Mon, May 18, 2009 | 09:46 BST
Cheaters’ Gamercards will be tagged
Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement dude Stephen Toulouse has said that not only will cheaters’ total gamerscore be reset to zero, their gamercards will also be branded – so the fact that you’ve cheated will follow you around forever.
“The bar is a little bit higher than that,” Toulouse replied when Major Nelson quizzed him about gamerscore reset on latest podcast.
“The other thing it does is, it puts a tag that you’ve been cheating on your gamercard. That’s a pretty big Scarlett Letter.”
So don’t do it, innit!
Full podcast through the link.
4 comments
#1
Gekidami
18/05/09, 9:49 am
I thought this was already in place ages ago…
#2
Whizzo
18/05/09, 10:07 am
Surely those so marked would just create another account after cancelling their existing one?
#3
Psychotext
18/05/09, 10:29 am
I always thought that the best thing they could do is shunt these arseholes over to their own little section of xbox live. Let all the cheaters play against each other and see how much fun they have.
#4
Esha
18/05/09, 5:34 pm
To play devil’s advocate; punishing cheaters is a flawed system, mostly because it’s like a judicial system or a virus scanner, there will always be false positives.
It’s not hard to make it very difficult for people to cheat, Valve has proved that. Design a system that’s resilient to cheating and you’ll end up with very, very few cheaters to punish.
This is another reason I stay far away from Live, it was only just a few weeks back that a friend was relating a tale to me about CoD, how he’d been kicked and banned from a server for the consensus that he was cheating. Whereas he was simply amazing.
I know the guy, and he’s clan-quality, made of hardcore gamer stuff and spends most his time playing FPS games across all formats. He was a victim of the false positive scneario, it would really stink if people like him ended up having their Gamerscore reset.
After all, is Microsoft’s system really bulletproof, or is it “bulletproof” like Blizzard’s Warden? Wherein people have been banned for running Warcraft on Linux or using a programmable keyboard (something they do allow).
It’s easy to bunch ‘cheaters’ all in a pen and hate them all, and you’ll love doing that, you’ll love doing that right up until the second you become a casualty of the omnipresent false positive scenario.