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@fourzerotwo Can you get banned for the prestige token glitch?

Robert Bowling @fourzerotwo  

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@iiRuLeZz Yes, as well as your stats and prestige tokens reset to zero.

 

It should be easy enough to find out who did the glitch in their database.  Every member that has negative tokens did the glitch.  All they have to do is sort it out that way and ban everyone with negative tokens.  Easy as pie. 

taking advantage of any mistake is sly in my eyes. Exploiting/glitching, obviously not supposed to do them. If you have to ask or think about it, your probly shouldnt.

I agree this should be easy to figure out.  If the stats don't roll-up, ban them.

As far as the OP, it's not something they "put in the game".  It's an oversight.  If you knew how many lines of code go into a game like this, you wouldn't be so quick to judge.  EVERY piece of software out there has bugs/glitches in it.  IW have a team of good developers to put out such a title with as few bug/glitches in it as they have found and an even better team with how quickly they're patching the glitches.

Aint gonna happen....thatis unless it was over the top exploitation.

Reason why...ban the hackers/glitchers = loss of revenue on next generation of game.

If you built a widget and someone or somebodies enhanced it, hacked it, glitched it, whatever yet you saw an increase of sales due to 'just' that fact (yes, lil kiddies...the ability to hack a game actually INCREASES a game companies revenues) would you tell your customers, sorry you're banned?? Nah, you;d make a poor excuse of an example by banning .01% and then spam the news saying 'IM TOUGH ON HACKING!!!'

End result, FPS games are not for everyone. There are people out there with vast reactionary skills that its a cake walk to them...and like all things explained for a reaction there is an equal opposite reaction, meaning, people that could not catch a party balloon with enough helium  to actually keep it off the ground. So to market to those 'opposites' without dumbing the game down (oops, wait, the Lag compensation people may think of right off the bat...) they rely on hackers to exploit the game which allows the opposites to compete with the talented.

Wish all you want but the days of Game Stats bragging are over. Just think baseball and steriods and you'll get thedrift.

maslaplag

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/f/41.aspx

See that page right there ? That is all the "future lost revenue" that Microsoft deals with in a daily basis. Multiply those amount of posts by at least ten. If these people want to play a game they put out hard money for they have to now spend 60 dollars on a NEW gamertag and they also lost their MS points ALL DLC for every game ever bought, and the time spent acheiving things.

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/f/2366.aspx

See that one above ? Thats even more "future lost revenue". Those people not only have to deal with the same as the people above they also need to buy a new Xbox to do it.

Or all of them can go to the PS3 but they will be disappointed most likely.

Now you want a real BIG amount of "future lost revenue" ?

Back in 2009 Microsoft banned 1 million people from Xbox Live in one swoop. The one million people they banned were modding their console software  and Gamertags. Some of those modders were using pirated copies of MW2 on those xboxes. They immediately lost all that "future revenue".

Some people MAY leave but more will take their place and the rest of the banned players will still crawl back to Microsoft. I mean if you own ten Xbox games, do you think its smart to buy a PS3 console AND those 10 games if available ? Or would it be cheaper and smarter to buy a new Gamertag and / Or console to play the games you still have ? The fact is the companies already have the money today. They still have 99 percent of the legit players and advertising to get in all the future revenue on everything.

If you are thinking along the line of "customer service" or "customer loyalty" then your thinking about nothing but what companies want you to believe.

Another example was the Netflix Price Raising from recent history. They expected a loss of 1 million customers by raising their prices. That is again their analysts stated "We will lose 1 million customers but still gain more income". Of course them raising their prices by at least 40 percent lost them 1.8 million out of the total 23 million they had instead That was a dumb move. If they would have raised it gradually they would have probably saved a ton of those customers.

I feel like, one way or another, IW / Activision / Microsoft needs to set an example here.

I really dont know why people are complaining sooo much about this glitch/exploit. Its just like playing against somebody that stays at level 80 the whole time they own the game. Other than that, everything that the glitch gives the player doesnt have anything to do with anybody at all. Its not like the leaderboards were ever legit.

Wow! XBOX, IW, Sledgehammer, all of them say in their TOS don't glitch, don't exploit....don't do it.

The attitude here is screw it, they left it in there it's there mistake so why should I be banned. lol

I can see it now: Judege I did shoot that man, but guns kill people I know there is a law against doing it, but they didn't outlaw guns. So why should I be penalized?

Very scary attitudes

The fact is now that 100000's of people have done the glitch, seems a bit silly they should ban every single one of them. I beleive they should set a cap... because i dont beleive a ban should be in affect for someone on -1, but should be for someone on -100-

There shouldn't be any suspension/reset/bans to anyone IMO. Just patch that sh*t.

Prestige Tokens become useless after prestige 10 anyhow.

you will get reset becuase most likely when they patch this it will reset/ban any one who did the glitch