slowmo on 17 November 2009
| Damnyouall said: If they are so anti-piracy, then why didn't they ban the accounts in question, too? Obviously they contain achievments gained by playing pirated games. |
They're paying Live customers who may have actually obtained achievements on a huge majority of game they do own. Not all pirates download games either, a minority would only play backups of games they own. Given it's pretty obvious that for a huge majority of stealth patched games Microsoft have been unable to detect them they don't know how many games are genuine and those that aren't.
If they wanted to really send a message and deter pirates then they should have warned that anyone caught will have their account banned too. Banning their account and console now only hurts their income and that user would probably go elsewhere, with this method they may stay loyal to the Xbox brand. At least they have done something.
