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Wario64 · Nov 4, 2011

If you got the game early, it's cool man, you can play online just fi....

oh wait j/k lol you can get banned

wut

Gravijah · Nov 4, 2011

goddamn those filthy supporters of your game

darkressurection · Nov 4, 2011

Poor form Activision. No other publisher has asked for early copies of their games to be banned.

Buckethead · Nov 4, 2011

This Draconian Big Brother crap needs to die.

TheOddOne · Nov 4, 2011

So, Activision being a dick? What kind of stupid PR do they have.

Eusis · Nov 4, 2011

Really hope Microsoft/Sony don't actually bow down to that kind of bullshit, or at least it was just one exec who doesn't know that companies never prosecuted legit early copies before. It'd set a terrible precedent if they really did crack down.

Deleted member 81567 · Nov 4, 2011

I got MW2 early last year and had fun. I'll be doing it again this year and I'll sue if I get banned.

jediyoshi · Nov 4, 2011

Wario64 said:
oh wait j/k lol you can get banned

Seriously, not sure why he'd even leave the original tweet up with that kind of error.

Ardenyal · Nov 4, 2011

Checking with Activision if playing early on MS owned XBL is allowed? Eh...

Gravijah · Nov 4, 2011

you can be banned from mw3 play without being banned from xbl, no?

Mastperf · Nov 4, 2011

Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit if they ban the wrong person.

alphaNoid · Nov 4, 2011

I guy who sits next to me got handed a copy today free. He has connections to activision-bliz, good connections. I'll tell him to hold off playing for now, if he isn't playing right now lol

thetrin · Nov 4, 2011

You can be banned for playing a game you purchased? That's fucking stupid.

Yagharek · Nov 4, 2011

This is a pretty low move if true. It's not like you are breaking any ToS on the XBL service.

You aren't pirating the game, you arent cheating, you didnt steal it - you just lucked out and got the game before official launch. If anyone gets banned for that, they should get in touch with the BBB and whatever local sensationalist media exists in your city, because the exposure of this game will be pretty high.

freddy · Nov 4, 2011

So Stepto is activisions lapdog? Please don't send me a nasty PM, man.

hamchan · Nov 4, 2011

I think it's just a lie told to scare people.

MurkyZebra2417 · Nov 4, 2011

I always wonder how they sort out review copies? Would be funny if all reviewers get banned for testing the game

Raitosaito · Nov 4, 2011

thetrin said:
You can be banned for playing a game you purchased? That's fucking stupid.

I hear you. I get games early by accident shipped to me from time to time.

It doesn't happen very often, but why should I be penalize for it?

RomanticHeroX · Nov 4, 2011

This just makes everyone involved look absolutely terrible.

Tunavi · Nov 4, 2011

WOOOOOOOOW

for a second there Activision looked cool.

Eusis · Nov 4, 2011

If EXP/Leaderboards are a concern they can (and HAVE) reset it on Day 1 anyway. If they were clever enough in advance they could probably also pull something like Dark Souls did and have unreasonable AI opponents come in and wreck early multiplayer games too.

Wario64 · Nov 4, 2011

I guess it's just banning you from the game until the release date (if this screen is real)

Eusis · Nov 4, 2011

Guess the truth is in between afterall: You'll get banned from playing MW3 online... until it comes out. Don't mind that much then!

Yagharek · Nov 4, 2011

Raitosaito said:
I hear you. I get games early by accident shipped to me from time to time.

It doesn't happen very often, but why should I be penalize for it?

Exactly. Ive ordered online from stores that ship so you can get on release day. I live on the opposite end of Australia to said store, and on a few occasions Ive gotten big name games two days before release due to an unusually efficient postal service.

Mastperf · Nov 4, 2011

Yeah, no big deal. There's not many playing anyway so no big loss.

JWong · Nov 4, 2011

They should just have god mode employees go in destroying their lives.

RdN · Nov 4, 2011

Thats bs. Microsoft and Sony shouldnt allow Activision to do stuff like this.

Orayn · Nov 4, 2011

JWong said:
They should just have god mode employees go in destroying their lives.

It worked for From.

Spruchy · Nov 4, 2011

To be honest Activison is doing you a favor if they ban you.

Nora Kisaragi · Nov 4, 2011

Back to Battlefield 3 it is then. What am I going to do with all these Mountain Dew caps?

fly high ~ayunite~ · Nov 4, 2011

If you manage to get your hands on an early copy you should be rewarded for being resourceful not punished.

