I mean I propably spent around 50,000 gamer points on mappacks,addons , and other stuff I would probably never play Xbox agian. but I'm also not stupid to play games early I use a Old 2005 banned xbox for that.

look at the email sent it says the violation is pre-release title play which translates to playing a game that has not been released yet. Meaning if you do get it early it is not released and you will most likely get a ban so I have no idea wtf this Stephen Toulouse is saying.

"Meaning if you do get it early it is not released and you will most likely get a ban"





They cant ban you for being lucky enough to snag a game early (assuming its a retail copy you payed for)

that must be illegal all over the world.



maybe I miss understand?

How is it stupid of Microsoft? I dont know about some places, but I know Target, Best Buy, Walmart, and all the gamestops in my area (metro atlanta) /can't/ break steeet date, because their systems refuse to ring the item up. Maybe its different elsewhere, or maybe a lot of these people are using some small time stores, but the primary users of 'early release software' tend to be... pirates.



I know, shocking. still, if you have a receipe, you can contact customer service and explain it and forward the receipe and they can check the purchase and unban your account.

Why would I switch to a console with hardly any games (and all multiplatform games appear inferior) when I could just wait a few more days to play the game on it's release date?

so if your account is banned, then your gamerscores are screwed?.. or is there a way to get those gamerscores back?..

have you seen sony's PS3 library lately, there are plenty of games, i assure you.

also once you get into a game, the last thing on your mind is the minor differences.

i have all three consoles and the only one that doesnt get play time is the wii.

not because the games look inferior, because they ARE inferior.

What a way to treat customers, they should at least just do specific bans for specific games, instead of banning the whole damn account

Life is tough for a X360 player.

I disagree

thats what you get for buying an xbox.

think about it... if you wasn't a braindead idiot sheep you wouldnt be treated like one.



so all in all serve you right.

Consider yourself lucky that they don't call the local authorities in your area....seeing how they have your mailing address and everything.



And what's up with calling 360 users "braindead sheep" because Microsoft is cracking down on illegal activity as if they don't have the right?

And I'm supposed to care how MS gets the better content? No. I only care that MS HAS the better content, which is why I'm not switching to Sony any time soon.



If Sony really cared about their customers they would buy some exclusives as well, but they don't.



MS buys off the good exclusives and DLC for me to play, and I'm happy with that, more power to MS.

Thats if you get a chance to play them. Normally the X360 would be in the garage getting re soldered

to wait, or play the game offline if you're that antsy and don't login to live til its out, problem should then be solved