- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I already tried to send an email to the h2cheats@microsoft.com box but it didn't work, and i don't know who to send it to so I'll just post it up in the forums.
I'll be as brief as I can. My gamertag is "JackDVS"
Almost exactly a year ago i sold my xbox to a gamecrazy to get more money for a 360. About 4 1/4 months later I finally did buy one. Several days later I logged onto my xbox live account to find that this whole time it had been in use by someone else who had bought my used xbox, and since gamecrazy had not cleared the memory like they said they would, my gamertag was free for use by them, and I found that they loved to play Halo 2.
Within the next couple of days I was finally able to get them to realize the true owner of the gamertag had returned. However I realized from the messages that they were recieving from friends that they stand-byed and modded a lot, which I had never done in all the years I had my gamertag and played Halo 2. He also contacted me with another gamertag of his, "TK RED" but since he was on an original xbox and I didn't have my copy of Halo 2 we couldn't message one another, I could only read the first several words of each message he sent me, and it simply wouldn't even let me respond from the xbox 360 dashboard, but through a lot of evidence it became obvious what was going on.
A few months later, when I was able to finally find my own copy of the game, I attempted to log onto my profile and play some Halo 2, but it said my account had been permanently banned from Halo 2 matchmaking. Great. And I didn't even do any of the stuff.
Now I have finally decided to get around to contacting bungie about this (since Halo 3 is due soon) and I have been contacted by the modder who had possession of my account with a new gamertag, called "OoGoSuoO" and he now owns a 360 (which is why we're finally able to message one another) and apparently he had modded my whole xbox. I don't think he mods anymore or anything, just putting his name in so you know that I'm not making all of this up.
Now, it would be great to get my account unbanned from Halo 2 matchmaking, but I'm more worried about Halo 3. My account won't still be banned for that, will it? I don't want to be forced to pay for a whole new account on something I didn't even do, and I shouldn't be punished for because Gamecrazy messed up and didn't erase the memory like they said that they would.
It's just a really stupid and unlucky situation. And I'm mainly looking for people from bungie to read this, not too many others, but you can respond if you want to.
Also, the reason why i didn't clear the memoy myself was because I wasn't sure if gamecrazy was going to accept my xbox, and I didn't want to erase everything, and then not be able to sell it and come home with everything gone.
If there's a better place to put this or a good place to send it just tell me. Thanks.