xboxic.com — A gamer got banned from Live with his 360s because they are registered as being modded: confirmed by official Support staff. The ban itself is probably incorrect, but it's a sign that Microsoft is finally taking action against the firmware mods out there.
Oct 29, 2006 View in Crawl 4
deadbeat75Oct 29, 2006
wow that's alot of modders!
Closed AccountOct 29, 2006
Why the hell are people marking mcatrage's comment up? WTF is wrong with you people?Just because you could copy games doesn't make it wrong. When you buy a 360, it's yours to do with as you please. I can't believe you people are even remotely falling for the "modding is wrong" bit.Same people who speak out against DRM and other copy protection s**t, too.Hell, based on your flawed logic, you might as well just f**kin ban the ability to write a DVD, that way no one can pirate!Give me a break. Hypocrites.
colincornabyOct 30, 2006
"If I buy hardware, that hardware is mine. I can use it for a footstool or a missile control system."And I'll tell you the same thing I tell people at work. You can do whatever you want with your own hardware, we don't have to let it on our network.
timdiggOct 30, 2006
Honestly in this console war MS is winning because I feel like they are listening to what people are saying this time around...they listened to the complaints of the original Xbox controller and came out with the S....people complained about the lack of RPGs.....they came out with Blue DragonBeing a tech company, not a consumer electronics company, not a gaming company........they actually listen to blogs, digg, slashdot, places like that.....geeks usually scream the loudest...but at the same time represent problems other people have...
deepfreezedOct 30, 2006
I say ban the modders and fry their chips.there is no reason to mod a 360.
timdiggOct 30, 2006
Piracy will only increase as the times roll forward...a big problem in the digital age is that none of this stuff actually appreciates in valuekinda like how vinyl records are worth far more than cdsIf video games were more of an investment....and not JUST entertainment, I don't think piracy would be soo high, I remember in the NES and SNES people dreamed of a day when their collection that they've taken so much care of would be worth thousands....when they went to funcoland and their collection was worth maybe 50-60 IF you were lucky...it was very disenfranchising, combined with the fact that many of these games are re-released over and over againPiracy will always exist with technology....
timdiggOct 31, 2006
I'm kinda with you on this.....paying $50 for a game is actually EASIER than spending many many MANY weekends on forums, xbox-scene etc etc...figuring out each nitpicky detail of what needs to be doneon the flip side the original xbox was a FAR more useful machine modded than UNMODDEDI'm still waiting for a console that lets me burn an AVI/DIVX/MPEG/MOV whatever the hell I want to a DVD/CD and play it automaticallyI had this feature with original xbox(modded)not with any other device I own
knightgeekNov 2, 2006
This is just another example of what Microsoft has done wrong. A better solution would be to allow firmware hacks, but not in matchmaking. If someone with a firmware hack wants to get on Xbox Live matchmaking, Microsoft could have a message that pops up to tell them they have to restore the native firmware first.
friggermcFeb 28, 2007
Fry their chips? Don't think they can do that really, as they have paid the same money for the console as you. So why not fry yours aswell? Because you didn't modify your console. I have heard about dodgy things happenening to people with them 360 sata interfaces which let you hook your 360 hard drive to your pc so you can extract saved games and stuff.
noirhawkMay 18, 2007
It's rediculous, it's legal for people on Australia to mod our consoles. Changing the firmware on the console hardly constitutes cheating online so why the f**k can't we go on live with it ?!
bosanacNov 12, 2009
what a great idea, pinpoint 600,000 of your most tech savvy customers and ban them from your live service. What a smart idea, I would just like to know which monkey came up with this idea :)