Xbox 360 bans rise to 1 million, banned consoles go up for sale

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Depending on how low the price is I wouldn't mind a banned player myself. I have a ton of PC games I could play online but I never do. I have never and probably will never be an online player so as long as I can still buy or download games and use them, a banned player would not hurt me. This can only hurt MS in the long run though, banned players will not buy a new device and would probably switch to PS3 instead to screw MS as they screwed them. They'll sell off their stuff and switch.
 
Well i think if you did something bad enough to get banned then you deserve it. and bans are not always permanent. i have done plenty of bad things on mine and have not gotten banned so whoever got banned must be doing some intensely bad stuff.
 
i would like to know why exactly is xbox live better than playstartion network

as ar as i can see psn has dedicated servers not piggy backed from other companys servers

trophys are achievements

gamer ponits are stupid and really dont say much because is to easy to fake them

we can chat go on face book twitter and wehat have you with our free online browser\

gaming is free i can invite players to play a game im in

so whats the difference?
 
lol, good point, there isnt a dif really but xbox seems to have more games, and most of which i play, lots of the ps3's games i dont really care for. but as for that and the fact that xbox's break all the time, and overheat alot. so yeah, i would probably say against the xbox if a friend asked for advice.
as for the banning, i have been banned once for something minor and it was for like a couple days i could not go online and then it was over after that. so just dont cheat and you wont get banned
 
I bought an 360 elite when it first came available just for the HDMI, and waited until my MS warranty was up to mod the firmware on my drive. I like to play the Asian games that are not even available to play in the USA anyway. So, that being said, MS would no longer cover my 360 if it died, and i never played any of those games on live, just on another local account on the unit. Then not too long ago, I plugged it into the net to check out some of the new updates, and now i cant play on live at all. So even after they rule out the possibility of a factory repair, and limiting my gaming to releases that are only available to the USA (what? I cant convert the video sequences or remove them because of PAL/NTSC incompatibilities) all of a sudden i'm banned? I have no "backups(AKA illegal rips)" all of my games were purchased outright, so i have the legal licenses. Why must I buy a foreign console and own two (consoles) to be able to play those? This is a very blanket ban that does not take into consideration the intent of individual users. I would have much rather had my account banned, or even the FW on the drive flashed to OEM then having my $500 out of warranty non unbannable unit forever banished from the net. MS, this was not the proper way to treat people, you are just as much of an ******* as Steve Jobs is about flash and such (and i'm a jailbroken iPhone 2g user that has been very happy for over 2.5 years)

I bought a PC, it had windows, I formatted and installed linux, the unit has a 1 year warranty and the power supply died afer 4 months. Are you not going to replace it because I prefer Ubuntu? Shame on you.

I have my original FW for my drive, just as i made a vista recovery disc for my pc. I can restore either at any time.

So, that's my two cents worth,
 
I'd have to agree with klepto. This does seem very harsh, why waste a perfectly good piece of technology simply because 1 person does not follow the rules? It seems like such a waste, specially in this day in age where we throw away technology more and more... 1 MILLION is quite a lot of units to just scrap. I suppose when a company such as Microsoft has your money, they don't really care about their actions. This is definitely a turn off to many consumers, when a company decides to punish their consumers in such a harsh manner. It's a game system for crying out loud...

Personally, I do not own an XBox. And as far as I'm concerned now, I NEVER WILL. No, I don't mod systems, nor do I cheat... but seriously? To literally ban the system? This just sounds ridiculous to me...
 
Banning the account which was used on the hacked xbox would of been a better idea, as the xboxs will end up on ebay.

I hacked the orginal xbox had a 250gig HD in it and a lot of games........I only want on 5 I just collected the games.

I didnt go on LIVE I used a different network to play online.

is MS still taking money from accounts were their consoles have been banned?

Ive got a PS3 i like their FREE PSN!
 
Wendig0 said:
Yet another great reason to own a PS3. If Microsoft would put out a quality product to begin with, and quit charging for online play, they wouldn't have the rrod or modders. Piss on Microsoft.

So true, but I don't want this go off topic into a ps3 vs 360 battle. I hate people who modifty their consoles or cheat in the game. When I play...i want to play, not find out a way to get around your glitches (mwf2). If you are going to modify your console, stay off xbox live and leave us alone. When I run out of Xbox live I am not buying another membership. Converting to ps3 for good.
 
I heard someone mention banning and had to google it to find out why.First what part of game don't people understand,if you need to cheat(chipping it to become faster) to beat it or someone else maybe you should stick to marbles.The second point is playing pirated games because you are to cheap to pay for someones intelligance and ability in designing the game.if you feel ripped off by the price ,the company or the site my suggestion is put down the controller and the key board and start your own site or company.It can be done just take a close look at Microsoft and Bill Gates.embod
 
I bought new xbox 360 elite then got forza 2 copy bundle and halo3 odst bundle on the box
Can I be banned for that?
 
i think that any of the retards that modded there xbox and decided to go on live are getting what the deserve , i mean common stupid its time to dummy up, microsoft smart, you stupid, you get caught, lose xbox live, poor dummy next time read your manual if your that dumb
 
so i definitely bought a microsoft refurbished xbox 360 through best buy, turns out i was sold a banned console. the crap is that i did not buy a best buy refurbished console, i specifically picked the other so itd work well. it stopped working after a month but for some reason the website wouldnt let me request a repair, i thought the website was glitching so whatever i waited to call because i have another xbox. finally i called in microsoft for a repair, turns out they wont fix it on its warrenty OR for pay because whoever previously owned it got it banned. im currently working on complaining to both microsoft and best buy to see if i can get a new console or somehing because i couldve gotten this console fixed and back in february 2010 had this not happened. it makes no sense that they would refurbish the console and then put it back out on the market though best buy.
 
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