600,000 Xboxes Banned - Target 1 Million

[killer]

According to unconfirmed reports, MS has banned approximately 600,000 Xbox 360's in their latest wave of bans. Apparently MS are aiming to ban 1 million modified Xbox 360's by the time Christmas is over. Seems like a Merry Christmas!

A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada.

The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over.

Another post has surfaced from said employee....

"I will post in here and hope my identity is not compromised as I will get into severe trouble.

This is what i do. I am an Xbox Live checks manager and I am the guy who helps run through the data being sent to Xbox Live that has been flagged for banning and was also discussed a very long time ago of what will "bring down all modified Xboxs"

I myself have an Cbox that has been modified because i think it is a crime what they do charging so much when the games don't even cost Microsoft half of what they are getting. Anyway, we have found a way to read the firmware. The NXE update has allowed us to do a check on the current firmware installed on the dvd drive.

The reason this was not flagged was because the code was not active. As you might have heard it was discussed about a "self destruct" code embedded in the NXE update and even before that. This was that code it wasn't a self destruct code but actually a check that was done on all drives.

This check was begun when the update was to "prepare for the last.fm facebook and twitter" this in fact was the code sent out to begin checks on ALL Xboxs.

These checks would send us information on the firmware written to the drive not the exact kind but we did an extensive form of hash check on the drive and could actually find out if it was modified in any way.

This was particularly easy on the lite-on as it was actually manufactured to serve for this purpose as our testing model.

We will not ban all consoles at once and yes all information about you has been collected a long time ago.

We have THOUSANDS of Xboxs reporting bad checks meaning modified firmware. Not all people will be banned and all the bans are done at random times

Multiple checks have been done over this amount of time so we could assure the modified Xboxs were truly modified and not just returning corrupt data.

I am sorry i did not com forward with this information sooner but this information has been critical to the cat and mouse game

This check was also done back in the xtreme days if anyone remembers that when c4eva had to rewrite it to allow the checks to come back clean well this must be done again.

Sorry all for the bannings but it is a natural process and I wish you all luck and hope you do not get banned

If you do await the new firmware that is begin developed and cheers to you all you wanted to know it now you got it.

 

[CyberHacK]

Damn....

 

[-Im.z2ight-]

Xbox sucks and microsoft tries to rip everyone off.

 

[Loget]

Shouldn't they have done this after xmas? Pretty sad how many kids will open up there presents (new games) go to there xbox to play and find themselves banned! Merry xmas!

 

[SJshah]

^ they did it for to COD:MW2 as they know it's the biggest game release of the year, and activision probably did put extra pressure on Microsoft to stop people from using downloaded games.

 

[Hyperz]

XBox ftw! Oh wait...

8-)

 

[Chri5]

D:
i hope i dont get banned, i betray A LOT

 

[fanobliv]

bad news ...

 

[Raven Faust]

And this part is legit how? Any MS employee would NEVER post this nor say that.. And Where did you "get this" ? Xbox ALWAYS Bans Modded Consoles' and has been since the START of X360, EVERY Console has a unique ID, that ID Sends info to the XBOX Live Center as soon as your connected to XBL, And it tells them if the console has had ANY data change and size change in the original package.
So this is new how?

 

[djeuro]

this is perfect time for the sony's ps3 price for only 300$

 

[Raven Faust]

I had a ps3 , not any good games as of yet, but this comming year GOD Of War, oh my ! Looks amazing, and the Streaming of Videos from PC to PS3 is much easier than the xbox. But i still like Xbox's Co-op and the ability to play against other gamers, its much easier on xbox than the ps3.. but the PS3 Home is amazing.

so its 50/50 on both.. They did lower the price and changed some things of the ps3 by looks but its still the same old thing.. im buying a wii lol

 

[carl2k2]

well, my m8 got banned, was his own fault tbh so i cant really offer any sympothy for anyone cos i was really annoyed that people could get away with having free games when I was paying £30+, but still unlucky for those who cant afford to buy another console?

 

[yais]

PS3 ftw!!!

 

[djeuro]

I had a ps3 , not any good games as of yet, but this comming year GOD Of War, oh my ! Looks amazing, and the Streaming of Videos from PC to PS3 is much easier than the xbox. But i still like Xbox's Co-op and the ability to play against other gamers, its much easier on xbox than the ps3.. but the PS3 Home is amazing.

so its 50/50 on both.. They did lower the price and changed some things of the ps3 by looks but its still the same old thing.. im buying a wii lol

well the ps3 and xbox basically have pretty much the same games..

then for co-op you can do on ps3 also, and plus you dont have to pay for xbox live, ps3 online is free.

and resistance fall of man was good game too

 

[Saime]

console suck dick in general anyway. learn to game on PC, you could get so much more from PC for the money some people spend on consoles.

 

[Elio]

u end up wasting a lot more money in pc gaming in the long run

 

[Myth?]

Wow thats alot.

 

[Phamous]

What happened was, kids thought they were slick by downloading MW2 and playing it before the release date. They go and play online with the 100,000 other retards and the next day, they're banned.

 

[Jayar]

hmmm maybe we tell them not to play unreleased games on live before it comes out for a reason?

 

[BlowBack]

DAMN, thank god i didn't hack mine xD.
Too bad for the guys that modified theirs.

Consoles are a waste of money, they're too expensive and you get bored of almost every single game once you're over with it, which leads you to buy more games and just happens the same thing over and over again, and by the time you wanna get rid of it you get two bucks in exchange lol.