avoid live bans

[digidude]

taken from an nzb forum i visit, written by a yank by the looks of it lol

Not getting Ban from Live is quite simple but every year, a shit load of idiots acted retarded and ended up getting Ban. So this is how not to be a fuckin retard.

1) Do not play leaks
If a game is release 1 month before street date, thats a Ban magnet cause you're probably playing a promo copy. You want to play the game really bad, fine, create yourself an offline account that never go on Live. Even if you play disconnected from Live on your account, it will show on your gamercard and MS will see it as soon as you go on Live when it gets updated.

2) Always check with abgx360
Before burning the game, wait till it's in abgx360 database. abgx360 need 2 or 3 retail copies to add infos in the database. If the game hit internet 5 days before street date, there's a good chance it wont be in the database yet. abgx360 will say everything looks fine but it might not be. Lets take GI Joe for example. When the game was release, all seems ok...run the ISO again and you will notice that it will patch the stealth files with autofix.

Alot of you might not know but this was a news on abgx360 site:

Note: If you have recently AutoFixed "UFC 2009 Undisputed", "Red Faction: Guerilla" or "Up" using abgx360, it may have patched a corrupt DMI to your ISO. <---Ban Magnet

Read the whole news of 2009/06/14 on abgx360

3) Lattest iXtreme firmware
Always have the lattest firmware in your 360. They dont get updated just for the fun of taking your 360 apart.

4) You dont play multiplayer with that game, why go on Live?
If you're playing a single player, why going on Live?? Doesnt make sense and you give more chance for MS to flag you. You want your friends at school to see you play games early?? That's how you get banned dumbass. Pulling out the ethernet cable out of your 360 dont need to be done by a rocket scientist, even the dumbest monkey on earth can do that...why dont you?

Those guidelines are pretty easy to follow, that's how i survive 2 ban waves although i got ban in the first wave cause i was a fuckin retard Laughing out loud

This is some stuff poeple will post, like

"I played all leaks like fallout 3, i didnt get banned and i dont really care"

Well good for you, you might not be as lucky next time. Let's take zookeeper525 (mod) for this example. He played like a retard with every leaked games logged on Live, he knew he was going to get ban and he said like several poeple "i dont really care". Well you know what, he do care, he miss playing on Live, alot. And he will probably start suckin cocks on street corners to get himself a new 360 to play Modern Warfare 2. Laughing out loud Laughing out loud Laughing out loud

90% of Bannies that say they dont care, thats Bullshit, they do care, they just wont admit they are retards to themselves.

You will also hear:

"If i get banned, i'll get myself another 360"

Why the **** you need to go that far. Hassle of selling the ban one, get the rest of the money to buy a new one, flash it...All this cause you wanted poeple to see how cool and leet you are by playing leaks...

You wont know if you're flagged until it's too late, not going back on Live till the wave is over wont change anything, if you have been flagged, you're fucked. MS wont let you go for good behaviour Laughing out loud

The next ban wave is set on November 16, through out the whole week. Now you're asking yourself why MS do that every year around the same time. Simple, Selling strategy to boost sales.

Ban waves always occur before Thanksgiving (USA) and a major game release (Modern Warfare 2 for this year). For those who dont know, Thanksgiving is like Christmas for the Americans. Family comes home, brings gifts and shit. So if you're ban and you know all your cousins will be there, you want to play on Live with them...but you can't cause you're Ban so you will ask a new one. Can't get in time for Thanksgiving, no problem, Christmas is a month away.

It's all about boosting the 360 sales that time of the year.

Even Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I]YouTube - Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live[/ame]

 

[Highlander]

so what you are saying is i should NOT play my pre-released copy of "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2" just yet then, unless i play it on my other machine.

i think i gotcha m8.

cheers

 

[melttc]

so what you are saying is i should NOT play my pre-released copy of "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2" just yet then, unless i play it on my other machine.

i think i gotcha m8.

cheers

in your dreams al

 

[DodgyTech]

Sticky?

Good tips there mate. Like the one about creating an offline account.

