Xbox LIVE account sharing and Gamesave tampering (don't do it)
I have mentioned this a couple of times on my podcasts, but I want to make sure those that don't listen to the show get the message. Specifically, don't share your account information. If you run into that person in Halo 3 who claims if they could have your LIVE ID name and password to recover your Xbox LIVE account to their Xbox and they'll rank you up or find you all the hidden skulls in Halo 3, I urge you not to fall to temptation. While it may be appealing, in addition to violating the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use it can also result in you permanently losing your account. If that 'friend' of yours decides not return your account and buys a bunch of Arcade titles and movies on your account, there is nothing we can do except cancel the account since you willingly shared your information.
Cancelled.
As in you can never get it back.
In addition to losing your Gamertag, you'll also lose your Gamerscore, saved games and any points you have on the account.
While I am on the subject of things you should not do, I strongly urge you not to tamper with your Gamerscore and Achievements. If you decide to employ some nefarious techniques to artificially increase your Gamerscore or obtain achievements by manipulating the Xbox software without playing the game, bad things will happen. What type of bad things? For one thing we may remove the entire Gamerscore for an account that contains manipulated gamerscore. Let me be more clear: If you use tampered gamesaves to boost your Achievements and Gamerscore, you may sign in to Xbox LIVE one day and discover that we have removed your Gamerscore. Once we do that, you will never be able to re-earn those achievements on that account. Even worse, you might have your account and/or console banned from Xbox Live.
As you can imagine, we know how to find out if you do this and we do take action. And we'll continue to do so.
The best way to increase your Gamerscore or gain that Achievement is to earn it like a real gamer; play the game. Then you can rightly be proud of your Gamerscore as you earned it yourself and not have to worry about anything. I imagine that the majority of you earn your Gamerscore honorably, but I know there are some people out there are may not be as honest. In short: Don't do it. It's not worth it.
Archived: Game Savers on notice
Posted Under: Xbox News
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Game Savers on notice
10/30/07 5:48 pm | #1
Maor Nelson officially put every Xbox 360 owner on notice today, if you game save you will be caught and dealt with. This includes losing all gamerscore to date and NOT being able to re-earn those achievements. It is great that MS is taking action finally, but it is pretty pathetic that there are that many people out there that continue to manipulate the system to have some numbers on their account.
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10/30/07 7:29 pm | #2
WOW pretty intence! I would neverdo that anyway i would want to get all my GS by mayself!
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10/31/07 8:13 am | #3
Man, it's just sad that some people will go through all those lengths to increase a score near their name. I love my GS, but I wouldn't cheat to increase it. Earn it yourself you lazy asses!!
Re: Game Savers on notice
10/31/07 10:45 am | #4
I game save all the time. KIDDING.
The only game I have completed is UNO and that's only because it's the easiest one ever. I didn't even get passed 100pts on King Kong, the controls were too stupid for me.
The only game I have completed is UNO and that's only because it's the easiest one ever. I didn't even get passed 100pts on King Kong, the controls were too stupid for me.
Re: Game Savers on notice
10/31/07 10:48 am | #5
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeez they act like it just came up!! Kudos XBOX
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10/31/07 10:55 am | #6
maybe they did it because they got tired of people complaining and figured if they didn't do something soon they were going to have a lot of raging xbox 360 players
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11/01/07 7:12 am | #7
So when are they gonna take care of sufoor????
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11/01/07 11:20 am | #8
wow, good old major nelson seems like he means business finally. Curious to see if the few people on my friend lists with extremem amounts of achievements disappear or not. Ps, can someone explain gamesaving to me? I get the basic concept, but how would that even be implemented on a 360 w/o modding? I guess what i mean is how is this even possible.
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11/01/07 11:55 am | #9
Im not sure.....but it is crazy how some people will "hack" their xbox just to get outragious amount of achievement points. If you have as many achievement points as "sufoor" and "stripclubdj" and havent really earned them, then what is the point?
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11/01/07 12:39 pm | #10
yay! whenever i would go on the xbox fourm and go to a game that would be impossible to get 1000GS there was always that douchebag that was like who has 1000/1000 besides me? witch would cause a FLAME WAR
Re: Game Savers on notice
11/01/07 7:30 pm | #11
so those two guys with over 200k points are not only achievement whores there cheaters too?
Re: Game Savers on notice
11/01/07 8:03 pm | #12
anyone over 100k is suspect but innocent until proven guilty.
Re: Game Savers on notice
11/01/07 10:15 pm | #13
haha thats awesome cause ive been questioning there numbers since i saw them
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