Bungie Resetting Around 15,000 Halo: Reach Cheaters' Credits

While I agree that resetting cheaters is a great idea and I'm glad that Bungie has decided to take a proactive role, I really think that they should have done a better job of ensuring that these exploits were not able to be beneficial in the first place. I'm also not certain that they should consider the exploit in question a cheat without due warning.

Good! I wish this was done for MW2. Pisses my off when i spend like a  year playing and  they reward me with a cool rare badge , but it could take some stupid 12 years old a day of boosting to get the same thing.

That's what happens to cheaters....BURN!
Serves you right. I hope they have automated cheat detection as a standard by the time Gears comes out next year cause Gears 2 to got filled up with cheaters.

Bahahaha love this =] 

What's most amusing is that although they're rank and cR has been reset, their commendations haven't been.  Which basically means it's going to be very hard for them to earn enough points to even get passed Warrant Officer.  Which is great, I think these people should have recieved a black mark or something against their name, just to really show what kind of players they are.
 
And yes, the Kotaku comments, etc, were rather amusing.  Especially the people badmouthing Bungie for banning people who are just using "tricks and exploits" to gain ranks quicker.  For the record, the only people who were punished were the ones using network manipulation to really screw with the game.  Those who are just farming the same game modes over and over are unaffected.

NO!

Not my credits :(

Is it just me or is anyone else bored of this online already? It's only 3 weeks out and I don't have any inkling to play this again for quite awhile

I'm not really bothered either way, the armour parts that you can buy DON'T DO ANYTHING AND ARE POINTLESS! 
 
Although I'm in favour of anything that improves the experience in a video for everyone and thoroughly hate cheaters.

They actually first announced that they were going to start resetting credits and armour on Friday but to see the figures as high as 15,000, that's an amazing number of cheaters. I'm really glad to see Bungie is on top of this stuff and I'm glad to see them bringing in an automated banhammer for Reach like they had for Halo 3.

Bringing down the hammer of justice is always so sweet.

Sweet.

Kotaku boards were pretty hilarious after the story broke. Something along the lines of "Bungie are being little bitches by taking away something valueless" to which I ask, aren't you kind of being a little bitch by bitching that something valueless was taken from you?

Video game points are serious business. 

" Reading the bungie.net forums after this happened was hilarious. One guy threatened that he had influence over 400 people who were going to stop playing. Another 30 people insisted that since they were already high rank when they did it, Bungie should give their stuff back. "

Great to see so many game developers taking action against in-game cheating, makes the game a whole lot more enjoyable when you know cheaters will be punished big time.

I find it soooooo fucking funny that people tried to justify there "cheating" and even to go as far to make a petition to get bungie to give them there rank back.  I swear people like that make me sick.  I'm so glad bungie reset there credits.  They could of just let them get away with it but nope bungie made the cheaters pay for it.     

" So these people will be reverted to the first level? Nice! I didn't even know about this exploit until now. "

Cheaters never win and Winners never cheat.

Womp Womp womp Wommmmmmp

So these people will be reverted to the first level? Nice! I didn't even know about this exploit until now.

Reading the bungie.net forums after this happened was hilarious. One guy threatened that he had influence over 400 people who were going to stop playing. Another 30 people insisted that since they were already high rank when they did it, Bungie should give their stuff back.

Cheater cheater.

Its good to see developers laying the boom stick on these cheaters.

Gasp!

Gaming Halo: Reach's "Challenge Reset" functionality is going to get you nowhere fast, if Bungie catches you. The studio has said via its message board that it is smacking about 15,000 of the "most egregious" abusers of the credit-producing exploit with a credit reset, in addition to a one-day credit ban, though the latter is being done as more of a "we see what you've been doing and you've been punished" tactic.

Cheaters who have evaded the wrist slap this time around shouldn't expect to be as lucky in the future, as an automated banning system will take over as soon as its mechanisms prove accurate enough to satisfy the studio's "high bar for burden of proof." In the words of Bungie staffer "ferrex" on the message board, "If you are thinking about getting an easy 50k credits by using this exploit, I would strongly advise you to reconsider."