Microsoft Labels Cheaters, Resets Scores

Bad idea.

I use my roommates Live account for multiplayer all the time. I'm sure multitudes of other people do this as well. Should the people using the accounts have cheated, the account owner would be fucked. But I'm sure nerd rage is the more prevalent and I will be countered with the reasoning of, "Good! They shouldn't be sharing anyways! That what they get for being stupid and sharing! :mad::mad::mad:"

The fact that people even care enough about a gay-ass pseudo score to support giving people a scarlet "A", for cheating the gay-ass pseudo score, is pretty pathetic. They cheated the score, not the gameplay.

Get it??? They weren't aimbotting your noob ass. They weren't wall hacking into your base to kill your dudes. They tricked a stupid score counter to show a higher score than they should have had. Who the fuck honestly cares? They are going to be branded as legitimate cheaters when in reality they did nothing that affects you in any meaningful or tangible way.

Zero their score, fine, but theres no reason to be a bitch and label them something they aren't. Stop raging against the nerd machine over shit that doesn't even involve playing the game.

How does LIVE know a player has been cheating on their gamerscore versus another player?

We look for abnormal achievement and gamerscore activity using criteria that identifies users who have used external means to earn achievements without really playing the game. Users who play games legitimately to earn an achievements are unaffected by this.
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:rolleyes: (I wish I could make this smiley bigger to express my extreme disappoint in you non-empathetic losers with zero grasp of reality)
 
Azhar said:
Except with the Xbox live, you lose your score plus get branded, whereas if you recreate an account, you lose your score anyways. You just won't be branded.

Either way all your "hard working" points are gone because you fucked up.

This threat might get people to dial back on cheating in fear of losing their points.
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Thats the risk you take in cheating. I find it hard to believe that anybody could be as dense as to believe that there would be no consequences to their devious actions.

And if I'm faced with the issue of keeping my account, but being branded a cheater, thus not being able to get into any games or buying a new account and getting into games no issue, then im just going to go ahead and create a new account. Like you said, either way im back at square one, I may as well start at square one with out a cheater label attached to my name.
 
turdhat said:
High gamer scores show one thing for sure. They dont do well with the ladies. Very few women are going to let you spend that kind of time playing games when you should be scoring with them and not xbox live.
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Unless you go to college and got nothing but time on your hands b/c you skip class constantly and you dont have a job. In which case you got plenty of time to play games all day and still have a night life/sex life/party life.

God those were the days.....
 
DemonDiablo said:
Thats the risk you take in cheating. I find it hard to believe that anybody could be as dense as to believe that there would be no consequences to their devious actions.

And if I'm faced with the issue of keeping my account, but being branded a cheater, thus not being able to get into any games or buying a new account and getting into games no issue, then im just going to go ahead and create a new account. Like you said, either way im back at square one, I may as well start at square one with out a cheater label attached to my name.
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if they thought they would get caught, they wouldnt do it, so obviously they think there is no consequence to their actions, or they likely wouldnt do it in the first place

it is like when most people get caught for say.... speeding, they know they are doing it, but cry the sob story to the cops "im sorry, i didnt know, boo hoo hoo"

i dont think the cheaters really care if they lose their score, some may, but most dont.
 
ShagnWagn said:
Yet, Microsoft thinks it's perfectly fine to cheat if you give them money...

Microsoft can hug my nuts
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Hmm.. article talks about EA selling cheats through microtransactions, which is still irrelevant. Artificially inflating your gamerscore/achievements is the purpose of the OP's article. Paying for your single player cheats has nothing to do with this cheater hunt campaign. Now if you could pay to increase your gamerscore, then that would just be ridiculous.
 
SPARTAN VI said:
Hmm.. article talks about EA selling cheats through microtransactions, which is still irrelevant. Artificially inflating your gamerscore/achievements is the purpose of the OP's article. Paying for your single player cheats has nothing to do with this cheater hunt campaign. Now if you could pay to increase your gamerscore, then that would just be ridiculous.
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I thought the whole issue was cheating in single-player mode (or downloading a save game to unlock everything, or with cheats/unlocks), then connecting to artificially bump your score?

Technically you are paying to increase your gamerscore by buying more games. ;) :p

I wonder if there are services out there that will play games for you to raise your score. I'm sure I could find some neighborhood kids that would be more than willing to. :D And I still wouldn't be considered a cheater. hehe

Many many ways around their system.

I assume labeling your account as a cheater would follow you in-game as well? Even though it has nothing to do with multiplayer??
 
ShagnWagn said:
I thought the whole issue was cheating in single-player mode (or downloading a save game to unlock everything, or with cheats/unlocks), then connecting to artificially bump your score?

Technically you are paying to increase your gamerscore by buying more games. ;) :p

I wonder if there are services out there that will play games for you to raise your score. I'm sure I could find some neighborhood kids that would be more than willing to. :D And I still wouldn't be considered a cheater. hehe

Many many ways around their system.

I assume labeling your account as a cheater would follow you in-game as well? Even though it has nothing to do with multiplayer??
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Haha, I guess you could look at it that way. But Microsoft is cracking down on people using artificial means of increasing their gamerscore. I don't know the exact details, but it looks like it's done through sharing saved games and phoney achievements. As a result, people are increasing their gamerscore without even playing the games.

I'd wager the only way to see this "cheater" label is by looking at the user's gamercard. In the little time I do spend on XBL, I never look at other people's gamercards. This could be potentially devasting for users on their favorite Xbox fansite as gamercards are often displayed to the public in their forums and such.
 
Kristofff said:
:rolleyes: (I wish I could make this smiley bigger to express my extreme disappoint in you non-empathetic losers with zero grasp of reality)
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Empathy for gamers who waste their time cheating the system to think that they have a higher gamerscore than they actually deserve? It seems that your labeling of the term "losers" is grossly misplaced. And it seems that your grasp of reality is skewed by the probability that you're one of these labeled cheaters.
 
SPARTAN VI said:
Hmm.. article talks about EA selling cheats through microtransactions, which is still irrelevant. Artificially inflating your gamerscore/achievements is the purpose of the OP's article. Paying for your single player cheats has nothing to do with this cheater hunt campaign. Now if you could pay to increase your gamerscore, then that would just be ridiculous.
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Next thing you know you will see EA charging 1200 points or something to unlock all of the achievements in a game, because "some people don't want to spend all that time getting them the hard way" (which was their excuse for paying points to unlock unlockables without playing the farking game).
 
Tzzird said:
Empathy for gamers who waste their time cheating the system to think that they have a higher gamerscore than they actually deserve? It seems that your labeling of the term "losers" is grossly misplaced. And it seems that your grasp of reality is skewed by the probability that you're one of these labeled cheaters.
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More like apathy for the score boosting (non-actual-gameplay cheating) situation and pity for people who actually want to complain about something that doesn't even effect them.

And how do you get your deserved points? Buying more games to get points? So the bigger wallet wins? It's just a bunch of arbitrary numbers that mean absolutely nothing and have no metric to them other than a game being worth 1000 points.

Now, excuse while I "cheat" the gamerscore on my friends account, which would have absolutely no bearing on the size of my pretend e-penis :rolleyes:
 
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