To my fellow 360 modders.

[Heath Ledger]

Anyone else get banned? I did but I expected it and it was worth it.

[resistanze]

LOLz, they unleashed a massive banhammer last night.

I've had mine modded since Jan '08. But I haven't played consistently in over 1.5 months due to school. I checked last night and I was still able to log in to LIVE.

[Heath Ledger]

did you burn and or play mw2? what firmware and drive you got?

[resistanze]

No, the last recent game I played was Arkham Asylum. Actually, I tried Tekken 6 last night (same ol' shit). BenQ with iXtreme 1.61 (had 1.6 until this weekend).

[MiamiHeat]

Anyone else get banned? I did but I expected it and it was worth it.

hahahahaha. spend less money on cheeseburgers and maybe you can afford to pay for games that you enjoy, instead of ripping the developers off.

you got what you deserved

[Höfner]

hahahahaha. spend less money on cheeseburgers and maybe you can afford to pay for games that you enjoy, instead of ripping the developers off.

you got what you deserved

MiamiHeat tells the truth.

[DarkReign]

queue a mouse invasion

[Heath Ledger]

MIAMIHEAT no need to respond to any of my posts you will be talking to yourself. you are the first fuckwad ive had to ignore on spurstalk.

[TwAnKiEs]

my friend was banned as well... the funny thing about him is that he was playing a legit copy of COD:WAW lol

[MiamiHeat]

my friend was banned as well... the funny thing about him is that he was playing a legit copy of COD:WAW lol

legit copy + modded console = ban

[Trainwreck2100]

my friend was banned as well... the funny thing about him is that he was playing a legit copy of COD:WAW lol

microsoft found a way to id modded xboxes in general. Obviously its just a fucking cash grab on M$ part since they didn't have the stones to ban the users. Also lol modders

[Heath Ledger]

microsoft found a way to id modded xboxes in general. Obviously its just a fucking cash grab on M$ part since they didn't have the stones to ban the users. Also lol modders


That is a false statement if i ever saw one.
The people getting busted are the ones playing games before street date and who made bad rips.

There is no firmware detection. This has recently been proven in the modding community.

Microsoft collects a ton of data over the course of the year and does the bans in waves. You get flagged for playing multiple games before street date, bad rips, leaked rips perhaps by microsoft like a trojan horse that is easy for Microsoft to detect.

They for the last 3 years have unleashed massive banwaves around the holidays to spike xbox 360 sales.

For your pleasure (you must sign up to read)
http://xbox360iso.com/showthread.php?p=902610#post902610

I got popped for playing mw2 10 or 11 days before street date. I have been playing games for 8 months with zero problems when I did not play games early. Plenty of people with retail copies of mw2 were banned in this wave including bloggers who received review copies from IW/Microsoft.

[MiamiHeat]

^^ Ledger with incorrect statements again.

That link you posted earlier, was a guy saying Turn 10 (Forza guys) banned him from ONLINE SERVERS of their particular game (Motorsport 3), but he was fine on XBOX LIVE. Microsoft had nothing to do with it.

secondly, I have seen TWO confirmations from XBOX STAFF that playing legit copy + legit console = NO PROBLEM

the 'friends' of yours who claim they didn't mod their console, are lying.

[leemajors]

hahahahaha. spend less money on cheeseburgers and maybe you can afford to pay for games that you enjoy, instead of ripping the developers off.

you got what you deserved


^^ Ledger with incorrect statements again.

That link you posted earlier, was a guy saying Turn 10 (Forza guys) banned him from ONLINE SERVERS of their particular game (Motorsport 3), but he was fine on XBOX LIVE. Microsoft had nothing to do with it.

secondly, I have seen TWO confirmations from XBOX STAFF that playing legit copy + legit console = NO PROBLEM

the 'friends' of yours who claim they didn't mod their console, are lying.

right-o, microsoft never makes mistakes. or shitty hardware for that matter

[IronMexican]

MiamiHeat has no idea what he's talking about. You know it's legal to have a modded console to play your own back-up games? It's illegal to download or upload games to/from the the internet, though. Microsoft checks ho plays a lot of games or bad copies of games and bans those people. I don't plan on playing any games before street date anymore, unless this 360 gets banned. I will keep it to play games early. If you got banned, you most likely did for playing Forza3, or MW3 before release.

