Will Banning Modded Xbox Systems Help To Lose Potential Sales?

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gebx said:

rocketpig said:

Pk9394 said:
well this ban will definitely cut live's profit. as I mentioned the large % of pirated user in another thread, banning pirated user will definitely lost that portion of live subscription fee permanently, and no it'll not boost hardware sales either. pirated user will always stay as pirated users. They wont go out and buy a new system to just to play live and need to buy legit copy for that.

Pirated users are marginalized and MS doesn't care about profiting from them in any way, shape, or form. By cleaning up live and scaring honest people into actually buying the games they play, they stand to profit much more in the long run.

Pirates who act as if they are helping a company like MS by throwing them $50 a year are naive. Admit that you're a menace to the company and that the company will end up profiting more by removing you and then move on.

True.. how many people quit Diablo 2 because of cheats? Counter Strike? Halo 2?

A cheat free environment is something that Microsoft can control with Xbox Live.

This will not be the case for PS3's, Sony will have very little control over hackers and cheaters.

Why would you quite Diablo 2 because of cheats?  It's not really a competitive game.  What kind of cheats were there anyway?

People mod their consoles for many reasons.  I have custom firmware for my PSP so I can play my games off of my memory stick for better load times and battery life.  I can also play my PS2 off of a hard drive so that I don't have to change my discs and the games also load faster.  Also, the PSP allows you to play emulators when you use custom firmware so that's of course nice.

Obviously, cheating sucks so if they are actually preventing some of that I guess that's a good thing.  As much as they charge for online gaming, though, it would suck to not being able to mod your console for non-cheating purposes.