Lot of info out there about Xbox revoking people’s dev access that they paid for. Not a blip about it? Peep’s have used it to put retro software on their console to play all the old games as it was a nice loophole instead of having to hack it, or the hackers having a reason to hack the console. Sounds like hackers have a reason to now.
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<p>Even if Microsoft were to continue to make these account bans, it’s difficult for me to see them as doing the wrong-thing in this instance. It is called "DEVELOPER mode". The purpose of it is for you to DEVELOP apps and games using it. Not to use it to run your own code, such as emulators. So if Microsoft turn-around and say "hey, we notice you’re using this mode, but you never seem to be doing any actual coding" then can anyone really complain?</p>
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<p>Not the same thing: <em>Sony </em>advertised the "Other OS" ability to run <em>Linux </em>publicly as a feature. Hence when it was removed, the lawsuits. But "Developer Mode" is not widely-advertised, but is clear about what it is there for. And that is not to run your own emulators and to run unsupported games or homebrew. So I couldn’t see any lawsuit succeeding.</p>