"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
05/19/2015 at 15:02 • Filed to: None
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"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
05/19/2015 at 15:02 • Filed to: None | 2
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So, I stopped at a gas station last night and leaning up against the trash bin was a green DVD case... looked closer and it was GTA V for XB360 - well hmmm. I have a 360. I don’t really have any way to play this game except to wait until the kids aren’t around, they are too young for this kind of nonsense. Of course I picked it up and opened it. Both DVDs inside. FREE GAME!
Or is it? What do I do? Put it in my xbox? Throw it out? Can somebody dupe one of these and put an xbox virus on it (the discs look authentic)? Will MS balk at the license having been used by somebody else already?
Never done anything like this... and I haven’t played GTAV either because family room and young kids...
djmt1
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:04 |
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Assuming the discs are in good condition you do indeed have a free copy of GTA. My friend once found a copy of Minecraft on the bus once and it worked fine.
Rico
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:08 |
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You’re good man, you can’t use up a license it’s not PC gaming. Also no Xbox virus that I know of exists. Enjoy the game it’s really really good and yes make sure the kids aren’t around the language is pretty much like The Sopranos but the game is excellent story mode wise.
deprecated account
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:08 |
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:09 |
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I’m not aware of any duping shenanigans going on. MS has nothing to balk at - it’s just like an ordinary used copy of the game. However, I should remark that GTA V hates you - the player. GTA online can be fun, but the campaign mode, though mixing up different modes and introducing some interesting mechanics- not boring or anything, is expressly designed to Be A Dick. To You, The Player. Right about the time an interesting mechanic starts to overcome a bad control scheme, they ramp up some aspect of it to be obnoxious. Oh, and no characters are truly sympathetic, and at times it’s a preachy stereotype parade. It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody got mad at something, anything, and just chucked it.
But hey, free game.
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deekster_caddy
> Rico
05/19/2015 at 15:09 |
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Cool, thanks. Wasn’t sure what their licensing was like. I haven’t had a game ask me to enter a code yet... but you never know.
lonestranger
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:15 |
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Duping a disc with a virus on it and somehow printing real-looking graphics onto it would have to be a very elaborate way of trying to spread a virus. That’s assuming that people actually write viruses for consoles, and that consoles can even get viruses. I’ve never heard of console viruses.
As for MS balking at the licence being used before, that’s not an issue. If it were, GameStop wouldn’t buy & sell very many used games. Sometimes, some publishers (like Ubisoft) will lock some features (like online play) behind a one-time use code printed inside the case, but Rockstar doesn’t.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:33 |
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yeah you’re good bro.
Also, if you want you can setup different profiles on the 360. 1 for you and 1 for the kids, they have maturity settings so the kids accounts can’t play games over whichever rating you set. then, even if they get their hands on the game - they can’t load it up.
PNW Hoon
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 15:39 |
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You’re good man!
As far as licenses for 360 games go, it’s on the disc. So if you have a legit disc, you’re just fine. The exception for this is those ridiculous “online memberships” EA was doing for a while. Those are all digital licenses and the game will ask you for those.
And for viruses... In my time at Xbox, I had not heard of any virus landing on a console from a disc. If you wanted to inject anything into the console, you needed to be pretty determined to make it stick. I would say the best way to make sure the thing is real is to check the hologram thingie on the inside of the disc, as those are pretty hard to counterfeit. But even if it was a dupe disc, it wouldn’t play on your 360 unless you had modded your console.
Fun fact about GTA V: To avoid players stealing accounts and gifting the GTA money back to their own account, GTA had a ban threshold on how much money could be in a players account. When the Online had the miserable launch, every new player got a half mill of GTA cash, and it flooded the launch economy model. All of a sudden accounts were getting banned left and right. Why? Because some group of players found out that if everyone sent some poor player a bunch of money, they would hit the threshold and that guy would get banned! Had to fix that one pretty quick...
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deekster_caddy
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
05/19/2015 at 16:28 |
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Ahh sweet, I’ll have to set that up. Thanks for the tip!
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deekster_caddy
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/19/2015 at 16:30 |
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Thanks for the warning! I haven’t played GTA since III, sounds like it hasn’t changed much. I don’t play online, I like going through campaigns so that’s good stuff to know.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 16:36 |
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It wouldn’t have been as flagrantly obnoxious if I weren’t a completionist-style player. That tended to grind things in, and a number of things appeared to be put in directly as a deliberate “Fuck You” to that kind of player. Example: there are triathlon events. The first several are under 5 minutes long, and another is more like 7. The final event? Something like 26 minutes long, with no prior warning, all of which must be occupied doing very little other than tapping A incessantly the whole time. There are smuggling side missions with a dune buggy that glory in being horribly broken and never the same difficulty twice - with no checkpoints. Between that kind of thing and the political soapboxing, please to be sitting on a cactus, Rockstar.
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deekster_caddy
> PNW Hoon
05/19/2015 at 16:45 |
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Thanks!
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deekster_caddy
> deprecated account
05/19/2015 at 16:48 |
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That’s what I’m thinking. Or else the kids started playing this in the back of the minivan and Mom was like “WTF Do you THINK YOU ARE DOING?!” and made them toss it out...
Or somebody got sick of it and didn’t feel like bothering to sell it...
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 16:55 |
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No problem. You can do all kinds of stuff with the Xbox 360 that people don’t use.
I can watch Live, free over the air HD TV and watch all my movies/play music off my networked hard drive too!
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deekster_caddy
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
05/19/2015 at 16:59 |
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Yeah I had Plex set up on another machine (based on XBMC) but it’s not very useful. It does do a lot of neat stuff though!
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deprecated account
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 17:01 |
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Well, if you don’t need it I could take it off your hands. If I were you, I would go to a friend who has both an XB1 and a 360 (not being used anymore), and use his otherwise unused 360 to see whether or not it’s the real deal.
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 17:10 |
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ditch Plex.
I’m running the newer xbmc, now Kodi. It’s pretty kickass. but I have a lot of movies and tv shows I’ve...acquired...
E92M3
> deekster_caddy
05/19/2015 at 17:18 |
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Was probably thrown away by some mother or wife that found it disturbing and didn’t want it in their house.
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deekster_caddy
> E92M3
05/20/2015 at 00:10 |
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I thought that but it wasn’t IN the trash, it wasdeliberately placed...