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Posted by: Captain K Mart
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Well if I know that I got banned from Xbox Live for "double posting" by evilcam I WILL sue.
Good luck with that. If you've ever read the Terms of Use you'll realize that you can be banned from Xbox Live at any time, with or without reason.That's true. This concept is embodied in paragraph 18 of the XBL Terms of Use. I don't know where you got the idea that moderators would not legally be able to implement a ban here that would carry over to XBL, but it is wrong, according to the laws that I know of. If you can point me to a body of law that contradicts this, then please do so. (As a side note, remember that under the XBL Terms of Use, you can only sue Microsoft in King County, Washington, so I hope you're prepared to travel from NYC over there to collect your maximum damages of one month's XBL fees, as enumerated in paragraph 17 of the Terms of Use.)
As far as the legality of this idea, it is clearly something that could be accomplished if both Microsoft and Bungie agree to implement it. I don't, however, think that Microsoft corporation would risk alienating or pissing off the people paying thousands or millions of dollars in XBox Live fees just for bad behavior on an internet forum -- look how hard it is to get an account banned for bad behavior on XBox Live. As outlined originally, I like the original idea, but I worry about larger implications in both directions. Others have outlined the potential consequences of smaller or more limited cross-bans just as well as I could have, so I won't repeat them. But I don't foresee them happening for a few various reasons.
I think that the concept of restricting Optimatch to accounts with linked gamertags is an attractive one, though I don't think it'll help much as far as general bad behavior in other forums. Indeed, it might encourage such bad behavior as users create alternate accounts to post in other forums thinking that it is "okay." I'm still kind of neutral on this particular idea.
[Edited on 10.24.2007 10:48 AM PDT]