You Can Now Unban Your Xbox 360 Thanks To Modders

BadboyCivic360 - 55 days 21 hours ago

i think some of these modders should be working for the Defense Department

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zxzgamingzxz - 55 days 21 hours ago

Awesome, good to see the work of modders. It's hard to believe over 1 mill people were banned. 0_0

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Madusha - 55 days 21 hours ago

*you're

Editing should be allowed for longer than 30 mins....

Back on topic: Yeah it's quite amazing that many people got banned. There are many more modders, they just haven't found em yet

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Valay - 55 days 20 hours ago

I probably wouldn't try it. Never have gotten involved with modding.

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skv007 - 55 days 19 hours ago

lmfao. MS is about to ban another 600k consoles now :)

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darthv72 - 55 days 19 hours ago

I can see flashing the dvd or installing a mod chip are the obvious mods. What other ones are "innocent" people getting banned for?

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Timesplitter14 - 55 days 19 hours ago

They'll fix their xbox but that won't fix their broken honor.

The stench of the weakling will remain with them forever.

Be a man and buy your stuff. Stop being a leech.

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T3L3PROOF - 55 days 18 hours ago

Or how about just buy another console, with more compatibility (Xbox360 Elite or PS3)

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sbstncstllo - 55 days 18 hours ago

There was an article about this earlier today.

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blindfromthesun - 55 days 16 hours ago

For all the pirates jumping up and down...if you've been online within the past 3 months and/or have a new game with Wave 4 tech your out of luck. HAHA

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Madusha - 55 days 15 hours ago

@sbstncstllo

No the other post is the duplicate, this was submitted 15- 20 minutes before the other one (First Published) although approved a bit late.

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Raz - 55 days 8 hours ago

"You Can Now Unban Your Xbox 360 Thanks To Modders"

(This is a highly complex process which relies on a number of free tools and in doing this you may be breaking more laws than you already have. YourEMGN does not recommend this process in any form.)

LMFAO

Wow...that title clashes a bit with the disclaimer, doesn't it?

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Major_Tom - 55 days 7 hours ago

Be a man, support multi-billion dollar companies, be afraid of change.

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Nineball2112 - 55 days 3 hours ago

Be moral-free, justify illegal behavior to make yourself "feel" better, strive to be different because you think it's the "cool" thing to do.

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siyrobbo - 55 days 2 hours ago

mmm, how to unban you console, first you need an xbox 360 that is unbanned.... not really that usefull

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vhero - 55 days ago

HAHAHAHAHA Quality proving yet again MS are completely and utterly out of there league with a console.

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Major_Tom - 54 days 21 hours ago

'Cool' has nothing to do with it. For the first time in history the people have real control, that's all it is.

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Richdad - 54 days 3 hours ago

And MS should definietly pay them your are fire behind the Xbox 360 sales. You have made MS billions even when they where kicking your asses and you have made me happy too.

Anyways some guys might be thinking that its long process to do such stuff but there is always professional help available in your local grey market.

If the modders wouldnt have done so much to 360 alteast I would have been out at the First RROD. BUt yeah I am still in and guess what I have only purcahsed one 360 till now and yeah its working till now.

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Elven6 - 55 days 17 hours ago

The law of the internet, popular devices will always get hacked be it a day or a year, people are determined. :(

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edhe - 55 days 17 hours ago

Then you're a fool #3.

No matter how MS work at it there's an entire subculture dedicated to ripping their work apart. Be it for pirating reasons, or even just a challenge, nothing is 'safe' in the world of technology.

Not until qbits are commonplace.

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Lykon - 55 days 12 hours ago

especially as M$ are often on the wrong side of the law themselves....get in there hackers lol

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Perkel - 55 days 10 hours ago

then why ps3is unbreakable for modders ?:>

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Raz - 55 days 8 hours ago

It isn't unbreakable by modders - it's that there's no good reason to bother. Like trying to reinvent the wheel. I can understand modding 360s though; the temptation to try and fix it yourself after the nth breakdown must be overwhelming.

As for piracy: the principle is the same as Macs and PCs. Macs are rarely hacked because PC is the dominant brand. If/when PS3 gets a bigger install base than 360...it'll get hacked.

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SilPho - 55 days 8 hours ago

A large subset of the pirating scene like to crack machines so that they can execute their own code on there. This is possible with the older PS3s (not the slim ones).

While that didn't kill attempts to hack the PS3, I imagine it played a part in preventing too many hackers from trying. The PS3 can probably be hacked, but why bother when, for most people, there's nothing to gain

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siyrobbo - 55 days 2 hours ago

the PS3 will get hacked eventually im sure, just like gamecube last gen, they will find a way, eventually...

