One more Halo 3 Thought
September 11th, 2007I just wanted to add that if I somehow stumbled across a copy of Halo 3 before its release date that, given the absolutely ridiculous punishments Bungie is doling out to make sure people don’t play it, I would probably just refrain from playing it until the 25th anyway. Admittedly, the guys that downloaded “Halo 3 Epsilon” basically stole someone’s account in order to play it, but I still don’t trust Bungie or Microsoft not to do the same for me if I obtained it through more “legitimate” means. Why not just disconnect from XBox Live and play the single player? One word: Achievements.
Even if I were to disconnect XBox Live until 9/25 and play the single player I’m not confident that Microsoft wouldn’t actually search out people who had achievements pre-9/25 and actually ban their accounts and consoles from XBox Live. Perhaps I could change the 360’s clock and disconnect and blah blah blah… it’s a big hassle and even then I don’t know what’s actually being recorded into the “Achievement”. It’s extremely ridiculous, but I suppose we don’t even necessarily have the right to play legitimately purchased games (from the consumer’s end anyway) on our legitimately purchased consoles any more without fear of losing access to their online service.
Sometimes I miss the good ol’ days of online-unaware consoles.
Posted in Commentary, Jeff, Microsoft, Online, Xbox 360 |
September 11th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Or you could play it on another account.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Dave-
They can ban both your account and your 360 itself.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Are you sure? I thought only sony did that.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Yep… That’s exactly what happened to the guys that downloaded Epsilon.
I suppose it’s highly unlikely they’d ban you and perhaps if I realistically came across the game before 9/25 I’d toy around with different settings to see if I could just play the single player. Still, the penalty is pretty steep if they did decided to be nasty about it.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:07 am
“but I suppose we don’t even necessarily have the right to play legitimately purchased games (from the consumer’s end anyway) on our legitimately purchased consoles any more without fear of losing access to their online service”
Except that you do have that right, without any fear. There’s a huge difference between playing an unreleased, essentially stolen copy of a game and playing a legitimately purchased one. There’s no way in hell they would ban you for that.