[XBOX360] Microsoft bans Accounts for Pre-Release Play
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 13:41    Post subject: [XBOX360] Microsoft bans Accounts for Pre-Release Play
Taken from the front page of NZBs. Ouch...

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Glottis
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 13:46    Post subject:
Already discussed to death in forza3 thread.


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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 13:49    Post subject:
I don't care about Forza, so I wouldn't have seen that. Besides; off-topic chat isn't allowed - so I created a new thread.

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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 13:50    Post subject:
ya know, people bash americans for their sueing happy asses.

Well it's shit like that is when america being sue happy comes into play.

Users getting banned for playing a game online before release date because Best Buy, Wal*Mart, Toys R Us or some shit decided to break the street date?

That shit will simply not fucking fly.


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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 14:05    Post subject:
thats why u need to w8 untill the shit verifys....u deserve it
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Glottis
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 14:11    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:
ya know, people bash americans for their sueing happy asses.

Well it's shit like that is when america being sue happy comes into play.

Users getting banned for playing a game online before release date because Best Buy, Wal*Mart, Toys R Us or some shit decided to break the street date?

That shit will simply not fucking fly.

MS doesn't ban people who bought the game.

http://twitter.com/StepTo

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You know, when you play a pre-release title on LIVE when I know you shouldn’t have it, it’s not hard for me to figure out.

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Don't worry folks, anyone who bought a copy early is ok. In general, if you got a receipt, play away. These are illegit copies we're hitting


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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 14:13    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
I don't care about Forza, so I wouldn't have seen that. Besides; off-topic chat isn't allowed - so I created a new thread.

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Not offtopic, directly related to Forza3.


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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 14:18    Post subject:
Glottis wrote:
sabin1981 wrote:
I don't care about Forza, so I wouldn't have seen that. Besides; off-topic chat isn't allowed - so I created a new thread.

Cool Face

Not offtopic, directly related to Forza3.


yep , seeing as the forza devs seem to be the one's conveying all the news via twitter and forums . Think I'll stick ma neck out and say it's forza thats doing the damage


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but you know what Chinese whispers are like; some newbie will read your comment and suddenly run and spread it all over the internet that the new 2010 Banwave disables all your XBLA games when you're banned.

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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 14:20    Post subject:
armando99 wrote:
thats why u need to w8 untill the shit verifys....u deserve it


Que? You think just because a game has passed "verification" from ABGX360 that you're immune to bans??

Ell oh Ell.

@Glottis

Ah. I didn't know that since I've not been in the Forza thread. Ok, thanks. Still - it's nice to have it's own thread so everyone can see it, ya?
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Glottis
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 14:30    Post subject:
Looks like only NTSC users were hit because it was prerelease review copy, unclear if PAL users are effected or not. Seeing as NTSC release was ripped more than 3 weeks before street date, and PAL only 10 days in advance. Also NTSC was released by unknown group and PAL by a trusted group that never released shit.

Bottom line people should know better, unplug cable when playing games early.


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Ihump4nfos
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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 16:55    Post subject:
hope its just forza3. I usually am very careful about playing a game only after release date, but I jumped the ball yesterday with FIFA10. My league has already been playing since Oct 2nd and seeing the NTSC release, I couldnt be stopped from playing it online. Anyway I will have my invoice when the game actually ships on 20th, so hopefully no worries.


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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 17:36    Post subject:
just wait for the game to be verified with abx360

btw,if we quite "know" that the 360 store the info of the game you played and uploaded them online,why hackers just can't hack this?
,and with a hack,people will be able to
just to turn off the console from live,and play early,without the worry from the console to "snitch" on you to M$


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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 19:07    Post subject:
I still don't fully trust abgx360 anyhow, wasn't so long ago that they screwed up the auto fix of a few games.
Red Faction, UP and UFC - two of which i'd auto fixed and played online Sad
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xlangis




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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 19:29    Post subject:
damn this just happened to me, and i never received any e-mail explaining why lol. Oh well, if this is true, they didnt ban the console from getting access to live but the account itself right ?
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ShadowX




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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 19:44    Post subject:
xlangis wrote:
damn this just happened to me, and i never received any e-mail explaining why lol. Oh well, if this is true, they didnt ban the console from getting access to live but the account itself right ?


You cant make a new account if thats what you mean


Anyway to those that had this

SHIT HAPPENDS

And its something people know it can happen when they flash there box
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Munkeee




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PostPosted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 19:51    Post subject:
ShadowX wrote:
xlangis wrote:
damn this just happened to me, and i never received any e-mail explaining why lol. Oh well, if this is true, they didnt ban the console from getting access to live but the account itself right ?


You cant make a new account if thats what you mean



yeah you can .... account banned . console free till the next ban wave probably ,

Just create another sub and get a month free to try it out . Should work and worked for countless people already


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but you know what Chinese whispers are like; some newbie will read your comment and suddenly run and spread it all over the internet that the new 2010 Banwave disables all your XBLA games when you're banned.

Ironic Statement #4756 from sabin
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Cash




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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 00:55    Post subject:
I hope I can keep this Forza 3 (pre release) save , otherwise I have to format the drive or just get a new one when I go online on the 27th. Just got the Veyron too woot.
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 01:33    Post subject:
I just got nailed :/ was playing borderlands..


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 01:36    Post subject:
why cant u guys just wait a few friggin days?
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 01:48    Post subject:
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I just got nailed :/ was playing borderlands..


