Played forza 3 early? GET BANNED!!!

lllN30lll · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Karma :

Xbox LIVE BanHammer for Playing Forza 3 Early
>> It looks like Microsoft started banning users from Xbox LIVE for playing Forza 3 early (the game was leaked on the internet a few days ago). It's not the first time Microsoft puts out the BanHammer from playing leaked games and it will certainly not be the last time. For now it seems to be an Account BAN and not a Console BAN.

Here's a quote of the email banned users got from MS:

Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

Are you able to open a new account, or does the XBox ID itself online?
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Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

They should be able to open an account with a different gamertag.

TBH I have no sympathy, if everyone played pirate copies then there would be no point in the companies developing new games.
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Jamrock · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Karma :

It's an annoying situation because I've played Forza3 and Borderlands and haven't been banned for either of them yet. But most people at BlackCats (torrent community) have been banned for playing one or the other.

Seems strange but I've never been banned through the ban hammers and I've always played the crappy releases. A lot of them got emails from Microsoft stating that your account has been banned. A few got temp 24 hour bans which have now turned into permabans. Guess M$ like to flaunt the power.

I buy games I enjoy, which isn't a lot. 9 out of 10 games you play now are just redesigns of another with a different story, no fresh features and nothing epic worth paying for. COD4 was awesome, Left 4 Dead was awesome and I enjoyed Tales of Vesperia so I bought them. The other 130 games I have are all downloaded and were all pretty shit minus a few. Charging £40 (£50 price hike is coming in the next few months) for something I will play for 5 minutes and get bored of is silly.

What community do you belong/get all your info from NC30? Other than Blackcats I haven't seen too many places talking about this. Most people think it's because of the Wave 4 partition and it flagging up consoles, although Borderland is Wave 3 still.

Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

@Jamrock, XBL gives you plenty of free downloadable demos to see if you like the game, so your argument doesnt hold water.

If everyone downloaded games from the ned we would never had got as far as COD4 Wink

I don't want to get in an argument over cost of games, to me its simple, if you dont think its worth the money you dont buy it. Games take years in production, and if they do increase the cost to £50 then its those who use pirate games which have to accept some responsibility.
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lllN30lll · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Karma :

Here Jamrock https://www.xboxscene.com/

main page, I'm also part of the forums.
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Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

"Like to flaunt the power"? People are getting banned for stealing intellectual property in a fashion as to be so obvious that it's beyond a piss take, I'd hardly call it flaunting.

Xboxscene is a good way of keeping an eye on things though, one of the beauties of using XBMC is the news ticker Laughing

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Aka Matt · Trackday Trickster Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Karma :

One of my mates is currently seeing a games reviewer so pinched her review copy off her and has been playing it for over a week now with no issues. I have heard of people being banned for playing copies of games online though as the discs have a unique id (well i know the ps2 and ps3 games do so assume this applies to 360 games) to prevent multiple copies of that game being played at once. So if more than 1 person is playing with that ID then they get done over with the ban hammer.
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

Microsoft banning people for piracy, ain't that the fvcking cake! Considering they're one of the biggest robbing criminally fraudulent pirates on the planet. If the fvcking law had any legitimacy at all MS would be prosecuted for Vista and forced to give a free copy of W7 to everyone who paid good money for the steaming pile of shite it is. 'Not fit for purpose' doesn't come even close.

They deserve every bit of piracy to which they're subjected. Me, I cost them thousands with the cracked copies of XP I installed on clients' PCs over the years (at no extra charge I should add). Hundreds of Win98s upgraded to 2000 or XP...FREE! I considered it one of the perks of my job.
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Villers · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Karma :

Theres a few people moaning about this on Xboxlive.com. The only thing the 'mods' will say is they they know the difference between legitimate copies and illegal ones. Nothing else.

I dont really care that much to be honest but I think people do take the piss a bit. If you are not only going to steal it, but infact steal it early, then have the idiocy to play it online on your box before release then I have very little sympathy. Its like stealing the latest Metallica albumn and then going round to Kirk Hammets house and asking if you can play it on his stereo. Laughing

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brianmcewan.co.uk · Brolly Dolly Joined: 25 May 2006 Karma :

Anyone know if this will be in Tesco 24hrs' at midnight?
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Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

It might of been in my shop today... with instructions not to play online till after midnight of course. Laughing

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lllN30lll · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Karma :

I'm Playing Tekken 6 instead Thumbs Up

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Luke_Retrofly · Silly Lesbian Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Karma :

I have only pirated games that I would never have purchased. In fact sometimes I have pirated a game only to find I really like it, after which I've purchased the retail version.

OS software on the other hand........
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