mkjones

Today. I got back online. After 141 days of absence. See SkyBroadbanned for full details of why.

My joy was dampened very soon after this as I tried to sign my Xbox 360 into Xbox Live!

You see. I had a problem logging into Xbox Live! The only way I could get online was to use the “recover gamertag” option. This was worrying as I had 6 months of gaming achievements on my hard drive and was a tad afraid that these would be overwritten by my out of date online gamer profile.

However, I had called Xbox Support a few months ago to ask if this would be a problem. They categorically told me that all I had to do was recover my gamertag and it would “merge” with my offline profile. Lovely!

This did not happen

So, I may be back online but I have just lost over 1000 gamerpoints from my gamerscore as well as 100s of achievements from these games:

• G.R.A.W
• Call of Duty 2
• Fifa 07
• Gears of War
• Rockstar Table Tennis
• Zuma
• Geometry Wars

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Thanks to Sky I still do not have an internet connection. Remember, this all started back in November 2006 when I tried and failed to order their Broadband service.

I have detailed my story on a new website:

• SkyBroadbanned.com

I live in hope that this nightmare will one day end.