Microsoft has permanently banned all the idiots people who downloaded and played the leaked copy of Halo: Reach online, less than a month before its official release September 14.
The guilty morons online pirates received an email from Microsoft stating their “Xbox LIVE account privileges have been permanently suspended due to illegitimate pre-release title play,” and not only had their boxes banned, but their online tags as well, MaxConsole reported.
Xbox LIVE director of policy tweeted about the permabans, writing, “as with all unauthorized play on Xbox LIVE, anyone playing any unauthorized title runs the risk of account permaban and console.”
Basically, if you are dumb enough to play a pirated game online before it is released, especially one as high-profile as Halo: Reach, you’ll never play another game online through that console again.
Duh.
Looks like someone wielded their axe against piracy
And I cant really blame them. The game hasnt come out yet, you dont want that the story, gameplay, etc. is being leaked prematurly on to youtube among other things, next to the whole “its illegal” part.
Normally, when a company does something that end up penalizing a gamer and then playing the ‘piracy’ card, I get angry.
Now I don’t. This time the measure isn’t ridiculously overblown, and only hurting the pirates. Microsoft clearly reached for their swords and fended off the boarding action and prevented the leaking ship from sinking!
Piracy isn’t the smartest thing to do, but getting caught with something like this is just as Jess put it: “dumb”
Good
kinectmove by Microsoft.And to all you 360-gamers out there, have fun with Reach when it is released!
that was really funny. who the hell would risk a permaban or whatever you called it for something like that. Come on, a MONTH, you couldn’t wait a single MONTH!? A dated FPS about purple aliens invading the world? no offense, halo is pretty fun but definitely not worth something like that. Oh the malice! Sorry but..lolololol
You’re so right, Skippy. They couldn’t wait less than a month for a game to come out to risk getting their console permabanned from Xbox Live? LAME.
I’m glad Microsoft is cracking down on these idiots. I just hope no-one gets wrongfully banned due to gamer tag identity theft and the like. It’s bound to happen, or it already has….
Way to go Microsoft! I’m just lost on how not signing in or disabling the auto sign-in nvr even crossed their minds. Buffoonery…
Coincidentally, all of the crossed out words describe the Xbox community in its entirety.
Oh man, this is exactly what happened to Halo 3 pirates a few years back.
Whats the sense in playing it early if you can’t do it online? oO
Sounds kind of stupid to me. ^^
Just so you folks know, the leaked version is only playable on JTAG hacked 360s. Those boxes get banned either way when connecting to LIVE (although there are methods to remove the ban on them, but they will get banned again…).
So this is like some solders saying: We found 5 terrorists, infected with a non contagious, lethal in one day disease. And we shoot them, so now they are dead.
And yet here you are proving that you are no better than the community you are making fun of.
On topic, I’m glad to see MS going after these people and I wish they would do it more frequently. Pirates only hurt the rest of us with their actions (DRM is of course a direct result of pirating).
Not really. Piracy is an easy scapegoat though.
Oh, so it’s absolutely fine for the writer of the article to call people morons, but god forbid that I make a joke about it.
And your comment about DRM shows how clueless you are about the subject.