Digital Trends: Update: Potential Fix for Banned Xbox 360s
Ross
· 2 months ago
Old News and not really a solution for the majority affected.
dang
· 2 months ago
Old news? Maybe about xbox's getting banned recently, but the potential fix is not old news.
Madusha
· 2 months ago
Lol yes it is, it was first Posted on YourEMGN about 20 days ago:
Very old news.
dang
· 2 months ago
You are kidding, right? The article you linked to was posted on Nov 13th, not 20 days ago. Not sure how that makes this article old news? Maybe old to you since you are now reading this story later from when it was first published?
Madusha
· 2 months ago
I wrote it 11 days ago... same thing ; )
A lotta people don't know about it so yeah, I guess your right, it's not really that old... but the fix itself has been around for nearly a year.
Bud Fox
· 2 months ago
I have been waiting to hear about some sort of a fix. With all of the consoles up for sale on craigslist, it was only a matter of time before someone started to capitalize on it. I'd bet that people with modded consoles would easily pay $50-$100 to have them un-modded.
villan
· 2 months ago
This article is misleading and innaccurate. Maybe you guys should stick to reviewing television sets or something and leave the technical info to the 15yro kids that know how to read and wont f*ck it up.
peeved about this
· 2 months ago
quit trying to find a workaround...quit cheating...and use your xbox as intended...or go to sony so I don't have to worry about playing with your modding hacking cheating ass... I hope they figure out how to make them brick on you hacking cheaters...if you wanna have a game system that does what YOU want it to...then make one...
insiteful
· 2 months ago
Am I the only one who sees the double standards here? So Microsoft spends nothing on improving their console to prevent it damaging your orignal £45+ discs in the first place, instead they invest a tiny insignificant proportion of the immeasurable microsoft fortune on an "update" designed only to ban the consoles of those who have tried to safe guard themselves from the as yet unresolved fault still damaging their hard earned original discs by using backups instead. Does this mean that the software developers will make anymore money? NO IT DOES NOT All it means is consumers will now have to go out and by additional consoles to play Xbox live. How much of that extra revenue will go to the game developers? NONE it all goes back to microsoft to boost their profits further. Modders will simply keep original console and games for live and hacked console for copies. What this will mean is those same modders will be considerably more particular over the games they choose to buy originals of. Instead of going out buying a game or 2 and backing them up to play they will go and buy 12-20 copy games for the same cost play them out and decide which are worth bothering to buy originals for XL. The defiance factor alone will drive them to this move not to mention how many make the move to sony to stick to fingers up.
You want to reduce piracy the answer is simple. Reduce the cost of games to a reasonable price,increase sale volume,give a larger proportion to the game designers rather than the share holders and watch them compete to make better and better games. Competition is good for everyone . A console is nothing without the software to play on it so get a fairer proportion to them rather than the microsoft superpower.
CHRISPman
· 2 months ago
Yeah i agree, i have untill now been using my modded console for backed up games, that I own, and so that my brother can play system link as it is bs that dev's remove/gimp local play to sell extra units. But I dont think ill b buying many more rl games like this. so they've lost more then a hand full of games i've backed up for LAN play. But if that's the way they want it I can see many more ppl doing this, or just modding the next console they buy, still cheaper than 3 games :P
hydr0san
· 2 months ago
The KV switch is a stupid solution, the live servers can easily see a mismatch between the hardware (esentiallly you're using another consoles keyvault in order to sign things.) You will be banned, quick. As for LT, it doesn't unban your console, you still still have to buy a new one and use the new firmware on there. Microsoft will NOT reverse console bans. Even with a banned console, you can still play games with the old mod firmware, you just can't go on live.