[PM5K]

You know it's legal to have a modded console to play your own back-up games?

Not true. Firmware is copy written software, redistributing that software in any form (Modified or not) is illegal.

[MiamiHeat]

Microsoft DOES NOT want you tampering with the Xbox 360.

Period. If you modded your console, Microsoft will ban that console from Xbox Live.

[MiamiHeat]

MiamiHeat has no idea what he's talking about. You know it's legal to have a modded console to play your own back-up games? It's illegal to download or upload games to/from the the internet, though. Microsoft checks ho plays a lot of games or bad copies of games and bans those people. I don't plan on playing any games before street date anymore, unless this 360 gets banned. I will keep it to play games early. If you got banned, you most likely did for playing Forza3, or MW3 before release.

dude

how can you tell me I don't know what I am talking about, but you are the one who clearly doesn't know shit about this issue?

Xbox Staff member :
"No one is being banned for playing a legitimate copy early. An Xbox has to be physically modified to play illegitimate copies, and that (along with the other reasons listed at http://www.xbox.com/consoleban) is what can run you the risk of a ban. "

[Heath Ledger]

Fucktard, Ive already told you many game bloggers/gaming sites got their legit consoles banned for playing mw2 with their review copies. They were legitimate retail copies and they still got banned for playing early on non modified consoles.

I was not banned for playing MW2 or Forza(did not download forza)

My account was flagged on the 27th(according to warranty expiration notice when I logged into my account). The leaked game came out in early November. I did however play Operation Flashpoint early as well as a few other games in the past including Halo Odst.

When you are banned it is not immediately once your account is flagged you are queued for a future banwave. Its possible I was banned for a bad rip of Borderlands.

If Miami Heats logic is correct (which it ain't) why are thousands of people still playing on xbox live on modified consoles? If they can detec firmware on one they can on all so why arent everyone else banned? Dumbfuck its becaue there are other criteria to the banning not because they detect modified consoles. So quit talking about shit you don't have a clue about.

There is one guy right now that has 3 different consoles (all modded) on xbox live, using different firmwares and playing different games, none of them early and he has not been banned. Nor are they queued to be banned as there is a way you can tell that I will not discuss.

[z0sa]

You cannot mod your xbox, it's legal of course just like breaking guitars on stage is legal, but voids the warranty so for most of us, you're simply not supposed to do it

Backing up your own games IS legal, including by download. If you don't have a game when you download it, it's illegal even if you buy the game afterwards

[MiamiHeat]

XBOX Staff :

"No one is being banned for playing a legitimate copy early. An Xbox has to be physically modified to play illegitimate copies, and that (along with the other reasons listed at http://www.xbox.com/consoleban) is what can run you the risk of a ban. "

/thread

[TwAnKiEs]

legit copy + modded console = ban


microsoft found a way to id modded xboxes in general. Obviously its just a fucking cash grab on M$ part since they didn't have the stones to ban the users. Also lol modders
I know (modded console=ban), but we found it funny that he got the ban hammer when he was playing a bought game.... lol...

[IronMexican]

You cannot mod your xbox, it's legal of course just like breaking guitars on stage is legal, but voids the warranty so for most of us, you're simply not supposed to do it

Backing up your own games IS legal, including by download. If you don't have a game when you download it, it's illegal even if you buy the game afterwards

:tu What I mean to say. Worded mine wrong. Got banned today. Replacing 360's with my cousin. He doesn't play online.

