Xbox Banning and Piracy

[BreakABone]

http://gamepolitics.com/2009/11/19/l...ss-action-suit

Seems like there may be a class action lawsuit against MS for the banning. It shall be most interesting.

On one hand, MS has a point.
On the other, it does look like a way to boost holiday sales around MW 2.

[Szymon]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

http://gamepolitics.com/2009/11/19/l...ss-action-suit

Seems like there may be a class action lawsuit against MS for the banning. It shall be most interesting.

On one hand, MS has a point.
On the other, it does look like a way to boost holiday sales around MW 2.

Microsoft has the best lawyers ever and the people who got banned clearly broke the ToS. How do they expect to win this?

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Szymon

Microsoft has the best lawyers ever and the people who got banned clearly broke the ToS. How do they expect to win this?

Because the issue isn't that they were banned, it's that Microsoft will sell them another 360 even if they broke their original T.O.S. It's a very shoddy business practice with online accounts (even in online games like WoW). They don't care if you cheat, they'll make more money off of you when you eventually are forced to either resubscribe or quit (or in this case, buy another console). And more specifically, they waited until a major release (when many of the modders very well may have purchased a legitimate copy of the game already) and then banned people.

I agree that the modders shouldn't have done what they did in the first place. But I think allowing them back on the network with a $200 down payment is a little absurd. Particularly when they use something like the release of a highly anticipated game to encourage it.

[Szymon]

Wouldn't it be 100% up to them to choose when they ban players? In my opinion, the banned kids have nothing to say but "LOL yep, we fucked up. We probably shouldn't have done something that illegal and unfair to the producers of these games. I knew what I was getting into."

You may not agree with what Microsoft is doing, but at least they're playing fair. IANAL but I don't think this lawsuit stands a chance, especially in America.

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

On the other, it does look like a way to boost holiday sales around MW 2.

I know who's behind the banning. Reggie!