banned :(

My 2 Cents:

Sammy Drive
4.2 firmware
Only use back ups
Console flashed for at least 8 months before connecting to XBL
Based in the UK

Not banned yet but only signed up for XBL 9 days ago. Boy will I be p*ssed when the ban hits me. Hardly got value for money from my subscription have I if I get banned? However as stated by others, it's my own fault, I knew the risk I was taking. Just bad timing on my part :-(

Considered my options:
1. Take it on the chin and no longer able to play on live
2. Go out and buy another 360.

I think for now I'll be sticking with the first option. Initially I couldn't believe how great live is/was. I think the novelty has worn a little now. I've entered one too many games of GRAW2 only to discover I'm being deliberately targetted by my own team mates. The same thing happened with Rainbow 6 Vegas. Where's the fun in killing your own team mates, I don't get it?

Is live really all that great? Have I been unlucky with my experience so far?

I'm going off topic, sorry people. I think I can live without "live"

 

i dont think there is any pattern or way in which to not get banned, its just a matter of your turn coming. i still havent been on live i would have thought im banned though.

 

mr lip ur right i think thats it people like myself went online with orig then modded and went back on ms picked it up then banned us any1 else n the boat with me

 

anyone reporting which chips have been banned??

and these chips that have auto off will work right? they will turnoff when a original is inserted right?

im thinking the all360! is that good? does it require a converter like nme??

 

I am trying everything I can to get banned so I have an excuse to go buy an Elite. Last night I made a copy of Crackdown then went online to download the Halo 3 beta started playing that for a couple hours and its now the next day and I am still not banned.

 

Can you get banned by using backups on a NME v1.3?
What about by playing originals on a NME v1.3?

 

I was wondering if it had something to do with crackdown because my friend talk to a microsoft rep and he said that it was something embedded in the spring update and was able to tell if the crackdown disc was fake is that true or is MS giving the runaround.

 

thats a run around cuz people who never touched crackdown in their life are banned!

 

If that was true then why am I still not banned? Read above post.

 

i believe the way not ot get banned is to do hdd maintnece after u get on live so i update is gone.

i think tht is how microsoft is tracking people

 

When you are banned, can you still log in via www.xbox.com?

 

Can all of us with Banned consoles still play XBConnect? If so I could careless for XBL...

 

this could be true. as i never went online at all with my console before i modded it. i bought one console and it had a hitachi drive so in less than a week i took it back and got my console with the samsung drive. never went online just modded it right out of the box. no ban yet either. running MS28 x52b

 

Same here I took mine out of the box and had it modded before it ever went online.

 

I never went on LIVE before modding my console either... so maybe there is something to that....

 

My brother also has the same 360 as I do meaning a Samsung drive with the 5.3 firmware. He also has not been banned and had is modded right out of the box as well.

 

Looks like you guys are getting somewhere with this, if i can remeber right i think i did get on live with my original and then flashed and went back on live, but im not banned.

 

yes!

 

Im guessing you can still log in via xbox.com due to it being your console that gets banned?

 

I guess I'll be on XBConnect.