While Infinity Ward works up a fix for the infamous suicide-bombing “javelin glitch” in Modern Warfare 2, Xbox Live’s chief lawman vows that anyone caught doing it in his jurisdiction can expect a daylong banhammer, minimum.
When NCSoft swing the hammer, they do so with gleeful abandon: earlier today, as Aion’s servers came back to life after an unscheduled reboot, over 16,000 players found themselves banned from the popular MMO.
Microsoft’s response to a law firm’s attempt to round up Xbox Live users smashed by the recent mass-banning reminds everyone that the service’s TOS allow it to hammer pirates, anytime, anywhere, so STFU.
Some who bought CD keys for Modern Warfare 2 — no physical media in other words — from import resellers have seen their access to the game vanish, as Activision has apparently asked Valve to ban such keys.
Microsoft’s ban hammer may have whacked as many as one million Xbox 360 owners following a new wave of cracking down on modified consoles.
Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process.
“A small percentage” of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer.