Until last week, modifications to the console were undetectable by Microsoft, allowing enterprising gamers to open up the next-generation console and tinker with its settings. However, a software update has seemed to change all that.
Microsoft can now test for the existence of a hack that allows the console to played burned versions of games, as well as if the game in the drive itself is a legitimate copy. If these items are found, the user is then banned from Xbox Live. Some are saying the rise in copying has much to do with the highly anticipated Halo 3 beta — many may be copying the game Crackdown for the sole purpose of gaining access to the beta, which is also included on the disc.
It is a violation of the Terms of Service to use a modified console with Xbox Live. A message will appear on the screen, and the console, but not the user’s account itself, will be banned. “We have stated in the past that customers can only enjoy access to the Xbox Live community through the use of a genuine, unmodified, Xbox console and we will continue to enforce this rule to ensure the integrity of our service, the protection of our partners and the benefits of our users,” Microsoft said.
Source: BetaNews
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thank goodness they did this. I modified my old Xbox, but you definitely didn’t hear me complaining when I was banned from Xbox Live. There’s no reason for people to be able to play on live with a modified Xbox because they have the ability to cheat. (Regardless of whether you say you will or not, the ability is there, and that’s not fair to the people who don’t have their’s modified.)
May 26th, 2007 at 8:58 am
this is to that nerd “B C”
the price of games and consoles is way to high and it is total justice that you can get cheap xbox games. it is a fair battle against the greedy microsoft
May 29th, 2007 at 6:44 am
B C, what are you prattling on about? Since when has any 360 had the ability to cheat. Unlike the old xbox the 360 can only be modified to play backups. These backups cannot be modified with “trainers” or such like so playing on live with a modded 360 does not affect “genuine” players in any way. If games were priced sensibly there would not be the need for piracy. Games that require a fraction the cost of a movie to develop cost 3 or 4 times as much as a dvd movie. Just greedy I say!
May 29th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Hi My son has a non modded xbox 360 system but for some reason Microsoft seem to have banned that also,i have called,complained etc but they refuse to believe that their is a problem,it was raining hard yeasterday and i had some time on my hands so wrote to every consumer protection organisation that i could think of in the uk,asking for their assistance to resolve the issue.The console is only five monthe old and was purchased from play.com.
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July 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I live in Argentina and an X-Box 360 costs $2000 around here. Of course, at that price, the games should be quite cheap, only $15 (cuz they are backup games, if you want to get the original, it should be around $300). I paid 2000 bocks for my modified console at a local retailer (it says a lot about my country, but i dont care)… now im not complaining, but you´ve got to understand that there are 3rd world countries, where buying original is just impossible. =)
July 7th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Im sorry, let me refrase what i just said: i did not paid $2000, i paid 2000 + my old xbox (an Xbox 360 its around 2800 dollars). My point is that if people on the US complaints about the fact that a single game costs $50 but they get EVERYTHING original with that, in that case, you have no idea how hard it is for south america to get those kind of things… im not glad they did it, but c´mon, is not that bad!! Sorry for my english.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:59 am
Im not sure how many people will see this, and I really do not care cause what I am saying has to be said! A modded 360 as pointed out earlier only plays back ups, of witch have no trainers. There is another way where you can acces (
August 28th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I live in south asia where origional titles are non-existant. 360s cost around 26000 Rs. in my country. They are sold modified as there are no origional titles available at even the most luxurious malls (piracy is so in). I bought mine a few weeks after the ban, and didnt know about the worthless addition till i was banned. I just want to cry when i see the Multiplayer option in any game i played so far. Its not our fault no origional titles are available to us. We spend 26000 of our hard earned money and in return get a “user banned” message pasted across the screen. What a pathetic and cheap act.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
If you compare the specs on the systems with comparable PC’s, the consoles do not really seem over-priced after the initial price drop or 2. They make most of their money by selling games and their Live service.