 

[havelln]

that bloke sounds like a retard himself,
no one knows why we do/dont get banned

anyway who cares about getting banned cause the price of a new console
just sell the modded banned one and go get a new one

or just strip it you can get more money for all the parts than a new one costs

 

[shuggabug1]

i disagree HAVELLN i think he pretty much hit the getting banned nail square on the head...

and stripping it all out and selling all the individual parts is a pain in the arse just like he said.

people cant always afford to just throw money at countless xboxes,, i reckon this should be a sticky..

money saving tips brought to u by McDonalds--(digidude)

 

[witchy]

1) Do not play leaks

I always play leaked games.

Where's my ban?

2) Always check with abgx360

I've only recently started bothering with abgx360, and the only reason I do it now is to make sure games meets iXtreme stricter requirements. So, I reckon about 80% of all backups I've played were never ran through abgx360.

Where's my ban?

3) Lattest iXtreme firmware

My current machine had been running some old shit firmware, not sure the exact release but it was something like Xtreme5.2, only a few months ago did I bother to update to iXtreme.

Where's my ban?

These are mere guidelines which people would be wise to follow but it's hardly set in stone, if anyone thinks that following the above 'rules' will guarantee that they don't get banned from Live then think again.

 

[Thommo]

also on the why buy another xbox remark, well its cheaper to buy a new one then it is to buy the games,

games 40 quid a pop, do the maths,

you download 10 games in the year (example) 10 x 40 quid =

1 x xbox per year =

now tell me it stupid to risk a ban and have to buy another xbox.

 

[Explosivo]

Where's my ban?

Did you not get banned in the last wave?

 

[witchy]

Did you not get banned in the last wave?

Sure did but that machine had lasted almost 3 and a half years playing all sorts of unprotected shite

My current machine survived the last wave but it is only about 18 months old, and again this one has played shitloads of pre-release, unprotected yadda yadda.....

 

[manutd4life]

its all down to luck, you either get caught or you dont, simple, i have 3 backups any way just incase.

 

[Oggy]

Not luck at all.

Dont do something that logs a violation, dont play unverified games.

Ive had ALOT of violations and Im not banned.

 

[Purity]

The suggestions made in the first post do not guarantee that you will not get banned if you play backups on your console. They are just suggestions about reducing the risk.

No one knows if MS will change their detection routines in the future

 

[mvp828]

written by a yank

Easy there ... I know there are some real jack-holes here in the States, but nobody is that illiterate, ignorant, and/or just flat out retarded. I blame Canada. Also the way he speaks of Thanksgiving leads me to believe that he has no familiarity with the holiday in the U.S. [End Rant]

Also, a guide telling "How not to get banned" is about as useful as a guide on "How to ensure you go to heaven". Unless a group of employees from Microsoft come out and say everything that must happen in order to be banned, there will never be a clear cut reason. W is living proof that half this shit isn't even accurate.

As for the part about how you should make a separate offline profile in order to play pre-release games, that is just flat out stupid. Just because you don't go online at the same time doesn't mean that a message isn't sent. Information is stored and then sent the next time you log on. It is the same as if you were to activate Account A (offline account) through Xbox.com and then sign in on Account B on your 360 and then sign off. There was an update made that will now list Account A as a gold account despite the fact that it was never even logged in.

 

[will65mcmanus]

taken from an nzb forum i visit, written by a yank by the looks of it lol

Not getting Ban from Live is quite simple but every year, a shit load of idiots acted retarded and ended up getting Ban. So this is how not to be a fuckin retard.

1) Do not play leaks
If a game is release 1 month before street date, thats a Ban magnet cause you're probably playing a promo copy. You want to play the game really bad, fine, create yourself an offline account that never go on Live. Even if you play disconnected from Live on your account, it will show on your gamercard and MS will see it as soon as you go on Live when it gets updated.

2) Always check with abgx360
Before burning the game, wait till it's in abgx360 database. abgx360 need 2 or 3 retail copies to add infos in the database. If the game hit internet 5 days before street date, there's a good chance it wont be in the database yet. abgx360 will say everything looks fine but it might not be. Lets take GI Joe for example. When the game was release, all seems ok...run the ISO again and you will notice that it will patch the stealth files with autofix.

Alot of you might not know but this was a news on abgx360 site:

Note: If you have recently AutoFixed "UFC 2009 Undisputed", "Red Faction: Guerilla" or "Up" using abgx360, it may have patched a corrupt DMI to your ISO. <---Ban Magnet

Read the whole news of 2009/06/14 on abgx360

3) Lattest iXtreme firmware
Always have the lattest firmware in your 360. They dont get updated just for the fun of taking your 360 apart.

