Modern Warfare 2. Woot.

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Neztea

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I believe when ODST was leaked in France, Microsoft said that they won't ban players who got their hands on it early. Only those with leaked pirated games will be banned..

I hope your wrong though. Just finishing installing it on my HD. ;)

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Edit: Also, this is the real deal, Not pirated in any way shape or form. :)

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it might be the same case as with Halo ODST , if you bought it legally from a retailer despite them selling it early then i don't think there'll be a problem , the bans will only effect people with modded consoles and firmware who pirated the game as far as i know

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youll get banned, had a friend who got banned when he has the actual game. He phoned MS and they said he needs to send them proof of purchase and he will be unbanned the day of release.

Your friend should sue. The burden should be on MS to prove that you have a non-retail copy of a game (aka pirated). I'd definitely demand some sort of compensation for 1. not getting to play the game that I bought, and 2. the hassle of sending in proof and waiting/hoping MS unbans your account/console.

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legal copy, won't get banned :).

that makes no sense man.

a legal copy has the exact same crc that a correct pirated copy has, it's an identical copy. There is no way MS can detect if you are using a pirated copy unless it's an incorrect crc match, so if you play the game early they can't tell if it's legit or not, so you're at risk of being banned.

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so if you play the game early they can't tell if it's legit or not, so you're at risk of being banned.

No you aren't over 4000 people are playing online at this moment, more on SP no doubt. You think MS have the man power to ban 4000 then expect them to send in PoP?

Don't spread FUD.

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that makes no sense man.

a legal copy has the exact same crc that a correct pirated copy has, it's an identical copy. There is no way MS can detect if you are using a pirated copy unless it's an incorrect crc match, so if you play the game early they can't tell if it's legit or not, so you're at risk of being banned.

So how has Microsoft done so before?

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So how has Microsoft done so before?

I've been led to believe that as time goes on, a list of users who've played with bad CRC rips, very early etc. have been added to a list, and come the ban wave - everyone is banned together.

The only times I've seen people banned outside of the ban wave is Halo ODST and Forza, and they're the pretty big games of the year.

I also believe that wave 4 has been the reason of so many people being banned, I mean introduced between Forza and GTA/CoD:MW2 and there's a way around it for the pirates which is easily detectable for MS? Sounds like MS were just baiting in the pirates.

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