September 29th, 2007 at 4:53 am
well it’s a realy painfull situation to get banned, but is even more painfull to pay $60 for a 360 game I mean come c’om just think about it after buying 6 360 games is like buying another consol and I wasent going to do that and now I’m banneb from live, but there are other ways to play online like xbox connect even do I don’t realy know how to use it I just have to learn how. my point is bill gates is freaking rich and he is not going to get richer becaus of me and my adiction to games, so do the same find a way to play online without live and then spread the word we creat a communitie from all the people who got banned I bet ther’s alot of them |o|
September 29th, 2007 at 5:28 am
honestly wtf i modded my 360 because i bought it overseas and had to get rid of the region codes and now i can expect my remaining 7 months of Live time to go down the drain anytime?
whats next will BMW shut me down for new wheels and stero my 320i?
or will nestle fk with me for adding chocolate into a coco crunch mix?
innocent untill proven guilty wth they cant just break the law like this
November 19th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Who cares, live sucks and repeatedly fighting to die or win, just start again on some sort of dull treadmill really isn’t exciting at all.
I understand kids may like the bragging rights, but until money comes out the xbox when I win, i just don’t care.
Thank you, I’ll enjoy free games and keeping the money in my pocket. Is it wrong? Oh totally, but then again so is a nation with 18,000 deaths because people can’t get health care…so you’ll excuse me if I don’t care about software piracy!
Chin chin!
November 21st, 2007 at 9:39 am
I agree with robert, but i must say, i will miss beating the crap out of my mates on fight night3. bummer. but, you pays ya money (or not), ya takes ya chances.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Hey guys i got banned from live for no reason… i was playing call of duty 4 and they just banned me… anyone give suggestions plz
November 21st, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Well, today I was banned, I suppose rightfully as I have a ‘modded’ Xbox 360, however it is the ONLY type of Xbox 360 I can buy in this country (China). There are no games that are NOT already pirated available, so it’s either take this route and pay for an Xbox live membership to play online, or don’t buy Microsoft product. Well guess what, my first reaction to being banned was ‘hmm, maybe my live membership ran out, so I logged on and renewed for 12 months, just to search deeper to find that the Z message does = 8015 190D. SO what does that mean? I continue to buy and play pirated games but no longer contribute my $50 to Microsoft. In fact I think I will make the call now to cancel my live account, it won’t be charged till January anyway
It just seems like a ‘lose-lose’ situation for everyone in this case.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I personally do not get what all the bitching is about for those that live in the United States. If $60 is such a horrible price, wait a damn while for the price to go down. So what if your friends have the game before you do, ask to borrow it for a couple days. For those of you that are in countries that only have modded 360s, I feel sorry for you that you have become a technicality. My only suggestion would be to try to find a place online that sells unmodded 360s and original games for close to the same price as normal games (around $60 US).
November 24th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Got banned this week as well. Samsung drive. Was playing Mass Effect on Tuesday 20th(work for games shop get games in a week b4 release date)public release on Friday 23rd. Only reason i can think of why i was banned? Its not even an online game!!
THERE MUST BE LEGAL ACTION TAKEN AGAINST MICROSOFT? WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CHRIS E (reply 4) Did you get any joy?
IS THERE A WEB PAGE TO PROTEST AGAINST MICRO$OFT???
November 25th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Kemosabi3000-
my box all the sudden got banned after playing call of duty 4 as well. havent done anything to the xbox!
November 28th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
guys,
i have another problem….. i have also been banned, and have a modded console. not too much of a problem as i don’t really play online. trouble is i need to update in order to play the latest games (COD4, Kane & Lynch etc) but can’t log on to update. the download and make CD just shows as mixed media disk. i’m at a loss now. Any ideas?
grandsenseibob@aol.com
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:48 pm
The reasons you fools get banned is because you dont Stealth Patch your games when you play online!. Stealth patch your backups or games you download, so that when you go online 99% microsoft wont track you.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Hi guys, been playing call of duty 4 as well, and have been banned for no reason. i have not modded my console in any way and all my games are legit. if you have any news or wanna talke about what we can do, email me at natethegreat1@hotmail.com
i need to get back online! so frustrating!
