Hilarity from the offices of Xbox Live, as the users who obtained an illegal copy of Halo 3 have been banned forever. Well, scratch that ... it's only until 12/31/9999. That's right, before the year 10,000, they can finally get back onto Live and jump right in on some Halo 3 deathmatch action. While it's fantastic that Microsoft went so far as to make such a ridiculous ban temporary, provided the rulebreakers are immortal, it gets better. So much better.
Imagine you just procured, quite illegally, a copy of Halo 3 before the release date. Now, considering this is the biggest franchise the Xbox 360 has, and Microsoft is a company that does not mess around when it comes to monitoring its customers and punishing all who betray it, what would be the first thing you do? Would you, say, take it online for everybody in the whole bloody world to see how illegal you're being!? Apparently that's what these utter morons did.
The fools didn't even figure out what was wrong until one of them actually COMPLAINED about the banning, compounding the stupidiocy of the situation and bringing a whole new level of retarded to the table. While one of the main offenders claimed he isn't bothered about creating a new gamertag and having one of his four consoles banned, that won't stop him being one of the biggest imbeciles the gaming world has ever seen. Congratulations guys, you've just made a whole world of Downe's Syndrome sufferers feel about ten times smarter.
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5:40 PM on 09.06.2007
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WHAT THE HELL.
To me that doesn't seem all that stupid really, just someone who doesn't care all too much.
@garrfunkel: too true.
there has really been an flare up in TOS/ TUS abuse punishments lately. i think the corporate entities that be are getting a little miffed.
"will i be the only person not playing the halos?"
Yes. The only one. And you don't get indie cred, either.
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Wow, though. Are you sure those guys aren't strapped to a feeding tube? I'm surprised they can survive out in society. Being the total and complete douche that they are.
This Game deserves to be BOUGHT, Slept With, Ownd by, Ownd in, Have children with, risk your life for, anything.
I'll pirate it, just for you.
Starting to get a bit excited about teh Haloz!
man, im laughing so much...
and you guys are applauding Microsoft for treating its customers like piniata's, i'm not saying sony is any better...but common
haha wow, i was wondering the exact same thing... in Live Free or Die Hard one of the nerds in the movie talked about playing Killzone 2 months before it came out. does anybody know if it was true... not like i'd play it anywayz...nvm.
It's piñatas... BUT TRUE TO DAT YO!!!1
Jack subs Bush
Bush is like wtf?
florida explains for bush.
bush goes O'rly?
bush has jack jailed under anti terrorism laws for stalking the prez.
world explodes as millions of people lol at same time.
You are making this comparison:
So you are jolous of the guy who stole a brand new car and you are ripping on him.
Common!
Stealing is stealing.
I downloaded final fantasy xii a month befor it was released and i still bought the game. Is it still stealing? some may say yes, i say no, its borrowing till release.
Erm, wouldn't they all be linked back to the same account anyway? I mean, different account but under the same name? Unless three of his friends lent him credit cards to make three unique user accounts for each of the Xbox's, I can't see why MS wouldn't just notice he has 4 accounts under his name with his 4 different credit cards and ban them all =/
Microsoft is probably out of line by telling me I can't use "Linux" in my motto, but I think they're probably in the right to ban someone from Xbox Live if they stole a copy of any game this much before the release date. Just my .02.
Hopefully, these retards will be too busy playing their stolen Halos to reproduce ... The ignorance ends there!
...too much?
Johnny Depp is PISSED !!!!
WHAT DID THAT FUCKIN KID SAY?!
*and why teh bitch slap? if a little kid said that to me, i'd knee him in da face