So I don’t know if you heard, but a French retailer put Halo3 :ODST out early, or really early we should say since the game don’t officially drop till September 22nd. You know if a game makes it out early you will find a pirated copy. Then another and another and another. Well, if you find one don’t play it. Or you might get the “permaban”.
According to the Twitter feed of Xbox Live’s Policy and Enforcement Director, anyone spotted playing downloaded copies of the game on Xbox Live faces a permanent ban from the service.
“Hrm. I spy with my little eye some *illegitimate* ODST players. No early play for you. Commencing permabans,” he said yesterday. He later clarified that those who bought legitimate copies early will not be punished.
“If a user happens to purchase a legit copy of Halo 3: ODST early, then our problem is not with the user but the retailer who broke the street date. Those individuals will not be punished,” he told Kotaku.
Microsoft is also known to ban users from Xbox Live for modifying their consoles, cheating, offensive behavior, or fraud.
So if you’re jonesing for a look at ODST, but you’re not one of the few fortunate individuals to have secured a legitimate copy early, we highly recommend you make do with this awesome, just-released trailer instead.
“PERMABAN”!!!!
