Xbox Live Banning Wave Options

[shadowth]

That's exactly what I tought. The checks are still the same. I'm pretty sure it's one of those early releases which caught people with their pants down.

I haven't got a new game in months (no $ for DL discs lol). I just went online just fine. Not baned.

Hitachi 79FK
iXtreme 1.4
Zephyr

I am using the hddhackr deal. But, instead of using those "public" hddss.bin, I got one from a friend, which I'm pretty sure he didn't leak it on the internet, so there's just the two of us with that S/N.

[RyTrvs]

yo i havnt been banned yet fingers crossed touch wood and all that
i have the oldest firm as i failed at trying to update it tryed 2 of my pc's with sata i think i have a wrong chipset and they cant boot from flashdrive anyways! my console ive had it for over 2 years always play online the past year though with the ban scare i set my played games to only friends can see and the past 6 months i dont play games online or save anyway before release dates !
and whenever there is a scare i clear my cache like i did today i checked my live status all cool so i have just tryed my own kreon rip of saints row 2 and suprise works fine online it did ask me to update because i cleared cache i was shitting myself but all was cool thank god
i have gow2 allstars version havnt been online with it yet dont know wether i should it is meant to be fully stealthed and retail i played it early but didnt save or log on my account i also have a version of cod5 i wanted to try but running it through abgx it says bad kreon for lower firm than 1.4 and same with mirrors edge

[O_oTheGameo_O]

NOT banned here...

INFO:

xbox 360 elite with benq but I spoofed it with samsung ms25.

Played all preview games eg; fallout 3 and gears of war 2.

I live in The Netherlands.

[ccfman2004]

Over a week ago my friend told me that there a torrent of GOW2. I told him, I know, but I don't download 360 games because you never know what you are downloading and I feel you have a much greater risk of being banned from live.

I only play backup from games I ripped myself.

I would not put it past MS to purposely leak GOW2 with some kind code that tags your console for ban.

[RichMR2]

personally i doubt it will be from fallout3 or any other none microsoft games that got leaked early on purpose, if they got caught they would get fined huge.

My guess is they are doing it on microsoft games, maybe leaked early.
So Gears of war 2, like halo 3 bans - microsoft only games.

saints row 2 - microsoft game - alot of people are reporting of being banned from this

Can anyone confirm that they have been banned and NOT played saints of row 2?

I can check if the early SR2 causes a ban when I get home. I have a console which has only ever had this review copy in it. However, I doubt the ban wave is limited to only 1 game... I will post later with what I find out.

[RyTrvs]

yo i havnt been banned yet fingers crossed touch wood and all that
i have the oldest firm as i failed at trying to update it tryed 2 of my pc's with sata i think i have a wrong chipset and they cant boot from flashdrive anyways! my console ive had it for over 2 years always play online the past year though with the ban scare i set my played games to only friends can see and the past 6 months i dont play games online or save anyway before release dates !
and whenever there is a scare i clear my cache like i did today i checked my live status all cool so i have just tryed my own kreon rip of saints row 2 and suprise works fine online it did ask me to update because i cleared cache i was shitting myself but all was cool thank god
i have gow2 allstars version havnt been online with it yet dont know wether
i should it is meant to be fully stealthed and retail i played it early but didnt save or log on my account i also have a version of cod5 i wanted to try but running it through abgx it says bad kreon for lower firm than 1.4 and same with mirrors edge anyone confirm playing these i have seen alot of forums saying these r the games to watch and to be honest i think i-extreme 1.4 isnt as safe as everyone makes out am confued.
Am gonna by a new system for crimbo what is the latest firm and do u think am best waiting for a newer one with all this crap and the dash update happening many thanx peeps!

[irnchriz]

that's really shitty dude. meaning that even a proper ixtreme software and stealthed games can get you in shit? holy crap!!!
I hate those dudes at MS, here in Holland it's legal to have a security copy of your own game. and MS preventing this. to be honest if these fucks from europe would act on Ms and say if no safety copies can work than we should do something to protect the consumer, and they should than kick MS (and other console makers) and tell them to come and sell consoles here in europe after they allow an option of playing safety copies for users....
those freaking MS pricks, very smart indeed. wait until you release great games for online play, throw a couple of them on torrents too early yourselve, sell people your old 20gb harddrives getting them ready for the new update. than bann the shit out of them.
nett result, you got rid of those old harddrives, and sell some new consoles, all those people who payed for live banned.

for fucks sake if they would just allow people to safety copy their own games. and that this is essential we have already seen it from thei screwup with the drives in the beginning

What an impressively pathetic attempt a somehow justifying your life of piracy. Being from Holland you must be smoking some serious ganja to think that you are somehow in the right.

