Cheaters branded on Xbox Live, Gamerscores reset
Well, now there's a far simpler way: Microsoft will label them "cheater." The Xbox Live Sheriff has begun targeting players who "gain achievements through avoiding game play and the use of external tools" and, as a punishment, resetting their gamerscores to zero, making them "unable to regain all previously earned achievements," and lastly (though, most deliciously), permanently labeling them "as a 'cheater' for the community to view." And, since the "gamerscore correction will remain permanent without any way to appeal" there's a good chance we'll have yet another easy way of identifying cheaters on Xbox Live: the tinny static of their whimpering sobs.
PS - Anyone know of any real accounts flagged "cheater" (besides CheaterMcCheat)? If so, point 'em out in the comments so we can all point and laugh.
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http://live.xbox.com/member/stripclubdj
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It's time to say gooddbye to all those BS 1000/1000 Rumble Rose scores !
Oh and Joystiq please remove or turn off that f*cking annoying frontlines fuel of war ad, i'm all for revenue making but i can't view a page on this site without that fucking ad activating even when i don't go near it, i didn't wanna use ad block (because i wanna support your site) but i'm will be using it until its disabled or turned into a static ad. Thanks rant over :)
HA-HA! [/nelson]
If he never actually plays online, then his star score won't change.
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God, it's really horrible when somebody has an annoying voice, glitches all the time, doesn't play the game properly and sings down the mic. I can only complain about one thing!
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It just bugs me that they put the time into this when there's bigger problems. Take the account stealing phenomenon. It's very real and if you're a Halo player, good, or at all "known," it's a constant threat. The same people who do this are also well known to be booting players out of games in order to win. They even do this without being the host of the game and it's believed they do it through launching DDoS attacks to users on the Xbox Live ports.
I can personally attest to this. A few nights ago, I and two teammates were playing Halo 2. My teammate was host, and the other team had a member of the hacker/cheater/script kiddie/idiot clan "o Infamous o" known for this and account stealing. Within 30 kills of the game starting, my teammate was hit by a DDoS attack. Host switched to me and the game restarted. My other teammate was then taken out. Then, at 49 of the 50 kills, I was taken out on my own host.
My first teammate immediately knew what was going on and unplugged his modem and got a new IP - enough to keep him from getting further attacked, but he was out of the game. My other teammate had no idea what was going on and I assume he lost his entire home internet connection as he signed off of AIM at the same time. My internet hiccuped (the modem was unhappy) and my router showed over 800 incoming IP connections, all on Xbox Live-used ports (80 and 3074). Luckily it did a good enough job to keep me online.
Anyways, my point is that these people are out there and using Xbox Live to commit criminal offenses capable of severely harming an ISPs network. They make their GamerTags well known and do it for the "fame." They run a mySpace, brag about what they do, and have pictures of their accounts together. And Microsoft has done NOTHING. These people openly admit to account stealing (identity theft) and DDoS attacks (criminal offense) and give their GamerTags. Microsoft should be:
1. Banning their entire consoles from Xbox Live.
2. Banning their GamerTags.
3. Record their IP addresses used to sign into and play on Xbox Live and report them to their ISP's abuse line.
4. Report them to the FBI or other authorities.
There's no excuse for Microsoft allowing this to continue.
And people wonder why Nintendo's WiFi Connection doesn't go the Xbox Live route?
After all, if news sites and blogs are good for something, it is definitely getting things noticed. Publicize this and it will change.
...anyway, I really don't get the fascination about gamerpoints. I used to go to Gamespot and Gerstmann used to love talking about the points. Waxing lyrically about his virtual scorecard. It just seemed a little sad, and redundant.
The marketers at Microsoft did a really good job calling them "Achievements". It makes it seem you actually accomplished something of use.
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On a side note, the Headphone Masterpiece was stolen from my car long ago. Now I just have scattered incomplete remnants of the album on my PC.
I'm nothing at all without my mojo :(
The Headphone Masterpiece is a beautiful album, man.
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True. But so does your cheater label.
Anyway, love that they are doing this. Yet we all should have realized that something was wrong with CheaterMcCheat. He was a nice guy and all, but something was always bothering me about him. Who would have guessed this would be it!
And you aspired to be this? And bothered CHEATING to make it seem like you were? Bahaha.
"Oh no! Someone cut off my e-penis! That just leaves more one inch regular penis! *sob!* Better make a tough sounding post on a gaming blog telling everyone they are lame to try to make my shriveled balls feel big!"