Rumour: Insider says MS Plans to Ban 1M Console

[Xecuter]

From pinoycosplay.blogspot.com:

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.

Note: This is just a rumour and there's no real way to check or confirm this kinda information. But it points out an interesting discussion, how many consoles do you think MS banned? The site claims 600k are banned already just in US and CA. If we know MS sold about 19M consoles in that region to-date it would mean they already banned about 3.16% of their user-base ...

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[realrat]

I don't really get why it sais there are 600K accounts banned.. i thought only the console itself got banned?

 

[doggunn]

disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada

- Yeah, this little statement right here clearly tells a tale of bullshit.

They're not disabling accounts at all...

My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over

They banning Xbox's at random? Obviously not. Why would they have a ban quota they want to meet? That's the last thing they want. A high piracy level on their platform - they certaintly wouldn't publish any documents saying that they have 1 million to ban.

 

[H0LY.J3SUS]

They banning Xbox's at random? Obviously not. Why would they have a ban quota they want to meet? That's the last thing they want. A high piracy level on their platform - they certaintly wouldn't publish any documents saying that they have 1 million to ban.

Not saying that his source is legit, but what you said isn't relevant to the quote. The guy says his friend who works at Microsoft said that they needed certain consoles banned. Microsoft didn't directly publish it. What I'm trying to say is you said "they certainly wouldn't publish any documents..." and I'm just saying that no documents were published, and this was just (supposedly) a guy talking to his friend who works at a call center.

 

[doggunn]

"they certainly wouldn't publish any documents..." and I'm just saying that no documents were published, and this was just (supposedly) a guy talking to his friend who works at a call center.

Internal documents - you better hope the operate doesn't operate verbally, or else it'd be even more rubbish than it is.