Microsoft Again Resetting Cheaters' Gamerscores
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A recent flurry of gamers who cheated in order to unlock certain Gears of War 2 Achievements has Microsoft once again performing a wave of Gamerscore resets. As they have previously, Microsoft will reset the Gamerscore of Xbox Live gamers who have been found to be glitching or violating the service's Terms of Use. The person is then rendered unable to re-unlock any previously unlocked Achievements. Instead, they are only able to earn new Achievements through legitimate means in the future, which is a real (and well-deserved) slap in the face of those dirty cheaters.
Xbox Live team member Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse said in a blog post today that Microsoft would "be hitting the most egregious offenders first while we investigate the full set of people who have done it." Like Major Nelson, he reassured the non-cheating crowd of gamers, "We tend to issue resets for a very clear set of actions that users take to get achievements without even playing the game. So those of you boosters, if you're not glitching or doing other things in violation of the Terms of Use, don't worry. Also to be clear, this isn't any type of bug or issue caused by Gears of War 2, it's just people cheating their profiles to toggle a specific achievement they didn't actually earn."
Xbox.com has more details on the practice of "Gamerscore corrections," as they're called, and there's a dummy profile located here to show what a cheater's profile looks like.