December 7th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Hi, i was also unfairly banned from live. I have a non-modded console with all legitimate games. The last games i was playing before i was banned were call of duty 4 and pro evo 6. if anyone has any news or wants to talk about what to do next, please contact me at natethegreat1@hotmail.com
thanks
December 7th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
hey alex, what is this stealth patch thing. because im
reading all these things about getting banned and i would like not to be banned. if you could give me a brief low down on this that’d be great.
December 7th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
my friend bought a 360 from some guy and when he tried to migrate his live account it said the console was banned. Is my fried basically out of luck? Is there nothing he can do?
December 15th, 2007 at 1:30 am
FUCK BILL GATES AND MICROSOFT….THEY WORRY SO MUCH ABOUT PEOPLE MODDING THEIR FUCKING BOX WHEN THEY ARE RICH AS HELL…THEY ARE STILL GETTING MONEY FROM THE XBOX LIVE MEMBERSHIP AND FROM PEOPLE BUYING THE CONSOLE BUT THAT AIN’T ENOUGH SO I HOPE THAT DORKY ASS BITCH BILL GATES COMES ACROSS THIS SO HE CAN READ THIS…FUCK YOU BILL GATES YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT…QUIT FUCKING CRYING BILL IT’S NOT LIKE YOU ARE GOING BROKE YOU FAG ASS NERD!!
December 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
well, my xbox has been banned from xbox live too.. i got it in korea… they only sell modded xbox in asia.. we lost a lot of games… good thing we have 2 xboxs me and my husband will share till we get a new one… oh well.. sorry guys.. i know how u feel.. soo frustrating
December 26th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I have been blocked from xbox live, and i do not know why. I have called on several times. Spoken with a manager that says they cant tell me why and there’s nothing i can do.Each year the price of entertainment goes up with new extras to catch you. Thats fine, so i buy the games that turn out to be $65 dollars total for one,i buy the console and spend all this money for what. For the extra that you say is worth so much, to play on line, with friends or strangers. Then you kick people off without letting them know what for, and all your people can say is; buy another expensive console to get back on line. ARE YOU SERIOUS. $270,00 dollars(total of 4 games) worth of games bought to play on line, and the best you can say is by another console, then ask me if anything has been modified. What has been modified is my wallet, and my overall view point of XBOX. PLease respond so we can resolve this. Your manager stated they would have someone from legal contact me. I am still waiting to be contacted and to be provided with the issue in writing. I have also spoken with our legal team for advise, and we are wondering how many others are going through this same issue with xbox
December 26th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
yo fuck this shit i got mine from india and they banned mine bithes
December 26th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
just because then i brought it to england then fuck them foolz
December 26th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
FUCK XBOX 360!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 26th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
SPENT 26000Rs ON THAT SHIT FUCK THEM
December 27th, 2007 at 6:03 am
I should have just updated my pc instead of buying the 360. Hell the only reason I bought the 360 was to mod it to play backups but thats before I heard of the bans.
This is bullshit you wanna know why the world is so fucked up? Because Everything is so expensive and wages are shit money. THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER. I will Just buy a pre banned 360 and mod that to play backups and keep my stocker for playing on live.
I hate greedy rich people.
I dont have money to buy a $60 game every damn week when I beat one I mean come on how many times can you play a game over again?
December 30th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
F**K YOU MICROSOFT. I HAVE ALL YOUR GAMES AND ONLY PAID FOR DVD-DL DISC. BAN ME IF YOU LIKE, WITH ALL THE MONEY I SAVED FROM YOUR POOR SECURITY PROTECTION, I WILL JUST BUY ANOTHER CONSOLE. YOU DONT HAVE ANY MMORPGS SO I DONT NEED LIVE. I NEVER HAD LIVE & NEVER WANTED IT! LAST LAUGH IS ON YOU MS.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
All i have to say is WORD JV!!! Word my brotha!!!
