- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: ThunderBunny4
The ban update is going to cause problems. "-"One, you are going to anger retailers like EB games and Gamestop, they lose money on the game returns and that's not good for business.
Losing online privileges due to violations of the code of conduct does not warrant a full refund, therefore the game would be sold to the video game store with store credit being the compensation. This store credit will be spent on more video games and accessories. This is in fact good for business.
Posted by: ThunderBunny4
You are also going to get on Microsoft's bad side because your game is so big that now people return it and do not buy it. They lose money there. Plus, people just have xbox live to play halo, campaign is not worth playing through more than 3 or 4 times so they would just cancel the account. Microsoft loses even more money.
Halo 3 is worth quite a bit compared to other video games in the secondary market. The store makes a good markup and someone else will very likely buy the game at a decent markup, Microsoft has little more care about halo 3 than it's interest in Download Content, Although I bet they do keep track of 2nd market sales figures because they do care. As far as frequency of play for Campaign, plenty of people still play it, and I don't really think it has any bearing on anything your discussing.
Your also assuming that an extremely high percent of halo 3 players are only interested in halo and don't play any other online game, one of XBL's strong points is the all encompassing online game subscription, with few exceptions.
Posted by: ThunderBunny4
Finally, you are going to anger the people banned, online ranked is a privlege, custom games with friends is mandatory. You can not say, well you messed up in our game so now you cannot play with your friends. Not only could they step in and say "you are taking away from my game that i bought" Microsoft may help the customer because the world is about making money, and if that means hrting Bungie, that is what they will do.
Most of this is utter garbage. The longer you went on the less sense it made, the grammatical errors encountered throughout the post started growing exponentially and I cropped the rest to save space..
Well now I'll try to keep it brief. Some of the actions they are banning for are Federal Crimes. When people cheat through IP flooding and various other nefarious activities they hurt Bungie and Microsoft. No one likes a cheater, when someone gets cheated they get pissed off and stop playing the game. Without action the cheater density only grows. Ban Hammer... it should be a Riding Banmower
[Edited on 09.13.2008 10:53 AM PDT]