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edhe - 52 days 19 hours ago

ps3 can and will be hacked, there's just no real reason when there's better hardware for cracking cheaper on the shelves getting better versions of games with a superior online service.

As said above, the bigger the ps3 market the more likely it'll get hacked

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djfullshred - 55 days 17 hours ago

I don't know why people see the modders & hackers as some kind of Robin Hood characters, because they aren't. They certainly aren't doing it for the altruistic reasons they claim as some kind of justice against corporate tyranny. That is a lame boldface lie that only an idiot would believe. People steal software because they are crooks.

You are right that every honest customer is affected in the long run by piracy. The cheaters try to cozy up to the game communitity, acting as if they are a part of it, but they aren't. They only have what they have because we spend our money to support the industry. So by extension, they steal from us too.

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lsujester - 55 days 15 hours ago

The reason for punishing a class isn't necessarily for hate, but its in hope of the class having some degree of self-regulation. If the guy next to you is doing something that will get everyone in trouble, wouldn't you try to stop him if you could? That's the point, not for you to hate him.

And guys, MS hasn't punished everyone... only the people who have specifically done something that MS says you can't do. Don't act like the whole Xbox community has suffered because a bunch of modders got banned... their actions aren't hurting you in the least bit. Yeah, getting banned because you put a different HD in the box probably sucks, but the people who do that and get on Live are fully aware that MS doesn't want you to do that.

Even the idea of developers losing a huge amount of sales is debatable because a large amount of people who pirate games never would have bought them in the first place. Yeah, they might have bought a few, but definitely not the dozens of games they likely have pirated.

Besides, most people have pirated copyrighted material at some point or another. Ever DL'd an mp3 you didn't pay for? Ever torrented a movie? Ever watch network TV from somewhere other than somewhere like Hulu? Ever filmed a screen and posted it on YouTube? Ever copied a music CD from a friend and gave it back to him? Ever got a digital copy of a movie and gave it to someone else? Old enough to had a tape deck.. remember how it easy it was to copy those? If you have ever gotten a piece of copyrighted material you didn't pay for, then you are a pirate... same as all the people that just got banned.

EDIT: Sorry for the rant. Just see too much hypocrisy lately. I see some people laugh and curse at Xbox modders, and then in another post blast the MPAA and RIAA for defending copyrighted material.

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kaveti6616 - 55 days 14 hours ago

"Don't act like the whole Xbox community has suffered because a bunch of modders got banned... their actions aren't hurting you in the least bit."

Yeah, I don't think you thought that part through. Companies like Activision raise the prices of games to "overcome" piracy. Obviously, this is going to cause more piracy, but the percentage of people who still continue to pay for their games doesn't decrease too much. Thus, Activision makes a major profit and then continues to complain about piracy. Guess why games used to cost $49.99 last gen and now cost &59.99.

Believe it or not, but piracy hurts the honest gamer community. If the game is overpriced, don't buy it. Just because you CAN obtain it for free, doesn't mean you should. And maybe you don't have those morals, I don't know.

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lsujester - 55 days 12 hours ago

The price jump isn't really so much a piracy thing at all. It's a natural increase in price for the market. Cost of doing business is higher than it was five-ten years ago, so companies will naturally charge more for their products than they did then. The new prices were set as soon as the consoles were released, therefore long before the Xbox had its big piracy issues. Mark my words, even if the next generation of consoles are all completely hack-proof, we will still see prices rising more.

Developers may claim piracy is causing a loss of sales, and I can't disagree that it doesn't. But I'm also not naive enough to think that the overall industry would automatically go up 10% or more in overall revenue just because the box wasn't hackable.... because it wouldn't. You can't automatically assume every game that is DL'd would have been purchased otherwise, because there is no doubt that they would not have been. For instance, I downloaded Too Human. I hated the demo, so never would have bought it... but I got it for free so I gave it another chance.

Yeah, my argument wasn't laid out as nicely as I would have liked, but the point remains. Basically, I'm just saying that I don't think the piracy issue is quite as widespread and devastating as companies would like us to think. They have no way of knowing how many copies of their game were illegally downloaded, so piracy largely becomes an excuse. But ultimately it doesn't matter, because if it isn't piracy, it will be something else.

Much like the MPAA blaming all of its problems on pirates, while completely neglecting the fact that ticket prices have skyrocketed, movie quality has dropped with endless rehashes, and people generally have less spending money than they did just a few short years ago. The same with this industry... the more corporate it becomes, the more companies will press their will onto consumers. And then turn around and blame those consumers when they don't make as much as they would like to.

BTW, I'm not trying to justify pirating.. I know what I and others have been doing is wrong. I'm just trying to say that the knee-jerk reactions aren't necessarily that much better when the issue at hand is so much deeper.