AmenBrutha
· 2 months ago
hydr0san speaks the truth, this article is full of misinformation and half-truths
kirillian
· 2 months ago
The actual concerning issue is the fact that some offline functionality is removed via the ban also (Media Center Extender, Gamer tags, etc.) - the most damaging one being the removal of the MCE functionality as that is the most easily defended as being a non-pirate use. In fact, I just recently bought a second x-box for myself knowing full well that I would be unable to use it on XBOX Live once I modded it. Yes, that would be a violation of the XBOX Live terms and conditions, but the disabling of the offline functionality of my console also?!?! I bought the hardware. Whatever happened to First-Sale Doctrines?
I do agree that some of this is much-ado-about-nothing, but where it concerns offline functionality being removed and banned, the issue is problematic because now Microsoft has crippled hardware and firmware that I own and am NOT operating on their network. I think that is actually where the real debate lies...if that is deemed illegal, then the ramifications of such a judgement would be rather catastrophic, I think. How far, then, could such reasoning be taken? It's one thing to ban you from XBOX Live. It's another to cripple your personal property (thinking Sony's rootkit here...).
Darxide
· 2 months ago
If you have your console banned, then you have already beyond the dashboard able to retrieve the CPU Key. This means that if you do not have the CPU key from backing it up BEFORE being banned then you are screwed.
The article is very misleading. Either the author just wants traffic or is an idiot who doesn't know how to research.
jessupwoods
· 2 months ago
Hahahah thats just too funny dude!
RT
Chris
· 2 months ago
If you don't condone piracy then you wouldn't instruct people on how to unban their 360's. Way to support piracy and ruin the gaming community for everyone else.
Kethfu
· 2 months ago
I've read a while ago about this patching with another consoles ID and there was also discussion about being able to just use random generated ID essentially using legal console IDs which would in turn get them both banned. The reason they wanted to do this was to get tons of xbox 360s banned that were not hacked and eventually that would call into question all of the bans. I could see this happening because the pirates are very resourcefull and pretty self centered as well, with no concerns for law abiding citizens or the hard working devs of all the games that deserve to get paid.
All Comments
Very old news.
A lotta people don't know about it so yeah, I guess your right, it's not really that old... but the fix itself has been around for nearly a year.
I hope they figure out how to make them brick on you hacking cheaters...if you wanna have a game system that does what YOU want it to...then make one...
So Microsoft spends nothing on improving their console to prevent it damaging your orignal £45+ discs in the first place, instead they invest a tiny insignificant proportion of the immeasurable microsoft fortune on an "update" designed only to ban the consoles of those who have tried to safe guard themselves from the as yet unresolved fault still damaging their hard earned original discs by using backups instead.
Does this mean that the software developers will make anymore money? NO IT DOES NOT All it means is consumers will now have to go out and by additional consoles to play Xbox live. How much of that extra revenue will go to the game developers? NONE it all goes back to microsoft to boost their profits further. Modders will simply keep original console and games for live and hacked console for copies. What this will mean is those same modders will be considerably more particular over the games they choose to buy originals of. Instead of going out buying a game or 2 and backing them up to play they will go and buy 12-20 copy games for the same cost play them out and decide which are worth bothering to buy originals for XL. The defiance factor alone will drive them to this move not to mention how many make the move to sony to stick to fingers up.
You want to reduce piracy the answer is simple. Reduce the cost of games to a reasonable price,increase sale volume,give a larger proportion to the game designers rather than the share holders and watch them compete to make better and better games. Competition is good for everyone . A console is nothing without the software to play on it so get a fairer proportion to them rather than the microsoft superpower.
I do agree that some of this is much-ado-about-nothing, but where it concerns offline functionality being removed and banned, the issue is problematic because now Microsoft has crippled hardware and firmware that I own and am NOT operating on their network. I think that is actually where the real debate lies...if that is deemed illegal, then the ramifications of such a judgement would be rather catastrophic, I think. How far, then, could such reasoning be taken? It's one thing to ban you from XBOX Live. It's another to cripple your personal property (thinking Sony's rootkit here...).
The article is very misleading. Either the author just wants traffic or is an idiot who doesn't know how to research.
RT