Did anyone get kicked off xbox live?

I think, if they have the means to detect illegal discs and/or firmware, then they should ban the console in its present state, ie let the user restore the system to the factory settings and unnlock it. Instead of this currently the users have to buy another console, microsoft get more money without passing it on to the game developers, the ones that were cheated in the first place.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

You know why they call it an X-Box 360??

is it cubed shaped ?

why 360 too.

[hindle8907]

lol we wouldnt have to be cheap c00nts if they wasnt greedy and charged a fortune for games.

But back on topic ... one of my consoles was banned my other two are fine .. allthough i did play a game without stealth patching it before release date only single player though .... and still got the ban hammer.

but who knows what they know the other 2 are modded and wasnt banned .

only the one i played the unpatched game on .

LOL, good idea.

I communicate with a lot of people from the "scene" in my community and all of them are finding ways to get their consoles replaced. Wal-Marts, Best Buys, GameStops, Targets, etc. are all unknowingly taking back banned consoles. In the short term, this is awesome, we all get to keep playing our games, but these systems all eventually get back to Microsoft and, again, it's a two-pronged reaction:

One, Microsoft will get this influx of useless systems that they will either have to unban and redistribute, or if they keep to their word and never unban, rescrap the parts and do whatever they do to make that cost effective. My first impression of this was that Microsoft shot themselves in the foot by banning consoles because, as everyone knows, this community is incredibly resourceful, and now, as thanks for banning our systems, we send them back to you courtesy of Wally and Geoffrey Giraffe, and keep doing what you banned us for intially. Basically, you burdened us with inconvenience while we burdened you with incommensurate man-hours to ban us in the first place, to the retailers that unknowingly took our defunct systems, and to your already-busy-with-rroDs repair department for them to find out the only thing wrong with the system is that its banned.