Good evening,
We are in the process of applying credit resets to approximately 15,000 users who we have identified as the most egregious Challenge Reset abusers.
A one day credit earning ban has also been applied, mostly to ensure that recipients receive an in-game notification of the action taken.
As with any such measure, we have taken the time to carefully select our criteria to eliminate false positives.
A more comprehensive pass will be occuring in the coming week as our automated Banhammer mechanisms grow accurate enough to satisfy our high bar for burden of proof. If you are thinking about getting an easy 50k credits by using this exploit, I would strongly advise you to reconsider.
Thank you, and please direct any discussion of these resets to this thread.
[b]Edit 1[/b]: a point of clarification. No bans were handed out tonight for
a) Playing too much Gruntpocalypse (no such thing!)
b) Using the target locator too much (no such thing!)
Specifically, we targeted an exploit that allowed players to complete a Challenge 20+ times via itentional network manipulation (i.e., disconnects.)
Spot checks have revealed the telltale signature of this behavior on every denier so far, so don't be fooled by the protests of innocence. We aren't.
[b]Edit 2[/b]:
1) If you have lost your Legendary Helmet or any other downloadable offers, you can re-download them via your Download History. We're not sure this is affecting anyone (we haven't reproduced it internally), but just in case it is, give this a try.
2) We won't be resetting Commendations, as we do not feel that the exploit used affected them. It would not be fair to people who did use the exploit but who wish to retain the record of their playstyle, and we cannot differentiate between the two systematically. Sorry.
[Edited on 10.01.2010 9:02 PM PDT]
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Woo hoo!
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When I read the title, I thought Ferrex had his credits reset!
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screw u idiot. [Edited on 10.01.2010 6:17 PM PDT]
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Great job. :D
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thanks for nothing bungie i only did the sword base thing before i knew it was as u call "unlegit"
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Banhammer: UNFRIGGIN'BELIEVABLE
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Reset our commendations as well? I play pure Score Attack got 2 onyx from it, i have been reset... I don't really care that i have been reset because Halo Reach isn't even fun to play -_- But you could atleast reset our entire profiles. Anywho i went back to playing halo 3 today and it is so much more fun =D But it would be nice if you also reset our commendations if your going to reset everything else, cos ya know i spent at least 3days playing the game i would like to get my commendations over again for the cR again.
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Yeah, I got reset too, but for -blam!- sake, make it more apparent this is bannable. [Edited on 10.01.2010 6:17 PM PDT]
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Great job guys :)
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ohhhhhh yeahhhhh get some kids
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Has all of these 15k people been reset already all at once or is it going one by one?
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Will we get our ranks back? Or no?
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*hugs ferrex* You made a topic to pwn butt-hurts. You know that turns me on... [Edited on 10.01.2010 6:18 PM PDT]
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i love you thank you so much
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Wtf me and my friends all were Lt corneal and got reset to -blam!-en recruit?Wtf is this time to grab my receipt and head to bestbuy,here I come black opps
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Thank the lord! Those people were only ruining the Reach experience for themselves. BTW it's morning here lol.
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Thanks for the warning that this is going to happen. Sometimes i wonder what goes through your -blam!- ass heads and crying that people are exploiting ur game. U just lost alot of players. Im taking this game back asap and getting my money back. So long Bungie and ur rediculous rules
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November can't get closer can it? Also Zombies! [Edited on 10.01.2010 6:19 PM PDT]
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wow thats alot of exploits *waits for 15,000 "MW2 is better the nhalo* threads*
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I just did ONI and Gruntpocalypse am I fine?
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Finally, I was waiting for something like this to happen. Nice job Bungie :)
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I never abused. I want unban this instant bungie.
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So, I have played the things Bungie stated were okay in the update. I've never reset a single challenge. I should be okay right? I've down the target locater and done some checkpoint camping. But that's not ground for reset am I correct?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] iPHYZiKs Thanks for the warning that this is going to happen. Sometimes i wonder what goes through your -blam!- ass heads and crying that people are exploiting ur game. U just lost alot of players. Im taking this game back asap and getting my money back. So long Bungie and ur rediculous rules[/quote] Common Sense doesn't require a warning.
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Owned..