been banned

[chrislad]

hey there has any one else been banned of live recently got mine yesterday but i kinda expcted it just wondered about other peeps

[cgscott]

I know a few lads that have been banned. And have heard there are lots more.

What you think went wrong?

You been playing new COD

[eyresey]

yer i have been banned aswel it did it randomly while i was actually on live :@

[apd]

saw this off another forum regarding the new mw 2 thats been doing the rounds

will be safer to use the standalone one since apparently (haven't had confirmation yet) they have logged the serial number of every special edition xbox, so if you use the special edition game in a normal xbox, they know you have a copy ... simple math really, plus the date on the special edition pack is earlier.

If its true then there will be thousands of 360's biting the dust as soon as they go on live I wouldn't put a wave 4 game near my 360 until its been figured out how m$ are detecting naughtiness.

[tamgunner]

im all new to this how can you tell if its a wave 4 game and can you get banned for playing standard copied games like if i got a copy of the new forza 3 ?

[cgscott]

It has nothing to do with COD Mod 2 and nothing to do with wav 4 as my mate had none of these games. I only posted him up to wav 3.

So something else is causing it.

[apd]

im all new to this how can you tell if its a wave 4 game and can you get banned for playing standard copied games like if i got a copy of the new forza 3 ?

Xbox-Scene News: More Details About 'Wave 4' from abgx360 - v1.0.2 coming soon *update*

Its wave 3 btw sorry mate

[apd]

It has nothing to do with COD Mod 2 and nothing to do with wav 4 as my mate had none of these games. I only posted him up to wav 3.

So something else is causing it.

The cause is going online its just how the crafty gits are detecting it.

[smirnoff_rules]

lad that works for me just got the banned sign on his and his only had it a week and only played cod 5 on it ? . looking bad isnt it , l have his old box l repaired and its still ok ? his new box was an onlite one

[cgscott]

What model drive was in it Krazy?

[Brady2009]

Apparently a previous system update installed a file deep within the achievement section to record all games that had been played that had indeed been patched and played before there release dates, therefore the latest update oct 09 as reported this back to xbox, therefore the bans that are happening. I myself don't use live and won't with my flashed xbox, so when i needed to play new wave 4 games, it would not let me play them as it kept saying i needed to do the latest update, but because the game was patched, the wave 4 update would not install,(something new they have added). So i had to borrow my m8's hard-drive, which was tottaly up to date and as soon as i attached it to my xbox the update performed and after putting my hard-drive back on, all my patched wave 4 games work perfectly. oh yeah and my xbox as firmware 1.4 and indeed it is a samsung drive.

[felix11]

Apparently a previous system update installed a file deep within the achievement section to record all games that had been played that had indeed been patched and played before there release dates, therefore the latest update oct 09 as reported this back to xbox, therefore the bans that are happening. I myself don't use live and won't with my flashed xbox, so when i needed to play new wave 4 games, it would not let me play them as it kept saying i needed to do the latest update, but because the game was patched, the wave 4 update would not install,(something new they have added). So i had to borrow my m8's hard-drive, which was tottaly up to date and as soon as i attached it to my xbox the update performed and after putting my hard-drive back on, all my patched wave 4 games work perfectly. oh yeah and my xbox as firmware 1.4 and indeed it is a samsung drive.

From all that I have read, and stories of friends locally being banned over the past couple of days, it seems clear now that MS are detecting all flashed drives (irrespective of make/model/firmware) and banning them from live.

I think people need to understand that from now on you cannot go in live with a flashed box. If you want to play on live then the firmware needs to be flashed back to its original state.

[cgscott]

Still going strong. No ban as of yet.

[davetherave27]

well dont play games online before there out

[Bulld0g]

well dont play games online before there out

The new ban wave has nothing to do with playing games online before their release.