Halo PC's key with Reach

So I was just looking through HBO's forum, when I found This, which then links to Here

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Originally Posted by Sawnose

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.

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So it looks like the reward will be something to do with Reach. I can't really understand why we need our Halo PC keys for it though.

If this was a dream, it would be something like a discount on "Halo Reach PC".

But its not a dream, so... well have to wait and see I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Sasc

So it looks like the reward will be something to do with Reach. I can't really understand why we need our Halo PC keys for it though.

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You obviously need it to prove you own the game and can use it to redeem something. I hope its something better than a helmet.

Wait, so keys used from Halo PC's inception until a month or two ago, or just used about a month or two ago? I have two keys and I've only used one as recently as this or late last month. The other...I'm not even sure if I've used it yet :s

Didn't know there was a real keygen for Halo PC...unless it just spits out a cycled list. Fucking pirates. Fuck them and fuck v1.00 CE.

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Originally Posted by Fuzzy OneThree

What if I still have my original copy of it for the Xbox? I never legally got the PC version

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fucking /b/.netters

Didn't know either that a real keygen besides that cycle crap one existed. Though I always wondered why no one made one :P

I am intrigued, very intrigued. I wonder why they would bother promoting HPC, even when Bungie really didn't have a whole lot to do with the port and neither Bungie, Microsoft or Gearbox would be making a profit from promoting it now.

Unless it's Bungie's way of apologizing for PC players getting the short end of the stick for all these years.

I think it's sheer benevolence, rather than promotion. From 2005 and on, the patches we've gotten were out of the kindness of a single Bungie employee and that same employee probably suggested this as a cool way to reward a community that's been left in the cold.

I mean, they never even acknowledged H2V's release. They know how bad we've had it.

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Originally Posted by Darqeness

I am intrigued, very intrigued. I wonder why they would bother promoting HPC, even when Bungie really didn't have a whole lot to do with the port

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Not quite true*. "For the last several months, the Bungie and Microsoft guys were in it just as deep as the Gearbox guys were - writing code, prioritizing tasks, etc. It was a group effort and it was pretty hard-core, non-stop - even bonding, if you can call it that."

I'm excited to hear that this CD key thing is still in. Bungie brought it up months ago, that we should save our CD keys, but hasn't said anything on it until just now. I still have mine safe.

*Oh yes, it's that thread

Awesome. Thank god I wrote my CD key on a piece of paper and put it inside my halo case because I was stupid and took off the yellow sticker with the CD key from the slip and lost it.

What can we do with the key before Reach's launch? WHen does Reach come out anyway?

Probably something to type in the site and we get something if we play Reach? It's "a final feature to claim a reward". I remember we had a debate on what "feature" could mean =(