JaggedSac on 21 October 2009
| Foibbles said: You won't get banned for playing it online. The only people getting banned are the people who downloaded and played the pirated french release that was leaked about 2 weeks ago. The other pirated releases that came in the last week are fine to play online as they are properly stealthed. Of course a genuine copy is fine to play too. There has been some mix up with this as of late. MS have gone on record in the past saying they DO NOT BAN FOR PLAYING GAMES BEFORE RELEASE DATE. They were only referring to the french p2p rip - loads of people have been banned for playing that. |
MS bans based on locale and where they know they have not yet shipped retail discs. You can listen to this by going to Major Nelson's site and downloading one of his podcasts from a month or two ago.
Also, in the session is a funny story where someone was playing a ripped game and streaming the video over the web. One of the MS Live guys found out about it and banned him while he was playing. Hilarious.
