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So Target shipped someone an Xbox One already? [Update: console-banned until launch]

The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
Joeki11a said:
Is this some kind of PR stunt?
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I would have thought that if it wasn't for the fact that two people got the Xbox One in the mail from Target today. One of them was trying to sell it.

They wouldn't have someone trying to sell it if this was a viral stunt.
 
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maomao

Banned
Bunta said:
Hmmmm?

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In the 'wild' as some Joe consumer playing on it
 
SRTtoZ

SRTtoZ

Member
Orca said:
Read the whole thing. Guy gets the game way early and gets banned. Frank works with him to get him unbanned - just needs to prove it's a legit copy. Guy doesn't - wants to protect the source of his early games or is the source of his early games perhaps - and the ban doesn't get lifted.
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Whats your point? He got banned, fact is they ban first ask questions later.
 
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Uno Venova

Banned
LaserBuddha said:
People need to get over this idea that using something obtained legally before the street date does not violate any rule or law and is not cause for a banning unless the company wants to expose themselves to a lawsuit. The occasional reported banning is expected, when it is mistaken for piracy or someone simply makes an error. But really most of those people are simply lying (I think Halo 4 guy was banned for using a physical, but stolen, copy of the game)

Punishment for playing early is an urban myth, period.
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The punishment is for playing early since they have no way to tell how the legit copy was obtained, if it's before the date they pick, it's a ban.
 
The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
maomao said:
In the 'wild' as some Joe consumer playing on it
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There was one person I was speaking to at RedFlagDeals who claimed he "lifted" one from the warehouse he worked at. Beyond supplying a picture of the PS4 box at the warehouse, he never gave any proof beyond that.

From what he described, I believe him, but he shut up about it fairly quckly.
 
Dr. Kitty Muffins

Dr. Kitty Muffins

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Now I'm kinda worried that my PS4 comes in a day early and I get banned for going online too soon. I owned a PS3 last gen but I was mainly a 360 gamer. Is Sony just as trigger happy with this stuff?
 
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Megasoum

Banned
Hawk269 said:
Skylanders on Xbox 360 is only 6.4gb, while the Xbox One version is double. I wonder what major changes...seems like higher res textures perhaps? That definitely would drive the memory footprint. Yeah, I want Skylanders on Xbox One...lol
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Keep in mind that now that developpers have access to blurays on both sides and that all the consoles are HD only (aka no more PAL/NTSC) a lot of developpers will make only one version of the game for the whole world... or at least combine skus that would have previously been split when the game was still on DVDs. That means that you get lot more languages on the disc which takes room.
 
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FroJay

Banned
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
Now I'm kinda worried that my PS4 comes in a day early and I get banned for going online too soon. I owned a PS3 last gen but I was mainly a 360 gamer. Is Sony just as trigger happy with this stuff?
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I don't think so. From memory, MS seems to be the one who is ban hammer happy with this type of thing. We'll see with this guy.....
 
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Apollo

Banned
MS will not ban him...that would just be more negative news for them for banning a legit person who bought the console.
 
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rjinaz

Member
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
Now I'm kinda worried that my PS4 comes in a day early and I get banned for going online too soon. I owned a PS3 last gen but I was mainly a 360 gamer. Is Sony just as trigger happy with this stuff?
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A day? Nah, no way they would ban for a day early. Would be chaos because there will be early deliveries here and there.
 
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Zeth

Member
LaserBuddha said:
People need to understand that using something obtained legally before the street date does not violate any rule or law, and is not cause for a banning unless the company wants to expose themselves to a lawsuit. The occasional reported banning is expected, when it is mistaken for piracy or someone simply makes an error. But really most of those people are simply lying (I think Halo 4 guy was banned for using a physical, but stolen, copy of the game.) Can Microsoft ban the X bone guy if they want? Yes, in the sense that no one could stop them. But legally, they simply don't have the right to.

Punishment for playing early is an urban myth, period.
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This won't go over well just based on popular opinion
 
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Phreaker

Member
SRTtoZ said:
Whats your point? He got banned, fact is they ban first ask questions later.
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If MS can confirm target.com shipped some units early I would hope they don't ban anyone that gets online before the official launch. That would be terrible publicity.
 
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LaserBuddha

Member
upJTboogie said:
The punishment is for playing early since they have no way to tell how the legit copy was obtained, if it's before the date they pick, it's a ban.
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A preliminary ban because of suspected piracy is a much different thing than a no-questions-asked permaban as a punishment. You are wrong. If someone is playing before physical copies are in place to be mistakenly sold early to anyone? Yeah that's a permaban.

There is no law or contract violated by legally obtaining something early and using it. Full stop. And no, legally obtaining something early is not illegal.
 
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xBuTcHeRx

Member
This is great on him. I wonder if they'll Blacklist his box now that he broke street date. Knowing MS track record in banning
 
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Darknight

Member
Orca said:
Read the whole thing. Guy gets the game way early and gets banned. Frank works with him to get him unbanned - just needs to prove it's a legit copy. Guy doesn't - wants to protect the source of his early games or is the source of his early games perhaps - and the ban doesn't get lifted.

Edit - this was posted by Stinkles in there:
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I still believe its alarming that MS or a big company has a "kill switch" ready to engage at anyone they deem "illegitimate" for whatever reason at a press of a button.

Its not like he is hacking or playing a pirated copy. He has a retail copy that he bought. He played it early, woop dee do. Whats the issue again?

I hope this particular person DOESNT get his xbone console banned. Thats fucking $500 brick. Not even a temp ban should be placed on his account. All I would advice is to not stream gameplay on YT if he cares for that account as it can get flagged by Acti/IW. But this is MS we talking about.
 
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