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Spot the cheater: branded Gamercards to be handed out by Microsoft to cheaters

Posted May 19, 2009 at 5:23PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: gamercard, Microsoft, podcast, xbox 360 titles

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And the crackdown is far from over. After resetting the Gamerscores to a full, round zero of Gears of War 2 Achievements cheaters, Stephen Toulouse is adding that Microsoft will be naming and shaming the offenders with Xbox 360 Gamercards.

On the said Gamercards would be a searing, branding Scarlet Letter. Mr. Toulouse did not announce at their recent podcast what this letter would be, but F for FAIL could be a candidate, don't you think?

Oh, and don't think that getting this Gamercard isn't so bad, cos this will be broadcasted throughout Xbox.com, as well as on your own Xbox 360 Gamercard. And then you'll do the Walk of Shame. There's no cheating out of that one.

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i'm all for branding cheaters...

i'd wear my "scarlet letter" with pride...

i love to cheat, it's just more fun for me when i do...

if i got an achievement i earned it, no matter how i went about getting it... it was just as much trouble to reverse engineer a file format and enable cheats, as it would of been to get the achievement in a so-called "legit" manner.

the only real difference is that others play the system, i beat the system.

i will never be able to fool myself into thinking that i had the gaming skill to get some of those... and that doesn't matter to me because it was still an accomplishment for me... and as bad as it is to be an achievement whore, it's even worse if you do it for anyone other than yourself.

so the point was, i think the gamescore should stay. call it an asterisk like baseball...

and before the angry mob descends upon me, let me state for the record: i do not cheat other players, i multi-play fair.

# ok — martin447 2009-05-19 22:36

well, i personally don't care about people who cheat as long as they don't spoil the fun for everyone else... like what happened to BattleField 2: Modern Combat...

if i somehow managed to earn a reward in some strange way, i'd probably utilize it too, but i wouldn't do it if it meant that everyone else would get "dis-pleased" :)

# haha — Master Chef 2009-05-19 22:54

" it was just as much trouble to reverse engineer a file format and enable cheats, as it would of been to get the achievement in a so-called "legit" manner."

Sorry bro, loading up a gamesave someone else made or using one of those Achievement unlocking HEX editors is not difficult in any way

Also I'm not sure what the point of this newspost is, seeing as how MS has been doing this since early last year or so...

# Well — Digitus 2009-05-20 01:47

Cheater's are thick skinned folk. They won't care what people say because the majority of cheaters are in that adolescent phase in life where they think getting insulted is cool or something. So they'll take pride in it.

Others just wouldn't care at all. I know I wouldn't. If you cheat to get achievements or something, good for you. Achievements are pretty pointless unless they unlock something anyway. If you cheat in a competitive game however, then I think you should get some kind of lasting punishment. The "red letter" should have some kind of function though, like handicapping them in online game or something

# @master — rollypoly 2009-05-20 02:09

thats not what i was referring to, but it does take a certain amount of skill (the kind you learn) to do even that.

i meant exactly what i said... reverse engineering a file format, not hexing a gamesave.

@martin...

everything pisses someone off, so i live for me. i couldn't care less if someone was mad that i didn't spend hours tracking down those CDs for the achievement...

# Agree — DARKnikon 2009-05-20 03:17

@ Digitus - I couldn't agree more. No one cares about cheaters unless it effects them, like you mentioned "in a competitive game". Nothing pissed me off more than when people glitched under the castle map in COD WaW. The only way to kill them was to glitch under the map yourself to kill them and if that is what it took, I would spend countless lives attempting to drop under the map and straight murder the bastard that was down their, then stand guard at the glitch entrance.. Cheaters suck at life..

# hmmm — Master Chef 2009-05-20 18:24

Care to give an example of what you mean then? I guess it's not clear to me how reverse engineering file formats automatically unlocks achievements or something. Only things I've ever seen for just cheating achievements are gamesaves and hex programs

BTW the hex programs involve loading up your profile and pressing "unlock all", please don't say it takes skill ever again lol. The program I'm talking about is specifically for that, it does all the hexing for you. The regular hex programs can do the same thing and it does take a bit more time, but there are countless tuts on the net for it, still not hard...

# Found One — mrgooey 2009-05-21 14:27

I found a cheater that cheated on gears of war 2. Here is a example.

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=cheatermccheat

# HELP! — T FuSion HaZe 2010-10-22 11:47

Hi, recently my friend modded my gamerscore by 50G and i was against it so he took the achievement off, but today i logged onto Xbox Live and my gamerscore had been reset to 0G and my online levels for CoD 4, 5 and MW2 have been lost and seeing as though i was 10th prestige legit i find this extremely unfair is thier anythong i can do about it?

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