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console 'violates' the service's 'terms of use' and would result in a player being disconnected.'"
This should mean I'll never lose to some 12 year old in Halo or CoD again, cause I'm sure they were all modding. Yep, that's definitely it.
does this make it an "Ex-Box"?
thank you thank you... i'm here all week.
i wage a holy war against the apostrophe.
That phrase doesn't make grammatical sense in reply to any single sentence in that post. What doesn't what do?
Hitler is going to be pissed!
PISSED!
120 characters isn't enough to explain it.
What I find funny is on another forum I was reading about this early today, the very first reply was "600,000 out of 20 mil! thats a HUGE PERCENTAGE." Lol.
This three percent is one helluava mighty pirating engine ain't it? According to Microsoft, it's this three percent that's been the cause of the falling profits all this time. Now that they have been eliminated from being able to purchase stuff from Live... er.... I mean, uh.... now that they've been ejected.... No....
Can we just jump to the "Profit" step now, quick-like?
Edith Keeler Must Die
The great thing about online console play (the only thing, really, that it has over PCs) is their closed nature.
The correct anti-response would be: no it isn't.
It's much, much harder to cheat on a console than on a PC game.
The correct anti-response would be: no it isn't.
Don't get me wrong.
The correct anti-response would be: ...No I will?
I fully support their right to mod their own hardware.
The correct anti-response would be: ....No you don't?
But I don't want to play them online.
The correct anti-response would be: I do
"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Microsoft ban 600,000 consoles last night. I guess it's pretty serious."
Will tomorrow bring us a story how MS's holiday goal is 1,000,000? Internet journalism at it's finest.
http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51518
learn to read, faggot.
Looks like someone had their XBox360 disconnected from LIVE. /smirk
Down with the career politician! SUPPORT TERM LIMITS
"bereft of connectivity he plays alone, if he hadnt been nailed to the couch hed be playing outside with his friends! this Xbox has ceased to be! its gone offline to join the choir invisible! this is an ex-box!"
i wage a holy war against the apostrophe.
come back to \ .
You have given yourself away, Microsoft Fanboi!
Your brain is not a computer.
If you read the thread I was asking what the "it" is and what it "doesn't do" so that I could communicate with him. He then told me I was an illiterate faggot so if I wanted to reply to his line of discourse I could either talk about my sexuality and relevant exploits or I could discuss why I couldn't understand what he wrote. Which would you have preferred? Well too bad, that was rhetorical!
If you have any idea exactly which point he was arguing with I'd be happy to have non grammatical-focused discourse on the subject
You've already got more laughs out of me than anything in 'idle' ever did. Keep on posting; I browse at -1, so I'll see them.
Oh look another typo! Crucify me now!!!
Comment of the year
Apologies for putting words in the fellows mouth, but he probably means to say that it is not harder to cheat on consoles by virtue of closed hardware, and so lauding the decision to ban modded boxes (with the implication being that modding the console renders this cheating difficulty moot) is folly.
Certainly there is ambiguity, but given the context it, assuming that interpretation is a safe enough bet.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Until they give tethering back to us, yes, Apple is evil too. I bet Steve Jobs eats babies.
With the Ring of Death, destruction of game disks, overheating consoles and probably other results of the famous Microsoft quality, and now deliberate sabotage, I really don't thing it's a good idea to buy Xbox, period. Why do people keep on dealing with Microsoft at all, despite it leading to pain, trouble and financial loss every single time? I can only imagine the reason as some bizarre combination of stupidity and masochism.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Then that's why I haven't get my ass kicked from Live. I knew it had something to do with MW2. My Xbox is modded (it's legal over here) but I only have been playing original games. What kind of idiot it takes to play a pirated game the day/week before release? It's like wetting yourself with blood in the middle of a forest when a bunch of wolves are looking for you