Attempting to break a street date on a game gets you banned if Gamestop or someone else happened to sell the game to you early. At least it did on 360.
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On Xbone, getting banned from XBL maybe revokes(?) access to your games
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Attempting to break a street date on a game gets you banned if Gamestop or someone else happened to sell the game to you early. At least it did on 360.
TheDarkKnight774
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The gaming equivalent of nuclear deterrence!
VAC bans are for cheating but aren't there also full fledged bans for things like mule-ing games from, say, Russia, to pricier regions?
I'd guess with their mandatory authentication they'll stop doing that and just tell you that you can't play the game until the official release date. Kinda like what Steam does. If not...
Altered Juice
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this will be interesting....
No, it is not the same as steam.
Honestly, the best part of playing Uno on Xbox Live was the abundant number of people that would use the Xbox camera thingy and quickly show their genitals. It was like a game within the game. You either have to pause the game fast enough so the main menu blocks out the genitals, or the host would have to have quick enough reflexes to ban the person from the lobby.
Here's a NEWSFLASH: Many, many gamers last gen were wrongfully banned from the Xbox 360 at one point or another.
Justify that.
Devil Theory
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This is really crazy if true.
That's terrible enough as it is, but losing access to your physical disc copies too is what makes it absolutely insane.
Microsoft is demonstrating here that sometimes having "accounts" with all your games tied to it can be scary shit if the company doling them out is not to be trusted. We're yielding a lot of our rights away when agreeing to these Terms of Service...
dragonbane
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What has this to do with this thread? There was a thread created for this, because it is indeed good news...if true....and no limitations.
reptilescorpio
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Unenforceable in a lot of countries. No way MS would try and pull this off.
B1gg_Randall
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Are you serious,man.This is crazy.
This is the case with any digital distribution DRM platform. It's the same with Origin, it's the same with Steam. It's not because the support account said it, but because it's industry standard and common sense with what Microsoft has announced so far.
So, I guess if you plan on modding your Xbox hardware in any way, it would be foolish to get games from legitimate ways. At least hackers usually stay away from strict DRM and avoid trying to crack that sort of thing. For the record: Not advocating piracy. Don't buy an Xbox. My official position is "Don't pirate any xbox games, because that would require buying the console. And don't do that. Go buy the games on PS4 or PC." But it's going to happen.
So, I guess if you plan on modding your Xbox hardware in any way, it would be foolish to get games from legitimate ways. At least hackers usually stay away from strict DRM and avoid trying to crack that sort of thing. For the record: Not advocating piracy. Don't buy an Xbox. My official position is "Don't pirate any xbox games, because that would require buying the console. And don't do that. Go buy the games on PS4 or PC." But it's going to happen.
Part of me is telling me its going to get worse yet.
The Penguin Fairy
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Shit, is this even legal?
How easy is it to get banned on XBL anyways?
How easy is it to get banned on XBL anyways?
This. So, my official statement is "fuck that noise". The list of reasons not to get an Xbone just keeps getting longer and longer every time they open their mouths.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Every single day, it's something new. Are we ever going to get good news on this thing?
Shai-Tan
Banned
only because piracy exists on 360. a lot of games were released online days or weeks before the official release date
Nowhere Man
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This just keeps getting better. Next they'll reveal that Kinect will check to make sure you aren't wearing any inappropriate clothing.
Mass Effect
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something something small minority something
threetri333
Banned
The penalty can get as high as to the year 9999. How often this happens, I don't know.
Because all bans are 100% justified 100% of the time
Mister Negative
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Are you sure about that? I always remember the buzz around town during big launches being that if you had a legitimate copy and played early, you were fine.
Like the Military right?
Dead Prince
Banned
Microsoft is going to TGS.
The only good news will be bought with moneyhats and marketing.
TheRedSnifit
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Because you're worth it.
Cue carnival music.
Cue carnival music.
ChosenPredator
Banned
hope so - never want those people online anyways so if it minimizes them good for us
Werent there people banned for playing games before release date? They werent pirated copies either. That happened to someone here for Halo 4.
Also you can easily be trolled and have a random dick report you for no reason that can lead to a ban or at least temp ban
The only good out of this is potentially scaring people off from being dumbasses on the mics and messages.
Just shot support a tweet, let's see how they respond.
"@XboxSupport If I am banned from Xbox Live, why can't i play single player games that I payed $60 for? What if Ban is illegit, or mistake?"
EA does this with Origin, so why can't Microsoft? Heck you can apparently lose all your Origin games by getting banned on their forums even. Scary.
This thing just keeps getting worse. All I can do is shake my head at this point.
There was that guy last November who had his entire Xbox banned for playing a copy of Halo 4 he (claimed to have) legitimately bought? Now imaging that taking away everything you've ever bought for the console.Imagine a glitch two years after launch that bans random people with no fix.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
IrishNinja
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holy shit, that's even more troubling
i do indeed recall this - i assumed it was a box banning though, or was it account related? not saying the former is acceptable, mind
so you're just gonna ignore the legit people who caught bannings, then? the lawful-good alignment never made much sense to me
Uno Venova
Banned
No way Xbox support has to have gotten that wrong.
Don't bots do all the banning and the CSR's just pretend they investigated and say "I looked into it and the ban will stand as issued"?
Remember that guy who got banned for living in Ft Gay and the CSR wasn't allowed to use critical thinking?
That's the only possible explanation. Seriously WTF are they doing over there, all their PR and communication has been a complete disaster.
Yeah_its_Bob
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What difference does it make? You purchase the virtual item with your money its yours to own.
Uh, there still needs to be online authentication every 24 hours. If a ban pertains to blocking or not allowing the person to access anything online, that would mean you can't play games anymore until the ban if lifted.
Yeah, it's like getting wrongly arrested: it can happen, and likely will to some people. Only way to avoid that is if they were omniscient, and they'd have avoided this whole mess if they had that kind of power.
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