Topic: Anyone Else Go Online With Halo2 Only To Get Banne (Read 1110 times)

Pat0514 · « **Reply #255 on:** November 11, 2004, 03:51:00 PM »

sry X_X too lazy to read all (too lazy to count the pages too!) pages

wolf137 · « **Reply #256 on:** November 12, 2004, 12:34:00 PM »

i got to the main menu without logging on to XBL, then i turned my xbox off and restarted it without starting my modchip. i realized too late, but when i saw "log in to xbl" i turned it off.. cant belieave this sh*t.

j4ever · « **Reply #257 on:** November 12, 2004, 12:39:00 PM »

i have a feeling that i know what is going on here and it can only be 1 of 2 things:

1. Everytime you play Halo2 it logs your hdd and boot information....i.e avadash/evoxdash, and possibly your bios version which will be kept in the save file. That way, even if you turn the modchip off and put the disc in to play online, it will check your save file and see that you have a modified box.

2. If you have played on XBL with a stock hdd prior to swapping in an upgraded hdd, it is now all of a sudden banning based on your info. (i highly doubt this way though because they could have been doing this a long time ago)

Since this just started happening with Halo2, I suspect that it is something to do with Halo2. I bought the game and am waiting for it to come in the mail. Currently I installed my friends game on the hdd and have been playing that. I will test my method out to see if I get banned. I will take my current save file and back it up onto my memory card. Then I will delete the Halo2 save from the hdd memory and try to sign on to live with my chip of and using my disc.

This is the only way that seems logical. I KNOW MS has to be clever enough to realize that all xbox owners are gonna get Halo2 especially modders and this is the best way for them to crack down on it. That is why I really doubt method 2 or any other method. They are definitly using Halo2 to pick off modders.

Oldmanjoe · « **Reply #258 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:21:00 PM »

hyp96er · « **Reply #259 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:31:00 PM »

i good way to disprove my theory is..

If there any anyone that has an xbox, that has never been on live, and hasnt had the frenchh2 on it... and signed up for live after the modding, have you been banned?

and to test other theories aswell....

what xbox version do you have... it may be possible that the older versions are better protected from the lpc test that people are saying ms is checking on xbox1.6.

what you guys think?

hyp96er · « **Reply #260 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:46:00 PM »

i mean think about it...

People havnt been banned like this in the years that modding has been around. And it wasnt because all of the sudden ms decided to ban all the modders. If they know you had a modded xbox, you would have gotten banned.

If you took every percaution while going live, you werent banned. So the people that took every percaution and were never banned before, and now all of the sudden banned, means (obviously) MS is doing somthing new. And i think it has a great deal to do with an xblive update in the passed year. And nov9 was the crackdown night.

Could the halo2 disk have somthing to do with it? I guess it is possible, But i cant really speculate tomuch cause i havnt done asmuch research on this as many people have. But the points im coming up with are pretty plausable just by analyzing and thinking about what is taking place..

IF this does indeed have to do with serial #'s. Then my theory can be helpfull.

Again: In the passed year or so, a xblive update logs or notes peoples HD serial#'s or somthing else dealing with the hd. So if you havnt been on live for a year, and jump on with a new hd 2 weeks ago, and dl the update. MS would then log the CURRENT hd info and consider that stock.

what do you guys think of this? Is sound somwhat accurate or helpful?

dmauro · « **Reply #261 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:52:00 PM »

dmauro · « **Reply #262 on:** November 12, 2004, 01:57:00 PM »

Leafz · « **Reply #263 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:05:00 PM »

MS has beat me, I am going 2 buy a stock XboX and just use that, i dont care ne more.

its sofaking lame. Dam MS too smart.

Leafz · « **Reply #264 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:08:00 PM »

MS has beat me, I am going 2 buy a stock XboX and just use that, i dont care ne more.

its sofaking lame. Dam MS too smart.

markm75 · « **Reply #265 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:35:00 PM »

Ok.. my head is going in circles trying to determine what may or may not work here.. what does everyone think of this question..

in my case i signed up for live way back when it began (1.0), I later added a modified harddrive and have been fine and never banned up to now (I havent signed on since the new checks began).

Is it likely I'll be banned? If it is likely, then what about deleting my old xbox live account and recreating a brand new one.. would this be like getting live after a mod has been installed (even though I've had live all along, under a different account name (GT) )?

Thanks

HomicidalMo0se · « **Reply #266 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:59:00 PM »

thecheekymonkey · « **Reply #267 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:02:00 PM »

The Mafia · « **Reply #268 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:37:00 PM »

markm75 · « **Reply #269 on:** November 12, 2004, 03:51:00 PM »

HomicidalMo0se:

I installed the harddrive after i originally got live (i had a 60 gb drive modded when I signed up, then a few months later I put an 80gb drive in).. i did an account recovery.. so would this mean I'm safe since I did an account recovery way back when?

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