Topic: 360s Getting Banned? (Read 350 times)

taikwondoejoe · « **on:** August 27, 2006, 04:41:00 AM »

All I gotta say is that tripods really don't cost that much..

Edina · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2006, 09:55:00 AM »

I think its a little bigger then, "If they catch you" Because i know alot, and i mean alot, of people whos boxes are getting banned right now.

TheIrishLad · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2006, 09:57:00 AM »

Well if he was using "hacked credit cards" then wtf do you think MS would do?

I doubt it was the firmware.

Reaper527 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2006, 10:04:00 AM »

QUOTE(leorimolo @ Aug 27 2006, 11:28 AM)

MS is already banning xbox 360s. Not in the way that evryone with a hacked firmware is banned, Only if you are discovererd using one

and how are they going to discover your using a hacked firmware? MS spies peaking through your window watching you put a backup in? :jester. if they are banning, it would have to be based on a software detection method, and this wouldn't be small scale. bans will be all or nothing when MS starts, they aren't going to be banning 3 or 4 people for the firmware hack, it would be hundreds if not thousands, and it would be all over the xs forums.

Chancer · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2006, 01:27:00 PM »

The filename should be enough to let you know what you need to know
HEHEHE

jimjom · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2006, 02:09:00 PM »

when they start banning boxes, we will all know very quickly. So please, fucking stop with all the bullshit claims and whatevers, it's getting ridiculous.

b15ginz · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2006, 04:28:00 PM »

i really dsont think ms will find out about the firmware hack for quite some time.

hamwbone · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2006, 11:19:00 PM »

Fraudster · « **Reply #8 on:** August 28, 2006, 06:59:00 AM »

QUOTE(b15ginz @ Aug 27 2006, 11:35 PM)

i really dsont think ms will find out about the firmware hack for quite some time.

? wtf?

ms - already know about the hack, they know exactly what it does, whey will of downloaded it and flashed it themselfs... they will just be looking for a way to detect it on a mass basis, so they can begin the banning

xboxexpert · « **Reply #9 on:** August 28, 2006, 12:56:00 PM »

QUOTE(DeadPrez @ Aug 28 2006, 09:28 AM)

Anyways. The day that I can play Divx movies and play my backups off the hdd will be the day that I go out and buy a 360

Praise Jesus.

OriginalCompGeek · « **Reply #10 on:** August 28, 2006, 01:03:00 PM »

Most 360 users dont even know you can hack your xbox, and all the guys I know that have 360s are too scared to open them up to try it...

All in all, I don't think the firmware hackers represent a big enough portion of gamers to put much effort into stopping.

b15ginz · « **Reply #11 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:18:00 PM »

when the hacks arrive to the games, ms will start banning. if people make copies of there games or download them...ms has nothing to do with it. the creators of the games do.

Reaper527 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 29, 2006, 03:41:00 PM »

QUOTE(DeadPrez @ Aug 28 2006, 09:28 AM)

ALOT of ppl do Screw their xbox's up, and this in the end makes m$ more money !

you DO know that MS loses money on each console they sell and that they make their money from games and accessories right? its in MS's best interests that we don't get a second 360 for the same house, as we wouldn't be buying extra games for it.

QUOTE(b15ginz @ Aug 28 2006, 04:25 PM)

when the hacks arrive to the games, ms will start banning. if people make copies of there games or download them...ms has nothing to do with it. the creators of the games do.

thats not true at all. MS has to do everything they can to fight piracy (at least from a political front), otherwise their 3rd party devs will leave them. without good 3rd party support, the system will die. also, don't forget that MS gets money from every 360 game sold, they get licensing fees/royalties from the 3rd party devs, its not a simple case of "capcom made game X so capcom is the only one who gets money from it"

EviL AnGeL · « **Reply #13 on:** August 29, 2006, 06:07:00 PM »

QUOTE(Jonolche @ Aug 30 2006, 12:57 AM)

For example, you buy a $60 game, the devolopers of that game get $40 and M$ gets $20. So M$ would have to sell around 12 games to make the ammount of money that they would get for a single xbox 360 console.
Now for the whole idea of this toppic is absurbed. It's impossible (well not impossable, but deffintal unethical)for M$ to detect that the xbox 360's DVD drive has been moddified. They would have to phisically come to your house and take out the dvd drive to figure out that the firmware has been tampered with.

You say it like MS make $240 profit on every 360. MS only make actual profit on the games and accesories. The money they get for the console does not even cover their costs. So either I've completely misunderstood your point or you completely misunderstand the basic fundamentals of profit and loss.

The point about the firmware is that no one knows. The people who probably know best are the people writing the firmware and hardcore techies who know the 360 and I don't think even they know for sure. It's true MS may not see it as a problem worth bothering with until it gets widespread but you can't say it's not possible.

OffRoader23 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 29, 2006, 07:16:00 PM »

Banned??? WTF. I use a legit account, and it is banned? That is TOTAL crap if that's what it is. Me and a friend are having the same problem. We use legit accounts, and if our X-Box 360's got banned, them I am fucking pissed. It started happening on Friday of last week, at the exact same time too, we thought it was the ISP, and I tried it on multiple ISPs and it's the same thing as that video. I don't use hacked firmware. I PAY for my account, and if I am banned then MS is going to get mother fucking killed.

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