Xbox 360 iXtreme 1.6 firmware ban question?
Hey guys,
On Tuesday, November 3rd, I downloaded Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Obviously this is before the release date. I am running iXtreme 1.6 firmware, I used the activate.iso disc to boot up the game. I heard that playing a game before its released can get you banned from live because of the internal clock, even if you are playing offline. Well, I played it offline, with my hard drive connected. When I sign into xbox live (which probably wont be until at least November 10th, the release date), am I going to be banned? If so, is there anything I can do to prevent/fix it? I have not been banned yet, but I have not been on live since I got my drive flashed back in September. I am kind of nervous. I run the majority of my games through ABGX to be safe. Any response is well appreciated.
Thanks,
Ryan
Well Andy’s answer is wrong for his reasoning. Your account will most likely get banned and your console may have a chance of getting banned as well but this is because you played your game early. They used to never ban for playing early but since mid-October they have been banning user accounts for playing games early before release.
They cannot detect modded consoles and can only detect whether your disc verifies as a normal disc so the copy you got has to be a perfect stealthed copy of the original disc. The only way to verify this is by using ABGX but we won’t know if it’s a retail copy until the game releases. There is a updated firmware(1.61) that doesn’t require the activate.iso disc to boot the game. But it may be too late for you since you already played the game early. Microsoft tends to do a lot of banning around November. The safest way is to always wait till release and run whatever copy you got through ABGX and then play it if it verifies.
Hopefully Microsoft is lenient and only bans your gamertag. In that case you can just make a new profile if you want and play.
Even though it is probably too late for your 360 I wanted to post this answer because I know a lot about how they ban and I hate when people with little knowledge on the subject try to make up an answer that they “assume is right” or they make up an answer just because they are against the fact that pirates exist. I made this account just to post this answer and help anyone who trys searching about information on how the bans are working now. It may make my answer less trustworthy since I’m a new profile but a quick search through any private trackers will tell you the exact same information I just mentioned.
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