360 Achievement cheaters to have their gamerscores set back to zero...ouch!

[heybtbm]

Gamerscore-owned!!!111!!1

http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/...orrection.aspx

Seriously though...I love this.

[udisi]

I wanted to follow up and let you know where we are on the post I made a few months ago on Gamesave Tampering. Today we took action on some of the accounts we have identified as the most serious offenders who have violated the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use by tampering with their Gamerscore and Achievements.

The steps today takes the form of the following:

• Resetting the entire Gamerscore for an account to zero
• The account will be unable to regain all previously obtained achievements and Gamerscore, however, the players will have the ability to gain future Achievements by earning them fairly, like the majority of the Xbox LIVE community does.
• The account will be clearly labeled as a cheater for the community to view on xbox.com. You can see an example here. In dash, the personal view of the gamercard will be labeled as well.

Xbox LIVE remains committed to keeping the service free of cheating in order to maintain a fair and level playing field for everyone.

To read more about Gamerscore corrections read the FAQ on Xbox.com

Edit: Added link directly to our internal test account Gamercard that shows the cheater section.
Posted: Mar 25 2008, 02:01 AM by Major Nelson | with 181 comment(s) |
Filed under: Xbox 360, Xbox Live

Not that I'm a big fan of Achievements, I am, However a huge fan of punishing cheaters.

[DigitalSpace]

[drewbrim]

Forgive my ignorance as don't get into online gaming. But A. how do people cheat? B. How will they know if someone is cheating? And C. What do you get from cheating/having a high amount of Achievement points?

[s1lence]

Forgive my ignorance as don't get into online gaming. But A. how do people cheat? B. How will they know if someone is cheating? And C. What do you get from cheating/having a high amount of Achievement points?

There are hacks, exploits and gamesaves for games. B: The timestamps or lack there off, the order of the achievements, online achievements unlocked with out playing online, all the achievements that are online unlocked in one day (See Gears of War). C: Your place on the leaderboards, some have even been interviewed in magazines. EGM had an article on gamerscore last month, two of the three people were gamesavers. So personal fame I would say is the motivation.

[Nesmaster]

I just made a long winding post on Major Nelson's page regarding this. Basically I said they're walking on eggshells with this and better tread lightly. The "Automated" way of dealing with this scares me. What's to stop someone from getting reset by this method who boosted their gamerscore in a single day by 4000 with NBA 2K6, College Hoops 2K6, NHL 2K6, and Avatar? This 4000 points can be earned in a few hours, but how is this system to interpret different?

Honest people are going to get deleted, I know it. And they have "no way to appeal the decision".