Modded Xboxes banned from Live

[Ingmar]

I'm surprised there's no topic for this yet.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10395265-52.html?tag=mncol;txt

Apparently Craigslist is getting flooded with people trying to dump their modded boxes?

[schild]

I'm surprised modded Xboxes were ever allowed on live.

I'm surprised modded Xboxes were.

I'm surprised modded Xboxes.

Xboxes.

[Rasix]

Good for Microsoft.

[UnSub]

Good for Microsoft.

They've done this a couple of times. Agreed.

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm surprised modded Xboxes were ever allowed on live.

This was my thought too.

[01101010]

I'm surprised modded Xboxes were ever allowed on live.

This was my thought too.

Well this way, they can hit the consumer with a huge number that bolsters the big fat warning sign. If each individual modded box would just fail to work on live in an individual sense, it would mean less than if you gather up a bunch of them and ban them all at once. Its all about the marketing, baby. 

[Samwise]

I'm surprised modded Xboxes were ever allowed on live.

This was my thought too.

Well this way, they can hit the consumer with a huge number that bolsters the big fat warning sign. If each individual modded box would just fail to work on live in an individual sense, it would mean less than if you gather up a bunch of them and ban them all at once. Its all about the marketing, baby. 

My thought is that now they get to sell a bunch more new XBoxes.

[BitWarrior]

Hilarious interview with a gamer qqing about the ban:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm

Most of the article is fairly predictable - idiot kid who modded his xbox and even states he's basically stolen between 30 and 40 games. "Why me?" Indeed. However, at the end he makes one interesting comment:

To be honest, I've contemplated whether to move to Playstation 3 or buy another Xbox. I wouldn't do it again but I really don't know if I'm going to get the Xbox again now."

Some owners might be feeling a little bitter towards the XBox (not that their ban wasn't completely deserved), and with the PS3 really gaining momentum there might be more than a few making a switch.

[Ookii]

Ours didn't get banned, wonder what they were looking for.

[NiX]

Ours didn't get banned, wonder what they were looking for.

Someone who had an account with leaked games on their profile. There are people that are stupid enough to play a burned game on their profile and not think the time stamps on achievements/last played can be tracked. Friend of mine was banned and he's trying to appeal it. Idiot.

[WayAbvPar]

Even small tastes of justice are sweet. If all those fuckheads bought games instead of pirating them, they might still be going for $40-$50 instead of $60. The same fuckheads who pirate games and force the rest of us to live with system-cripping DRM software. Criminals.

[Prospero]

Some owners might be feeling a little bitter towards the XBox (not that their ban wasn't completely deserved), and with the PS3 really gaining momentum there might be more than a few making a switch.

I'm sure Sony is really excited to have them as customers. 

[Lantyssa]

Well this way, they can hit the consumer with a huge number that bolsters the big fat warning sign. If each individual modded box would just fail to work on live in an individual sense, it would mean less than if you gather up a bunch of them and ban them all at once. Its all about the marketing, baby. 

It's like the difference between every X-box getting the RRoD randomly and all of them dying at once.  The former is more palatable so people keep buying questionable hardware.

[Azazel]

Hilarious interview with a gamer qqing about the ban:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm
Most of the article is fairly predictable - idiot kid who modded his xbox and even states he's basically stolen between 30 and 40 games. "Why me?" Indeed. However, at the end he makes one interesting comment:

To be honest, I've contemplated whether to move to Playstation 3 or buy another Xbox. I wouldn't do it again but I really don't know if I'm going to get the Xbox again now."

Some owners might be feeling a little bitter towards the XBox (not that their ban wasn't completely deserved), and with the PS3 really gaining momentum there might be more than a few making a switch.

That guy's thick as dogshit.
I suppose the important question for him is "can you mod a PS3?" 

[Teleku]

Would be even better if they sent code that made the motherboard melt on each of the banned consoles.

[waffel]

MS does this like once a year, usually around the holidays.

[Thrawn]

Well now I wonder if maybe I can pick up a really cheap modded 360 off of some really pissed of kid or something.

