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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Kid is completely retarded.
One of the most EPIC fails ever.
Guys, I killed someone, and got ARRESTED.
WHAT THE HELL.
will i be the only person not playing the halos?
That is great. That is epic. That is full of Win.
Once again, the stupidity of people astounds and delights me.
it isn't that much time...just 7,992 years
Heh, that's even more retarded than this. Sony doesn't care that much, but Microsoft will stomp your ass into the ground.
the kid is retarded, but can he still play the single player part?
Well at least he'll be able to get on live again in time for Duke Nukem Forever.
http://forum.xboxic.com/showpost.php?p=54392&postcount=20
To me that doesn't seem all that stupid really, just someone who doesn't care all too much.
wow, those guys are cool.........................................................................................not
[ignore my question, i figured it out]
@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.
@ B-Radicate
"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.
I think your going a little overboard; to me it's really not THAT stupid. Many of you probably heard about the closed beta testing Bungie is/was doing. There were reports of people who had friends online playing Halo 3 weeks ago from the testing. I don't think these kids are as necessarily stupid, but rather just under-estimated the level of monitoring Microsoft does over their online service.
Darwin award calling methinks?
That is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. I swear if I ever meet someone who pirates Halo 3..
This Game deserves to be BOUGHT, Slept With, Ownd by, Ownd in, Have children with, risk your life for, anything.
so..... did he rip it and make a torrent yet?
halo 3? no thanks i'll ban myself from ever playing it.
OMFG.. trying to play pirate version of anything while being connected to xbox live is rrreeeaaaaallllyy DUMB..
I would have sold it. Not because I don't like Halo 3, but because I could have made some quick cash, and I'm a patient person.
@Scrixx
I'll pirate it, just for you.
JT shows more of hit nuttiness. Halo3 fanboys get banned for life. Tis a glorious day for gamers everywhere.
you'd think that people that got banned played Halo 2 en Francais would have learned their lesson by now...guess not.
Starting to get a bit excited about teh Haloz!
"compounding the stupidiocy of the situation and bringing a whole new level of retarded to the table"
man, im laughing so much...
@electro, you mean this?
Good thing, nobody should be allowed to get anything before me unless they are a member of the press.
I'm curious... did he not realize that the internet is, ya know... everywhere?
haha geniuses
Yay for Halo stupid heads!
I think you are all jealous that he got to play halo 3 before you and thats why your ripping on him.
and you guys are applauding Microsoft for treating its customers like piniata's, i'm not saying sony is any better...but common
MusashiX2: so..... did he rip it and make a torrent yet?
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.
@gitrooman
It's piņatas... BUT TRUE TO DAT YO!!!1
Allow me to paint a picture....
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.
Read about this today, saw the that he posted on the xbox forums that he had no idea why he was banned or what he could have done. Fucking idiot, thought it was Uno that banned him to the future.
@TehBoognish: Nice. Did the jailing thing happen though? I haven't heard anything. If you made that up and I'm just really gullible, let me know.
its over 9000!
@Gitrooman:
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.
The guy has 4 xbox360's (not including the broken ones?). I think he deserves a free game, that he would have probably bought upon release anyways along with every other xblock 360 owner.
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.
How'd they get it so early? Our store doesn't get it's first shipment until the 12th.
MS employee gave to son, son account hacked. hackers downloaded to their 360, shared it with other hackers. and it spread around till about a hundred or so people have/had it.
"While one of the main offenders claimed he isn't bothered about creating a new gamertag and having one of his four consoles banned"
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 =/
I'm filled with envy that he got to play it, but then I realize I will be playing more of it then he will.
He swiped an MS employee's codes and loaded it up on his system.
It's probably a good thing that these guys were banned off Xbox Live. If this is any indication of how intelligent they are, I probably don't want to play with them... period.
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!
...so? they could just make new names...and play on a new IP...lame punishment.
hehe, microsoft should just make it so that anyone who logs onto the halo 3 servers has their 360 fan shut off. Burn the pirates houses down!
...too much?
wow!
Johnny Depp is PISSED !!!!
WHAT DID THAT FUCKIN KID SAY?!
little kid: You do know that you're not a real pirate, right?
*and why teh bitch slap? if a little kid said that to me, i'd knee him in da face
Epic Ban
I feel sorry for that guy. Oh well.
In the year 10000.....
Proof that the human gene pool is in desperate need of chlorine.
Haha, this story reeks of win and DrBob so does that picture!
It's full of win and awesome here today at Destructoid! ;)
Wow, Epic Fail.
I don't think it was correctly mentioned in the article that the kid glitched in to the Epsilon Build of the game, which only had 1 single player level, forge, and a few multiplayer maps. No one has been able to get the full final copy. Sterling, I think you should edit the article to be more clear on this. Thanks.
Also, the kid had to get the Epsilon build online since it was only available for download through the marketplace, so getting caught was inevitable.
Was there a cool, sexy Ocean's 11-esque heist to capture the Halo 3, or did some douche just click a torrent?
Epic fail if there's no elaborate scheme involved.
Go Microsoft!!!!
Will microsoft even be around in the year 9999.
*que fog*
In the year 9999.....
Oh man, awesome.
Yes what these guys did was stupid and a banable offense. However, after reading all the shit on other blogs accesible with the banned forever hyperlink they could not play the game without going online. Also they got some screen shots and a minor review of some of the gear/maps. Good read if you like Halo.(but I've been a PC/handheld snob until I got a Wii(with hardly any games)so I never got into Halo)
Also Cocks
Just set up another account. It's quite easy to come up with a fake address and you get a month of live for free. Having it on your account is just for bragging rights. As for me, i just want to play the damn game.
what a tard. but still he deserves a big FTW cuz anyone that reckless, has to be cool as hell...or have a IQ of 8. which is still total FTW!
Buy another XBOX 360, nuff said!
*as made famous by the epic sounds of "Prince - 1999"*
and he won't be playing halo till it's 9999! (9999!)
Ha, what idiots. So theres some MS employee doing some checking and maintainance on a Halo3 server in the important lead up to main-stream release ... and up pops some fuckwit(s) "teh Halorz!11one!" fanboys on the server. Hardly snooping. *Bing* server currently has 3 players active. Hmm the game isnt out yet, lets find out which accounts these are.
@ Redzie, the console got banned, not the account.
Deserved its like a Virtual Darwin Awards.
Serves the guy right for being a hack cheater person. Nyah nyah.
These guys make Leroy Jenkins seem smart,
I.. Couldn't help it.. I laughed.
Link works not! What did it say!