Microsoft rightly takes a pretty hard line with pirates who attempt to connect to Xbox Live using an illegal, pre-release copy of a game. The result is your account gets permanently banned rendering your Xbox 360 unable to connect to Live again.
Inevitably, Halo 4 has leaked and been pirated a few weeks before it officially goes on sale. Some people downloading the 16GB game have stupidly attempted to connect to Xbox Live for a multiplayer session and earned themselves such a ban. How many of these people there are we don?t know, but a few of them have decided to retaliate and are attempting to ruin the game for everyone else.
While they can?t play Halo 4 multiplayer, they can continue to play the single-player campaign on their modified, offline consoles. That means they know the story arc and key events, and they are sharing those events as spoilers wherever they can.
Xbox forums, Twitter, and Facebook have posts full of spoilers and YouTube has videos of the game being played. Microsoft is requesting takedowns as quickly as it can to try and stem the flow of information, but they can only do so much. It looks like it?s up to Halo fans to be vigilante and avoid such talk and video until they can actually play the game on November 6.
You really have to question both the intelligence and the motives of the people doing this. They pirate the game, think that going online to play multiplayer will work before the game has been released, and then get upset when it backfires and their console is hobbled.
Ultimately, the actions of these individuals will have little impact on sales of the game next month. It?s just frustrating if not at all surprising this has happened. Microsoft is working with law enforcement, so I wouldn?t be surprised if a few arrest warrants appear in the run up to launch, too.
via TorrentFreak
Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/halo-4-pirates-retaliate-after-receiving-xbox-live-bans-20121015/
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