Microsoft, Halo 3: ODST, and a Modded Xbox: The Drama
By Zereta 15 Comments
So, earlier this week, as some of you might know, the Halo 3: ODST achievements got leaked by modding site, Game-Tuts. It was welcomed with smiling Halo fans, including myself, as we were ready for anything pertaining to the game. The video has since been removed from Game-Tuts official Youtube page. Below is a link to the re-hosted video:
So, as I mentioned earlier, obviously the video got taken down at first. However, things got dirty after that. This modder, Mattyovers, took things into his own hands once this was removed.
He threatened to leak out more such stuff should Microsoft and/or Bungie take action against him. And well, what happens next...we don't know.
What we do know is that now, Game-Tuts has shut down their website. Apparently, some heavy shit is going down. Apparently, following these events, Microsoft has started hunting down modders even more fiercely then they were before, if they even were before.
Whatever's going on, I think things are being blown out of proportion by both parties. This "Mattyovers' guy shouldn't have been such an ass when cornered by Microsoft and now, Microsoft has increased how fiercely they deal with crap like this.
I don't have a proper stance on the Modding scene and would like to take this oppotunity to find out what you people feel about this and modding in general.