One Million Users Banned From Xbox Live!
This story is a bit of a no brainer really – what did people think was going to happen? Modifying your console so you can download and burn games may seem like a good idea but in the end you’ll lose out.
These are comments from a self confessed ‘pirate’;
“…The Xbox for me is just about playing online, that’s why I love it – well did! It was a big day yesterday, the latest game we’ve been waiting months and months for. We’ve played the whole series and this one’s come out, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All loading up, everything’s going well, I was happy. It came on to the start screen of Call of Duty and I thought, ‘Do you know what, let me quickly sign in online’. I sign in online and next thing I see, ‘Your console has been banned from Xbox’. I was pretty distraught at the time, I can’t remember exactly what it said but I saw the words ‘banned’ and I was gutted, completely gutted. At first I was in shock, I mean it’s always at the back of your head using pirate games you know there’s that possibility but you haven’t heard about it, there’s been no warnings and you haven’t heard it happen to anyone in the last two years…”
“…I wasn’t expecting it. I was just like, ‘OK, what do I do now? Is this just a joke?’ So I thought, ‘Let me restart the Xbox’. I restarted, signed in again, same message. I did that three times, same message. I was pulling my hair out thinking, ‘No, why me?’It’s like telling someone their dogs just died. It was pretty much like that for me. I love it, I love playing Xbox live. I play with my mates all the time. It’s just a good laugh, we all sit there chatting, playing games. Now I don’t know what to do…”
“…I still think they should lower the prices. There are 16-year-old kids out there, they don’t earn money so they go screaming to their parents saying, ‘Can you buy me this game?’ Fair enough, one game once in a while but the amount of games coming out, good games, everyone wants to play them all. And for them to pay £50 a game? I’ve probably saved about £600 and I’ve copied roughly 30 or 40 games. A lot of them I’ve downloaded or I’ve taken off friends that have downloaded themselves. To be honest, I’ve contemplated whether to move to Playstation 3 or buy another Xbox. I wouldn’t do it again but I really don’t know if I’m going to get the Xbox again now…”
So this guy is called Raz and these were his comments after having had totally free gaming for 2 years and self confessing to downloading and burning up to 40 games! He claims to have saved around £600 but the figure is closer to £1500. Sure games aren’t the cheapest media on the market but Sainsburys are doing the new Call Of Duty game for £26 – I fail to believe any fan of the genre (being an 18 cert game) couldn’t afford to buy it at that price, if you’ve been waiting for release.
Lesson learned I say, you got away with it for 2 years…
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