4) You dont play multiplayer with that game, why go on Live?
If you're playing a single player, why going on Live?? Doesnt make sense and you give more chance for MS to flag you. You want your friends at school to see you play games early?? That's how you get banned dumbass. Pulling out the ethernet cable out of your 360 dont need to be done by a rocket scientist, even the dumbest monkey on earth can do that...why dont you?

Those guidelines are pretty easy to follow, that's how i survive 2 ban waves although i got ban in the first wave cause i was a fuckin retard Laughing out loud

This is some stuff poeple will post, like

"I played all leaks like fallout 3, i didnt get banned and i dont really care"

Well good for you, you might not be as lucky next time. Let's take zookeeper525 (mod) for this example. He played like a retard with every leaked games logged on Live, he knew he was going to get ban and he said like several poeple "i dont really care". Well you know what, he do care, he miss playing on Live, alot. And he will probably start suckin cocks on street corners to get himself a new 360 to play Modern Warfare 2. Laughing out loud Laughing out loud Laughing out loud

90% of Bannies that say they dont care, thats Bullshit, they do care, they just wont admit they are retards to themselves.

You will also hear:

"If i get banned, i'll get myself another 360"

Why the **** you need to go that far. Hassle of selling the ban one, get the rest of the money to buy a new one, flash it...All this cause you wanted poeple to see how cool and leet you are by playing leaks...

You wont know if you're flagged until it's too late, not going back on Live till the wave is over wont change anything, if you have been flagged, you're fucked. MS wont let you go for good behaviour Laughing out loud

The next ban wave is set on November 16, through out the whole week. Now you're asking yourself why MS do that every year around the same time. Simple, Selling strategy to boost sales.

Ban waves always occur before Thanksgiving (USA) and a major game release (Modern Warfare 2 for this year). For those who dont know, Thanksgiving is like Christmas for the Americans. Family comes home, brings gifts and shit. So if you're ban and you know all your cousins will be there, you want to play on Live with them...but you can't cause you're Ban so you will ask a new one. Can't get in time for Thanksgiving, no problem, Christmas is a month away.

It's all about boosting the 360 sales that time of the year.

Even Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live
YouTube - Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live

hitler on youtube lmfao

 

[will65mcmanus]

I always play leaked games.

Where's my ban?



I've only recently started bothering with abgx360, and the only reason I do it now is to make sure games meets iXtreme stricter requirements. So, I reckon about 80% of all backups I've played were never ran through abgx360.

Where's my ban?



My current machine had been running some old shit firmware, not sure the exact release but it was something like Xtreme5.2, only a few months ago did I bother to update to iXtreme.

Where's my ban?

These are mere guidelines which people would be wise to follow but it's hardly set in stone, if anyone thinks that following the above 'rules' will guarantee that they don't get banned from Live then think again.

see if your still saying that come the next wave

 

[Munkee]

Not luck at all.

Dont do something that logs a violation, dont play unverified games.

Ive had ALOT of violations and Im not banned.

Sorry to ask but How do you know what the violations are though ? how do we know if something will be or has been flagged as a violation ?

If your saying you've had alot then is it a case of waiting till the next wave of bannings or only some that will catch people dead to rights that they will definitely ban over ?

 

[janobi]

First 2 are bolloxs.

As W said, and others.

I and many others have completed games before release in the UK. No one ever heard of shops selling games early.

And what do the Yanks know?? They still think they won the 2nd world war on their own. lol

 

[Oggy]

Sorry to ask but How do you know what the violations are though ? how do we know if something will be or has been flagged as a violation ?

If your saying you've had alot then is it a case of waiting till the next wave of bannings or only some that will catch people dead to rights that they will definitely ban over ?

There are people there that have exploited consoles / kernals and know what sets a violation.

Ive triggered these, Im not banned but I wont expect MS to be nice to me forever

 

[Munkee]

There are people there that have exploited consoles / kernals and know what sets a violation.

Ive triggered these, Im not banned but I wont expect MS to be nice to me forever

Is it mostly disc security such as ss and pfi or others like challenge response times and things ?

sorry to ask it just intrigues me and understand if you don't wish to answer