I know its supposedly more secure but for example, with Halo 2 you have to put your key in as part of the login onto live. If someone hijacks that key (as I believe happened to mine and some of the other guys in the H2V section and on Bungie.net) then theres no server at all. I remember one guy who got a fresh brand new copy of H2V but had to return it since his key had already been keygen'd.Originally Posted by p0lar_bear
Where as the original dedi was made just fine. If for some reason an idiot leaked the pass in an all chat the clan should deal with him/her accordingly. However the damage wasn't permanant. All you had to do was change the password which took 2 seconds to change and maybe 2 minutes to give to members/friends you trust. No key required, hell on one computer I installed the dedi, got it to run, and then installed Halo and played the server from the same machine. Thats right, Halo:PC dedi only needs the files included and strings.dll (downloadable), no product key required.
In order to get a new key however it takes at least 10 minutes (most likely more) to either call microsoft for a support call you'll probably end up paying for anyway (my dad once spent 3-4 hours being swapped from country to country on his call) or stopping into a gamestop to feed microsoft more money for their crappy products and support.
Honestly, I'd much rather keep it with password. You can change it, if theres someone you need to give it to, you just xfire them, and you'll never (or at least shouldn't) contact microsoft/bungie going "ZOMG MY DEDI PASS HAS LEAKED/CHANGED! Need Halpz!"
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