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[chorizo1]

QUOTE(kawaxbox @ Nov 4 2009, 05:52 PM)

I wanted to know whether anyone in the UK or the EU have been banned from LIVE. I've been playing my backups on LIVE aswell and I still haven't been banned.

those are the ones that started today. check out the other huge thread in this forum.

[magusdraco]

There have been some USA people who have been banned today.


And they weren't playing MW2.  The guy only played one game, Gears2.  He only played it once.


he said it was verified and stuff from abgx360 (ran the disc through it too afterwards).  So.  I dunno.


(the 360 was a 2 week old Elite)

This post has been edited by magusdraco: Nov 5 2009, 01:06 AM

[drewis]

I have re-registered a console before. no issues. all u need to know is the persons name + address.

[xbox360sexual]

QUOTE(magusdraco @ Nov 5 2009, 12:04 AM)

There have been some USA people who have been banned today.
And they weren't playing MW2.  The guy only played one game, Gears2.  He only played it once.
he said it was verified and stuff from abgx360 (ran the disc through it too afterwards).  So.  I dunno.
(the 360 was a 2 week old Elite)

Very similar to my situation. I'm UK, one week old Elite, played one fully verified game and BAN.

[Roupus]

hmm....how do you know Microsoft? How!?

[the_freedman]

QUOTE(magusdraco @ Nov 5 2009, 12:04 AM)

There have been some USA people who have been banned today.
And they weren't playing MW2.  The guy only played one game, Gears2.  He only played it once.
he said it was verified and stuff from abgx360 (ran the disc through it too afterwards).  So.  I dunno.
(the 360 was a 2 week old Elite)

QUOTE(xbox360sexual @ Nov 5 2009, 12:27 AM)

Very similar to my situation. I'm UK, one week old Elite, played one fully verified game and BAN.

Did you install the game to Hard Drive? What drive you are using and firmware?

Doesn't look good.

[brandogg]

QUOTE(Exobex @ Nov 4 2009, 07:10 PM)

This would also be a good time to remind you NOT TO REGISTER YOUR CONSOLE UNTIL IT BREAKS DOWN!
The three year RLOD/E74 warranty only applies to the person who registers the console, this is an important point if the console is subsequently sold to someone else.

Why the warranty length on a second-hand console should depend on the non-diligence of the previous owner in filling out a form is anyone's guess.

That's not true. The Xbox logs the first time you turn it on, and when you connect to Live, it sends that info to Microsoft, and that's when your warranty starts. I never registered my system, and the warranty start date was the day I opened it and played it the first time.

[Choochoo]

QUOTE(Roupus @ Nov 5 2009, 01:28 AM)

hmm....how do you know Microsoft? How!?

(pure speculation on my part), given all the data here, wouldn't it make sense for them to detect the actual firmware, then do random bannings to make the firmware developers scramble their heads on what exactly is being detected?

[rwcottrell]

i know im banned and i dont care.i havnt signed into live in about 6 weeks but i played patched 3rd wave games with no stealth so im assuming im banned.i install all mt games to the hdd after getting a rrod which i successfully fixed 2 months ago with the towel trick so if signing into live makes hdd installs impossible ill simply never sign into live to see if im banned.f.u.microsoft.

[Zod5000]

QUOTE(Choochoo @ Nov 4 2009, 05:34 PM)

(pure speculation on my part), given all the data here, wouldn't it make sense for them to detect the actual firmware, then do random bannings to make the firmware developers scramble their heads on what exactly is being detected?

The ideal method for MS would be to directly detect the modified firmware.  It would seem in the past they had difficulty in doing this.  Hence why they had other methods which all relied on detecting backups themselves, opposed to firmware.

For the Samsung Drives/BenQ Drives, to mod them you need to read the original firmware to get the drive key.  You can't just read it, you have to trick the drives into recovery mode.  I've always assumed microsoft would have to do the samething.  If they tried to boot them into recovery mode it would probably cause issues on the console.

If they were smart they integrate it with dashboard updates.  The system has to reboot anyways when its done.. why not make that process take an extra 30 seconds, dump the firmware, see if passes hashcheck? then reboot it back to normal.  all under the guise of the dashboard update installing.

[magusdraco]

QUOTE(the_freedman @ Nov 4 2009, 07:30 PM)

Did you install the game to Hard Drive? What drive you are using and firmware?

Doesn't look good.

The dude on some forums I go to had a Lite-On 1.6 (not sure which lite-on) It was a new elite so I'm gonna guess it was the 83000ish versoin.

He didn't install it on the hdd.

[kconston]

I had a friend that was banned also..... Didnt help that he was playing Modern Warfare 2 and his gamertag was "BAN ME LMAO"......  his cousins gamertag was "BAN DEEZ 9XBOXS" but I dont know if he was banned.

[kill_bill]

My mate had 2 banned today, one playing MW2 (no surprise!) and one that had only played abgx verified games on or after retail date

[gAm3 Fr3aQu3]

QUOTE(damn! @ Nov 4 2009, 03:45 PM)

Is it legal to deactivate HDD installs? I mean banning from live is okay, since it's in the terms of use. But deactivating HDD installs means less function of the unit and i can't imagine that this would be legal.

It's MS' ploy to get more "sales" from buyers, so they can brag about how many consoles they sell each month/qtr/year/etc...

[magusdraco]

Because hard-drive installs weren't in at the very start of the 360's life and instead were an addition to the NXE dashboard, MS can probably do whatever the hell they want (revoke that ability, etc and so forth).