January 5th, 2008 at 12:49 am
hey guys im buy 360 and dont now what to do and alex j how do you put stealth pack on? its such a rip for 60$ games if u think about it if you buy 100 blank dvds its about 20$ then they just add games and more so they probaly make about 55 - 50 on 1 game. rich bastards
January 9th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
microsoft have just banned my 360 because according to them it had “illegal devices installed” (mods) which… as far as i know it doesn’t i got it brand new last year and i have just been told that because i have downloaded a map pack for a game (from the official x-box live market place i might add) only to find out that it has been tampered with. next thing i know i’m banned for use of mods. no compensation not even an appologie and i’m expected to pay for a new one its unbelievable!
January 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
my xbox got baned and it is modded because im am not paying £40 for a game fuk billgates wanker and carlo u havr to get dule layer dvd and they cost $2.00 perdisc
January 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
WOW!! It’s amazing how people are rejoicing over the fact that XBOX Live has banned the people with modded systems, BACKUPS, and Pirated Games. Nowadays the word mod has a double meaning due to gullible people who listened to bad rumors. First off you can’t cheat with a modified system. Xbox 360 has too many security codes to allow that. The only way you can cheat is with a cheating device (AR Max, Gameshark, Codebreaker) and that was for the Xbox, which is what got most of you paranoid about modified systems in the first place. A modified board or character is not cause by a modified system people!! LMAO!!
The only people who are rejoicing over this are Ignoramuses, Friends & Family members of game developers, and people who are loyal patrons of certain games & the system itself. You all want to act as if people with modded systems are self-righteous a-holes but you’re all full of hypocrisy! The majority of you have pirated at one time or another!! THINK ABOUT? Whether it was a CD, Movie, TV Show, Music Single, or Software (Even if the software you illegally downloaded cost only $2 to purchase; even if you needed it for a class you were trying to pass; even if you needed it because your computer was full of viruses and was about to crash due to the lack of a Anti-virus program) YOU STILL STOLE! Downloading merchandise that you didn’t pay for is STEALING! So don’t give me that crap about thanking Microsoft because you were getting your @ss whipped in a game you can’t play! Get off of your narrow-minded high horse! There are people better than you!
I’m not a strong supporter of modding, even though I have done it in the past, but I hate hypocrites! All Microsoft did was cause consoles to be returned and unaware people to purchase banned systems. This STILL didn’t stop people from playing pirated games!! LOL! You think Microsoft did it for that sole purpose! MS is a money hungry company. They could have just solely blocked burnt games from being play on live, but NOOO!! By permanently banning your Xbox, Microsoft figured they could get those individuals banned to go out and buy another consoles. LOL! It’s pure genius!
January 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
am the newest member of this club, i have full intention of reverse engineering the box and finding out how live works….anyone who has any advice ,addresses to live ,it is my endevour to set up a free service that is fully compatible with the 360 and old xbox. This is discrimination and a monopoly…..i have done nothing wrong and they banned me much like all of you….my theory is that they got overcrowded on live and started banning old boxes that returned bad numbers from the drives. They are truly stepping on consumer and constitutional rights by not offering an explanation or alternative. I may very well be over my head in this endevour , but i am willing to try and dedicate as much time as i can to it…. so any help would be appreciated…… viva la revolution!!!
To those that have done nothing wrong has anyone takin’ it up with BBB or gotten Legal advice, i am very curious of what avenues have been explored here….
To the modders and hackers any help you want to offer in building or discovering or ripping or reverse engineering…..etc. is much appreciated…i do not want to build a ‘Tunnel’ system , i want to make a full fledged LIVE substitute that is fully compatible with games….
January 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
My Xbox 360 was also banned, FOR PUTTING IN A BLU-RAY DISK! Now I have a $400 system that I can’t even play online!
