Steam has physical discs you can purchase, and once they are put in the PC they are required to be linked to your Steam account.  If you are banned on Steam, you lose access to that game, even though you still have the disc and all the game data is stored on that disc.  So no, it's not different.

Besides, I don't see why digital games should be held to a different standard than physical ones.  Games are games, regardless of their distribution; whether you downloaded it or bought a disc, the content of the game is still stored locally, in your hard drive or on your disc.   So it's either OK for a service to have this kind of provision in their ToS, or it's not.  It doesn't matter if it's Steam or Microsoft who does it; either it's acceptable for both of them, or it's acceptable for neither of them.

LOL honestly if this was ps4 everyone would be like

"Yea serves them right, anyone who gets banned deserves it!"

And I swear steam is just like this.

I don't think Microsoft wants anyone to purchase their console.

Because, y'know, they don't have to be installed and tied to an account to be useable? They have to be useable whenever, wherever. Like they've pretty much always have been. I didn't know steam sold physical copies and did this same bullshit with them, I admit that. But It's not OK on either. It's idiotic.

That's WAY too much, Microsoft.

Too far.

The other consoles will be hacked WAY before Xbox One. That's my prediction at least...

Didn't think of this at first. There's a lot of risk.

Also:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?b=23483

CAG's recently change made the original post impossible(I guess) to look at it. Google doesn't help much because all link to the CAG's original post:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cheapassgamer+nightmare+customer+service&oq=cheapassgamer+nightmare+customer+service&gs_l=serp.3..33i21.5918.7613.0.7716.8.8.0.0.0.0.150.634.3j4.7.0...0.0...1c.1.17.serp.t7a8FIO8_qc

Basically, a guy was having a nightmare of customer service. M$ blamed him of hacking his own account, and when he complained, M$ blamed him of hacking his own account.

I don't remember much or what happened after that, but IINM there's nothing you can do about it.

I'm sorry but I watched a lot of great games go to Sh-t because of the used game and piracy market. I think this has to happen. Most really don't think to far beyond, I'm poor and I want it now. Instead of planning, saving and buying. Rather they sell everything off in their collection like a crack house, rather then go work.

This may be none of you but this is how I look at some gamers. They don't ever contribute anything to the market, yet act like us that buy new should flip the bill. You are keeping game prices high. Why should they lower the price if Game stop will always beat them buy $5 dollars. Whats even better is people are so happy over a $5 savings.

Just my take. I feel with these policies, my games will drop faster in price. The company can afford to give me more for my money without worrying about the cheap skate out their. So really I hope this works great and Sony has to conform. Watch many publishers give exclusive games to MS. It's going to happen.

Hehe, given the outrage on the internet, this is just a laugh for me. I have never been banned on any forum or anywhere else in my whole life but given how people behave here, on yt, GAF and any other site, yes, this could turn out very bad for them :)

God bless you, Microsoft. I can't wait to buy your "video game console"