[360] Xbox 360 Hacked

Yeah, this is bad news for those of us who actually like to play on Live ranked matches. It'll be so fun playing against people with cheats! Akira speaks the never ending truth.

Unfortunate that it was cracked this soon. And here I was hoping it might take a year before this happened. Oh well. People will try so hard to make sure they don't have to pay for things. =\

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Pirated games themselves are no big deal, but as soon as mods that circumvent security start popping up, there are the inevitable ones that enable cheating in online matches. And if they exist, asshats will use them. This is the way of the internet.

This whole thing is just a preamble to the eventual online cheating. That's what I'm getting at.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Elixir

I expect them to range from 8~15 gb a piece.

What Tube said. 360 games are standard DVD9s, most of the time. They won't be any bigger or smaller than the average PS2 ISO.

(Yet another example of what I meant by thinking before you open your mouth.)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

People would have taken you seriously up until you said "M$". Now you're a joke.

But, considering that Live has more users, and therefore more competition than the free variants, it's pretty obvious that by that alone, it's the superior service. If you're using something else, and you're not on Live, you won't be able to download whatever game patches, or extra game content arrives until someone gets it to you a different way.

Live is, and will remain to be for a long time, the best reason to own an Xbox. If you didn't enjoy it, I guess that's fine. But if you think some other, free alternative with a fraction of the userbase and support is just as good, I've got to laugh at you.

Lastly, this bit about playing backups always gets me. What the FUCK do you people do? Shit on your discs? Go over them with pennies? Let the dog eat them? How hard is it to take care of what your purchase? Put the damn things back in the case and unless you proceed to step on it, it'll be fine.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, true enough, the Xbox does eat through games if it's moved around while the game is playing. I"ll give you that. But how often does that happen? How often do you honestly ruin your discs? That's my point.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Ayos

Dollar-sign is offensive to Canadians? uh-oh.

I should rephrase. Using M$ around here is greatly frowned upon and people have a tendancy to not take the post seriously as soon as they read that. It does nothing but make your post look juvinile and stupid.

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More users, yes. More does not always equal better. I've found far fewer asshats on Kai than I have on Live. I've also gotten patches, content, etc just as quickly, if not MORE quickly, through my er... "questionable sources" as compared to Live. Happens to be the same way I got the US release of Final Fantasy XII two and a half weeks before it came out. In other words, I find just as diverse a player base - excluding the asshats - with many many different opponents, and I get even more content, more soonererer.

Leaks of final games on bittorrent isn't exactly the same as, say, the latest patch for Splinter Cell or something, which is released straight onto Live. Slightly different there. The Live alternatives will have most of the content soon enough, which is true. And some other leaked stuff will hit sooner, also true. I guess for the most part that evens out.

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Actually, I find the best reason to own an Xbox is LAN games with your 1-to-31 best buds. Other than that, I like being able to use it as a console-turned-media-center, with all my music, movies, and games right there on the hard drive. I used to think Live was the best reason. Then I got sick of Live, and found a way that I liked better. Same good experience (with extras) and none of the crap. Yum.

It's not always easy to get together large groups of people, especialyl if youre friends all have steady jobs/go to school/whatnot, so I dunno about how often you can pull that off. Fun, sure, but huge LANs are not an often enough occurance in my group to make it worth the price of admission here. I also find that other devices, like a cheap PC, can operate as a much better media center than an Xbox can. Whereas I can have any small computer be a media center, not everything can access Live, which is what the Xbox was designed for really, and why I bought it in the first place.

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It's never been to misuse or carelessness on my part. No, it's always been the dumbasses who were either my friends or related to me that thought it would be superfantastic to shit pennies on the discs and let the dog eat it, or whatever you said (too lazy to read again) and then put it in their console and ruin both my game and their system.
"Pay for me my game"
"NO IT RUIN MY XCUBE"
"Ya bcuz u ruin my game"
"IT RUIN MY GAMEBOXSTATION"
"F U nub."
"U pay for me my halobox"
"GTFO"

I need a safe to put my games in, basically.

You need to severly injure your friends on a more regular basis.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?