New ban wave?

[chrisj1968]

too many tempers around here. This place is Gears of War 2 thread, everyone flaming everyone

at mods: since maturity here has waned... might be a good time to

[nomis_nehc]

Well, I been reading that some people that did not mod also got the hammer. I nervously turned my on yesterday, and yay, everything works a-ok.

Bring on NXE! Woot!

[rajputwarrior]

there are a lot of reports and legitimate users are getting banned. Its not a far fetched possibility, microsoft could be making mistakes...

[Kushan]

A select few legit people get banned due to their drive lasers wearing out a little, which can give a false positive once in a while. Ironically, the very latest drive firmwares prevent this from ever happening (in this one, specific instance). However, as far as I am aware, this instance is extremely rare.

[BoDEAN]

Safe here.

[Rahul]

microsoft are t3h ninjas !!!

[azz0r_wugg]

Microsoft would be wise to remember why the Playstation1 sold 100 million units....and it wasn't just quality games ;)

Having said that, I still buy alot of games, hell most Xbox owners do (the highest attach rate of all consoles) and until that attachment rate goes down, Microsoft shouldn't really be trying to punish the pirates.

I know that kind of opinion will **** off alot of people, but its the truth.

[Rix]

I remember the ps1 also i don't remember ANYONE who didn't have it chipped back in the day

[Coldgunner]

PS1 didn't need to be chipped, you could disc swap.

[Emil Valsson]

MS should do alot better job than they do banning these pirates.

[what]

MS should do alot better job than they do banning these pirates.

huh?

[t0mbi]

i think he means going to their houses and breaking some legs lol

[Kushan]

PS1 didn't need to be chipped, you could disc swap.

Only on the very early models (Like the ORIGINAL batches that had all sorts of AV ports at the back). Later models needed to either be chipped, or have a special "Action Replay" (yeah right) cart. Those carts were the best.

[Coldgunner]

Only on the very early models (Like the ORIGINAL batches that had all sorts of AV ports at the back). Later models needed to either be chipped, or have a special "Action Replay" (yeah right) cart. Those carts were the best.

not quite, I had a late model PS1 (not PSONE) without most of the ports. I had an couple of imports I wanted to run. The trick was knowing when to change. the PS1 had a 2x cd-rom, when it was booting it would rev up and down, you just needed to take the disk out and replace it quickly before it timed out. With practice you could do it on any model.

[Richard Hammond]

Haha i remember that, used to use a biro refill to press the switch at the back down to fool the ps1 into thinking it was closed.

[Draken]

Microsoft would be wise to remember why the Playstation1 sold 100 million units....and it wasn't just quality games ;)

Having said that, I still buy alot of games, hell most Xbox owners do (the highest attach rate of all consoles) and until that attachment rate goes down, Microsoft shouldn't really be trying to punish the pirates.

I know that kind of opinion will **** off alot of people, but its the truth.

At last some one out of hypocrisy turns out one of the biggest facts for a console massive adoption, I have 12 Xbox 360 legit copies, two consoles, buyed a big and expensive monitor, 5.1 sounds system, premier HQ headphones, tons of accessories (play & charge kits,quick charge kits, custom faceplates etc.) and for my PS3? 5 games (3 of them were in the bargan bin) a second controller and that's all, no one of my console fan friends (like 13) who were Sony loyalists since the PS1 migrated to a PS3, so the better console is the one where you can play copied games? OBVIOUSLY NO!! but being a little permissive helps a lot

[spenser.d]

I don't know what kind of logic goes through any of your heads when you think that they should be more permissive just because they're doing well. That doesn't make any sense. It also misses the point entirely.

-Spenser

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

At last some one out of hypocrisy turns out one of the biggest facts for a console massive adoption, I have 12 Xbox 360 legit copies, two consoles, buyed a big and expensive monitor, 5.1 sounds system, premier HQ headphones, tons of accessories (play & charge kits,quick charge kits, custom faceplates etc.) and for my PS3? 5 games (3 of them were in the bargan bin) a second controller and that's all, no one of my console fan friends (like 13) who were Sony loyalists since the PS1 migrated to a PS3, so the better console is the one where you can play copied games? OBVIOUSLY NO!! but being a little permissive helps a lot

None of the money spent on them went to MS, what are you talking about?

[Draken]

I don't know what kind of logic goes through any of your heads when you think that they should be more permissive just because they're doing well. That doesn't make any sense. It also misses the point entirely.

-Spenser

They were already permissive with that "ooops!! we left the DVD drive out of the security environment!!" mistake ;)

And no developer wants to code for a console where games are pirated, but if the install base is huge (PS1 & PS2, and in the future the Xbox 360) they have more chance of profit in the long therm

[Draken]

None of the money spent on them went to MS, what are you talking about?

Sorry took me an additional click to see your post, I was not talking about MS money, just money expended in the console which benefit the whole gaming industry, give a better name for the product and the in turn make a lot of people forget about past issues with the hardware (RROD, faulty DVD drives, etc.)

[Rudy]

buyed a big and expensive monitor, 5.1 sounds system, premier HQ headphones,

well i sure hope you wouldn';t buy a second tv/monitor/sound system just because you have both an xbox and a ps3 :rolleyes:

[Draken]

well i sure hope you wouldn';t buy a second tv/monitor/sound system just because you have both an xbox and a ps3 :rolleyes:

<sarcasm> You can share components between consoles? :blink: </sarcasm>

My PS3 is connected to a 40" LCD at the living room, and I'm selling it to get a Mac mini, I've buyed those electronics for my bedroom and for my Xbox only where I can play more :yes: and .... pls .... thats what like I was pointing to the moon and all of you looking at the finger :rolleyes:

[Brad.]

<sarcasm> You can share components between consoles? :blink: </sarcasm>

My PS3 is connected to a 40" LCD at the living room, and I'm selling it to get a Mac mini, I've buyed those electronics for my bedroom and for my Xbox only where I can play more :yes: and .... pls .... thats what like I was pointing to the moon and all of you looking at the finger :rolleyes:

I swear that I remember you saying that you only pirated 360 games as you cannot afford them o.O

[Draken]

I swear that I remember you saying that you only pirated 360 games as you cannot afford them o.O

yup, I love to play everything that goes out (go figure, that's how I'm, I've played Legendary!!) and I can't afford to expend that amount of money, but I can save for some nice audio and a shiny TV, and my GF's family is a bit wealthy :p , just a bit

so... if you mod the console --> you can get banned --> you'll deserve it, that's all, no excuses, I can buy 1 original game a month, play that game until exhaustion, unlock all achievements but I want to play them all, wrong? may be, my modded xbox will get banned? may be.... that's how it is

[rajputwarrior]

^ e-peen meter alert... It doesn't really matter what you bought because Microsoft isn't getting that money. Piracy does hurt consoles and publishers alike. Look at the psp, the amount of third party developers dropping support for that system is dropping tremendously and you can't blame them because they aren't seeing any money, but sony is with console sales. That is the side effect of what happens when something is generally easy to mod. People out there act like Microsoft is doing this for themselves but they aren't. If they didn't do anything about it no one would publish games for their consoles...