I will never buy another Microsoft gaming system and I suggest to everyone to get a Playstation 3, It will save you $50 a year(Xbox Live Cost) with none this nonsense.
GO TO HELL MICROSOFT, YOU DON’T RUN THE WORLD. GOOD JOB ON VISTA TOO, EVERYONE HATES IT!
January 15th, 2008 at 8:19 am
As a games beta tester for a large publisher I have to say that the people here who say that a game only costs pennies to make live in a dream world! The team to make pro evo6 involved more than 60 people, working on that project for 11 months. Thats about 148000 working hours. Plus the designers for the packaging etc. Then come the pro beta testers, (yes we need to be paid too!) All in all a game like that costs well in excess 5 million $US to produce, plus the marketing costs. (ever tried to buy TV advertising time, or a full page spread in a mag?) If you buy a game as soon as it is published you will be bearing a lot of the developement costs. Once the profitability of the game has been established it will be sold on to a cheaper distributer, who will market “platinum editions etc”.The you need to remember that after Microsoft or a games publisher sell the game to a wholesaler, who wants to make a profit, then it goes to the retailer, who, guess what, needs to make a profit too! Depending on the country you are in the government and in some cases the local administration also need to make money from sales tax. The US$60 for a game doe not all got to “Bill Gates”, a lot of others need to be paid for too! As to it being “unfair” that Microsoft ban players for making unautherised mods, it’s a matter of contention. If you read the terms and conditions in the small print you would see that a condition of use of the XBox live service include NOT useing any unautherised mods. There was an attempt about 6 months ago to compromise the XBox live servers, which if it had been sucessful might have led to the loss of customer data. If your credit card details were stolen in this way you would be screaming mad, quite rightly too.
If you have to mod your console, then dont use it on “Live”, if u want to do both, then get 2 consoles! For those who can’t get unmodded units, my only advice is to complain to the importers in your country… In short, read the small print before you buy, and dont just assume that because it is expensive Microsoft make all the money from it!
January 15th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
hey if microsoft selled games for $10 or $15 they would make way more money cause everyone would buy it rather than selling em for 60 and nobody would get mods………….and B.S. in the bill make so much money cause he get some poor ass ppl in the plilpines to work for 10 cents an hour and tere my friend bought games for 5 fuckin bucks and hear its sixty comn bill is rich and is adding to his bank account.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
wHEN i play halo 3 or some shit on 1 type of game tere is like 100 000 JUST ON 1 PLAYLIST. NOW THINK HOW MANY PEOPLE ONLINE, AND YES THEY PAID 60 DOLLARS 4 12 MONTHS SO TIMES ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WITH LIVE BY 60 IT EQUALS BILL GETTIN EVEN RICHER
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Got a solution for all of you. but a ps3. Very nice to play. plus you get cheap games which you can download from the playstaton store. including a hd dvd bluray player along with a hdd for media etc etc etc. not to mention sweet graphics which kicks 360s ass.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:42 am
ps3 also has free online(playstation network).
February 5th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
So how many tens (or hundreds) of thousands of people are now left with 360’s which are “bricked” for live? And keep in mind that most of these people have extremely limited access to purchasing authentic games or consoles due to the country they live in… including a percentage which cannot afford the real deal or were not aware of the “Banning” at the time of purchase. I find it reasonable to believe that 80% or more of these people will not be re-purchasing authentic hardware because they can’t afford a second console or purely feel “Ripped Off” by Microsoft, and thus leading to little or no additional profits. IF Microsoft had just let these people play on LIVE they would still be receiving the LIVE subscription fees from all these people for years to come- Perhaps charge more if need be. Unfortunately everyone is at a loss now.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Microsoft are twats. I have my xbox modded as i am not willing to pay 40 quid + for games that cost around 3 quid to make. Its a waste of money. I bought a new xbox so i could access online, and now i need a new wireless adaptor. WTF, it says they have banned my mac address on my xbox, nothing about the wireless adaptor. so thats like 200 quid for the fucking xbox, and another 60 quid for the adaptor, and then ive got to buy the games i play on which are 40 quid each. i have around 30 games. so if i buy 30 games for 40 quid each thats £1200. + 200 quid. + 60 quid. 1460 quid because microsoft banned my xbox. CUNTS!
