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General Category => Gaming and Halo-themed Games => Realm of Games => Topic started by: Atroxide on July 30, 2010, 05:46:05 AM
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Yes, that was me in the podcast, and in fact we were discussing details at the office today. We should have the final feature ready for use in about a month.
We're dealing with the keygen problem as best we can. For starters, I pulled a list of keys that had actually been used as of a month or two ago, and we'll probably validate against that list. So people won't be able to just get the keygen now and claim the... reward. (i.e., people who didn't even bother to pirate the game :-) It also means that buying one of the few remaining copies at retail won't help you anymore.
So yeah, we're on it. Start spreading the word on other sites that Halo PC users should check here a couple weeks before Reach launches for details on what to do with the key.
edit - see my addendum at the end of the OP
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To clarify, OLD keys work. If you ever used your key (technically, to enter the multiplayer game lobby, since that's what validates the key) at any time from 2003 until a couple months ago (May?), you should be ok. We won't be allowing NEW keys, because we'll assume they were keygenned.
"Halo 1 for Mac" users are included in this.
"Halo 2 for PC" is NOT included since Bungie wasn't involved in that port.
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The reward is a small "visual flair", as was described during the last days of Halo 2 for players of that game. Not armor or anything in the Armory. We realize that some people have lost their keys or never played online to validate their key, and unfortunately we can't do anything about that. If that's you, you're not missing out on something like Recon or Flames, it's just a little indication that people have been part of a certain Halo community for a while, and we wanted to give them a nod.
As others have noted, we have no way of telling if you've played the Xbox version, so that isn't included here.
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Yes, you can continue to play the game without invalidating your key.
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"Halo: Custom Edition" - YES
And the precise cutoff date for CD Keys was May 26th, 2010. If your key was ever used online before then, it counts.
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=46755796&postRepeater1-p=1#46763276
Yay for Halo PC players!
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100% awesome find!!!!!!!!!!yaaayy!!!!!im a huge halo reach fanboy lol
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so there is halo reach coming to pc?
because i'm now tempted to buy that if it comes :P
else i might give it to a good friend of mine.
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woooooooo
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so there is halo reach coming to pc?
because i'm now tempted to buy that if it comes :P
else i might give it to a good friend of mine.
Kind of delayed response but its still a valid one.
No, Reach is 360 exclusive. They would have it so you receive something in game from owning the xbox or pc version of halo 1, but since Halo 1 was before Xbox Live, there is no way to check if you actually owned a copy.
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Well bungie teamed up with activision as we all know and bungie claimed that they would release the game for the ps3 though it may be some aughust fools joke though I guess well find out :P
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NICE!
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Wait so wut do u get?
:embarrassing:
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The reward is a small "visual flair"...
Which I believe means your xbox will burst into flames.
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The reward is a small "visual flair"...
Which I believe means your xbox will burst into flames.
GOOD GUESS!
:LOL:
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All you get is that in the matchmaking lobby, next to your name you can get a small picture of the halo 1 logo... or something. I've seen ARs, MC helmets, Halo 1, 2, 3 logos, ODST etc.
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All you get is that in the matchmaking lobby, next to your name you can get a small picture of the halo 1 logo... or something. I've seen ARs, MC helmets, Halo 1, 2, 3 logos, ODST etc.
Yeah thats it.
ARs you get for being in the beta
ODST: Have Halo 3:ODST
2: Halo 2
3: Halo 3
Septagon: Link account to Bungie.net
MC helmet: have halo 1 PC, Halo 2, Halo 3, and ODST