They warned you. They openly promised that anyone playing pirated material whether its stolen, copied, or modded, you will face a Chuck Norris Size potato sack on your face. MS banned a shitload of users today for playing games like Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War ahead of schedule. This is most likely for users registering achievements weeks before the street dates meaning the game was either stolen or you got a copy and modded your box violating every possible TOS there is.
Nevertheless, anyone that was banned is banned for good it seems. Their IP address is blacklisted. This is what you get for disobeying repeated promise of action. If you know anyone who got the MS applebag across their mouth, let us know.
They can ban you for breaking the street date? Is that in the EULA?
Most of the people playing early are using modded consoles with pirated versions of the game. Pretty much everyone that got banned has a modded 360.
Oh, in that case, screw em.
some people said that they can get rid of the ban tho..did you know about that?
Well I have a few connections with the “scene” and it wasn’t because of these game specifically, rather a bunch of releases by a release group that weren’t properly patched. So if you had gotten a copy of the release by that group and connected to XBL, well MS was able to see you. If you didn’t use that release group, you were good.