Armadillo said:
bubbleboy said:
Prime said:
WildWon said:
Outta curiosity, if one downloads an early rip of a game for 360 and plays it, with the cat-5 unplugged (no net connection)... would they still catch you playing it through your "recently played games" thread? Or is there a way around it for prerelease games?
You'd need to play it offline and keep playing your 360 offline until the retail release date.
I think that's pointless. If you play it before then you'll have a saved game dating back to before the release date. M$ does a quick check on the dates, finds out you've got a pre-release game, you're banned.
They won't ban from the date of the save game , time and date can be changed when you're offline. No way for them to say whether the date the save game was made is accurate or just a random date as you haven't bothered to set it up.
Also if they did ban for early game , loads of legit people would get taken out. Games come out friday here , but it's a pretty regular occurrence for you to get the game on wednesday or thursday if you've pre-ordered. So if they did , they would wipe out loads of legit users.
IIRC, the ban wave from a few months ago got many people running the latest ixtreme and stealthed games, and the trend seemed to be that they had been playing games before their release dates. These were the games that were all of a sudden leaked *way* before their release dates, I think one was Gears 2, maybe Far Cry 2, and a bunch of others.
Personally, I avoided all pre-released games and got through the wave unscathed, so I'm not about to argue with what's been working for me.
But then again, they've had a SF4 cabinet at my local uni's arcade for months now, so I've been seeing plenty of SF4 action already