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Posted on: Oct 08, 2007
How To Get Kicked Off
Xbox Live
WORDS BY: Dan Amrich
Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote that Hell is other people — and he didn’t even have a Gamertag. Of course, if the French existentialist philosopher had played Halo 2 on Xbox Live, all it would have taken was one vulgar teabagging at the hands of an anonymous 14-year-old for him to exclaim: “See? That’s what I’m on about.” Because for all of the great opportunities that Microsoft’s online gaming service affords, all the wonderful ways to connect with fellow gamers and share a communal gaming experience, the only real problem with Xbox Live is everyone who uses it.
And let’s face it — the freedom of Live is also its curse. Because you’re able to frag as you please, un-moderated and uncensored, it’s inevitable that you’ll eventually be taunted, mocked, insulted, or worst of all, subjected to a close-up video feed of some dude’s twig and berries. Sure, there’s a player-feedback system in place so you can report sore losers and abusers. But does anybody read those reports? What’s to stop the inmates from running the asylum?
May this be the worst you encounter on Xbox Live!
THE MAN
The answer is Chris — and that’s all you’re allowed to know. A five-year veteran of Microsoft and a member of the Live team since a few months after its debut, Chris runs the team of undercover agents that patrols Live and responds to those complaints about problematic users. And even though you never see him doing his job, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t get done every single day. “A lot of people say ‘I’ve never been banned, I’ve never seen it,’” explains Chris, who prefers that his full identity remain concealed for security reasons. “And that’s because it’s an extremely small percentage of people who are actually the bad eggs. There’s a lot of repeat offenders, but percentage-wise across the service, it’s actually a really, really small percentage that is really problematic.” To deal with that small percentage, Microsoft has created an internal team of gamers dedicated to monitoring behavior and laying down the smack when it’s necessary. And naturally, if you can’t know Chris’ identity, he’s not offering up those of his agents in the field, either — or even how many are online at any given time. “The authorized group is pretty large,” he tells us cryptically. “I don’t give out the exact number, but it’s actually apretty big group. You never know who you’re playing with…so you should play nice.”
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:41
Posted by ICE II InSaNe
ICE II INSANE
Hello, I was wondering if you could help me, As people have most probably complained about people abusing them on xbox live, and as am i complaining, i would like to know a site where i can put up a gamertag of a "abusive player" and explain myself for doing so,i find filing complaints to be a weak way to deal with unruly players and i think that xbox live should be a little more forward agaist abusive players. If anyone could Email me or contact me through msn messenger about a site, Please contact- Lookout2009@hotmail.co.uk.
Fri, 10/31/2008 - 06:42
Posted by MaRiii0
Sorry Xbox but I'm not in a good mood. I was playing Call of Duty 5 Beta and got 37 - 5 on castle and the teams accused me of cheating and they all file complaints and my rep is horrible. This is not the first time this has happened and i have been kicked off for no reason and i have no mic to trash talk. Email me at light_chris2001@yahoo.com or message me on xbox live MaRiii0 is my xbox live name. Thanks
Tue, 09/30/2008 - 21:08
Posted by brownietonio
hey me and this one guy got into a argument today and later on that day when i tried to get back on it said my xbox live wasnt working right DID I GET BOOTED?
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 16:18
Posted by agustin1209
hello my name is agustin a week ago i was play with this guy vI shockwav3 Iv at call of duty right well my team win and he start call my me thing two day later i get a virse on my xbox. he send that he did it and he going to tell all his friend to kick me out and now i have 50% avoid plase help me before he kick me out.i did file many times but nothing help help help
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 17:01
Posted by Joesmith123123
hey i want to get banned from xbox live so I can brag to friends so if you would file a complaint or give me a bad gammer rep that would be great My gammer tag is Redskins1526 I am mostly on COD4 Thanks go redskins!!!!!!
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 21:10
Posted by Heezy313
Hey this is the HEEZY313 kid that zip426 was referring to and hes full of it. First off I dont even know how to send someone else a virus and second off we was in a game and he was making threats about coming to my house and fightin me. If anyone needs to be kicked off xbox its him. Zip you need to get a life man and grow up and quit gettin on a video game to harass people dude, but Ill give you an A for effort.
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 10:17
Posted by zip426
hey chris i need you to kick off this kid for giveing me a virus on my xbox 360 he sends a freind requst and then some kind of message with a code on it and then my xbox goes down every hour its realy gay if this keeps up man im just gona get a playstation 3 man his name is HEEZY313 if you could help out that would be great.
Mon, 12/03/2007 - 06:43
Posted by SharpShot303
GamerTag=SharpShot303
how do you become a spy of xbox live i think that would be cool... o ya any one want to play me in halo 3 my gamertag is at the top :)
Wed, 11/14/2007 - 13:52
Posted by ThePope
I love how they are acting like they really need to be secretive. Hilarious!
CHECK IT: http://360live.blogspot.com/
Mon, 11/12/2007 - 17:25
Posted by Burton0873
I'm proud to say I've never been banned. :)