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Do not ever trust an unofficial fw or an unofficial patch.
Like yours?
Seriously. This reminds me of when C4E got pissed at NX for editing ix1.41 saying he don't like his firmware being modified. Hahahaha. HIS firmware? No. MS's firmware that he modified. He had no right to bitch about people doing what he was doing in the scene to fill holes that he wasn't filling.
If you guys really want others to stop trying to steal your thunder, then listen to the scene and give the scene what they want.
So long as you guys want to play king big $%^& and dictate to the scene what they should think the priorities are (regardless of what they actually are), there will be a place and need for others to fill the void. And thank god for anyone willing to come forward and try.
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they DO NOT CARE about the safety of your console and XBL account
Neither does the majority of xbox360 users.
Microsoft has already publicly released information on how many XBL users they have several times in the past. They have already publicly posted how many people pay for gold service to play on-line in the past. They have always publicly released sales numbers after holiday sales (the last being just a few months ago).
So if one is capable of simple grade school math, it's very easy to read the data and understand what it says.
To date, Gold accounts on XBL still represent a little less then 40%. This means, a little over 60% still don't give a flying %$^& about XBL.
The ONLY priority is playing backups, period! Without a lot of hoopla and BS for the end user. And if that means no XBL, then so be it. This is exactly the way it was circa Xbox 1, so not really sure why anyone expected any different this time around.
Lets face facts here. If it wasn't for the constant pandering to a minorty trying to push backup use on-line, which no one had/has any right to expect, we wouldn't have had any of the ban waves that took place, nor all the dash updates, and most likely ap2.5 would never had been implimented yet.
The dirty little secret is that they don't really care about piracy that much because they know it doesn't impact sales as much as they would like you to believe. Analysts at Sony were already caught saying as much last year, and given Sony's market share, it's safe to assume it's even more true for MS.
What IS a problem for MS are a bunch of people deliberately going out of their way to wave their nose at them and spit in their face. Hence why we are where we are now.
This attitude and mentality that it has to be "XBL Safe or nothing" is bull$%^& and does NOT serve the scene in general. It only serves a minorty AND absolutly forces MS to take more signifigant steps against it making it harder for everyone, including the majority who never gave a £$%^ about XBL to begin with.
It's NOT all about you and XBL. Sooner you guys get that through your heads, the better off we will be. If you guys don't want to cater to the rest of the scene, fine, but at the very least shut the the %^&* up and let others that want to do so do it.
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they only care to have their name in lights
Like you. All you guys do is constantly brag about your own stuff and bash everyone else who does anything that you don't like. Like giving the majority what they want, since you guys refuse to.
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dangerous and irresponsible to the Xbox firmware community.
Dangerous and Irresponsible for who? See above. The 60%+ majority of people don't give a $%^& about a single thing you pointed out in this latest arrogant self important egotistical rant.
Really, can you guys atleast try a little honesty for a change; "dangerous and irresponible for the whiny minorty that kiss our asses". Those are the only people you guys care about, not the community on a whole.
Whatever happed with you guys disbanding a while back anyways? And what would it take to get your guys to start thinking about it again? So long as you guys want to have this "it's all and only about us" attitude, you are a hinderance & liability causing more harm then good, and have no business being in the scene.
(And to the kiss-asses and noobs who don't understand how proper scenes work and think them going away would be bad, just shut up now. In a proper scene, more then one person/group contributes. In a proper scene, more then just one niche group is focused on, typicaly by more then one person/group each. In a proper scene, it's sceners doing the work for the shear sake of helping the scene that they are part of; not doing things for the accolade & fame or profit. This is the way every scene (except the 360 scene) has worked, and always to the overall benifit of the scenes on a whole. But so long as they continue to exist while functioning as they do, there will not be very many other persons/groups willing to come forward and offer alternatives for the people who want them. That hurts the scene and bogs it down.
Yes, they were first, good for them. That doesn't make them the best, that doesn't make their agenda superiour. That doesn't mean only they should be allowed to contribute and everyone else should bow to them. They are stuck in the past with an agneda that represents only a smaller segment of the scene, ignoring the needs & wants of other segments of the scene. If they dont want to support the rest of the scene, that's fine,
so long as they don't stop others from trying to. But they do try to stop other and continue to push this "it's our way or no way" bull$%^.
There is no room for monopolist dictators in any scene. They have no right to exclusive sole control of what happens in this scene. Yet that is exactly what they are and exactly what they expect, and they can $%^& right off. They are not the only people who know anything about the 360, and no amount of trying to sweep that under the rug changes that. The scene absolutely needs other people/groups besides them to provide for the 'rest of the scene' that doesn't give a damn about their agenda.)