[ccfman2004]

yo i havnt been banned yet fingers crossed touch wood and all that
i have the oldest firm as i failed at trying to update it tryed 2 of my pc's with sata i think i have a wrong chipset and they cant boot from flashdrive anyways! my console ive had it for over 2 years always play online the past year though with the ban scare i set my played games to only friends can see and the past 6 months i dont play games online or save anyway before release dates !
and whenever there is a scare i clear my cache like i did today i checked my live status all cool so i have just tryed my own kreon rip of saints row 2 and suprise works fine online it did ask me to update because i cleared cache i was shitting myself but all was cool thank god
i have gow2 allstars version havnt been online with it yet dont know wether i should it is meant to be fully stealthed and retail i played it early but didnt save or log on my account i also have a version of cod5 i wanted to try but running it through abgx it says bad kreon for lower firm than 1.4 and same with mirrors edge

Even if you don't save, there are logs that are saved internally, not on a hard drive or mem unit.

[slickz01]

Not banned. Xenon 360 which originally had a 79fl drive. Have a ms25 spoofed and flashed with latest ixtreme. Never played a backup as I only replaced the drive as MS screwed me on a warranty repair on a dead dvd drive.

[vydex]

Just a quick update to my previous post and to confirm the following for the info

elite benq 1.4.1 ixtreme (no other firmware ever flashed to drive straight out of the box and flashed)

Not played any seed4me releases on the this xbox always checked with abgx260 to make sure dumps are stealthed.

So far this console has not been banned..

ms28 premium console (one of the first out flashed straight out of the box to 1.4 ixtreme)

I have played seed4me releases on this console fallout 3, saints row 2, gears of war 2, fracture always checked with abgx260 to make sure dumps are stealthed.

So far this console has not been banned


It would be more helpful if people could just post the information I have instead of trying to speculate why the ban wave has commenced. From what I have been reading people are assuming it is the seed4me releases that is causing the ban wave but judging from my own experience this may not be the case.

[RyTrvs]

where do they save mate and can u prove that do u work for m$ am just complety puzzeled and bill gates is a b**ch!

[O_oTheGameo_O]

What an impressively pathetic attempt a somehow justifying your life of piracy. Being from Holland you must be smoking some serious ganja to think that you are somehow in the right.

You guys really don't know what weed/hash does to your body?

In USA they think when you smoke weed you are taking crack or something.

Weed is being smoked for ever by people, it's from NATURE, nothing really bad.

I don't smoke weed but I tried it my self before getting all lame about it.

Really it got me happy for some time and that was all. I did not wanted to kill someone, did not start talking crap just lol allot. But you keep just believe what your government tells you.

And yes this guy is a dickhead getting scared to get banned when you know you are doing something wrong.

[LuvMyElite]

If it is the Seed4Me copies doing this then I think I only played that Saints Row 2 Review copy on my old xbox because I only recently got my elite flashed. I hope I did anyway. If I did then I think i'm safe, for now - Touch Wood.

[-markie-]

You guys really don't know what weed/hash does to your body?

In USA they think when you smoke weed you are taking crack or something.

Weed is being smoked for ever by people, it's from NATURE, nothing really bad.

I don't smoke weed but I tried it my self before getting all lame about it.

Really it got me happy for some time and that was all. I did not wanted to kill someone, did not start talking crap just lol allot. But you keep just believe what your government tells you.

And yes this guy is a dickhead getting scared to get banned when you know you are doing something wrong.

anyway moving back to the topic in hand please

[antz1970]

where do they save mate and can u prove that do u work for m$ am just complety puzzeled and bill gates is a b**ch!

it was confirmed ages ago that the xbox kept a log of any games that were played , i cant link you to the info ,but it is true , as for bill gates being a b**ch wouldnt you do the same thing if people were ripping you off for millions of $$$$$$$ , dont hate on bill , sad attitude to take