[Phire]

Have to check mine later tonight...fingers crossed!

[01101010]

My thought is that now they get to sell a bunch more new XBoxes.

Along with Waff's comment, yeah - great point. Tis the season, and what with the economic sector and all.

[jth]

If all those fuckheads bought games instead of pirating them, they might still be going for $40-$50 instead of $60.

PS3 games cannot be pirated, but don't seem to be any cheaper.

[Rasix]

If all those fuckheads bought games instead of pirating them, they might still be going for $40-$50 instead of $60.

PS3 games cannot be pirated, but don't seem to be any cheaper.

Is Sony supposed to give you a discount out of the goodness of their hearts? Ha.

[Ookii]

Ours didn't get banned, wonder what they were looking for.

Someone who had an account with leaked games on their profile. There are people that are stupid enough to play a burned game on their profile and not think the time stamps on achievements/last played can be tracked.

I thought they already did that, oh well.

[kildorn]

That kid is amazing. "Why me?! I only pirated 30-40 games and played them illegally! Why would you punish me for breaking rules!"

Heck, his logic that kids don't have money and with all these games coming out, well, woo piracy is silly considering he also talks about how he plays every day after work. You have a job, pay people for their fucking work. *sigh*

[KallDrexx]

Ours didn't get banned, wonder what they were looking for.

Someone who had an account with leaked games on their profile. There are people that are stupid enough to play a burned game on their profile and not think the time stamps on achievements/last played can be tracked. Friend of mine was banned and he's trying to appeal it. Idiot.

That's not what they are looking for.  I know cause my xbox is modded due to the friend I bought it from over a year ago (second hand console).  I haven't played a pirated game (let alone leaked game) since I got the console and I got banned in that spree last week. 

I'm not too worried though.  Supposedly it's pretty trivial to re-mod the xbox and change the console's ID to get yourself unbanned.  I'm only hacking my console so I can install games to the hard drive again, which is really the only reason being banned has pissed me off (I could care less about live).  And no, I don't pirate 360 games.

[OcellotJenkins]

Class action lawsuit in the works?

 

[BitWarrior]

The excuses are particularly lolable on Slashdot:

...because it was modded (i.e. not because I was cheating, pirating, or because my mod 'broke it')

Yes, he modded his 360 not to pirate games but to...help old ladies cross the street. We've got a real saint here and he can't get onto Live anymore.

Source

[Pennilenko]

Even small tastes of justice are sweet. If all those fuckheads bought games instead of pirating them, they might still be going for $40-$50 instead of $60. The same fuckheads who pirate games and force the rest of us to live with system-cripping DRM software. Criminals.

How come when you rant about piracy nobody tries to make excuses or be angry, but when ever I go on a pirate hating rant, everyone wants to try and justify that shit?

[Rasix]

You don't really want us to answer that, do you?

[Pennilenko]

You don't really want us to answer that, do you?

No, not really. 

[Velorath]

Hilarious interview with a gamer qqing about the ban:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm
Most of the article is fairly predictable - idiot kid who modded his xbox and even states he's basically stolen between 30 and 40 games. "Why me?" Indeed. However, at the end he makes one interesting comment:

To be honest, I've contemplated whether to move to Playstation 3 or buy another Xbox. I wouldn't do it again but I really don't know if I'm going to get the Xbox again now."

Some owners might be feeling a little bitter towards the XBox (not that their ban wasn't completely deserved), and with the PS3 really gaining momentum there might be more than a few making a switch.

That guy's thick as dogshit.
I suppose the important question for him is "can you mod a PS3?" 

Funny thing is, it looks like BBC has edited the article and removed the part where the guy admitted to pirating a ton of games, presumably because they realized after the fact that they looked like twats by putting up an article that tried to make an admitted pirate look like the victim.

[Samwise]

If all those fuckheads bought games instead of pirating them, they might still be going for $40-$50 instead of $60.

PS3 games cannot be pirated, but don't seem to be any cheaper.

And PC games are way easier to pirate, but are always at least $10 cheaper than the console versions.