[url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107371-Autistic-Xbox-Players-Mother-Admits-He-Cheated[/url]
[quote][B]A woman that criticized Microsoft for labeling her autistic son a cheater on Xbox Live has revealed that he actually did cheat.[/B]
Earlier this week, a [URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107304-UPDATE-Microsoft-Devastates-Autistic-Child-By-Labeling-Him-a-Cheater"]story[/URL] was brought to the mainstream media by a mother that claimed her son had been given the "Cheater" label on Xbox Live for no reason. As it turns out, there was actually a very good reason, and the mother was aware of it.
Jennifer Zdenek made Microsoft out to be a cruel overlord, telling the media that her autistic son Julius Jackson's only form of entertainment had been ruined. All of his achievements were taken away and it now said "Cheater" next to Jackson's Xbox Live Gamertag. Microsoft's head of Xbox Live enforcement Stephen Toulouse was adamant that the boy cheated to acquire certain achievements, having checked out the situation himself.
Zdenek now tells Q13 Fox News that her son gave his Xbox Live information to a third party, who used illegitimate methods to give Jackson [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Halo-3-Xbox-360/dp/B000FRU0NU/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1296236949&sr=1-1"][I]Halo 3[/I][/URL]'s Recon Armor. She shared an email from Toulouse that says:
[INDENT]The account Zombie Kill67 transferred from the Xbox it is normally seen on, to an Xbox in another city. The account earned several achievements for [I]Halo 3[/I] that can only be done online and in succession. It was clear they were unlocked out of order and offline. Earning successive online achievements out of order and offline is an impossible feat, not due to skill, but due to the technology of the system. It can only be done by modifying the account and faking the achievements.
[/INDENT] Zdenek was aware that her son gave his information to another player, but still paints her son in an innocent light. "I did warn him about this but seeing it wasn't a bank password or anything big, it's just a game we didn't worry about it too much and the boy just offered to give him Recon Armor, which he did," she said. She's given up on fighting Microsoft, and will likely take the company's offer of a free month of Xbox Live Gold and a new Gamertag for Jackson to start again.
It appears that Zdenek left some very crucial information out of the original tale she told the media, and even worse, used her son's ailment to gain sympathy. I get that Zdenek probably just cares about her son, but she comes off looking pretty bad for her dishonesty.[/quote]
You can't possibly do this to my son, he's autistic! Even though he actually cheated and I knew it full well he did!
told you
Poor Microsoft. They look like cunts thanks to all this.
Poor kid, he's still autistic.
It's a lose-lose situation
[QUOTE=Trumple;27713216]Poor Microsoft. They look like cunts thanks to all this.
Poor kid, he's still autistic.
It's a lose-lose situation[/QUOTE]
Microsoft's always looked like a cunt. Now they look like a bigger cunt.
Bet she's regretting going to the media.
You can't cheat in minecraaaaft
Ahahaha, it's exactly what I thought he did. He gave his account info to someone else so they could auto-unlock a bunch of achievements for him.
What's even more amazing is how she's still defending it...
What the fuck was the point on going to the media if she knew he was fucking cheating?
Hopefully Microsoft won't sue her for tarnishing the company's reputation.
and the world continues to turn
Honestly, this wasn't a very surprising end to this story.
[QUOTE=sharzu;27713298]What the fuck was the point on going to the media if she knew he was fucking cheating?[/QUOTE]
attention
except she didn't realize microsoft has a large anti-cheat department who don't often make mistakes
Ok so he's autistic and a gullible idiot who has friends that are gullible idiots.
"I GET YOU RCON BRO I'LL JUST USE THIS MOD THING I GOT FROM THE INTERNET, SHIT IS SO CASH AND YOU CAN'T GET NAILED FOR IT THE GUY SAID SO!."
My brother is like this with Hacked lobbies in Black ops, Minus the autistic part.
[sp]his friends got banned two days ago during that whole big Sony crackdown. he, thankfully, did not, because he didn't host anything which saved my PS3 from being banned.[/sp]
why can't people just play the fucking game the way it was intended.
Thanks for information [sp]that we already knew[/sp].
Its rcon armor tho... not that great...
People still care about halo 3?
[quote]She's given up on fighting Microsoft, and will likely take the company's offer of a free month of Xbox Live Gold and a new Gamertag for Jackson to start again.[/quote]Microsoft should cancel the offer, they don't deserve shit.
This isn't late; it's an update. I didn't make the original thread though.
Well this was obvious.
He shouldn't be let off just because he's Autistic. Half of Facepunch has Aspergers and seem to be doing just fine.
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27713245]You can't cheat in minecraaaaft[/QUOTE]
It is incredibly easy to cheat in minecraft(in single player, in multiplayer its slightly harder)
[QUOTE=cathal6606;27714369]It is incredibly easy to cheat in minecraft(in single player, in multiplayer its slightly harder)[/QUOTE]
The joke is that he is autistic and only autistic people play minecraft.
[QUOTE=Walrus.;27714677]The joke is that he is autistic and only autistic people play minecraft.[/QUOTE]Well that would explain why I like it so much.
Alright, I was wrong. I'll admit it.
Wow it's a good thing I ignored these stories because of what a load of horseshit it all really is. k
[QUOTE={ABK}AbbySciuto;27713230]Microsoft's always looked like a cunt. Now they look like a bigger cunt.[/QUOTE]
Why would they look like a bigger cunt? Since they labeled him as cheater because he was one.
from the original thread
[QUOTE=Kalibos;27679055]woooooow
nice one micro$oft you fucking assholes[/QUOTE]
I withdraw my objection please proceed
I don't see who's more wrong here
What a liar.
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27713245]You can't cheat in minecraaaaft[/QUOTE]
Uh. Yes, you can.
I still don't get what all the controversy was about in the first place. So they suspected a kid cheated to get internet cred so they banned him. How are they supposed to know he was autistic?
It's like if TH89 bans me right here and then I bitch about being autistic or something retarded to get my account back. It doesn't work like that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt that the media would have been interested if he wasn't autistic.
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