February 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
i got banned because my xbox is chipped, if i get a new xbox would i be able to go on xbox live with it or not?
February 12th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Sorry but fuck you modders. one of the reasones games cost as much money as they do is because of modding and other illegal activities. Thats just one of the excuses they use to raise the prices so your not helping the situation. To the guy that says his xbox got banned for putting in a blue ray disk I dont believe you. I read your post and went and put a blue ray in my xbox Im not banned Ive done it several time since and have contacted microsoft live customer service about it and they claim that you are full of crap. The people out there that were playing call of duty or any game and got banned especially the parent who said the system they have is unmodded you need to look into your online habbits cause your child or who ever may have been banned over complaints received about you online. 60 dollars is expensive for a game I agree but if you keep stealing the games they will be 70 or 80 dollars so just keep it up jerk offs.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:10 am
i got my xbox chipped and got banned from xbox live, if i get a new xbox will i be able to go on xbox live?
February 19th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
hi there its true duble layer disk work ive been using them for months
February 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am
This is for people in the US/any region where mods are an OPTION.
I love how all the people here are crying and complaining about it not being fair that they can’t play a MODIFIED xbox online. You shouldn’t be able to. You shouldn’t be allowed to play them at all, but the best Microsoft can do is keep you from playing online. I say good job Microsoft.
You people are crying about $60 games, shut the hell up. If $60 is going to break you, then you don’t need to be buying an XBox 360. You need to go get a second job or maybe even a first one. When the N64 was out, there were plenty of games priced OVER $60. You could also buy used games, or sell them once you beat them, which would get you most of your precious $60 back. You can’t complain about the price of games being too high, and then turn around and contribute to their prices going up. You think pircay drives software prices down? Think about it, no it doesn’t. So anyone complaining about it is a hypocrite.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
hahaha….you guys are assholes, do you really think bill gates makes all his money from xbox? no, he MADE microsoft, you shouldn’t personally attack someone because of their job, i mean he’s the head of the company… he doesn’t always know whats going on with xbox and xbl, and besides… it costs a lot more than you think to make a game, games that don’t sell well because of piracy causes the company to take a loss, which causes prices to go up, it costs millions of dollars to make a game, oh, and i guess i’m a “poor ass ppl in the plilpines to work for 10 cents an hour” because i work for microsoft.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Look…I have a modded 360. I just go to the store and rent a game and copy it. I know it isn’t right to do it but ever since they found out about the stealth patch modders can’t play the games on live anyways.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
If piracy leads to higher priced games and what not, how come Nintendo has not banned users for modding their Wii’s and their games are selling more than xbox or ps3 and they are always around $10-20 cheaper in-store. for all i know nintendo is still making millions. Microsoft needs to lay off on the people that like to tinker with technology, it is inevitable that it will occur.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:25 am
good. we dont want your modded crap on xbox live.get a job or (more likely) do your homework.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:57 am
I’ve been playing on my modded xbox with backup games for a little over 8 months now and haven’t been banned. Trust me, its worth the time to learn about stealth patching, running stealth checks, how to run burned games, etc.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:58 am
first it is not illegal to modd the xbox, nor is it illegal to have a back up copy game for the origanl copy you own, you guys are getting banned for your terms and conditions you agreed to that you wouldnt use modified hardware, its the microsoft contract that you signed that you should have read before you signed up. with that said i love my modded xbox 360, i play tons of games and do not give a damn about live, if i want want real online gaming action, thats what i built my pc for
June 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
