News Room Contributor Posts: 150 Joined: 22 Aug 2007 | Xbox Hackers Download And Play Halo 3
A group of hardcore gamers managed to procure copies of Halo 3, and then proceeded to play the unreleased game online. After Microsoft discovered the players, they were banned from Xbox Live until the year 9999.
The gamers were discovered by bloggers on the official Xbox forums, where they were complaining about having their consoles banned from accessing the Xbox Live feature. Towards the beginning of the thread, one of the posters who was wondering why he was banned ended up answering his own question (all grammatical errors are sic the author):
"Do you think they would ban my console because I played halo 3 epsilon yesterday?" wrote "dak Is bak." Another poster named "Scar" who was in a similar predicament, agreed with his theory, writing, "i also played the epsilon yesterday... so thats probably it... is your live account suspended till 9999 also like mine?"
The gamers accessed the Halo 3 multiplayer build, codenamed Epsilon, through a unnamed Microsoft employee, who apparently gave her son an access code to the game. The gamers convinced the lad to give them his account recovery information, in exchange for a phony Project Gotham Racing 4 download code. He obliged and soon the gamers were running his account on each of their consoles, playing Halo 3 weeks before its release, until Microsoft noticed the leak and permanently banned the offending consoles.
Screenshots taken by the Halo bandits have surfaced, as well as video of the gameplay. One writer summarized the events and subsequent fallout, saying, "Halo 3 is just too big to be contained."
The gamer who perpetrated the hack goes by "CaptBansheeKiller," and corresponded via email with The Escapist. He's angry at Microsoft and can't understand their punitive actions in the context.
"Come on, it's Halo 3," he wrote.
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IT Director Posts: 1006 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 | I'm really stunned that none of these geniuses managed to figure out what was going to happen if they 'glitched' their way into a developer only closed beta before they actually did it. Anyone that can't figure out that there may be consequences if you log into something you're not supposed to have on an online network that tracks everything you do really doesn't have enough common sense to be allowed on the internet at all. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 434 Joined: 1 Sep 2007 | Virgil:
I'm really stunned that none of these geniuses managed to figure out what was going to happen if they 'glitched' their way into a developer only closed beta before they actually did it. Anyone that can't figure out that there may be consequences if you log into something you're not supposed to have on an online network that tracks everything you do really doesn't have enough common sense to be allowed on the internet at all.
we are talking about the frat boy Xboxer moder here...frankly how the eltrontics survive them is impossible to understand 0-o |
Copy Clerk Posts: 83 Joined: 26 Jul 2006 | I don't get how the code thing works - is this through PartnerNet or something? |
Press Junketeer Posts: 378 Joined: 8 Jan 2008 | If those idiots are too dumb to realize their wrong-doings, then they deserve their punishment. You don't do stuff like that, cause it obviously sounds illegal or something along those lines. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3801 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | Methinks banning Xbox accounts wasn't harsh enough for dumbasses like this.
(Then again I think with careful labotomies we could cure crime in America.) |
Xbox Hackers Download And Play Halo 3
A group of hardcore gamers managed to procure copies of Halo 3, and then proceeded to play the unreleased game online. After Microsoft discovered the players, they were banned from Xbox Live until the year 9999.
The gamers were discovered by bloggers on the official Xbox forums, where they were complaining about having their consoles banned from accessing the Xbox Live feature. Towards the beginning of the thread, one of the posters who was wondering why he was banned ended up answering his own question (all grammatical errors are sic the author):
"Do you think they would ban my console because I played halo 3 epsilon yesterday?" wrote "dak Is bak." Another poster named "Scar" who was in a similar predicament, agreed with his theory, writing, "i also played the epsilon yesterday... so thats probably it... is your live account suspended till 9999 also like mine?"
The gamers accessed the Halo 3 multiplayer build, codenamed Epsilon, through a unnamed Microsoft employee, who apparently gave her son an access code to the game. The gamers convinced the lad to give them his account recovery information, in exchange for a phony Project Gotham Racing 4 download code. He obliged and soon the gamers were running his account on each of their consoles, playing Halo 3 weeks before its release, until Microsoft noticed the leak and permanently banned the offending consoles.
Screenshots taken by the Halo bandits have surfaced, as well as video of the gameplay. One writer summarized the events and subsequent fallout, saying, "Halo 3 is just too big to be contained."
The gamer who perpetrated the hack goes by "CaptBansheeKiller," and corresponded via email with The Escapist. He's angry at Microsoft and can't understand their punitive actions in the context.
"Come on, it's Halo 3," he wrote.
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