Kid banned from Xbox Live for 7992 years!

[Old Fecker]

Read this on Gamespot this morning. All i can say is LOL 

Microsoft is apparently making strong examples of anyone trying to sneak into the Halo 3 Epsilon test. The crackdown came to light when a 17-year-old Minnesotan who goes by the handle "Scar" posted a tale of woe on the forums of the Halo-focused modding site Se7ensins.com. His post was accompanied by a photo of his ban notice from Xbox Live, which expires on December 31, 9999 AD--some 7,447 years after the events in Halo are supposed to take place.

How did the eternal banhammer fall on Scar? "A friend said he got the Epsilon from a friend and offered me to glitch it onto my account with what you call the two-controller exploit," he told GameSpot. "I downloaded it from Marketplace and played it for maybe six hours or so all alone, in custom games and campaign. [Then] it would kick me offline every time i tried to play Epsilon. It wasn't until the next day when i signed on that I found out i got banned."

Despite being a self-described "achievement whore" with a GamerScore of over 61,000, Scar--who doesn't want his real name made public--has no plans to appeal his ban. "Other people i know that had this happen to them at the same time as me called support and had no luck," he rued. "I know of at least 10 others that downloaded it and got banned till 9999."

When asked for comment, reps for Microsoft said the company was not officially commenting on the 7,992 year bans. However, a source close to Bungie said the ban screen "looked legit," wryly adding, "Sorry, great, great, great, great, grandkids."

[Javokis]

Heh... extreme yeah? That'll teach 'em. Not sure if XBox Live 'll be around that long, but ok.

[Bloodywolf]

Meh, it'll save the guy a lots of money. I'm really against this Pay to play online unless its a service that really demands it, like an mmorpg. Thats why I love PC's.

[Azraelthe7th]

Actually you pay for the Gold membership.  Don't know the difference, but it's there.

Also, Microsoft's trying to push the "Live" gaming format on PCs now.  Seriously, they've lost it.

[Javokis]

When did they ever HAVE it?

[Azraelthe7th]

August 8th, 1988.  Bill Gates had a dream.  Then he founded Microsoft.

[El Gostro]

Remindin me of what happened with lotsa MMORPG's or multiplayer games likes The ever insuferable counterstrike or diablo II,people eventually end up usin hamachi or differing non divinely sanctioned server/connections/lans to conduct play n not business.

It does be quite bothersome when the only available platforms are extorsive company sanctioned,but then again,I be now able to add another justification to the strepitous fall of my game acquisition curve through the years   

[Old Fecker]

40quid (or dollars/euros etc.) for an entire year isnt what id call a lot of money. You get a free silver account as soon as you sign up. You can download everything off marketplace and do everything a gold member can apart from play online. Plus, gold members get certain things a week earlier like game demos.

Even when you only use a silver account you still get the ability to make a friends list, send/receive unlimited messages and use realtime voice-chat in any game (lost count the amount of times ive been chatting to a mate on my friends list while we're playing completely different games). Compared to the PSN or even the Wii's online component its by far the best of the three offerings.