Microsoft Crushes Reach Pirates with Banhammer
- Thread starter Logan Westbrook
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Well, first off I disagree that the punishment was excessive - the rest of us are having to wait just a few more weeks until Reach, and if they're so incredibly impatient that they can't even wait that long and have to resort to piracy, the deserve permabans.
But secondly, Microsoft is a profit-making organisation. While I bet "keeping them the fuck away from Halo: Reach for as long as possible" was probably of high importance to them, of even higher importance would be "MAKE MONEY". These people have got to buy new Xbox 360s and create new Accounts, both of which cost money that goes to Microsoft.
I agree with this completely. And what about those of us who have been waiting for so long to see this game? As a self-confessed Halo and Bungie fanboy, a Microsoft supporter (when they aren't being really greedy), and just generally someone who appreciates good games, I've personally been looking forward to Reach for a very long time now, ever since the book The Fall Of Reach was published. Quite frankly, pirating such a game, or indeed any game, is nothing more than an insult and a slap in the face to all the hard working men and women who put their time, effort, energy, and sleepless nights into making it, so that gamers can enjoy the fruits of their labour. I'm glad Microsoft has taken this approach to the leak, and I hope other developers and publishers also follow suit as and when their games are leaked before release.Arkhangelsk said:
I agree completely. It serves them right.Legion said:
I mean I just can't believe that they thought this was a good idea, I mean the game is coming out in like, three weeks time now? So hence there wouldn't really be much of a profit to be made handing out bootlegs especially knowing that Microsoft would be on to anyone involved with the distribution or purchase of said bootlegs.
Seriously though, good show Microsoft. I will not allow hackers to ruin Reach for me.
Well this will have absolutely no effect other than to add more modded Xbox 360s into the market. Here is what will happen. People are going to sell their banned 360s to their friends who don't care about online play but will think it's cool as hell to be able to play pirated games or they will sell it on Craigslist either way they will just turn around and buy and mod a new one. I know more than a few people that have sold multiple banned 360s to people and then turn around and sell em burnt games at five or ten bucks a pop.
there are emultaors, friend of mine has one running on his desktop and he can also use his xbox controller on his PC, but he is a freak whizz wit a comp.Talvrae said:
also, dont the people who use modded xbox's play offline only anyway? i dunno much about it, just a guess?
I am reminded of a nearly identical previous article [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/76674-Xbox-Hackers-Download-And-Play-Halo-3] regarding Halo 3. It's good to know that the world is able to continually replenish our natural supply of stupid. I will now quote myself, from September 2007:Logan Westbrook said:
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