Dash Update Details Confirmed...

[McDaniel]

As is that QWERTY add-on for the controller...

http://www.arrogantics.com/2007/04/09/details-on-the-next-xbox-360-dashboard-update-coming-may-7th/

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/04/09/spring-update-features-confirmed-im-and-more/

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/09/im-coming-to-xbox-360-keyboard-accessory-this-summer/

 

[McDaniel]

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I sense some irony in your posts considering you've asked me about it before and said you might even do it yourself

 

[McDaniel]

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I understand, just the posts sometimes come across as anti-piracy and you'd asked about it

Dont think people pirate because of their GS though, sure its a bit easier to boost it getting stuff early, but rental companies and the like still make point whoring easier! i was at 30k before mine became naughty.

I still buy games and still have a swapgame account as im a wierd pirate :/ i just picked up GH2 and not long ago Crackdown both fantastic games.

I think the reason nout has been done is because they want to make sure only the modded users are ffected, and maybe checking firmware isnt that easy to do via an update, or good enough to effect the right people - imagine if an anti-piracy update effect legit users and they lost there accounts - would not be pretty - a lot of these firmwares have stealth style abilities, in the sense any low level command issues back "im the original firmware" type response (at least thats how i understand it).

Or maybe the problem isnt big enough for MS to worry? They live with piracy on 99% of there products...ala Windows! out of what 6million Live users how many are modded?

 

[McDaniel]

Good points, I'm not really anti anything

From a points point of view I meant it not as getting through more games. Rather that people want to keep adding to the same profile. With the original xbox i'm told as a workaround people had one for live and one for naughty stuff?

This time people are prepared to risk their live GT by playing them anyway. If it wasnt for the score I'm sure most people would still do it the xbox way?

I wasnt meaning they did it to play more games, just not split profiling which is how I would do it.

Not afaik - the original xbox was banned easily because the actualy OS was hacked as such, not essentially hardware - the workaround was to turn of the modchip.. i used a software hack on my xbox which couldnt be used on live - but i didnt use it then. The xbox didnt have profiles as such though so not as simple.

I actually read a similar firmware mod was released for the orig xbox to after it was discovered on the 360 - the only reason hackers went this route is because the OS is hard to crack**

** - The following is acurate to how i understand it