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Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @10:52PM from the what-does-the-PR-dept-have-to-say? dept.

Jellis55 writes "Jennifer Zdenek, the mother of an 11-year-old boy who lives with autism, is outraged at Microsoft Xbox Live for labeling her son a 'cheater' and taking away everything he's earned online. She says her son, Julias Jackson, is so good at playing X-Box games, Xbox LIVE thought he cheated. She says her son got online last week to play Xbox LIVE and saw that he was labeled a cheater and had zero achievements. Microsoft continues to ignore her requests to take 'cheater' off of his account."

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The highest level of achievement! by flyingfsck · 2011-01-26 22:58 · Score: 0, Troll

Well, obviously 'Cheater' is the highest level of achievement in the Microsoft Universe. It makes perfect sense in terms of the One Microsoft Way.

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Re:Or was it a hole in a badly designed game? by BeardedChimp · 2011-01-27 00:01 · Score: 0, Troll

Sounds like you exploited a bug which in my mind is cheating and so "there's no other way you could get that many ships" remains true. The punishment for abusing bugs in many games is banning so this isn't a lone case.