Microsoft is taking bold, new actions against cheating on Xbox Live. (You can cheat on XBL? Why would you even bother?) So explains one Stephen Toulouse, from Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement, in a recent Major Nelson podcast. It comes down to this: if you’re caught cheating on XBL, Microsoft will reset your Gamerscore and put a permanent marker on your Gamertag that says, “This person is a cheater. Be aware!”
Apparently this is a big deal to people, according to Toulouse. Microsoft needs to protect the “integrity” of Achievement Points and whatnot, so that’s why they’re taking such issues. I guess the XBL “community” wants to know that its MEGA ULTRA COOL GAMERSCORE is 100 percent legitimate.
It really is fascinating how seriously people take Gamescores. If I can get an Achievement in Game I’m Playing without lifting a finger, fine, sure. I’m not about to rent Hanna Montanna so I can artificially increase my Gamerscore by 1,000 points.
In any event, cheaters beware! Cheating may be beneficial in the real world (see: Wall Street, donating to charity just for the tax credits, etc.), but it will not be tolerated on XBL.
I wonder how they are going to determine who has cheated?
You have to mod you 360 and if the internal settings are obviously out of wack they can tell. Oddly certain plugs, if not plugged in properly, will send the 360 into a fit and some data does get sent when connected to live. so modders beware! dirty little punks.
Wrong … its not a console ban, as what modding would be.
Its a reset of gamerscore for hex editing/game saving
I thought a modded xbox wasnt allowed on Live. The only cheater I seen were the guys that find gliches in games and take advantage. Dont seem fun to me but some players spend hours doing it.
I say good for them. Cheaters ruin the game experience for the rest of us. To be clear, it isn’t detecting the XBL data that is the problem. MS can already detect XBL data that is out of the norm for a game. The problem arises from creating a system to sort thru the massive amount of XBL data created by their user base.
That said, I think MS is missing a golden opportunity. They should create a specific forum/connection for modded consoles/gamers. They could then connect and play only each other. This levels not only levels the playing field to degree, it also allows the modders to pit their technical skills against one another. Not to mention, it would serve to keep the modding community as a financial contributors to MS’s bottom line. Most gamers I know who mod their consoles would happily pay a higher fee to be allowed to play online with other modders. Just my .02.
Thank god they’re finally doing this it’s about time. I work hard for my gamer score and level 100’s on gears of war piss me off. They absolutely should have a warning label tattoo’d on their fore head. Good for xbox for fucking finally doing something. They should of did something when people were glitching seriously 1.0.
M$ will never condone modding of their xboxes as this opens the door to piracy of their games and lowers revenue. xboxes do not make money for M$ but the games and accessories do. I would personally be happy to seperate modded xboxes from non-modded (and also modded controllers like rapid fire etc) as this is making online play less enjoyable for the non-modded. Just ban all mods from using Live as all these modders can create their own online network like they did with the original xbox on Xlink Kai and other software through their PCs.
Putting a permanent marker on your gamer tag? Well, at least they’re doing something about it and resetting your gamerscore. Cheaters should be glad, they could do much worse, like completely banning your console.
Meh, I don’t see how they’ll find all these people though. First of all, your Xbox doesn’t need to be modded to have a hacked gamerscore, or game…anyone can do it for you and then all you have to do is retrieve your profile on an unmodded Xbox, so the method of banning modded Xbox’s would prove unsuccessful. Secondly, there will NEVER be a way to separate things like rapid fire controllers, because there’s really no way to tell unless you watch the person in a game and see if they’re shooting really fast. Even then they can just have fast fingers. And I feel a lot of modders would still want to play against people that don’t mod. For most of them that’s half the point…playing against people that don’t mod so you can easily beat them and get points and what not. And I’d really doubt they’d set up any kind of separate community for them. Oh, and it doesn’t just reset your gamerscore Renzai, it makes it impossible for you to ever get gamerscore for any game that gets reset. So even if you legitimately try to get your gamerscore back up, you’ll have to buy some new games that you didn’t have gamerscore for before. Although, I’m sure a lot of these people will just start a new account. Unless they have like a year left of live or something.
ok xbox reset my gamerscore and said i was a cheater but when i phoned and asked them if they had any proof that i had so called cheated they said no and hung up the phone … if i had cheated i wouldnt say anything but the fact that they couldnt provide proof that i had so called cheated just makes me wonder … do they just randomly select ppl at random and reset the score or will it happen becuz jealious ppl cant play and get the score the other users have i also asked the dude on th ephone did he know what slander was and again he said no … it makes me think it was becuz i wasnt american and had a big gamerscore so they reset it and just mad up mad stuff or they are all just a bunch of idiots that can barely dress themselves in the morning and i will be seekin legal advice over it as im not a cheater never have been never will be sorry for my long rant but xbox needs to know they just cant go around doing this to decent ppl that work hard for the score they have just for them to make stuff up
whatever you cheated!
Now I have been modding for sometime now and I have really gotten into it. No I don’t run Live Hacks and cheat in Live games. The only thing that you really have to do to make sure you’re protected while modding is disconnect from XBL. If you’re not online…they can’t tell what you’re doing. I have found that modding actually makes the game more enjoyable though it is dishonest…