X-box

[Andy™]

so x-box have banned users who have chipped boxes to play copied games, from their online services.

and then they complain.

from a news story, one person complains about the

 

[Badger]

yes, i have a wii from nintendo and onl use legit games on it, as i dont thnik pirate copying is correct, its not right,

 

[sellers]

Interesting fact i heard the other day

People who illegaly download music on a regular basis spend more money on legal music, than people who don't.

I think games should be cheaper, for example, Call of duty, 26quid in sainsbury's RRP 55. In a few days time the price will obviously go up. Goes to show how cheaply they can be sold for.

 

[Andy™]

sell for less, sell more, overall more profit

 

[Dane]

Good on them

Although i dont play any console at all, got a Nintendo Wii bought it and never removed from box!

The games are a tad expensive!

 

[bob]

i totally agree with it, they should have "product codes" for them to stop copying.

i know a few people that use dodgy software and that annoys me to think they will never get caught for itX( :_|

bob

 

[vandalay]

26 for cod at Sainsburys, what a load of.... got there 10 mins after open told it was sold out (about 10 copies) but were getting more in tomorrow at full price obviously.

 

[SeánH]

Imo I think microsoft have done the right thing. But to me its a catch22 situation. People moan about the prices being so high and therefore decide to chip consoles and copy games. Which inturn forces companies to raise their prices in order to maintain the income from games.

As Andy

 

[sellers]

I don't have any copied games, it has been known for a few years that people would get banned if they used them. It seems like xbox have gone ahead with their threats.

 

[Apache]

Although I own no sort of games console I tend to see it as enterprising when people get around the copyright on hugely expensive games.

Why not let people download them legally for half price? When I was in my teens a CD cost ~

 

[green-hornet]

I actually see both sides of the argument.

I work for a major anti cheat community, all our admin work, in their own spare time, to do this work.

If any of you go online via steam, then I and admin like me are the ones who give global bans to known detectable cheats.

However, the xbox was reported at least 2 years ago by microsoft, in that report they had found a way to detect chipped boxes, and so where able to disable the xbox live feature for those boxes.

I must admit they did wait until the highest impact would be seen.

With the release of the largest selling game to come out in the last 5 years or so, if not all time, they did their homework, and hit everyone hard in one single action.