[MiamiHeat]

so you mod too, mexican? damn ;p

[ManuTP9]

If you have 2 xboxes in your house But 1 of them is modded, does the modded one get banned only or both of them?

[IronMexican]

Manutp9, they won't ban both 360s, only the one that was caught. I didn't even get my GT banned. Only thing banned is the console. Its a way for them to bump sales.

[koriwhat]

haha... this is why i dont keep my ethernet hooked up 24/7.

[Höfner]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134865

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137547

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138021

Anyone else find this thread a bit ironic/hilarious?

[koriwhat]

^ nope

[IronMexican]

The worst part about being banned is I can't play games off my HD :lol. That's really the only thing that pissed me off.

[Trainwreck2100]

i told you fuckers not to play before the street date

[koriwhat]

i told you fuckers not to play before the street date

whatever virgin.

[PM5K]

:tu What I mean to say. Worded mine wrong. Got banned today. Replacing 360's with my cousin. He doesn't play online.

Really, that's what you meant to say, because it's fucking wrong.

[Trainwreck2100]

whatever virgin. who gets to play his MW2 on xboxlive

fify

[koriwhat]

fify

i aint banned so whats your point? dumbass.

[Trainwreck2100]

i aint banned so whats your point? dumbass.

such unrequited anger i assumed you were, and hope you do

[koriwhat]

such unrequited anger i assumed you were, and hope you do

yoda, is that you? so because i called you what you are, i am angry?

[Trainwreck2100]

yoda, is that you? so because i called you what you are, i am angry?

no its cause you're being a dick

[koriwhat]

no its cause you're being a dick

why are you even in this thread? answer that... you gonna come in here just to try and flex as if we give a fuck that you have no clue how to mod. we don't!

if it was a thread titled "to my fellow non-virgins" would you reply with something similar to "i told you fuckers not to screw women before you're married. i gets to play with my little dick on xboxlive."

you can't think i or "we" won't take offense to someone calling us all "fuckers". it is what it is virgin.

[Typhoon]

Fuck modders, cheap fucks.

[Trainwreck2100]

why are you even in this thread? answer that... you gonna come in here just to try and flex as if we give a fuck that you have no clue how to mod. we don't!

if it was a thread titled "to my fellow non-virgins" would you reply with something similar to "i told you fuckers not to screw women before you're married. i gets to play with my little dick on xboxlive."

you can't think i or "we" won't take offense to someone calling us all "fuckers". it is what it is virgin.

are you a virgin, cause if not you fucked something ergo you're a fucker. I can't even believe that offended you, how old are you 40? What's this "we" get offended I don't see Heath or IronMex being offended.

[MiamiHeat]

ahh

i just had a long saturday of playin modern warfare 2

damn it's awesome.

Special Ops is like a mix of tons of modes from other games. You + a friend vs computer

Wave Defense = horde mode from Gears of War 2
Elimination = terrorist hunt from Rainbow Six Vegas 1/2
Racing
Time challenges
Assault
there is more
etc....

[koriwhat]

are you a virgin, cause if not you fucked something ergo you're a fucker. I can't even believe that offended you, how old are you 40? What's this "we" get offended I don't see Heath or IronMex being offended.

ha! i'm not overly offended but neither should you be with my retort. get it? don't get all pissy when i call you a virgin if you're gonna call me or anyone else a fucker.

[koriwhat]

Fuck modders, cheap fucks.

don't be jealous.

[Trainwreck2100]

ha! i'm not overly offended but neither should you be with my retort. get it? don't get all pissy when i call you a virgin if you're gonna call me or anyone else a fucker.

I don't give a fuck about that virgin shit, i called you a dick for calling me a dumbass. Everything else i said had cause.

[koriwhat]

I don't give a fuck about that virgin shit, i called you a dick for calling me a dumbass. Everything else i said had cause.

and with that... effect.

[kcplayboi_26]

I havent been banned yet, But i mostly just been playin 2k10 and Borderlands lately. Not a fan of Call of Duty anyway.