Why won't Microsoft hurry up and ban these pirates?

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CaptDS9E on 12 September 2009

If they are playing on live with a pirated copy, they will be banned.

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welshbloke on 12 September 2009

I believe Microsoft have stated they will be dealing with the ODST issue and bans are on the way. They have to obviously sort out between legitimate street dates and illegal copies before they can proceed.

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Slimebeast on 12 September 2009

Of course the majority of those are pirates. Tens of thousands all over the world have torrented Halo 3 ODST already.

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Garamond on 12 September 2009

They are too busy playing the game to ban everybody.

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DirtyP2002 on 12 September 2009

maybe they are just friends of somebody who works at some game-selling shop? They could have paid for it and got it early. I mean they have them in stock, but they are not allowed to sell them right now. I could imagine some people working at retail playing this game or let their friends play it. It is very hard to say which shop "sold" this copy.

Of course some of them pirated it, but certainly not all of them.

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SmYsiZ on 12 September 2009

Why do you care?

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Barozi on 12 September 2009

MonstaMack said:
Several thousand testers and/or bungie employees?

The region is US/USA, and of course I'm not finding copies for sale early on eBay but maybe somewhere else?

I firmly believe many are still pirates.

Some people in France made an US account ?

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MonstaMack on 12 September 2009

SmYsiZ said:
Why do you care?

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I've already let MS know about the situation we'll see what happens. I'm sure I'm not the first to tell them.

It's just that simple.

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Aion on 12 September 2009

Yeah they really should ban more people.

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dobby985 on 12 September 2009

what's wrong with piracy?
some games are worth pirating, others are not worth buying.
360 is the second easiest console to pirate games for behind the dreamcast.

EDIT: Can't the Wii be softmodded?

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