A banned console is worthless if you removed the HDD.
Your gaming PC going to be Linux or Mac?
People already thought that at the beginning, when there were only isolated cases. That is definitely not the case now.
I wasn't, and yet somehow my post mysteriously vanished.
People who didn't turn on their Xbox this past week wouldn't have seen that they were banned. Some don't play their Xbox evey day or they only play on the weekends. The banhammers aren't swung on the weekend.
Who assumed MS stopped banning people? And pretty much all the people that have been banned within the last 2 days had nothing to do with the "free" games exploit... Most of the reasons are for cheating or some other crap.
no definite answer on that yet. I'd check your UK account though and see if you can still login to it.
We can. My wife uses our legit alt accounts every day for her millions of Dragon's Dogma saves and we haven't had an issue yet. The UK account is the only one I've put points on/paid for content with.
I didn't do anything besides get the free foreign content games. No way I can prove that, but you have my word I was both Account and Console banned solely for downloading free games from other countries.
Not from what I've seen atleast, but I don't know if that's a good or bad sign though.
I was curious about this myself. Their support forums look pretty calm today so I'm guessing no new mass bans. Maybe they had second thoughts about it?
Everyone got to keep the maps, they just did an update to the game and made it so if you got them for free you couldn't play with them online (through matchmaking).
Yeah they had second thoughts after I already got banned. But still I hope they stop banning people for this and hopefully they'll unban the console's that were banned. Can MS even ban consoles for a week, maybe they did it this way for that reason.
I see. I didn't know what happened since the DLC got pushed through from the Halo store (I had the pass) so I only heard about this glitch.
From what I hear/understand, as long as your Xbox is connected to the internet, they can unban you anytime they want. It's a server side ban, nothing special. It just means you specific console (the MAC/Serial ID) is barred from connecting to Live. They can remove that and voila, the console's unbanned.
With enough people keeping the flame going more ms loses money and small chance unban...There's nothing we can do though.
Yeah hopefully Microsoft will stop banning and will unban all these consoles. All they had to do is ban just the foreign accounts. They've gone too extreme!
Licenses are tied to the account that purchased the content. You said you made foreign accounts so you would need to log-in to those account and license transfer that content separately. I wouldn't even take a chance at this point.
So does 360 have to be connected for unban or next time you put ethernet back in?
You're fine if you buy a new console all you have to do is delete the foreign Content/Profiles
Yes true but they flag tags to ban later in the ban waves for end of oct early nov. I think this was a side ban wave imo for foreign mostly.
I'm not sure about it, but I think it would work like how an update works.
First off LOVE the Grimlock pic! Now for the serious stuff.
Your GTA V save should be fine. You can easily move your profile and game save to a USB stick and then put that into a different console and it will sign-in as normal.
No and yes. It absolutely shouldn't, but this is Microsoft we are talking about. Honestly, at this point if you have to ask, just assume yes. You can always ask Microsoft directly, but even that isn't a sure thing as they can say no, and still do it later.
Shouldn't be. The people getting banned were using a web link to repeatedly sign up for a month of gold, turning off auto-renew, and doing it over when the month expired. That's really Microsoft's issue for allowing gamertags to use it repeatedly. To ban people because of it is horseshit.
Apparently, some people loaded multiple pages and used more than one at the same time, so it could be for that.
Yes figured they be fine i was planning on live recover tag so my save would show i have achievements in save file but not on tag. So either when i load the save a bunch will popup or never do on that file. If a huge amount pop within seconds i bet xbox thinks i save edited or something. I just never seen this method talked about. I want to be safe i thought i was before lol.
I didn't call today, was still trying to (and still now) cooling off. Still fuming that they have the audacity to ban people for using their own damn website for a free month trial. No I did not abuse it. Yes I used it when my trial ran out. One time I got the expiration email from Microsoft but my account wasn't changed to silver on my console. I logged on the website to try the free month and it said I wasn't eligible. Then I logged on the console, it forced me to change to silver. At this point I went back on my PC and the website said I was now eligible for a free month as a silver month.
I did that on main tag 3-5 times in a year plus time. I paid monthly 10.86 w tax for rest on dash. Watch main go now for that. The sad part is you buy new console recover tag then ban console and main tag for this month link stuff. I love the 360 but like i said ms is a demi god. Do i lose all i put into 360 or run to the ps4 and use money on that then a new 360.
Yeah i hope 1st gen wave not bad hardware like ps3/360. I wanted to wait but ps3 feels so meh to me to tide me over. The trophies are not fun...
DON'T RECOVER/DOWNLOAD the main tag profile. Simply move it manually along with the save file.
Did not know that ty. I did not game since banned figured profile was flagged or something. So safer to recover if i did not play since ban?
"...is not supported or recommended".