Online or did you go online after you played?
How does this banning process actually work? Do they fry you if you play a pre-R online(while you'r on live/going on live now and then) or do they ban you if you played a pre-R ever, like it doesn't matter if you played a pre-R six weeks ago, 2 days before the rls date, with the internets plugged out and got online now, aprox six weeks after the rls date, WE F**KING BAN YOUR ASS ANYHOW (coz back then you played that game before the street rls, now we know, so now we got you) ! ...?


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 01:50    Post subject:
cobALT wrote:
Online or did you go online after you played? How does this banning process actually work? Do they fry you if you play a pre-R online(while you'r on live/going on live now and then) or do they ban you if you played a pre-R ever, like it doesn't matter if you played a pre-R six weeks ago, 2 days before the rls date, with the internets plugged out and got online now, aprox six weeks after the rls date, WE F**KING BAN YOUR ASS ANYHOW (coz back then you played that game before the street rls, now we know, so now we got you) ! ...?


been checking out the streams and most of the guys are from the states, could be possibly you are in an area where they haven't broken the street date?
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 02:02    Post subject:
Nope, I haven't been online for about 3 weeks. Unplugged the cable, also my router is out for about 2 weeks; some problems with the provider's stuff so i kept it plugged in the PC and used it just there, that's mainly where I use my internet, especially since my live gold memb. expired.
I'm asking becouse I want to know if I'll have a "surprise" next time I go live. Laughing


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 03:11    Post subject:
I doubt this has anything to do with the games being pre-release, because MS has stated publicly that people who bought the game are safe from bans, therefore pre-release is NOT the issue.

Also, Gears of War 2 was released like a month early if i recall, and no one was banned for that at all (me included).

Which leads to the one obvious fact, Borderlands (and I'm assuming Forza) are plain old bad rips that MS is able to detect, and they are claiming it as pre-release ban.

This is the same thing as Halo ODST. French rip was bad, people got banned, proper Halo ODST was released STILL prior to official street date and no one was banned (me included).

Blame this on bad rips, NOT pre-release play.


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 05:29    Post subject:
Yeah, the reason for the bans isn't playing a game early, it's playing an illegitimate copy of it early.
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 05:39    Post subject:
^ lol, ok.

Btw, here's what someone said on a comment relalted to Borderlands:
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Your console records various boot/game data to its internal on-board memory and sends it to M$ immediately the next time you connect it to the net! You don't have to play the game online to be detected and find yourself on the ban list in the future! Hell - you don't even have to actually PLAY the game at all - just booting a game with bad stealth files can get you banned. Just because ABGX360 says an ISO passed its stealth checks doesn't mean it's safe to play - online or not - until those files are also verified against the retail files on the ABGX.net database. Until that happens, the game should NOT be burned and should NOT be played because the stealth files just might be BAD. I've lost count at how many ISO's I've seen pass the first stealth checks only to find that they weren't retail files and ABGX360 had to repair them. This happened with "Operation Flashpoint" and "Brutal Legend" when I checked them just earlier today, for crying out loud.

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when you BOOT a game, your console records data internally - whether your hard drive is connected or not and whether you're connected to the internet or not - and it WILL send that data to M$ if your console is EVER connected to the net again in the future. Period! Does that mean you'll automatically get banned? No. However, it sure as hell puts a huge friggin' bulls-eye on you! Why would you want to do anything to draw attention to yourself?!


This sort of clears things out, for me at least.


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 08:13    Post subject:
good job I only play these kinda games only on my band machine,only take them on my unbanned machine on live when there officially released,So anyone have any idea how long these suspensions likely to be? indefinite or a month or 2?


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 08:18    Post subject:
forever. Their not going to ban you for 2 months because you pirated it. Your shit's done period.


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 12:37    Post subject:
Haha the account suspension subforum on xbox.com is hi-fucking-larious with people trying to explain their way out of shit and the mods acting all high and mighty.

This was almost too funny to even laugh at:

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Hi Im Ace22b i got suspended b.c i let one of my friends borrow my xbox for a 1month and he played forza 3 on my account and gave me it when it was his fault....i feel thats was unfair i just want my gamertag back please i was always doing things real right come on i work on my gt for 3yrs and all that work for nothing...thats really unfair....i sign the contract but i didnt vilolate it ..my friend did...i just let him borrow it b.c it was his bday...i guess i was too nice


I love how he tries to somehow come off as a good guy by stating that he was "too nice".



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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 12:39    Post subject:
javlar wrote:
Haha the account suspension subforum on xbox.com is hi-fucking-larious with people trying to explain their way out of shit and the mods acting all high and mighty.

This was almost too funny to even laugh at:

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Hi Im Ace22b i got suspended b.c i let one of my friends borrow my xbox for a 1month and he played forza 3 on my account and gave me it when it was his fault....i feel thats was unfair i just want my gamertag back please i was always doing things real right come on i work on my gt for 3yrs and all that work for nothing...thats really unfair....i sign the contract but i didnt vilolate it ..my friend did...i just let him borrow it b.c it was his bday...i guess i was too nice


I love how he tries to somehow come off as a good guy by stating that he was "too nice".

lmfao Very Happy


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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Oct 2009 13:20    Post subject:
Haha this is priceless some guy has some questions that doesn't get ansnwered and he posts this in his thread:

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COME ON. Ive been waiting for 12 hours for a response.


Eventually the mod replies:

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There is no response time for this forum. You may wait 5 minutes, you may wait a few days, it depends on (a) the workload of my team and (b) the nature of your question, especially as it relates to (a).


But doesn't answer his question hahahaha.



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