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Nsanity on 20 May 2011

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Xbox Live technical support will be extra busy over the course of this week and the next as a new software update rolls out, bringing sweeping bans to those with modified consoles. But one fresh account banning from this week is more educational than the rest.

An Xbox Live member with the gamertag "pound her stank" found himself permanently suspended from the service after what he argued was three years of good standing membership. His plea:

my xbox account was permanently suspended due to my gamertag. shouldn't this be temporarly suspended? i've been a member for 3 years and a lot of downloads and xbox live points attached to this account. i dont want to start all over again. is there a way to request lesser suspension? my account gamertag was "pound her stank". i would change my gamertag to get my account back.

Seems like a reasonable request. What say you, Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement Team?

While we apologize for the inconvenience, we made the decision to permanently suspend the account due to the excessive number of forced name changes due to Code of Conduct violations that have occurred over the life of the account. We felt that giving you 34 chances to create a gamertag that did not violate the aforementioned document should have been more than enough of an opportunity to turn a new leaf.

That's right. After an impressive 34 gamertag changes, none of which appear to abide Xbox Live's Code of Conduct, you can be banned. Now you know!



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Umos-Cmos on 20 May 2011

Can't fix stupid... or immature.



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Soleron on 20 May 2011

I understand the ban, but can they really take games you've paid for away from you forever for mere TOS violations?



MrBubbles on 20 May 2011
Soleron said:

I understand the ban, but can they really take games you've paid for away from you forever for mere TOS violations?


they arent deleting the games off his harddrive.  he can still play them. 



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Soleron on 20 May 2011
MrBubbles said:
Soleron said:

I understand the ban, but can they really take games you've paid for away from you forever for mere TOS violations?


they arent deleting the games off his harddrive.  he can still play them. 


But he can't transfer or redownload them, even though it was advertised that he could when he bought them? Still looks actionable to me.



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Antabus on 20 May 2011
Soleron said:

I understand the ban, but can they really take games you've paid for away from you forever for mere TOS violations?

Yes they can, just like many other dd-services. :P



MrBubbles on 20 May 2011
Soleron said:
MrBubbles said:
Soleron said:

I understand the ban, but can they really take games you've paid for away from you forever for mere TOS violations?


they arent deleting the games off his harddrive.  he can still play them. 


But he can't transfer or redownload them, even though it was advertised that he could when he bought them? Still looks actionable to me.

idk if its actually advertised that he can do that...but if it is then it likely pretty clear its a feature of xbl.  



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Soleron on 20 May 2011
Antabus said:
Soleron said:

I understand the ban, but can they really take games you've paid for away from you forever for mere TOS violations?

Yes they can, just like many other dd-services. :P

I'm saying that it would not stand up in court if he cared to fight it (his ban would, taking away certain rights to the games he bought would not). Terms of Service haven't even been proven to be legally binding.



Ajescent on 20 May 2011

After 34 chances, I think it's safe to say he had it coming.



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cory.ok on 20 May 2011

he has a good excuse, ignorance

he obviously just pushed random buttons to get that name, he probably didnt even know what it said, just wanted to get back to gaming. this was most likely the case 33 of the 34 times, the first time was his mistake, he hadnt looked at the rules