Cheating On Gears Of War 2? NO GAMERSCORE FOR YOU!

Dark Pulse · Apr 28, 2009

Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat - unless they're aimbotting or wallhacking, of course. But if you're cheating in Gears of War 2, Microsoft has a nasty little surprise in store.

As you know, we are committed to keeping Xbox LIVE a safe and fair place to play for the more than 17 million active members. As part of our regular safety monitoring we have pinpointed a group of players who have unlocked specific Gears of War 2 Achievements through an unauthorized hack. Deliberate cheats like these are in direct violation of the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use and will not be tolerated. As I post this, we've begun taking steps to reset the Gamerscores of the offending players. As I have mentioned in the past, this is something we do occasionally to keep the service free of cheating in order to maintain a fair and level playing field for everyone. If you play fair and earn your achievements without glitching or cheating, you have nothing to worry about.

Your account will also be permanently flagged as well. So don't cheat! Your account and future boyfriends and/or girlfriends will thank you.

elmuerte · Apr 28, 2009

So? What does "gamescore" matter?

_Lynx · Apr 28, 2009

e-pe.. *ahem* e-ego.

BooGiTyBoY · Apr 28, 2009

Indeed. Typical micorsoft.

"You are cheating/hacking on our game system and breaking your EULA, but we'll just reset your gamerscore which doesnt mean jack **** to anyone."

Nice... that's like the cops pointing their finger at you and yelling "STOP OR I'LL SAY STOP AGAIN!!!"

Cant kick them off though, god forbid, they are PAYING CUSTOMERS! And we at M$ need all the money we can shove up our fat a$$e$!!!!

Majik · Apr 28, 2009

Meh, I think it's an appropriate punishment seeing as the hack/exploit only concerns achievements (that's my understanding anyway). If they had been ruining other people's game experience with in-game exploits, then that would've been a different story and they would've deserved to have their accounts banned and their membership revoked.

Also, it obviously does matter to these individuals if they're willing to take a stupid risk like this to boost their score.

-Jes- · Apr 28, 2009

Most people on Live grind achievements to stroke their e-Peen anyway, so imho a virtual castration is a fine punishment.

N1ghtmare · Apr 28, 2009

For the people who cheat to increase their gamerscore this does affect them.

_Lynx · Apr 28, 2009

-Jes- said:
Most people on Live grind achievements to stroke their e-Peen anyway, so imho a virtual castration is a fine punishment.

A neat description of the whole story. Epimyth? Don't use enlargment pills.

dinwitty · Apr 28, 2009

yeh, they will know who the cheaters are and keep them in check. They are more stat watchers than gamers just to see thier names highest on the list. Maybe they should just knock off bloody stats forever. But there are really good players out there.

GreatEmerald · Apr 29, 2009

After looking at the title, I thought it included codes. Thank god it doesn't

Those cheaters get a good punishment. If it was harder, there would be people shouting that it's inhumane to do so etc.

Fuzzle · Apr 29, 2009

BooGiTyBoY said:
"You are cheating/hacking on our game system and breaking your EULA, but we'll just reset your gamerscore which doesnt mean jack **** to anyone."

I beg to differ. People cheat to earn achievements and gamerscore. People will "grind" in games to farm achievements.
I know about people who will buy games only because they are easy to farm achievements in, and the most common whine from people who've had their live account banned is that they lost their gamerscore.

I don't care about them myself, I think achievements as a whole are pointless and often detrimental to online play.

TF2 Placebo Effect, I'm looking at you.

evilmrfrank · Apr 29, 2009

Fuzzle Cheats

Kantham · Apr 29, 2009

As you know, we are committed to keeping Xbox LIVE a safe and fair place to play for the more than 17 million active members.

Yeah, say that again please? Safe and fair place? Last I checked nearly every game is built up from listen servers, and we have to pay 60 bucks a year for playing their console online. Where the money goes? :lol:

BTW Dark Pulse, you should read into it, what you said doesn't make sense (Actual system tampering), they're not talking about Aimbots or ****s like that, they're talking about people getting banned for getting their achievements unfairly. There's a glitch to unlock rank 100 in less than 5 seconds, if you already have a level 100.

People have been also desperately trying to get M$ points by getting people's ACCOUNT/PASSWORD, and so these desperate kids could get their rank 100 glitch done by someone else who already has a rank 100 by giving them their password right? :lol:

17 million people, kill the number, a bit. You get what you get M$.

Enfluence · Apr 29, 2009

I always get messages from teenies bragging about there "Penis size" uhh..ment gamerscore

JaFO · Apr 29, 2009

If developers didn't add any cheat-friendly achievements into their games then it'd be fixxed permanently.

For example : in 'Hells' Highway' there's an achievement for playing a certain number of days. Within days of release people had discovered a glitch (by changing their system-date or somethin) that allowed them to pretend they had played enough for the cheat to unlock.

It sucks that people think that gamerscore is 'important' enough to use designflaws to get them, but unless MS removes the system there's no way to stop this. The best they can do is to disallow achievements that reward on-line activity. That should keep the worst cheaters out of the multiplayer-games ...

-=WolverinE=- · Apr 29, 2009

LOL! Seriously, some people need to get a life. Achievements are f*cking pointless and if that's why you're getting a game for, you need to be humiliated in front of everyone you talk to by getting your genitals stomped by an elephant and faced buried in it's sh!t. FFS!

Kantham · Apr 29, 2009

-=WolverinE=- said:
LOL! Seriously, some people need to get a life. Achievements are f*cking pointless and if that's why you're getting a game for, you need to be humiliated in front of everyone you talk to by getting your genitals stomped by an elephant and faced buried in it's sh!t. FFS!

You wouldn't believe the number of people who buy/rent games just for achievements. You'd crush their lives by permanently closing down their gamertags.

Sjosz · Apr 29, 2009

-=WolverinE=- said:
LOL! Seriously, some people need to get a life. Achievements are f*cking pointless and if that's why you're getting a game for, you need to be humiliated in front of everyone you talk to by getting your genitals stomped by an elephant and faced buried in it's sh!t. FFS!

Yeah wow, they're really the worst scum on the earth... awesome response, right there.

Interbellum · Apr 29, 2009

My e-peen is quite small.

N1ghtmare · Apr 29, 2009

Interbellum said:
My e-peen is quite small.

I contest that. Mine is more small.

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