It's like the old saying goes: Fool me once, shame on me, fool me a subsequent six times, also shame on me, but if you fool me an eighth and final time then, frankly, you're bang out of order and it's really time we did something about it. This, I assume, was the guiding mantra behind the Xbox enforcement strike system, a just-announced policy from Microsoft that aims to make the company's punishment mechanism a little clearer for players on the receiving end of it.
The new system is already in place, and Microsoft likens the way it works to "demerit strikes used in driver's license systems in many countries." In essence, it's an 'eight strikes and you're out' system, with each new strike tier netting you a longer suspension until your eighth offence sees Microsoft boot you out of services like "messaging, parties and party chat, multiplayer and others" for a full year. There's even a handy enforcement history tracker so you can see how many strikes you've chalked up at any time.
