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insane200

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So imagine this: You're a huge gamer who bought the Xbox 360 on day one. You stood in line for over 20 hours in the pouring rain, just for Microsoft's newest console. Pretty hardcore, right? It gets better. Imagine now, with me, that over the course of the past several years, you've played games on your 360 nearly every chance you got. You've racked up a huge gamerscore, only to have it all taken away one day without ANY warning.
This is story of SlapStic reader "JackTheWhack." Jack, whose real name is Jack Barbosa, not only had a huge gamerscore; he had more than any other person in the entire state of New Jersey: 121,250, in fact. He achieved this impressive score through renting via Gamefly for games that he was only mildly interested in, while he purchased many games that he thought could give him more lasting enjoyment. Obviously, with a score that high, he WAS a MASSIVE 360 fan.

So last night, while playing Mirror's Edge, Jack received an achievement that he had already gotten earlier in the day. Confused, Jack went and checked out his Gamercard, where he discovered with considerable horror that he now had a Gamerscore of 25, and that his Gamer Zone had been changed to "Cheater." He was also unable to change his Gamer Zone to anything else. This all went down with no warning from Microsoft, and not so much as a letter explaining things once they had done it. JackTheWhack had just gotten over three years of his gaming record wiped clean. There was no trial, and there was no jury. Microsoft simply assumed that he was a cheater, and took all of his Gamerpoints away from him.

This all seems very strange, especially given the fact that Jack was interviewed last Thursday to be featured as a "Spotlight Gamer." He was told that his interview would be up on the 360 dashboard in around two weeks. So at what point did Microsoft decide that instead of being worthy of attention, Jack was a dirty cheater that deserved punishment?

Jack Barbosa is no cheater, and he called Microsoft themselves to see if he could get things straightened out. They essentially informed Jack that he was just out of luck, saying that it was "abnormal for a person to achieve an undisclosed amount of achievements in such a short period of time." Jack even tried to find out what games or achievements on his gamercard were in question, but they refused to comment.

There are things working for Jack to make it seem obvious that he did not cheat. For one, he didn't get the full 1,000 points on many of his games. Like many gamers, he simply gets as many achievements as he can before moving on to the next game if things start taking too long. So with a lot of games he DOES have the full 1,000 points, but more often he has closer to 500, or even as low as 5 for games that he really didn't take a liking to.

I came upon all this information about the situation through an interview that I did with Jack. In it, he mentioned that he was selling all of his 360 products on his Amazon.com storefront. I asked him if he would consider going back to his 360 if he somehow managed to get all of his gamerpoints back, to which he responded, "I will never return to the 360, even if a new system were to be released. I would be gone." He also went on to inform me that he will be purchasing a Playstation 3 as soon as possible and that all he wants from Microsoft is a change in their policies that will keep such a thing from ever happening to anyone else.
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Link: http://www.slapstic.com/index.php?o...121250-gamerpoints-&catid=10:opinion-articles


if he honestly did cheat id be gutted.

is it possible to get that many points in time is been out ?
 
I know people who are on 30,000G and hardly touch their Xbox and haven't for a while so I'd say it's perfectly possible. There are at least 120 games to play. More like 500 now. If I'd got 75% in the games I've played, I'd be on 50,000 or so.
 
As stated if he didn't cheat then im sure its a heartbreaker, but I can't see them banning someone for not cheating. Might have glitched or something.

121,500 would be fairly easy to get in 3 years I'd imagine.
 
Kyle009 said:
As stated if he didn't cheat then im sure its a heartbreaker, but I can't see them banning someone for not cheating. Might have glitched or something.

121,500 would be fairly easy to get in 3 years I'd imagine.
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3 years? I had a guy on my Fl from OZ who got 100k in just about a year. He wasn't downloading games either. He was renting games and flying through them.

Mjolnir 69 I think his name was, he ate through games. So much so his wife sent out a message on his profile to everyone on his FL that he was neglecting his family while playing the 360
 
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121,000 GS :eek:

I've had my 360 from 2 years now and my GS is only around 6500 or so...I just don't see the point in playing games to such an obsessive level (some of the things you have to do on some games to get acheivments is pretty ridiculous) just to rack up a meaningless arbitrary number.
 
Flammy said:
121,000 GS :eek:

I've had my 360 from 2 years now and my GS is only around 6500 or so...I just don't see the point in playing games to such an obsessive level (some of the things you have to do on some games to get acheivments is pretty ridiculous) just to rack up a meaningless arbitrary number.
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Some people, like me, enjoy the challenge of racking up points to increase our arbitrary number ;)
 
Vandle said:
TriedandTested said:
Funny.

Maybe he'll use this opportunity to live a little.
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:D

I love the tone of that sad story of Jack , I had to hold back the tears.
Its almost as if they are telling us he is dieing from a terminal desease.

Big deal , he lost his gamerscore.
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+1 x2

I for one welcome our new PS3 mobster though. I bet he will run back to Live as soon as he sees the state of PSN compared to it :p
 
Well it obviously meant a lot to him lol. Kinda harsh that they didn't look into it, but I bet they could reimburse them quite easily, like MS don't have back up servers?
 
If there were no achievements, I'd likely complete the game in SP, do a little MP and move onto the next best.
I don't care about the achievement points, but I do find that the actual achievements can sometimes give more life to the game, having you do things you wouldn't have otherwise done.
I'm not a fan of the 'find every pigeon' type achievements though!
 
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