Microsoft bans 600K Xbox Live Accounts, More to Follow
A
conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an
Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started
its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts
so far in the US and Canada.
The target of the banning spree are
mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games.
My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push
for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over.
"Our
office has gone to hell," says the source. "People have been calling in
around the clock and most of them are screaming teen-agers who don't
understand the terms of use that comes with the console they bought."
There
you have it. If you're a big Mininova fan like GamerTotoy, stay away
from Xbox Live until after Christmas to continue playing online.