This is key. When I got Injustice yesterday, I didnt know this. I just clicked on the first ad...which was this and it was the right one. And it was easier for me to make up an email address from gmail. I didnt know you could do that. I thought all email addresses had to be MS ones.
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This is key. When I got Injustice yesterday, I didnt know this. I just clicked on the first ad...which was this and it was the right one. And it was easier for me to make up an email address from gmail. I didnt know you could do that. I thought all email addresses had to be MS ones.
Luckily you don't need to throw away any games, you just get new ones for free!
SilentFlyer
Member
what exactly are you doing? Because I, too, wasn't able to get injustice at first but got it doing the trick second time. Have you followed these instructions carefully, especially the one underlined?
Oh crap, it appears I've been banned for 'Marketplace Theft' for this, and I haven't stolen games other than using these marketplace glitches (and the one for AC3 a while back). The only other thing even remotely close to that would be from sharing Season Passes with my brothers xbox.
But Amazon often DOESN'T cancel the faulty order, and there's nothing stopping Microsoft from revoking the licenses if they wanted to. True, there's region switching trickery involved and MS may not like that, but it's not much different than buying something from Amazon UK if you live in the US. Phantom accounts are a choice. There's nothing stopping you from giving your actual name and email, or hell, some people taking advantage of this actually live in Oman.
I'm not saying this is ethically unassailable since you're still taking advantage of a human error, but it's not much different than traveling to a store outside of your town to do the same, and it's certainly not the same as piracy since MS keeps records of everything downloaded and they know which consoles got them.
Genesis Knight
Member
Wait, seriously?
want to back that claim up with a picture ?
spreading bullshit gets you banned quickly here
Yeah here's what happened when I sign into xbox.com, and an Email I got right away. I got kicked out of a game of WRC Rally and permabanned. (For some reason my hotmail account's time is always an hour behind)
this is the first time im hearing that they ban people for this
did you ask the specific reason ? via email or chat
dont play with your main account if you want to be safe
PsihoPerihelion
Member
Oh shit. Now I'm scared.
sakipon
Member
I'm also curious about this. If no-one else has been banned, the reason is probably not these downloads but something else.
I will do now through support, I never heard of anyone getting banned for this either. But I genuinely can't imagine what else it could be for.
Like I said, doing this for the free arcade games, along with doing it for Assassin's Creed 3, and having a friend buy a Season Pass on my Xbox so that I would get it and he could use it on his own is the only thing I could consider 'marketplace theft'.
Edit:
I can confirm at least I'm not console banned, I signed in an alternate silver account and it's worked fine. However my Oman account is also banned for the same reason.
quickwhips
Member
Makes no since...you download the game on another profile they would ban that account.
Bestbuy does crazy stuff. People were ordering GTA5 for free and are getting $20 coupons on top of that.
Buttonbasher
Member
O, man!
Seriously though, that sucks. Sorry to hear about that.
Seriously though, that sucks. Sorry to hear about that.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
My man!! Shit worked. Got Assassins Creed 3 back when that was glitched.
You don't get banned. Don't believe the bullshit people are posting.
Edit: Damn just seen the post. First time Ive ever heard of that
You have 77779 achievement points? ;-)
ive got something like 69404. did you play luxor ? it has an achievement worth 3 or 4 or something. its possible
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
You admitted you duplicated a season pass, the email says you got banned for that.
Is everyone really missing this??
Is everyone really missing this??
chugen
Member
i dont see it but whats more important is this
"Your conduct was brought to the attention of the LIVE Enforcement team through complaints filed by other Xbox LIVE users"
guess it really is for something else he did.
where do you see the season pass thing ?
Yeah, that must be the real reason.
These free games always show up from time to time on the Xbox Live and I never heard of someone been banned for this.
Genesis Knight
Member
I think that's a legitimate thing to do, though. Every item you purchase on XBL has a HDD license and an account license. If you purchase a Season Pass on someone else's Xbox using your account, I guess both of you get it. That's not against TOS.
(Could be wrong!)
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
First line in the list of conduct he's been banned for
Unfortunately sharing season passes is against the ToS
Unfortunately sharing season passes is against the ToS
French xboxes don't count!
