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Are You a Dirty Rotten Xbox Live Cheater?

Sort | March 26, 2008 | News | XBOX 360

For those of you who tamper with your 360 gamerscore to shoot to the top of the leaderboards, you might want to read this article first, unless of course, you want to be permanently tagged as a "cheater" on Live for all to see.

If you've hacked your Xbox 360 save files in order to falsely inflate your Gamerscore, standby to see your Xbox Live profile sullied for good. If you care at all about Microsoft's meta-scoring system that tracks player achievements in games and assigns them a summary number that cumulatively boasts player prowess, that's good news for the presumably honest majority who've been knocked down the leaderboards by your not-so-average hoodwinking prima donnas.

The director of programming for Xbox Live, Larry Hryb (aka "Major Nelson") wrote about the crackdown yesterday on his blog, noting that the steps include resetting violators' Gamerscores to zero, making it imposible for them to regain all previously earned achievements (including legitimate ones), and labeling each account as a "cheater" for the entire community to see. In this example, the gamer card says "What happened to their Gamerscore?" with the answer "They've been caught cheating" followed by a link to "Find out more."

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Steel Magnolia | March 26, 2008

Good news. I like gamerscore as much as the next person but all of mine is legit. Serves these idiots right if you ask me.
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TurMoiL911 | March 26, 2008

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!

This is the funniest thing that I've ever seen. And I love how they can't even get the achievements that got erased back. So much for trying to get Mile High Club again, assholes.
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Sort | March 26, 2008

Don't you know that StripClubDJ is pissed?

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?GamerTag=StripClubDj
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Steel Magnolia | March 26, 2008

Ha ha, he must be livid! I wonder if they consider using Avatar to get 1000 points cheating? I hope not...
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Play ISDF | March 26, 2008

Sucks to be a cheater! Now those who've earned their gamerscore can feel proud of it.
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  ShinyMilotic | March 27, 2008
  
  That is good to hear, hopefully this will eliminate all cheaters eventually.
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    Sort | March 28, 2008
    
    That's never gonna happen.
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Storm | March 27, 2008

You can cheat to get Mile High Club?
All of mine's are legit...wouldn't cheat to get any, I like the challenge and it adds to the replay value.
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  Sort | March 27, 2008
  
  I don't know of any cheats to get the achievement for Mile High Club.