150
rate

XBL Cheaters Will Have Their Gamer Tags Labeled

May 18, 2009 in News comments 16

Xbox Live fans who cheat, not only will have their scores reset to zero, but will also have a bit of text placed on their gamercard telling others that they are cheaters. This is according to Stephen Toulouse, the Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement manager.

Xbox Live cheaters have received yet another blow as Stephen Toulouse, the Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement manager stated that not only would cheaters on XBL have their scores reset to zero, but their gamercard will also be labeled with a bit of text/symbol saying you are a cheat.
bradleyw via lvl2gamer.com »
Favourite this article Add source
| More
Report!
Latest comment:
Most recently commented on by on May 19, 2009

Comments

Register as a member to subscribe comments.
  • 1
    punksk8er May 18, 09
    This is good for the other gamers. But doesn't really fix anything. Why are they letting them still play on XBOX live if Micro$oft has such a strict policy?
    • 1
      Smoke May 18, 09
      Simple: Microsoft charges money for Xbox live. If they ban them, they get no money.
  • 1
    Zero and X May 18, 09
    What if someone is wrongfully accused of being a cheater? They'd get their score reset for no reason, and that would suck.
  • 0
    Slumpy monkey May 18, 09
    This is old news, They did this with halo and have reset many scores before, and on their gamertag it says there a cheater.
  • 3
    iLLmatic May 18, 09
    I don't care what anyone says. This, to me, would be the best feature on XBL to date.
  • 1
    Wolverine527 May 18, 09
    It still won't do anything to those people that drop out in the middle of a teams match . It's so annoying when my entire team drops out,forcing me to take on the entire enemy team all by myself !
  • 0
    Woudo May 19, 09
    I'd like it if I could make my GamerZone, Cheater. If it wasn't for the score reset, i'd do it now.
  • 0
    Seeker X May 19, 09
    Kinda sounds like the video game equivalent of being a registered sex offender, pretty hilarious.
    • 0
      iLLmatic May 19, 09
      I actually read an article recently that said registered sex offenders would have to also register gamertags haha
      • 0
        MusiKon* May 19, 09
        Wait, so if a registered sex offender wanted to make an honest XBL account, they'd have to put that in their profile or something?
        • 0
          Slumpy monkey May 19, 09
          No, I think that they just have to tell the police what their account name is.
        • 0
          iLLmatic May 19, 09
          Yea, what slumpy said, though I have a hard time putting sex offender and "honest" anything in the same sentence.
  • 0
    Existence May 19, 09
    "Cheaters"? Does he mean people who boost for acheivements?
    • 0
      Woudo May 19, 09
      No, boosters are just douchebags, but i'd estimate 90% of the XboxLive population are boosters and the other 9% have boosted atleast a few achievements at some point. Considering this, I don't think Microsoft are going to have the cahones to ban boosting.

      But i'm sitting here with my 25k completely legit and only 1200 of which comes from easy achievement games (Alone in the Dark (It looked good in the demo) and Dash of Destruction (It was free!)), so i'm feeling pretty good about myself.
  • 0
    Aussie Legend May 19, 09
    In theory its a good sounding plan, but when its implemented I can't see it being much use other than identifying hax
  • 1
    HisServant77 May 19, 09
    I like this idea, though I also wonder about those wrongfully accused of cheating.

    I bet though people will become proud of their "Cheater" title. It makes them "special" and "different" from everyone else. Sort of like those who consider themselves rebels going against "the man."

This news story is archived and is closed to comments now.