First line in the list of conduct he's been banned for
Unfortunately sharing season passes is against the ToS
thanks. im kinda curious who reported him ?
it says they got onto him after users filed complaints. how does that happen ?
I was sure it's a common thing people do. One person purchases the item on one console. Allowing anyone on that console to access the content, then they redownload it on their own console where only their profile can access it.
But also my Oman Gamertag is banned. Why would that be banned? That account had nothing to do with Season Passes.
I do understand people's disbelief, I'd probably have the same reaction since I've never heard of this ever happening. Hopefully, it's just a false alarm for you guys and all I've done is waste time.
OdysseusVA
Banned
"or in the course of our operation of the service"
But yeah, if he duped a season pass then that is likely the cause. The Oman account may have been caught during their investigation.
Yes, it's something people do, but it is still theft.
SparksterMeta0
Member
Well shit. and I just started on Ikaruga.
Better delete what I had right now.
Better delete what I had right now.
You are already dead.
StickyFingers
Member
What I would like to know is how long you have these games that are downloaded from the Oman account versus the season pass swapping?
A friend has been playing Injustice for 3 days now on his own account.
I'm almost done downloading the games and dlc, but will wait playing them. Otherwise I will delete them all.
A friend has been playing Injustice for 3 days now on his own account.
I'm almost done downloading the games and dlc, but will wait playing them. Otherwise I will delete them all.
Maybe, seems an odd time to do it, I did it with the Black Ops 2 season pass. Which I myself purchased and recovered at the other console. I was honestly unaware it was against the Terms of Service, but I thought that wouldn't be as bad as exploiting marketplace glitches. I was directed to post on the ban support forums for that and I have to wait up to 24 hours for that.
I'd been downloading them from last night, the only one I played was the WRC Powerslide game which I've been playing this afternoon.
I bought the Season Pass for Black Ops 2 around last year before the first DLC addon. I've probably accessed the maps from the latest DLC sometime this week. Odd that my brother has not been banned.
Edit: I was with 3 friends on WRC, 1 of them I was with has also just got banned for 'game multiplication' apparently.
Edit 2: They've gone to bed, won't get answers about that until tomorrow I guess.
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
Has anyone else been banned for this? Surely they can't go around banning people because they've been caught with their pants down due to some really amaturish regional security issues? Ridiculous.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
CAG basically has a thread dedicated to teaching people how to do exactly that. They call it the 360 version of "gamesharing". I can't imagine MS would care, because they could just go into that CAG thread and ban everyone who posted in that thread.
baphomet
Member
They ban for people playing purchased games before the release date. Did anyone really think they wouldn't ban you for exploiting a glitch to get marketplace content for free?
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
If this is true, this is going to be huge. I'm surprised this thread isn't exploding. Calm before the storm, well shit, some long standing accounts are going to bite the dust soon. Wow
RedAssedApe
Banned
i don't see how they could ban anyone for this in the first place. its how they designed the DRM for the console. when you buy something you get two licenses. one specific to that console so that any profile logged into that console can play the games you downloaded and a license for your gamertag so you can play your downloads from someone else's xbox when logged in.
Just created a phantom Oman account and tried to download the profile to my XBOX and got this message " 8007065B" "Sorry, XBOX LIVE profiles cannot be downloaded at this time"
So much for that. Good luck, all. It doesn't make sense to me that they can ban for a mistake on their own part. All they should do is plug the hole and move on, but we'll see...
So much for that. Good luck, all. It doesn't make sense to me that they can ban for a mistake on their own part. All they should do is plug the hole and move on, but we'll see...
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
What are people doing about this? Deleting the content and hoping they're not banned? If you've earnt achievements in any of these glitched games, that's caught red handed isn't it.
baphomet
Member
They can see who downloaded everything even if you delete all the content. At this point you might as well keep the stuff so that its on the console even if it is banned.
I don't think deleting the games would make a difference given theres already a history of them being downloaded to your XBOX.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Glad my laziness won out if bans really are being handed out. It's strange though, they haven't banned people in the past, maybe the sheer amount of glitched content forced their hand this time?
Has anyone checked CAG, etc to see if anyone there has been banned yet?
Has anyone checked CAG, etc to see if anyone there has been banned yet?