Xbox Live Banning Wave Options

[phistyle]

I haven't connected to live yet this morning, should I then just leave my cable disconnected and wait a few weeks untill it's over?

I don't know why people always say disconnect your cable until it's over...it doesnt work......if you are going to get banned you are going to get banned...During the last wave of bans people was saying the same crap....unplug your ethernet wire and wait it out til a new firmware hit...I surely did it and updated my firmware...loaded up my xbox tried to connect to live then bam....instant ban....

[wawnord]

I haven't connected to live yet this morning, should I then just leave my cable disconnected and wait a few weeks untill it's over?

That doesn't matter... You can't rescue you with pulling out the cable and waiting till the BanningWave ends.

[HotKnife420]

Good for them...try not modding your drive and actually pay for stuff. it's amazing how much better things are when we just pay for games. Sheesh Backups?? BS!!! if you go on Live, then pay for your games, it's that simple.
Uto

You can't group everyone together. Many people here who use backups own every game they have a backup of, and those who do otherwise are not welcome here.

Unfortunately, when things like this happen, everyone claims the same thing, and it's that much harder to solve (if the dishonest people are claiming they were honest, then they're remaining dishonest, and can't give accurate facts, etc).

Either way, when you modify your system, you know it could be banned; we've been spoiled by having XBL accessibility, and everyone thinks they should have the best of both worlds. I just hope MS isn't banning consoles on a "maybe" again (last time it resulted in numerous unjust bans).

[LordPhantom]

allright then, I'll connect and see what happens, in worse case I'll warm up the Visa and get another box


EDIT: Tested and I'm not banned, brand new Elite with Lite-on swapped for a Hitachi, runnin 1.4. Played all latest games on Live (GOW2, ...)

Keeping fingers crossed.

This post has been edited by LordPhantom: Nov 11 2008, 08:31 AM

[mcdevitt1985]

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=666197

Whoever put the post on the front page of xbox-scene.com should change the link to that one.

MUCH MUCH more active discussion going on there about the ban and the details of it.

[whitecom]

Hi there, Reporting in

First Gen Xbox360 1.4 firmware only,

Have Played recently
Gears of War 2
Scene It :BOS
Tom Clancys: EndWar

Have Not Played:
Shaun White
Fallout 3

Just logged onto Xbox Live at 1:00AM EST; not banned.
All Games checked out w/ abgx360, ntsc. all games burned on verbatim, games have been played on live.

Here's hoping microsoft had a small list.

[gamesquest1]

well i had a friend tell me ages ago that new games where going to be recording data to be sent to xbox live when you connect so evenif you play a bad stealthed game with out connecting to xbox live any xbox live games will then collect all the gathered info and send back to HQ lol i thought he was chattin shit coz nobody got banned i a big sweep for like a year hope this isnt the case although i suppose they could have been waiting untill they tried to rebrand the console and freshen it, wht better way than ban as many old cosoles as possible

[ciscogrant]

Got a call from a guy I just modded his benQ (iExtreme 1.41) a few weeks ago and he was banned today (11/10/2008). He was playing the Gears 2 release from 360inT and did not run Mulleter on the iso before burning it (if you run the Mulleter fix against it, it will patch it). He was also playing G2 well before release date while unplugged from xbox live.

I'll report any more bans that I hear of and try to put as much info in as possible.

[LightningStruckMyXbox]

I guess I'll know as soon as the NXE launches. I've got a BenQ drive with 1.4.1 fw only played backups with good ss. c4eva says he's going to be doing a live log in about an hour.

[Jay_Snake]

Is there anyone who got banned on a spoofed drive?

Just for the info as I didn't see anyone like that yet on several forums and IRC.

Hi there, Reporting in

Last Gen Xbox360 1.4 firmware only: MS28 Drive (spoofed Liteon)

Have Played recently
Fifa 09 (online)
Fallout 3 (disconnected Live)
Tom Clancys: EndWar (disconnected Live)
Secret Service (With Live connected)
James Bond QOS (Online)
COD WaW (disconnected Live)

Have Not Played:
Shaun White
Mirrors Edge

Just logged onto Xbox Live at 7:46 GMT + 1; not banned.
All Games checked out w/ abgx360, pal/ntsc.

[cRACKmONKEY421]

what was the original DVD drive in your xbox, and what is the new one if you've changed it? Just from the previous posts here it looks like only samsungs are being banned, but it's still very unclear.

This post has been edited by cRACKmONKEY421: Nov 11 2008, 08:49 AM

[HaredX]

So far most if not all of the posts I have seen of people getting banned have been running the 1.4 firmware. Can anyone who's banned confirm that they are running the 1.41 firmware? Hitachi 0047dj with ixtreme 1.41 here, not banned.

[Mott]

Not banned here.

1.4 firmware and no clue what my drive is. I have always been smart about playing unreleased games on my memory stick without the internet or HD plugged in and I always check my iso files with mulleter.

This post has been edited by Mott: Nov 11 2008, 08:54 AM

[Jay_Snake]

what was the original DVD drive in your xbox, and what is the new one if you've changed it? Just from the previous posts here it looks like only samsungs are being banned, but it's still very unclear.

Original: Lite-On DG16D2S
New One: Samsung MS 28

And it's not just Samsungs, seen reports of BenQ's being banned as well.

[StaTiKMaT]

I guess I'll know as soon as the NXE launches. I've got a BenQ drive with 1.4.1 fw only played backups with good ss. c4eva says he's going to be doing a live log in about an hour.

You can still do a live connection test and get status codes with the NXE installed.

So far most if not all of the posts I have seen of people getting banned have been running the 1.4 firmware. Can anyone who's banned confirm that they are running the 1.41 firmware? Hitachi 0047dj with ixtreme 1.41 here, not banned.

I think a lot of the people stating 1.4 are just not being specific and are actually running 1.41.