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If you have made any modifications beyond cosmetic changes to your case, you might not want to connect your 360 to Xbox Live. You might get an unpleasant message from your friends at Microsoft.
It has been believed that those making firmware modifications were safe from the prying eyes of the software giant, but now that has changed. Apparently Microsoft is able to detect the presence of modifications to the Xbox 360 and is banning consoles from Xbox live.
It is no surprise that this comes around the same time as the Halo 3 beta. It is likely that Microsoft planned these two events near each other so that hackers wouldn’t have time to produce a fix before the beta ended.
So if you get the message up on your screen, you can forget about ever connecting to Xbox Live from it again. Microsoft has stated that the offending consoles will be permanently banned, no questions asked. Your Xbox live account will still remain active. So as long a you drop a few hundred bucks on a new system, there won’t be any hard feelings from Microsoft.
Modified Xbox 360 Consoles Now Banned From Xbox Live [via dailytech]
4 Responses to “Microsoft banning hacked consoles from Xbox live”
NAMEDOESNTMATTER May 18, 2007
Wii here I come ;) bye bye MS.
+3chaser_xsnes9x May 19, 2007
haha, same thoughts, mine is modded, but chip modded, and if it does it to mine, good bye xbox360, hello ps3/Wii
+3bum May 23, 2007
the whole banning live thing was long over-due… we modders knew it all along. i cant figure how MS would make any money if they let us continue playing backup games online too. having said that, i’ve never had live to begin with. I played call of duty 3 live and gears of war at my friend’s place. its fun… but lets look at it this way:
+3online gameplay VS all the backup games that will be available this year!! starting with mass effect, assasin’s creed, too human, halo.. ok i’ll count halo out cause its not half as much fun without live, bio something something, and soo much more…
seriously…. we have too many games to download and play for free to actually think we are at a loss losing live! but hey.. its coming from a guy who doesnt play live too much.. so yeah!
as for all these ps3 owners jumping in joy…. riddle me this: how do you play any backup games on ps3?!
lol
bum May 23, 2007
and people are such bullshitters to say they’re quitting on xbox and moving on to other consoles.. i mean paaaalllleeeeeeezzzzee…. take your masks off.. ps3 fanboys!!
-2lol