Keith Hodo

AoE is right. The things that are interesting about this hack are how people are going to be able to inject code which will allow for more functionality on the box itself. There will always be backdoors on systems, even embedded systems (which is essentially what 360 is).

The things that you are talking about, modding your 360 so you can cheat at multiplayer will most likely be done by fringe groups (although once done these hacks will spread like wildfire). Though I wouldn't worry too much about people porting the original Xbox Halo 2 hack to the 360. I would worry about hacks coming up for GoW and better yet, Pimps At Sea (er, Halo 3). Oh yeah, and Crackdown.

But alas, don't be against the hack quite yet. This is a good innovation for the overall community as AoE pointed out before. Nothing negative has happened, and probably won't for a good while yet.

Also, I think that the Xbox Live team has implemented a new security model that is enforced from the server. I'm not going to engage in speculation about how that works, but I'm sure that it's going to be a little more difficult than what we saw on Xbox1.

Laters!
Keith

@ Stranger:

Why don't you develop a browser for 360? I believe the SDK is out...

PS - why would you want to browse the web from a console anyways? is it too far to walk to a PC when you're stuck?

Interesting commment out of my fiance's mouth this morning (she's a non-gamer in every sense of the word).

"Wow, I love watching you play Splinter Cell."

I'm thinking... yeah, right...

Then she says "Why don't they make a Splinter Cell movie?"

And I'm left thinking, yeah, why don't they do that?

A SC movie would be soooo awesome.

I'll be playing TDU:Unlimited. Gamertag: KoolKeith13. Later!

"Another Morning Stoner" ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

I'm kinda stuck on whether I should buy FIFA this year or not. I need a league football game for my gorgeous 360 but this news is pure phooey. I am really upset with how EA tackles next-gen efforts. It always seems that they first try to port and get the graphics looking excellent while leaving the gameplay we all desire in the dust.

Here's a novel concept for those geniuses at EA: bring the whole friggin game with the functionality we expect and then worry about the graphics getting to their full glory in V2. To me, this seems like a no-brainer. What EA creates is the equivalent of an OS that becomes "next-gen" and then looses networking functionality, security, file-sharing and basically any other key feature that the "current-gen" OS had. Oh, but the "new" version looks very pretty. Bof, give me a break.

Remember, when features are introduced they are no longer "extras." They are now part of the product that we come to know and expect. EA seems to forget about this critical portion of software development. Just give 'em the graphics!

The sad thing is... I will most likely buy this piece of junk and not wait for the V2.

My two pennies - KoolKeith13