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Stoney22 - 54 days 22 hours ago

You know not all of the people banned weren't pirating games. I bet A LOT of them simple decided to fix their own XBOX after the 5th+ time. Doing so isn't illegal. It might break one of the hidden T&C but then again Microsoft brought it on themselves for selling a faulty product and it's shocking they have yet to be prosecuting for it yet.
What if you didn't want to pay over 5-10 times as much on a HDD from Microsoft. What if you wanted to actually hear your games insted of a fan?
Don't be so angry and judgmental because SOME people wanted to fix their broken console so Microsoft banned them two days before the biggest game of the year hit.

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Gamer71 - 55 days 10 hours ago

...do ya think that might be because MS's antipiracy team is outnumbered my MILLIONS? Hackers have a subculture larger than some COUNTRIES. The Korean and Chinese governments PROMOTE hacking, and offer $$/incentives for hacking breakthroughs on international defense grids, banks, and various large corporations. THAT ALONE is enough for millions of kids to take interest in hacking...and it all starts with learning how to do "simple" hacks like this. MS really can't combat this effectively, without investing more than it's really worth to them.

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HypnoticMonkey - 55 days 19 hours ago

Yes because the average person will have the patience to do something like that.

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lsujester - 55 days 15 hours ago

Most modders paid for someone else to do the work, anyway. It could easily be a case of giving the guy two boxes and paying him again.

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mastiffchild - 55 days 19 hours ago

If you were tight enough to mod the last one why would you be the kind of person to do that? I don't advocate modding your console(except in the cases where people have fitted better fans because they HAD to for noise reasons and other things that the warranty won't cover anyway)but think you underestimate how annoyed some people get with MS over the extortionate Live subs-and just how much some people just dislike MS.

Believe me. I know people who game quite happily on other systems but have always, ALWAYS had modded Xboxes. Partly it started because(where I live anyway)the US was getting games earlier than we did and people wanted the games quicker-that simple and then it went on so long it became a kind of tradition. I've got one acquaintnance who even loks on it as a game in iotself and you can't reason with that attitude and it's why MS should ban accounts as well as consoles.

Mainly, though, if someone was angry enough at MS to pirate in the first place can you really see them feeling any better towards them now? No way they'll just do it again. Also this banning does nothing to counter those who cheat in online games. The use of lad switches and modded controllers is getting worse all the time on Live AND PSN and I on't see how they can really do a great deal about it when , if they can fool the console they can basically fool MS too-they just pput the cheat device at a later place along their connection than the console if they're lag switching and there's similar things for other cheats.

Thenm again, why would MS care about that? They still get their money. Sadly, even we gamers are powerless against the cheats of this world and while I don't see what they get from cheating to be good they'll always do it. FFS I was watching my kid play MKWii the other day and people werecheating on THAT! One guy just ALWAYS seemed to have a blue shell! IDK how but that's what he was doing-hanging back a little and then letting it go over and over and over whenever someone got past him-where is the fun there?

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lsujester - 55 days 15 hours ago

Yeah, but the cost of multiple games is NOT chicken feed, which is the major attraction of pirating them in the first place. I personally go through at least a game a week, sometimes multiple ones depending on work and what games are being played. I do buy some, but there is no way I could buy all the ones I go through... even if I got them from Craigslist, eBay, etc. I'm sure most modders are the same way.

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RuPaul - 55 days 15 hours ago

It's not nearly as easy as the headline makes it sound.

I think MS is doing a fine job at stopping piracy.

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Major_Tom - 55 days 7 hours ago

So how are they exactly stopping piracy by banning people off of Xbox Live?

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AngryTypingGuy - 55 days 4 hours ago

@ XIII - Yeah, if you actually take time to read the very short article, you'd see that this is a risky, complex process, that actually requires you to have a second, non-banned console anyway. Very few people will do this or be able to do this.

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Xlll - 55 days 2 hours ago

@AngryTypingGuy actually a modder buddy of mine has unbanned about 25 360's already for 60$ each.

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2good4u2 - 55 days 2 hours ago

"So how are they exactly stopping piracy by banning people off of Xbox Live?"

if people know they're gonna get banned they'll think twice before pirating

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Major_Tom - 54 days 21 hours ago

It hasn't deterred any one of my friends.

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2good4u2 - 54 days 7 hours ago

your friends aren't the world you know...
i hate things like that. "i had no problems with firmware 3 the first 5 hours i used it so this is BS!!!!"

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AngryTypingGuy - 53 days 20 hours ago

@XIII - Yeah, I'm sure he has. You're full of crap.

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blikz - 51 days 19 hours ago

Not all people in Singapore and Malaysia play pirated games though...
And Ps3 sells in Malaysia is increasing..

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