I don't think we can do stuff tomorrow after all.
My cousin's coming down to visit and I've only got my father here.
But here's an idea: are you doing anything on Saturday? Because if you're not, we might be able to hit up Frank & Sons. Not sure that we could bother anyone but Avery or Jimmy for a ride, though.
I dunno if you got my text, but just in case you didn't, this gives me a chance to fully explain the situation.
So Isaac failed a little with the burned games, because apparently Microsoft cracked down on us and banned our Xbox from participating in Xbox Live. It banned our console from using live; our accounts are free from accusation, apparently.
Isaac's solution is thus: he believes you guys aren't going to get Xbox Live any time soon, so he's wondering if you guys would mind switching Xbox 360s with us. We'd keep our hard drives, which means our accounts and statistics, and he's willing to hand over all of the games we burned, which would work just fine (Understanding you wouldn't play live, you'd get Soul Calibur, Madden, Fight Night, Assassin's Creed, Need for Speed, all of them fully functioning for non-live play).
I'd personally understand if this doesn't sound like a fair deal, since you'd be forfeiting any chance of using Live, ever, but if you weren't intending to get Live in the future, this is a completely legit exchange. We just can't use Live, and we really, really, really, really don't want to have just wasted $50 on subscriptions. Sound like a deal?
All I know is that he sent the Xbox to one of his friend's cousins, who "modded" the Xbox so it would play pirated games. I don't know which friend, though I imagine it would be his friend Elijah, who seems to be into that kind of hacking shit.
He sent it away, it came back, and he paid out $5 for each game afterwards. I don't even think he knows how it was done.
How are you sure your Live accounts are safe?
How did you guys get caught? (How do you think you guys got caught?)
Is the subscription attached to the console or your account?
Doesn't that mean that your warranty is voided? (what happens if your box fucks up?)
Our accounts are still safe, as I can still sign into live and they still count me as a Gold member, for some reason. I.E. I can sign in at Jessriel's house after recovering my ID. Pain in the ass, but I can still do it.
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I'm assuming that Microsoft found out we had pirated information on our console, somehow. The console runs burned games off of a downloadable software instead of whatever's given in the original Xbox. This means that they probably have a way of seeking out and tracking which 360s have downloaded the software.
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The subscriptions are attached to our accounts.
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The warranty is voided on our Xbox, yes. If our Xbox 360 were to die, we wouldn't be able to turn it in for a new one. I understand this makes it a little ridiculous for us to consider trading it to you (on top of asking you to never play Live, of course), but rest assured that if our Xbox were to die while in your hands, we would give you yours back, and as quickly as we could get it back. Even Isaac's not that much of an ass.
Well, that seems like a really strange, yet effective way for Microsoft to ban you from using the pirated games, and yet still allow you to have Live accounts and play games legitimately.
I guess considering that there's very little risk from my part, I'd be willing to do the trade.
My suggestion? Don't let Isaac do that again with the xbox I'm trading to you.
Ahah...you might either get a kick out of what I'm about to say or get incredibly upset.
He couldn't wait. He had bought a new guitar for Rock Band for $77. He turned it back in for full price, took whatever money he had left, sacrificed his allowance money for the next three months, and bought an Xbox 360 Arcade. So now he has a modified Xbox for his burned games and an Xbox arcade for online play.
I don't think he'll be modifying that one, though. He basically just went broke for three months.
I guess not -- I can't blame him for not being able to wait, because Modern Warfare II just came out, which we do have. But I can blame him for needing to sell back his own guitar, because hey; he did pay out to modify the thing.
I just hope he doesn't make a rookie mistake and, say, put a modified game into the Xbox arcade.
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