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[Halcyon-X12]

Guess they're trying to get sales up.

[K1LLERHORNET]

QUOTE(brandogg @ Nov 5 2009, 12:31 AM)

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.

I'm pretty sure that's incorrect.
If that were true, what happens to consoles that never connect to Live? Unlimited warranty or no warranty?

IIRC, the store/retailer that you bought the console from (somehow) sends the info to Microsoft - the warranty is activated once the consoles/box barcode is scanned.

[krwz]

I have 2 360s.  One modded and one unmodded.  The modded one is to usually play games early such as Gears 2 / Forza / MW2 etc but I end up buying the game on release regardless to play online on my unmodded box.  

I usually use my gamertag on a memory card (logged in to the modded console but NOT on Live) when playing the games early.  In this case I wanted to get Campaign mode out of the way early in MW2 so that when the game is actually released I could just jump right into multiplayer live on the unmodded box.  Question is if I use the memory card on my unmodded box (which has game information / achievement history without dates), will this somehow translate by association into a ban on the unmodded box?

Just being paranoid.  Thanks in advance.

[magusdraco]

QUOTE(krwz @ Nov 4 2009, 08:05 PM)

I have 2 360s.  One modded and one unmodded.  The modded one is to usually play games early such as Gears 2 / Forza / MW2 etc but I end up buying the game on release regardless to play online on my unmodded box.  

I usually use my gamertag on a memory card (logged in to the modded console but NOT on Live) when playing the games early.  In this case I wanted to get Campaign mode out of the way early in MW2 so that when the game is actually released I could just jump right into multiplayer live on the unmodded box.  Question is if I use the memory card on my unmodded box (which has game information / achievement history without dates), will this somehow translate by association into a ban on the unmodded box?

Just being paranoid.  Thanks in advance.

Nobody knows.   But most likely it won't give a damn unless MS decides to do an account ban instead of a console ban (they did that for the early forza players).

[krwz]

QUOTE(magusdraco @ Nov 4 2009, 05:07 PM)

Nobody knows.   But most likely it won't give a damn unless MS decides to do an account ban instead of a console ban (they did that for the early forza players).

Oh wow....they actually banned Xbox Live Accounts (not just systems) for the early forza players?  Were these Forza Players that were playing online?

This post has been edited by krwz: Nov 5 2009, 02:10 AM

[magusdraco]

QUOTE(krwz @ Nov 4 2009, 08:09 PM)

Oh wow....they actually banned Xbox Live Accounts (not just systems) for the early forza players?  Were these Forza Players that were playing online?

yeah.  They were playing online like....however many weeks early it was and the devs were pissed or something.

[foxdie]

If you are Console Ban'd, can you take the HDD to a new, unmodded 360, and play store bought games without any trouble form MS??

Then what if you take that same HDD back to the console banned 360 and play off line, then go back to the unmodded, trouble? Or is this question nobody knows the answer to?

[pdawg]

QUOTE(drewis @ Nov 5 2009, 01:18 AM)

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

This is true, I did this back in Sept. for a 360 I got off ebay that was repaired by MS for the RROD.  I am still covered by the extended warranty too.

[M0t0rPen1s]

Major Nelson is turning more into Mary Smellson. Whats with all this banning ........ stupid hippie nerd

[foxdie]

If your Console is banned and you have games that are "game of the year editions" (new Gears 2 GoTY, Fallout 3 GoTY, SW Unleashed) which include a 2nd disc containing map packs, etc, can you installed those maps off the 2nd disc with a console banned 360?

[Asphixiate]

I still think they can only detect the disk.  Those whoo make their own appear to be safe.  The ones who made their own then verified with ABGX seem to be the only ones who say they were banned when making their own.  I messed with ABGX for a while but every game said it was not valid...I just ignored it and moved on.  Me and every console I have done are good

[ryawn]

I got banned.  liteon ix1.6.  never played mw2, never used bootdisc, all games verified with abgx.

oh well, you win some you lose some.

[Cuturic]

QUOTE(Vejita @ Nov 4 2009, 06:22 PM)

Can't you check whether you have been banned or not without risking your console and hdd install privilages by just doing a Xbox Live connection test in the setup menu and making note of the error code if you can't connect or can you get banned with the connection test too?

Yeah this would be very useful information.  Some things that people found out before was that the hdd could no longer work on other consoles, so if you could save a console that would be very good.  I would also like to know about the memory card.  If you could load a gamertag off a newely banned xbox and play it on a non banned one and it still work.

[Eksyte]

QUOTE(Asphixiate @ Nov 5 2009, 02:34 AM)

I still think they can only detect the disk.  Those whoo make their own appear to be safe.  The ones who made their own then verified with ABGX seem to be the only ones who say they were banned when making their own.  I messed with ABGX for a while but every game said it was not valid...I just ignored it and moved on.  Me and every console I have done are good

I didn't even have a disc in my 360 when I got banned.

Based on your timestamp, you're in Europe? As far as I know, the bans have been pretty much regulated to NA.

M$ is using several method to find people who are messing with their shit in ways to ban from XBL.

[reddragon105]

Got banned this evening. Have had my console modded since iXtreme 1.2 came out and have stayed on top of firmware updates and kept offline during the ban hammer season the last two times but it's been online constantly recently because I was using it as a DivX player (which it's obviously now useless for). So I had iXtreme 1.6 on a Benq drive and a retail copy of GTAIV has been in the drive for a week or so - I've hardly played any games on it for the last 6 months, it's been mostly watching videos, haven't played online at all because I don't have a Gold account and I've never played any games before release date. Unless they checked the firmware on the drive on bootup today I'd say they've checked a disk on a previous play, logged some data and then waited who knows how long before banning the console along with everyone else's today. Sucks but I can't complain. Might just get a PS3 for the DivX and keep the banned 360 for the games.