Banned/Modded Xbox 360, loaded- $140
p2pnet news view P2P | Games:- As many as 600,000 gamers may have been cut off from Xbox Live for modding their consoles, p2pnet posted yesterday, going on:
“Or as Spong puts it, ‘Xbox Live Gamer Culling Season Starts’.”
Now, “I’m selling my flashed Xbox 360 and all the things I’ve collected for it over the years since it was banned last week,” says a Craigslist post cited by CNet News, continuing »»»
Sorry, folks, but I’m not interested in any trades or straight-up swaps. I want to move EVERYTHING for this price, so I’m also not willing to sell you bits and pieces. It’s $140 for everything.
Remember, since the console is banned, you will not be able to connect to the Xbox Live service. Therefore, this posting is for those of you who don’t care if you can play online or not.
Nor is this pissed-off gamer alone.
“Thanks to a recent decision by Microsoft to ban as many as a million players from Xbox Live for illegally modifying their consoles to run pirated games, there is now an absolute glut of ‘modded’ Xboxes for sale on Craigslist,” says the story.
“And while a brand-new Xbox Arcade — the lowest-price version of the console — sells for $200 with no free games, it is now possible to spend as little as $100 for a used, modded Xbox that comes with a slew of hit titles. You just have to be willing to give up using Xbox Live and be OK with your new game collection including mainly pirated titles.”
The Craigslist XBox-for-saledeal mentioned above goes like this »»»
360 Arcade Console w/ HDMI capability
20 GB HDD + 256 MB memory card
Black Xbox 360 controller w/ USB recharge cord
Xbox 360 DVD Remote
Games
Borderlands; Brutal Legend; Dirt 2; Forza 3; Grand Theft Auto 4 (with Lost and the Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony on HDD); Madden 2010; Modern Warfare 2; NBA 2K10; NHL 2010; Prototype; Red Faction Guerilla; WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010; and, Tekken 6
HD DVD movies
300; American Gangster; Batman Begins; Children of Men; Goodfellas; Happy Gilmore; Hot Fuzz; I Am Legend; Jarhead; King Kong; Knocked Up; Meet the Parents; Meet the Fockers; Ray; Superman Returns; Talk to Me;
“Everything works perfectly,” says the ad.
“The 360 was treated better than I treat most people. Pictures can be made available upon request. I work in East Midtown Manhattan. For the extra paranoid/apprehensive — no concerns: we will meet at a very public place in New York City, during the day.”
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – Microsoft `Xbox Live banning spree`, November 11, 2009
CNet News – Craigslist brimming with banned, ‘modded’ Xboxes, November 11, 2009
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November 12th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Way to go Microsoft. Not only have you flooded the pre-xmas market with second hand X-Boxes (cannibalising sales of new), but all gamers-in-the-know will now perceive the X Box as greatly reduced in value.
This would be like Apple instantly bricking all jail-broken iPhones.
Welcome to the tech-support costs as tons of kids’ parents ring up to ask why their 2nd hand X-Box can’t play online.
Hey, I know. Any such caller deserves a ’strike’ on their record don’t you think?
Only two more strikes to go and the entire family is off the Internet altogether.
That’s how you educate such scum out of piracy isn’t it?
November 12th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I want to know how many Canadians were not refunded for their xbox live accounts and which regulator is going to do something about it.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
is ms the decider of what’s illegal?
this is major bullshit.
where i live, modding any device – phone, game console, pc, etc. – is absolutely legal. modding kits are sold in all major and several minor electronic shops and department stores.
also, many shops will do the modding for you.
i don’t have any game consoles or iphones or ipods, but if i did and i got blocked out of a game network that i pay entry to – is that how it works? – i would sue ms or nintendo or whoever is blocking me for doing what is legal where i live.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
bbc’s click is reporting that new “stealth chips” are already being manufactured.
so ms flops again. customer always wins.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
It seems to me the obvious evolution is for gamers to learn to keep two consoles: one modded, and one un-modded for playing online multiplayer.
Yes, for now it would be advisable to not play pirated, muliplayer online games. Sometimes there is a catch where THEY can get you. Custom hardware, unlike the generic Intel PC, makes those catches easier. Imagine how happy the music industry would be if they could restrict the sale of music to discs for proprietary, game-like consoles.
Disclaimer: I am not a gamer.
November 13th, 2009 at 7:31 am
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November 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
“bbcâs click is reporting that new âstealth chipsâ are already being manufactured.”
According to what I read, they discovered the modded consoles by people trying to play pirated games online before their official release date. If that’s true, a “stealth chip” isn’t going to help.
Also, I can’t help wondering; What happens when the modded console you buy used dies due to the infamous “red ring of death”? With MS repair it and return your modded console to you? Will you get back an un-modded one? Will they simply refuse to touch it because it’s been modded? I suppose you could say that they’re so cheap that people wouldn’t care, but as far as I know, there’s no way to back up the content on the HD, so if the system stops working, you’d lose everything on there.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
They have every right to ban gamers modding there consoles!
At the end of the day, its class as stealing if you are illegally pirating games.
Designers have made those games and deserve some sort of credit for them!
Well done Microsoft, keep banning people who are not going to game sensibly.
At the end of the day, gaming is a bit of fun…so make it fun for everyone.
January 17th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Q: ” Also, I can’t help wondering; What happens when the modded console you buy used dies due to the infamous “red ring of death”? ”
A: Once a console has been opened, Microsoft will not repair it. The warranty becomes void when you break the MS seals around the box.
Statement: ” as far as I know, there’s no way to back up the content on the HD ”
A: NOT TRUE. The xbox hard drive is a separate piece of kit. You can transfer the HD from one xbox to another regardless of chipping.