Have you ever came across a case/scenario where a beta tester (or whatever you call him/her) receive a BAN for providing feedback? Reddit user "GER_v3n3" just got this special treatment from Microsoft, Banned from Xbox One Preview Program for providing feedback on external HDD.

GER_v3n3 shared the following image detailing the feedback he provided to Microsoft on external HDD formatting. You can check out the full details below.

The response that came from Microsoft was BAN from Preview program and App got removed from GER_v3n3 Xbox One. GER_v3n3 also stated that he didn't receive any notification for BAN and when customer support was contacted, the response was

"Just randomly checked my Apps today and didnt see the Registration App anymore. After that I checked if I was still able to get into the Forum, but no luck. I can still see that my post is there, but cant open it.

"Already contacted German support and they told me that Xbox reserved the right to remove me from the program without notification or reason."

GER_v3n3 further stated that: "The EULA says in Germany, that youre not allowed to reverse engineer anything associated with Xbox... its a grey area, but Ive been banned for less before"

We are following the update from GER_v3n3 for more update on this, hope to see a reply from Microsoft's Major Nelson via Twitter soon. Stay tuned.

http://www.gamepur.com/news/15123-xbox-one-owner-banned-preview-program-after-providing-feedback-external-hdd.html

Worthless beta projects.. I know it was his fault but the least Microsoft could do now is fix the problem. I hope they will.

Wait he got banned over that? Just because of a simple suggestion that could help out average people who don't like dealing with harder to find fixes. That seems rather childish. It's like Microsoft went "OH **** someone figured out how we block the XBOX formated drives on PC's from working. This is doom from piracy."

Getting banned for such a constructive post is fucking bollocks. I'd be mad.

This isn't looking pretty. Probably someone at MS didn't see convenient that this type of knowledge was made public. But with a ban this sudden and unjustified, more people are gonna look into this and arouse more suspicions.

Kind of dumb on MS part because now the problem will get more exposure than it would have if they just replied back to him. While the issue doesn't seem too serious it could affect some users that try and use their external drive on their PC again. At least Microsoft allows external HDD support which is better than their overpriced proprietary hard drives on the 360.

It's so cute how polite he was in getting banned. Like hey mate, don't want to ruin your day but you could do so much less damage to your paint job if you washed the body of your car first then the sandy tires. Gets run over by owner of car.

Typical horse shit from MS.

Wow, that's terrible. He was just trying to make it better for the customers and they decided to punish him for it.

It's disappointing, but I can't say it's surprising.

So he was removed for violating the eula?