sparafucile666 wrote:
The people who give out a game say before its originally released(game store managers, etc) should know better than to do that...having to replace a console is pretty lame because of it.
Also the people who recieve such games should be content with playing it offline in campaign mode till the actual game is world wide officially released.
As has been mentioned many times before if you have a ligitimate copy (bought from store) then you have nothing to worry about by playing online early. The only reason to wait until the official release date is for when the community actually gets going. I'm sure the legal repurcussions of bricking the consoles of ligitmate users would cost M$ too much hassle and I haven't heard of any cases of Console bans being lifted or anyone complaining to fair trading regarding a ban so despite all the 'think of poor little timmy' stories I think M$ are most likely hitting the right consoles. With the only innocents being those people who have potentially purchased a second hand console and found it's perma-banned. But as with everything, you get what you pay for.
I mustn't run away...