Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

GIZmoto — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:51:09 GMT

Lol, sent Cheatermccheat a fiend request via the link why immortalize them Microsoft?

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

RabidMaggot — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:16:06 GMT

Great Job! I love seeing cheaters get their just deserts...how about an update on how this is going on a future podcast?

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

Disneynut68 — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:05:18 GMT

Well done Major. Seems like a lot of cheating/glitching is done in GOW2. Keep it up!

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

SetoKaioX — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:57:25 GMT

Isto e muito bom. E complicado você passar horas/dias tentando conseguir conquistas e um zé ninguem tem aumenta 5000G a cada semana.

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

Brainp0wa — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:34:50 GMT

A gamerscore reset is ok for first time offenders I guess, but a console ban for the second would be nice especially if the first ban uses the console's internal serial number so it won't matter if they cheat with another account.

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

Casserole — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:35:48 GMT

Why do they even do it though...they have no value at all, not even to impress... if I were to tell my friends I managed to collect all the parts for my W2000 sniper in Hitman, they'd disown me! The only purpose for me is to keep a record on what I've done in the game, which obviously isn't the case if you cheat.

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

Custom Casket — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:01:38 GMT

Look at that, still no reply from MN. Still ignoring the very people that are practically putting your paycheck into your pocket. Without us paying for Live your position would not exist at Microsoft. How about you take care of and/or address the issues we are having with the NXE.

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

jb304life — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:47:38 GMT

Good Job......finally!!

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

ANTI DEMON 777 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:16:06 GMT

Now Microsoft is cooking with gas !

As I always say: Play hard, fair AND LEGIT !

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

crazyguy24 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:45:33 GMT

Gamerscore = SERIOUS BUSINESS!

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

SuddleD — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:57:48 GMT

I think the title is a little misleading since no one is actully "banned", but hey even the Major wants to grab some headlines every once in a while I'm sure. I am glad they are cracking down since I work hard for my gamerscore, but as long as they are not cheating in the online games (multiplayer), I don't think MS should be putting too much extra effort into this sort of problem....

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

VVho Cares — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:12:23 GMT

I'm surprised they are still charging us a fee seeing how they refunded all the PC users that were using the Live service.. Now they get to use it for free. Warranted there are that many games that PC users play against Xbox users on live.

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

Cardy69 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:08:39 GMT

I am happy an action has been made about cheaters but am more concerned on the speed of NXE as it is so slow! Even if i want to send a message or view my friends list this can take up to 5-10 seconds every time where before it didn't. Worst is the marketplace, i have given up on using it and use it on xbox.com now. I can wait up to 20 seconds to see the marketplace data when looking on NXE, even movie's are the same. I feel microsoft's efforts should be here fixing this also, regards Cardy69

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

F34RL3SS L34D3R — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:20:41 GMT

@InfinitProject

I have had a bunch of demos and arcade games on both systems. Maybe the XMB loads faster but the over all product is junk. I am just saying that its 10 to 15 seconds. Is it that big of a deal? PS3 chat blows its HOME program is a joke and completely unnecessary. Its a Sims game that blows. I love my PS3 too, but the fact is NXE is far superior and I think we are making to big a deal over 10 to 15 SEC. MAybe its because I started out as a PC gamer and I am used to being patient. I would just rather have the cheating situation handled. Especially on Gears 2, COD 4 5, and Halo. I actually quit playing Gears because I could not get into any fair matches. It makes it difficult to get matched with like players because they cheated there way up there. Bring those a-holes down from there cheated pedestals so they can get their butts handed to them like they should have been in the first place. I put most of the blame on Epic for not paying attention to these exploits.

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

XxLightkunxX — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:17:42 GMT

@F34RL3SS L34D3R

I don't really think you understand the extent of the issue *Or you're just trying to downplay everyone here who has complained on the issues*. What if something were to happen, say, in the middle of a starting match? Multiple times I've gotten antsy when the guide simply would not CLOSE because I was done reading a message so that I could start up on a deathmatch on GTA4. Yet here I am looking at my friends list for 20 seconds just so their gamerpictures could load. Meanwhile, I get killed a few times and as a gaming experience, a little soured from the start.

It's a big deal when it's a humongous, noticeable change compared to the old dashboard if the NXE is taking nearly 20-40 seconds *yes I have reached that long* loading up a menu browsing the marketplace just to buy an arcade game or rent a movie. It is a big deal when the dashboard freezes even if I'm simply browsing from my Friends 'tab' to the Inside Xbox tab for 15 seconds just because someone may have signed off and it has to render the images of their avatars...or something. I'm not sure. Heck, it's annoying enough that even signed offline, the Game/Video Libraries take so long to load everything!

*directed to Microsoft and the Live Team*

I mean seriously guys did you all even bother to see if any of this would happen when you released NXE last fall? Are you even paying attention to us? Are you going to actually DO something about it, or are we going to have to do something else to get your attention?

re: Gears of War 2 Achievement Hacking: Banning has begun...

Twilight Now — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:00:24 GMT

COD4 gamers: a patch is almost ready that should help against cheaters.

twitter.com/.../1643256975