also they should make it to where you can not play back up copies on live and not the whole 360, because die hard fans of a game on live will make sure that they have they origanal to play that one beloved game on line, because my modded 360 doesnt put me at any other advantage then any one elses it doesnt make the super gamer becasue it plays a back up disc
July 4th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Great job from Microsoft
July 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am
hi all i work for sony in the game warehouse and im just going to say thanks to microsoft for banning modders because since they have banned the modders off xbox live we have sold an extra 500 ps3 consoles per week
so have that Bill Gates
July 18th, 2008 at 11:38 am
isit possible for microsoft to ban you off xbox live if you havnt told anybody you got a modded xbox or you didnt update no games or your xbox plz reply
Thanks
July 28th, 2008 at 8:20 am
What happens if you have a modded xbox but u still play original games online, would u still get banned ?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:53 am
If you can’t afford video games, why would you buy a 360 in the first place? That’s why the poor get poorer — because they’re stupid.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Yes we can complain about the price of games being too high. Did the N64 cost 400$ to buy? Uhhh no. I don’t remember 1 single game of the n64 that was above 50$. And to whoever said that games will go up to 70 or 80$ because of pirating, you are full of shit. Look at gas prices every time there is a little tropical storm that realistically affects 1 oil platform, oil goes up 5$ a barrel and 20 cents at the pump. They will use any excuse they can get to raise prices. People keep buying gas so gas companies can keep raising prices.
If we didn’t burn games then video game companies would sell many more games and they would raise the prices because they know they could still sell them.
The rich are greedy. They don’t really give a shit about us and our banned consoles. they still make money off other people. That’s why i haven’t bought a new 360 and i’m keeping my modded one. Fuck em. I got the ring of death and fixed it my fucking self. My hard drive also broke and i lost my old accounts and old saved games. Guess what though? I have to spend 100$ just to get a new one. My old one didn’t even last a year before it broke.
I’m buying a ps3.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I agree with Kevin, as far as the logic behind buying a console if the games are too expensive. The rich get rich by saving money, cutting expenses, and not buying things like video games. Poor people are their own biggest enemy. We can’t dictate how much someone else’s video game they designed should cost. And the commenter that said they make 50$-55$ off each game because it only costs a blank disc is insane. Game development is ridiculously expensive, and most games don’t break even in sales. Development costs and all the people stealing games are the reason it is so expensive. Grocery prices go up when people steal, too, but I bet nobody here is going to walk into the store and steal steaks because they think the price is too high. Someone has to break the cycle 1st, either the developers or the pirates. Even when games are down to $20, people will still steal them, so blame all the pirates for the high prices. For those who got banned and didn’t mod, my heart goes out to you.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Sorry for the long post above. I’m not attacking anyone, you’re all entitled to your feelings. But instead of attacking a company in a free country who has the right to charge whatever they want to charge, why not fight in a way that could possibly make real changes? Boycott M$, if you feel that strongly. Get a PS3, or Wii. Convince your friends to do the same, so you can all still play together. If you have a PC, don’t upgrade to Vista, unless/until you absolutely have to. Cancel your live accounts, challenge the charges if you paid with a credit card, if you’ve been banned and haven’t modded. M$ may respond positively to lost dollars due to unhappy consumers, but never to unhappy pirates. Think about it.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Hey guys,
I have a modded X360 (I live in Malaysia) and i tried to create an xbox live account online but i nvr gt banned(I cant even make 1 cuz its nt available in Msia yet -_-”)But i was wondering if we could download Xbox Originals Off Xbox Live on a modded xbox360?
October 27th, 2008 at 4:45 am
My Dear Xbox360 Gamers it’s normal Mircosoft want’s to ban you all from XboxLive because you dont pay for there games which means they wont make money so either you buy 2 Xbox360 mod one and keep the other one as it is download the game play it if you like it alot and want to play it online go to the store Buy it and play it on your unmodded Xbox360 that’s all you can do or Stealth Patch the modded Game which still has a chance to get banned from XboxLive 15%.