Microsoft drops the ban hammer
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=26029
Just saw this on gamasutra, any coincidence as mw2 is was just released?
Props to Microsoft for doing this, wonder how long they've known about these users with modded consoles.
Just saw this on gamasutra, any coincidence as mw2 is was just released?
Props to Microsoft for doing this, wonder how long they've known about these users with modded consoles.
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There was a fairly hilarious interview with some gamer dude who got cut off on the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002900/10002915.stm
Silly guy.
I've probably saved about £600 and I've copied roughly 30 or 40 games."
This is... tragic. "Saved"... "Paid back"...
For instance I modded my PAL ps2 to be able to play the (legit) japanese Third Strike disc. So what about imports on 360? As a matter of fact it's quite painful for DVD playback iirc - I dont think it plays zone2s...
+1
they deserve it.
guess theres gonna be a few less people complaining about no dragon age coop. haha!
oh and GRIN!!!! The more they do this the more i want to only make games for 360...
and they had the nerve to shit talk the guys from the studio as we were owning their asses, hahaha.
It does bother me than you can't play foreign games on your USA console for example, in this day an age the console should be able to play both formats, pal and ntsc. There are dvds players on the market that play both, and also the damn censorship that makes it impossible to buy foreign games is a bit BS. I think this type of censorship does encourage piracy. Of course I think this is a niche group of people that do it though, mod their console to play foreign games I mean, and it's not the norm.
Just read the article... I can't stop laughing!!! 40 to 60 games.... Thanks bud!!! O love that you love the Xbox live so freaking much. Prick.
This also may make these pirates go to other consoles, so the user base is dropped as well for even buying the platform.
Yea, I know. Thats a big if. Just trying to give sorta a different POV on the piracy. (Note: I don't even own a console.)
Oh, and PC isnt dead. Consoles arent the future. It will be a mix of both. Just look at China.
Meh, I could go on for a while on this, having been a PC gamer for a long time, but it's not gonna change a thing. I'm gonna go play my Left 4 Dead 2 demo....
Oh yeah, nice one MS! Spank 'em!!
I'm not talking about nvidia vs ati either, since platform stability is all over the place when you swap in as much as a CD drive on the wrong IDE channel or something stupid like the CD drive doesn't like to be a slave to a hard drive and has to be on a separate channel. I've seen stupid crap like that cause problems from one PC to another.
For a console, you eliminate all those problems, it's a single unified platform, everyone gets the same specs to work with until the next generation comes.
You say that like it's a loss...these people aren't buying games, they aren't supporting the platform, on top of that they are using pirated software which could easily include hacks if they really wanted I am sure. It's not like I will miss them playing.
if anything this'll probably just slow em down until the next type of mod chip comes out for ms to try to detect.
Though imo that's not worth being banned over, hah.
Not condoning piracy of course, but I dont think bricking people's hardware is a legitimate reaction.
I cant stop loling at this
*shakes head*
*walks away*
This part were simply hilarious..
I do, because in theory, it makes the console in question less viable for the producer. That, and it works directly into my original point of people having less competition online. So even legal people not picking up the platform or game because lack of competition with friends.
Again, its small potatoes, but it was just giving another POV.
DKK: Less sales of the platform itself. True, initial sales are in the negative. Later sales after the hardware has matured, become a positive since the cost to produce has come down. So the platform itself no longer being viable to the pirates, whom wouldn't buy the games anyways. Looses the sale to another.
So then you have a developer looking at sales figures for each platform. With the reduced sales of said platform, making it less likely to want to produce their game for that platform.
And again, you get back into the competition thing.
And like I said guys, this is just so we can have some potatoe/potato going on in here.
Besides, we all know the pirates will figure ways around this. So this ban is temp at best.
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