Xbox LIVE’s Policy Enforcement Team (lead by the Unicorn Ninja) has been on a banhammer spree over the last week or so for something described as “Marketplace theft”, and now a gaming site is claiming their account was wrongfully banned.
As writer Austin Cox explains over on Gameplay Today, gaming sites often receive free and even pre-launch codes and discs from publishers for review purposes.
“Despite having clear knowledge that this is how the process works, Microsoft laid down a blanket of bans on Xbox LIVE accounts yesterday for multiple sites,” he writes.
Which is kind of where things get a bit… complicated; because this seems to be the only site actually affected, and considering that Microsoft has banned several millions of Xbox LIVE accounts over the last few years, it seems rather unlikely that only a single gaming site would fall innocent victim to the XBLPET’s killstreak.
Honestly, this sort of thing has worried me for a while now, as I’ve redeemed loads of free codes for games, and played unreleased stuff like Halo: Reach two weeks ahead of launch.
Significantly however, my account hasn’t been banned.
Microsoft is notoriously unhelpful when it comes to supplying additional information about Xbox LIVE bans, so unless Gameplay Today manages to generate some big controversy around this, it’s unlikely to be resolved one way or the other.
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