TacticalFox88 · Nov 4, 2011

Spruchy said:
To be honest Activison is doing you a favor if they ban you.

Fuck?

Orayn · Nov 4, 2011

fly high ~ayunite~ said:
If you manage to get your hands on an early copy you should be rewarded for being resourceful not punished.

One might consider that early copies also have a fair chance of being acquired illegally.

MacBosse · Nov 4, 2011

JWong said:
They should just have god mode employees go in destroying their lives.

Haha, that kind of bans would be great.

Ban suggestion 1: You only get to shot blanks
Ban suggestion 2: The reticule is 2 inches of center
Ban suggestion 3: You're slowly rotating clockwise, all the time

M.W. · Nov 4, 2011

Wario64 said:
I guess it's just banning you from the game until the release date (if this screen is real)

Or banned for his horrible gamertag?

DocStar · Nov 4, 2011

thetrin said:
You can be banned for playing a game you purchased? That's fucking stupid.

That's not stupid, it's Acitvision

Goddamn, i wanna punch him so hard.

M.W. · Nov 4, 2011

DocStar said:
That's not stupid, it's Acitvision

Goddamn, i wanna punch him so hard.

UnluckyKate · Nov 4, 2011

So how are game journalist doing to review the game ? OH SNAP

Yagharek · Nov 4, 2011

Marcellus Wallace said:
Or banned for his horrible gamertag?

Holy shit, I just got what it meant. Missed it first time around.

UnluckyKate · Nov 4, 2011

MacBosse said:
Haha, that kind of bans would be great.

Ban suggestion 1: You only get to shot blanks
Ban suggestion 2: The reticule is 2 inches of center
Ban suggestion 3: You're slowly rotating clockwise, all the time

oh yeah ala Dark Souls : if you go online, you get crush by almighty AI

Orayn · Nov 4, 2011

UnluckyKate said:
oh yeah ala Dark Souls : if you go online, you get crush by almighty AI

Dark Souls had actual From Software employees running amok with maxed out characters.

GavinGT · Nov 4, 2011

UnluckyKate said:
So how are game journalist doing to review the game ? OH SNAP

They have approved access lists for these types of things.

eudaemonic · Nov 4, 2011

*shrugs* You don't let marathon runners start early just because they arrived two hours ahead... I'm sure it's the same for multiplayer. Just unplug the system and play single player or Spec Ops.

Eusis · Nov 4, 2011

Guys: Going by that picture it's a temporary multiplayer ban. I'd hope you could still play the singleplayer even when connected to XBL/PSN, plus there's the logic that keeping people from playing online kills any advantage they can have over normal day 1 customers, given they would have no map familiarity or how well weapons work for multiplayer.

UnluckyKate · Nov 4, 2011

GavinGT said:
They have approved access lists for these types of things.

Yeah but RP usually suck at this and I received tons of extra review copies that I gave to non-listed personal and - lucky us - ban never occurred but it could have

Orayn said:
Dark Souls had actual From Software employees running amok with maxed out characters.

Oh really ? I though it was random AI lol that's even better !

Buckethead · Nov 4, 2011

He buys baby Africans?

:jnc

Yagharek · Nov 4, 2011

Eusis said:
Guys: Going by that picture it's a temporary multiplayer ban. I'd hope you could still play the singleplayer even when connected to XBL/PSN, plus there's the logic that keeping people from playing online kills any advantage they can have over normal day 1 customers, given they would have no map familiarity or how well weapons work for multiplayer.

Why would they risk antagonising the customer by saying its a ban? Just put up a server outage type notice saying "MW3 Online multi is unavailable until 00:01 on DD/MM/YY - Come back later"?

Orayn · Nov 4, 2011

RandomVince said:
Why would they risk antagonising the customer by saying its a ban? Just put up a server outage type notice saying "MW3 Online multi is unavailable until 00:01 on DD/MM/YY - Come back later"?

If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, that might just be their default "ACCESS DENIED" message.

Yagharek · Nov 4, 2011

Orayn said:
If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, that might just be their default "ACCESS DENIED" message.

Plausible I guess.

neptunes · Nov 4, 2011

seems fair doesn't? I imagine people could reach 2nd prestige by tuesday (ewww)

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