Orion6117 wrote:
ah,unless they mod their machines, i always thought microsoft could tell which 360 was chipped and automatically cut them off from the service at least,heard of people being raided because of this activity!!!and having ALL their computer equipment siezed!!
Urban Legend much?
What happens is that at randome time, they run a sweep and fish out the chipped Xboxes. Those gamers get a nice textbox the next time they log in, saying that their Xbox is banned from XBL. Ms realises this by actually reading out the cpu-sn, and banning that cpu from XBL-access. You have no hope if your Xbox is being banned that way, from that point forward it's only good for offline play.
However, cheating in a computer-game is not against the law and no legal action can be taken towards a cheating gamer other then enforcing the EULA for XBL server-side. One reason is that not all gamers live in the US (god forbid), and are actually extra-US souvereign nationals of countries in the bigger rest of the world. International and regionals law apply. For excample, I'm a Dutch Souvereign National. That means that I can do pretty much anything I want on-line, as long as I don't post you-tube movies in my various blogs, or engage in dubious acts of lewdness with possible minors (like I have the time for that with all this games I still have to finish and a 50 hour workweek on top of that...), or hack governmental computers. (I even am not held to adhere to houserules, even if I consented to them by signing said houserules. According to Dutch Law, it's up to individual to act accordingly, and the holder of the houserules can only expect me to do as the holder wishes. OFC, sticking to houserules is usually the wiser path to take...)
Cheating in computergames is something older gamers take for granted. Back in the day, magazines had large sections on how to hack into games to give yourself infinate ammo, lives, magic-power, no collision-detection, one-shot-kills, you name it. It's when it happens on-line I get annoyed. Cheat off-line all you want, it's part of gaming. On-line you deserve to get anything you're dealt when you cheat.
On topic: It's doing my head how training lets you believe that Being is a fun game. Once you get into the Olympics proper, all that training is wasted because the game handles quite differently there. >.<
Careful now, I'm Dutch!