Level Up Interview about the Gamerscore resets

N'gai Croal on Newsweek's Level Up blog talks to Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten to learn more about what went into the gamerscore resets announced yesterday.

Of note for all you college sports fans (Croal's question is in bold, Whitten's repsonse follows it):

Because college sports games cannot license the names and likenesses of college athletes, they generally use a position or player number in its place. Numerous gamers resort to painstakingly creating a saved game file in which they've entered the real names of all of the players, which they then share with others. If a gamer has downloaded and is using a saved game file for a college sports game with the full names of the players instead of position or player numbers, do you consider that to be a tampered game save, and will they be punished as you have outlined today?

Working together with other players and playing inside the actual game to get achievements does not fall into the category we are taking action on. The players in this case are using a variety of means outside the actual playing of the game as well as the use of external tools to increase their gamerscore, which again, is in violation of the Terms of Use.