Microsoft bans 600K Xbox Live Accounts, More to Follow

cronaldo7 - 48 days 3 hours ago

XBOX Live is faster now.

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silvacrest - 48 days 2 hours ago

600K in the US and canada alone is alot

imagine the final numbers when the rest of the world gets the ban hammer

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gumgum99 - 48 days 1 hour ago

Look at how many people that want to "buy" 360 games ^_^

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Cajun Chicken - 48 days 1 hour ago

No wonder the majority of 360 players can afford XBL Gold...they didn't buy the games!

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sGIBMBR - 48 days 1 hour ago

So what you're saying is, their was 1 million people pirating games for the xbox 360, and yet, the game sales are still more than that of their competition? hummmm...

Interesting!

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EVILDEAD360 - 47 days 23 hours ago

Talk about a win-win for Microsoft:

1. Send the biggest message to the pirating community.

2. Even if only 50% of the folks who are banned renew accounts and consoles, you have another 300K consoles sold and 15 Million dollars in XBL revenue.

3. Announcements like this are the biggest detterence to future pirates. (which is all you can do)

I know people who have modded Xboxes and because of whats happened in the recent past, they have either bought new 360s to play with online or they get lulled into a false sense of security 'Micosoft won't ban me.'

The best part about it is that these lump sum bannings always coincide with a huge game release requiring LIVE to enjoy the full experience. This time it was on the eve of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Tslk about Checkmate!

I wouldn't risk my account and achievements for a million years. Those with who do end up gaming on 'eggshells'. 600K may seem like a big number, but how many modded PSPs do you see with no way at all to ban the pirates.

Evil

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Grandreaper9999 - 47 days 23 hours ago

"Repurchase" is the name of the game.

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111111 - 47 days 23 hours ago

They ban randomly to not lose too many customers. They ban to scare the sh]t outta you; the customer. If their customer service didnt already do the trick that is. Not very clever, but hey its microsoft, they totally can do that.

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bjornbear - 47 days 22 hours ago

MS always find a way to get their customers to buy their consoles....AGAIN! -_-

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SuperStrokey1123 - 47 days 21 hours ago

Well mine is banned for some reason which is super (sarcasm). I never used my 360 online either as I just used it for arcade games and single player ones. However now i cant download that games off the store that i want anymore... i dont see why they would ban use of the store to people.

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Pwee - 47 days 21 hours ago

Whoa!!

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Father Murder X - 47 days 21 hours ago

600,000 x 50.00= 30,000,000 dollars of Live accounts cancelled

Funny thing is that there are no refunds. MS loses nothing by banning these folks. Many will just get new accounts which means more money for M$. Brilliant indeed!!!

Watch the SDF claim that now those people are going to buy Ps3's.

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sedx - 47 days 21 hours ago

LOL Microsoft bans on the wrong time since ps3 is 299$ now...all those banned people are going to get a ps3

by the way this is microsoft fault....if they knew how to make a system pitate games wouldnt be a problem...now there going to be loosing a lot of costumers ,which they are going to buy a ps3 or still pirate games for pc

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rodeoo - 47 days 20 hours ago

when my xbox gets banned ill just buy a new one to go with my 100+ game library....Its realy that big of a deal. what gets these people busted is playing games early and not making sure there games are properly stealthed.

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kingeb085 - 47 days 20 hours ago

i see you m$, trying to boost up your sales by making people buy new 360's lol.

I see what they are doing though, stealing games is wrong and people should be punished. I also think game prices should come down so people wont feel the need for pirate them or at least the ones that do it because they don't want to keep pulling out 60 dollars for a game. In the end we know what happens when you pirate if you take the chance and get caught, you only have yourself to blame.

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Biggunz - 47 days 20 hours ago

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Deee187 - 47 days 19 hours ago

I rather them take care of hackers, for example ppl with modded controllers who ruin the gameplay experience for others. I dont give a crap about pirates they dont hurt me. Im not for piracy, i know i said ill burn MW2 but i just wont play it at all.
I believe the reason piracy is so bad right now is because games are more expensive, and renting games is double the price this gen.
If game prices go back to 50 and renting games back to 5 dollars next gen im sure it will cut down on piracy.

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Arnon - 47 days 19 hours ago

Amazing...

Microsoft does something great for the console industry, and yet somehow, everybody is able to turn it around to "Go figure Microsoft would do this. They need more console sales."

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artsaber - 47 days 18 hours ago

Yeah, I am kinda tired of the "poor cheated" developers who charge more for less. All they care about is their bottom line. They are not our friends, very few actually care about the quality of their products anymore... and try to strong arm gamers into accepting garbage or garbage tactics for top dollar. I understand pirating, I get it, but it is not for everyone.

Pirating has little to nothing to do with cheaters. Ban pirates, but let people run rampant online with Lag switches, Modded controllers that rapid fire DEagles, thanks but no thanks. Pirates don't hurt me one bit. Games are $60 on a DVD9 before the first pirate figured out a way to burn 360 games. If there wasn't 1 single pirate in existance the price would still be $60 (or more). I have no sympathy for developers, nor do I have for pirates... most pirates know the risk upfront before modding a 360. I do feel a tiny bit bad for people who just want to mod a hdd to use because Microsoft's pricing is so unfair.

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cpuchess - 47 days 17 hours ago

Good job Microsoft, keep at it...

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skbkoy65 - 47 days 15 hours ago

GOT BANNED THIS MORN B***H A*S MICROSOFT BANNED ME TO SMH ILL JUZ GET ANOTHER XBOX FOR 30 AN MOD THT ONE 2

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biglee - 47 days 14 hours ago

Yes alot have been caught and i mean alot just in the uk everybody is at it, why they got caught the last firmware update was wave 3 now with the new cod mw2 is wave 4 ms do it sometimes to try to stop the pirates though the pirates just update there xboxs with a new firmware wave4 now.

Cod mw2 was out on pirate 3 weeks ago and the pirate comunity warned fellow pirates that they didn't know the game was stealted and not to sign in tio xb live but a lot of them didn't listen ms doe’s a huge scan every nov and it catches all those pirates that play there games before there out because there only retailed stealted.

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ReBurn - 47 days 14 hours ago

Don't buy a used console, it may be banned. Between 600k and 1m are a lot of consoles banned when all is said and done. That's a lot in the supply chain.

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Sheikh Yerbouti - 47 days 14 hours ago

for Microsoft, the developers of the 360 and the industry, but I'm a little shocked by the sheer number. Are all these pirates and modders? I'd expect this many for the PC.

I'm still cynical if it will result in anything. We'll have 600K new Gold accounts/Xboxes, while Shane Kim pockets 30 million or more depending if its accounts, consoles or both. That's the big result so far.

This quote was golden: "People have been calling in around the clock and most of them are screaming teen-agers who don't understand...". So true. LOL.

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FwanK - 47 days 14 hours ago

Har har har!

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skagrerrrr - 47 days 11 hours ago

BANHAMMER!

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macca28 - 46 days 19 hours ago

this is a good time for sony all these people ms p1ss off may give them a chance 2 bye ps3 this time and play online for free

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