Banned for playing Halo 3

[Dakota Grabowski]

Playing Halo 3 early will get you banned! (http://xboxevolved.e-mpire.com/article/Halo_3/4102.html)

A user, after playing his early Halo 3 copy, was banned from Xbox Live for an indefinite time.

[OG_Monkey]

oooooooooooooooooooold lol

[Dakota Grabowski]

actually it isn't. The news from CrunchGear was reported yesterday.

[OG_Monkey]

like i said, OOOOOOOLD!

[Dakota Grabowski]

uh huh.. well the "sell by date" says September 25, so it's not old ;)

[Media]

This is so yesterday.

[IEatFriedPikmin]

i want to know how he got a copy... thats crazy.

[OG_Monkey]

how else....

[the poe collector]

He is from the future.

[dork]

this is heavy...

[Viper]

He is from the future.

this is heavy...

"Weight has nothing to do with it."




Sucks to be him depending on how long the ban is.

[kagai]

Banned until 12/31/9999.

Halo 3 Ban (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/07/halo-3-early-adopter-banned-for-many-lifetimes/)

[masteratt]

Banned until 12/31/9999.
Ah, he'll be back up on the horse before he knows it.

[kagai]

Ah, he'll be back up on the horse before he knows it.

Well, from what I've read, only that account (scar) has been banned, not his IP, or physical address, etc. He has a couple of other accounts that are still working. Who knows if MS will release this account, we'll see.

[masteratt]

Do you know this person personally?
It would depend on how he got the copy I guess.

[kagai]

Do you know this person personally?
It would depend on how he got the copy I guess.

Boy, aren't you a cynical one. Actually, he (supposedly) posted the following response on a xboxic forum: Xbox Forum Post By Scar (http://forum.xboxic.com/showpost.php?p=54392&postcount=20)

its only a ban on the console/gamertag you played it on, i personally have 4 360s and my dad has one of his own, all of which work fine online, and yes, i can easily sign up for a new tag under the same address and name and IP.

The Halo 3 Epsilon test is not unsigned... im sure you read the story where a woman that works at MS got he son the epsilon then a couple guys stole his account and did the second profile glitch to get the beta off him, well they let some people do it then it blossomed into a good 100 people glitching into it, and i was one of them.

[Dakota Grabowski]

Banned until 12/31/9999.

Halo 3 Ban (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/07/halo-3-early-adopter-banned-for-many-lifetimes/)

please don't post joystiq links here -- their reputation has been tarnished and much of the gaming community relates them to sp0ng

[masteratt]

Boy, aren't you a cynical one. Actually, he (supposedly) posted the following response on a xboxic forum: Xbox Forum Post By Scar (http://forum.xboxic.com/showpost.php?p=54392&postcount=20)

Cynical?
Yes I might be lol but in this case I was just asking if you knew him.

But yeah interesting scenario, keep us updated on his posts.
But he doesn't mention if he appealed the decision or not (probably did)?

[Birakon]

hmmmm that sucks for him, guess that shows you you shouldnt glitch or cheat to get into a very very closed and exclusive beta.

[digitaljedi]

That is lame, lets punish someone for playing a video game a little earlier than the rest of us. It wasn't like he got caught uploading it to a P2P network, come on Microsoft what the hell.

[r33hash]

Halo 3 is a very serious videogame. If I was on the staff, I'd be happy to know that someone was banned for illegally obtaining a copy of my game 2 weeks before release.

[HPK]

The simple solution would be to not play the game while connected to Live. This guy could've easily avoided being detected.

Oh well.

[digitaljedi]

I think people are too uptight, to be banned indefinitely for playing early haha that is ridiculous.

[digitaljedi]

Id be excited if people wanted to play my game so bad they would risk getting caught.

[masteratt]

The simple solution would be to not play the game while connected to Live. This guy could've easily avoided being detected.

Oh well.

= appearing offline wouldnt have done anything, the whole time i was playing there was debug text running in the right corner and also the text in the bottom middle saying when i logged in and what my GT was. even if i appeared offline they would have still seen that.

Its the Epsilon, you cant play anything offline.

[digitaljedi]

Thank you for that

[masteratt]

It was in kagai's post (the link that showed scar's posts).

[digitaljedi]

hmm ok

[Dakota Grabowski]

just talked to Microsoft about being banned from playing Halo 3 early and they told me it is false and no one has been banned.

[Viper]

That's been reported by MS on a few sites as well.

[Dakota Grabowski]

well, look at that, Viper looking up Microsoft info ;) jk... I never followed it so I had to ask before I played Halo 3 on Saturday.

[Viper]

Know thy enemy. Didn't GI Joe teach you anything?

:-p