So everyone knows in the past month or so several Live user accounts were banned. This included many game journalists and gamers alike. Nobody was safe from Microsoft's banning assault. Originally when approached Microsoft defended banning several prominent members of the media, I'm not sure what was said to users since I wasn't banned and didn't email them for comment.

Anyways turns out Microsoft was using software to assist them in banning. This software was supposed to help them find modified consoles and software. However it turns out that this software was faulty and even though their was Microsoft human over sight many innocent accounts were closed. The software will no longer be used by Microsoft to police Live!

Microsoft seems to regret this grave mistake and has issued a statement to Joystiq. Here is the article in question! Microsoft says that not to many accounts were wrongly banned this isn't a huge issue. But to those poor saps who were wrongly banned Microsoft will be giving them 3 months free Live and 1,600 Microsoft points as compensation.

Were you banned for no reason? Do you think Microsoft is doing enough to compensate those that they wrongly banned? What should Microsoft do now and in the future to ensure this never happens again?

Haaa... ha ha ha!! Isn't this because "you get what you pay for"? :D

I always said that: never trust Microsoft all together. It's that easy.

I thought this was about letting Mistwalker get away.

It's not like LIVE was down a whole month for everybody.

I thought you were going to say Kinect would be discontinued.

I thought it was making Rare only make Kinect games.

Yes because them coming forward and admitting there was a problem and than fixing it clearly shows you can not trust ms.

Their previous statement was that they are extremely careful and don't ban anyone until they have absolute proof, which is their reason to refuse any and all appeals.

Are they now going to allow people to appeal and provide proof after they had to admit that they're not infallible?

Why do I get the feeling that if this was Sony there would be 3 lawsuits filed by now? Anyways unbanning people who can potentially give them money isn't something I'd call righting a wrong, fixing their **** up yes.

I know some dude on gaf was pretty pissed about this. He figured he'd never get unbanned and bought a new 360, then he suddenly ended up getting unbanned.

I guess this being a good or bad thing really depends on how you reacted to the initial ban. If you waited things out a bit, everything returns to normal. If not, you could potentially be out a lot of money.

Or maybe some people used this as an excuse to get another console (wii, ps3, etc.) and now have two! That'd be pretty cool.