You lucky bastard, I am going to midnight launch tommorrow. Maybe I should have got it delivered by GAMe instead of going to shop. LOL. Kowenicki. Damn you. Play it, and tell me how awesome it is. :)

They're advertising Forza Motorsport 3 here in Saudi Arabia. In the middle of a popular mall, they had an Audi R8 and Forza Motorsport 3 billboards, as well as a 2 HDTVs, and an Xbox 360 racing rig with Forza Motorsport 3. It was open for the public to try. Had a great few laps.

They have no way of telling whether or not its a pirated version of the game, so be careful. I'm sure you can prove you own it and get unbanned if you do, but just be careful.

This is not true.  If you have an illegal copy there are ways of finding out if you do or not. 

nice i live in kuwait and i was dissapointed cause i thought they wouldn't advertise it here in the middle east where there are lots of racing fans. its good taht they advertised it at saudi arabia, loads of guys tried it?

Yeah, it was packed. They were also giving out tickets for a Forza Motorsport 3 launch event.

I'm jealous, lol. But like the others said you should be fine. Just to be safe (or paranoid) however, wait a couple days before playing over Xbox Live.

Please keep us posted. What cars are available to buy first? What tracks did you race first etc. Damn you man.

He may well say that, but he isn't being truthful - not fully at least. It's abit of a mystery on the whole ban thing but I've yet to meet a credible person who has played games downloaded properly stealthed before release and get banned. Every time there is a ban a "leak" of the big game before the ban comes a few weeks before...All those people get banned.

Happened with

Crackdown

Halo

and now Forza 3...

Since you can't contest a ban, they only do it when they are 100% sure these days that you've been caught red handed. I haven't even listened to his podcast recently but from what I've heard he is careful to explain that only people with illegitamte copies of the game that aren't in their region get banned...

i.e, the french release a few weeks ago.

Of course I can't be sure, who can. But I wouldn't trust what he says down to the letter it's a general statement and hasn't been made textually. All official statements on this matter have denied outright that they ever ban based on playing a game early...Hype and bs peddled by the uninformed if you ask me. (The uninformed as in the fools playing the pirated p2p french rip who then tell their mates and they tell theirs and so on).

Actually he's right. A properly made backup cannot be detected...so far at least. There's such a massive area of debate on this, I'd suggest having a proper read up before repeating something someone told you and look it up properly yourself, it's all well and good believing the countless idiots on the internet who say they were banned for x or y but that doesn't make it true.