Law firm AbingtonIP is currently looking for gamers who had their modded Xbox 360 consoles banned from Xbox Live to join them in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft. A statement from the law firm reads:
“Although modification of Xbox consoles is arguably against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, Microsoft ‘conveniently’ timed the Xbox console ban to coincide with the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game and less than two months after the release of the very popular Halo 3: ODST game,”
“This ‘convenient’ timing may have resulted in more Xbox Live subscription revenues for Microsoft than it would have generated had these Xbox console bans taken place at some time before the release of Halo 3: ODST and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.”
“Additionally, sales of both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (published by Activision) and Halo 3: ODST (published by Microsoft Game Studios) would likely have been greatly diminished had the Xbox console ban occurred prior to the release of these games.”
Convenient timing or not the banned consoles broke the terms of Xbox Live. I really don’t see how there is a case here.
-Justin
