thismeintiel said:
Again, you give an official announcement, not any proof supplied by MS showing they had exact knowledge as to the intent of these people's mods. Here's a couple of interesting links: http://kokugamer.com/2009/11/12/xbox-mods-unequipped-for-ban-backlash/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1042 http://xbox360hacks.com/xbox-live-banned-fan-mod/ Clearly, MS can't 100% tell if it is hacked or not, as some people were getting banned without having a modded console and some with modded systems aren't banned. Some even claiming to be banned for simply having custom cooling for their system. So again, MS was taking away a feature, one gamers actually had to pay extra for, to try and stop a minority of pirates. THE EXACT SAME THING SONY DID! Yet, you only bash Sony, while defending MS. |
Then you're in breach of their T&C's by modifying your console. This isn't the exact same thing at all so stop talking garbage.
For the record anyone that was banned in the last wave could appeal their ban if they felt they were innocent and Microsoft would check you console manually and make sure the right call was made, funny how there wasn't a flood of reports of people proving they were wrongly banned. The simple fact is some cheap ass pirates got butt hurt by finally being banned for gaming on Live and cried a awful lot.
Finally the number of people banned was not 1 million, the Xbox Live manager came out in an interview and said that number was complete rubbish, I really wish people would stop using some bullshit rumoured number as a fact. Link below:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177039