Microsoft Bans 600k-1m Live users

[torcher]

Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33866696/ns/technology_and_science-games/

[Th0r]

Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33866696/ns/technology_and_science-games/

Should have read the ToS then.

Sods law in action once again.

[lcnostra]

IMO, it's totally worth it to mod and play games for free via single-player and LAN. Live is a ripoff anyway. If I had a 360, I'd mod it for sure.

[RoundElephant]

I wonder if I'm banned ...

[Twist]

Stupid fuckers, people won't stop and this encourages them to buy the competitors consul instead. It's not like they can un-mod the system and have their live account re-instated so they will buy another system or another xbox whilst still playing illegal games on their old one.

[DoctaD]

This is hilarious. Doing this the very day after MW2 comes out was a good call on their part, I imagine the arcade package has seen impressive sales since.

[torcher]

speaking of Modern Warfare 2's release date, Microsoft said they did it on purpose

http://consumerist.com/5403510/microsoft-says-there-is-no-recourse-for-gamers-whose-consoles-were-banned