Ok I had a brief conversation over email with Tyler Woods, the founder of blueshadowz.info. He actually isn’t a bad a guy. Basically, he apologized for any inconvenience that he may have caused me and I apologized and agreed not to use his site to find and report cheaters. After all, we are all gamers and we have better things to argue about than something as stupid as this. So long live xbox cheater watch and blueshadowz.info. I will continue to run this site and report cheaters, but I will not use blueshadowz to help me with that (not that I can anyways because I’m banned). So I’m glad this little fiasco is over.
Happy holidays and happy gaming everyone
Sincerely,
EricDC
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LMAO! i think i played halo 3 with you more then half a year ago
thanks, bro im glad yall came to an agreement, its good to seem gamers with different beliefs agree, good luck with your site, and happy gaming to all, GET THEM CHEATERZ
but dont catch me 
Blueshadowz member 5550
Aww… we can get along… see that’s much better… Sorry for the mean message I sent you on XBL Eric. I apologize and you have a Merry Christmas!
MOD EDIT: Thanks Azraelrs! I’m glad everyone is getting into the holiday season. Gamesavers or cheater-watchers, we are all gamers in the end and that’s all that matters. We should be uniting against the politicians that are trying to ban games, rather than unite against each other.
I am glad that this matter has been solved. It has been killing me, Ive had like 20 paypal disputes since then… ha. The thing about Blueshadowz is that we really are no longer just a site on gamesaving. We have become a community. Now of course, gamesaving is what we are known for, and it will probably stay that way as well. Now… Even though I am an admin over there, does not mean I am a gamesaver. I just help run the place and do alot of maintenance over there. Now… I do think there would be a way for us to possibly team up, ironic? But I think that we could report the people in our forums to you that are there for stealing accounts and what not. Those people, too me at least, seem to be a little bit more of a threat to others. Well anyways, adios.
MOD EDIT: Yea, I completely agree. Teaming up would be excellent. This we we are both doing something good.
Really, in the end, all Gamerscore is nothing more than a trump card that Microsoft thought up after the wild success of the ranking system in Halo 2 those years ago. If you were around back then, you can surely remember how obsessed people were with THAT number next to their name. If you want further proof that is where the inspiration for the Gamersocre concept came from, look at what the 1st 360 dashboard looked like. It was almost an exact copy of the Halo 2 “Dash” concept as far as it’s base feature sets.
The major difference between these two different numbers next to our names now is that cheating to get one affected and ruined the experience of many other players on the Live net, while the other has no impact, either direct or indirect except in the realm of mental perception that someone else is getting their valueless number easier than I am. This is generally only limited to a small number of people I believe.
I guess the bottom line of the subject that I’m trying to make is this: Gamerscore cheating has no adverse effect on people other than those directly involved in the act of doing so, and even in cases where it might effect others, like in Achievement boosting in the first Gears, MS won’t do anything about that kind of GS cheating. The only real reason MS took any action in this is for the same reason that they created Gamerscore in the first place: Money.
People cheating and getting achievements without having to spend all those hours in the game make it far more likely that they won’t buy and keep as many games. People not buying as many games loses MS money, then more people find out they can do this easily, and it keeps the cycle going further and further in that same direction and MS becomes more and more concerned that the situation is going to hamper their profits and lead to more brazen things, like pirated games and system mods to play such games.
In that event, maybe MS is on to something. In order to prevent the escalation of the current situation to those extremes, they are going to try and stop people before they move past simply game saving into more complex territory like achievement hacking outright and making system mods to use over Xbox Live to cheat in multiplayer, however considering the security they have on the network now, and the fact that people know that if you do things like that now verses the original Xbox, and don’t cover you’re tracks, you’ll get your $400 machine Live banned, I’m not sure that people would want to take it that far however, the introduction of new technology can make all of Live’s defenses obsolete in a day. At least that is always possible in the world we live in today, where tech makes leaps and bounds over night.
In the end, I believe that Microsoft never imagined the cash cow they were creating when they thought up the gamerscore system. I think the original goal of the idea was to simply keep people from just switching their account every time the gold trial period ran out like on the first Xbox. However, whether or not they intended to do what they did doesn’t matter. The Gamerscore system is a wild success that has made them untold amounts of money because of people’s fascination with it.
If you want proof of that fact, just take another look at the name of the site URL you’re reading this off of, and then tell me I’m just full of it.