@Capum15: Ah, that's a shame - depending on his definition of "evening"; that might make Europeans miss both! (working for morning, sleeping for second).

Ah well, I'm sure there'll be more keys down the line :)

@AhmadMetallic said:

I have 11 hours into BL2 and I have no idea what a Golden Key is

I took a peak at this thread for this precise reason. Sounds like marketing slime. Eh, whatever. I don't care enough about games to be getting fussed over access to some loot chest dealy.

What is a 1K redemption vs. a 10K redemption? Is that the # of codes?

So, what kind of things do you get from the gold chest? Anything particularly noteworthy?

Codes are up! :D

More to come this evening US Central time

The PC code he just sent out has already been redeemed. Dumb.

Welp, Steam took forever to update and so apparently all the PC keys seem to have gone in, what, 5 minutes? Nuts.

Now I have two keys that I won't ever use.

PC codes don't work anymore =/

It's gone on the 360. How did 1000 people turn on their 360 and put the code in 10 minutes after it came out?

Actually the Xbox code was done less than 5 minutes after the tweet :(

That code got me up to 9 keys so I finally cashed one in because curiosity got to me at level 19. I pulled 2 BLUE relics. One that buffs shotgun damage by 14%, one that buffs shield regen delay by 13%. At least they were worth 1K each. So disappointing...definitely saving the keys for higher levels now.

So 10PM central time tonight for the second run?

@golguin: Probably had their Xboxes on, most likely playing the game? 1000 is nothing, especially considering that he's got 38k+ followers, and a lot of people (like this thread) are sharing the keys on further.

@Messier: It's random, you are as likely to get super-awesome stuff you can use as getting relics for classes you aren't playing.

Aw man, too late to the show I guess. Please share more codes in the future ^^

Randy's tweet:

@tyneusch Working on 50k - 100k redemptions + no limit redemptions in a set time period (ie - 1 hour). 1 redemption per acc't per code.

— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) September 26, 2012

Rest assured guys. There will be more :)

Any one else know about this?: if you create a new shift account ingame in borderlands 2 you get one gold key for free.

You can also get 360 keys from local split screen accounts too. Sign in a 2nd profile, that account will have a key, open the chest and then have your character pick up the loot. You could technically do that as many times as you wanted to create new local profiles.

@Mnemoidian For sure, just wanted to illustrate that its still a crap shoot. I read that the chest only had purple gear or better in it.

So i'm gonna have to stay up late, again, guh; Americans don't understand.

@Messier said:

You can also get 360 keys from local split screen accounts too. Sign in a 2nd profile, that account will have a key, open the chest and then have your character pick up the loot. You could technically do that as many times as you wanted to create new local profiles.

@Mnemoidian For sure, just wanted to illustrate that its still a crap shoot. I read that the chest only had purple gear or better in it.

Just tried this, it works! Just create a new local profile, plug-in another controller and you get a ticket for both characters. Thanks for the tip.

PS3 Code is up - 5TCB3-SRX59-CS3K3-9TWTJ-T5BC6
 
PC -  Gone within about 20 seconds. Didn't even manage to get it.
 
360 - 5TCB3-SRX93-BR6J6-5XTTJ-T5BXJ

Yeah, I'm not trying to get these anymore until they get the time limited ones going (i.e. unlimited keys for 1 hour). I tried putting the PC one in the moment he put it up and didn't get it. They literally only lasted a few seconds.

What's the point if people are just going use bots?

Wtf??? 360 and pc codes gone already??

@Humphreys said:

What's the point if people are just going use bots?

One redemption per account. Buying 1000 copies of Borderlands 2 to get some extra loot rolls would be a weird con.

I got 5 the other day, yay.

From Sir Pitchford twitter about 5 minutes ago:

"I am about to tweet Borderlands 2 SHiFT codes for Golden Keys that will allow for any number of redemptions (1 per account) for a set time. This is a test of this system. We're aiming to have the codes function for about thirty minutes. We'll monitor server load, though."

If I don't have to leave before then I'll have them up in a few minutes.

Edit:

360: CBKB3-3BKC6-TF6J6-CRB3B-H53B3

PS3: CBKB3-3BKH3-XH3K3-HJC3B-H53R6

PC: KJK3T-KJSX9-FT3TT-T3JB3-TTZX9

He just posted another code, good for another 2 hours:

• PC: C3WBT-6BZF9-FBJBJ-B3JJJ-BB53S
• X360: K3K3T-H6B5F-J6FBX-563J3-BSHZX
• PS3: K3K3T-H6B9B-R9BCT-935J3-BSHS6

He just released another code for all three platforms, the new one just went live and it's valid for the next few hours. Im on my phone so posting them isn't an option, but if you check out his twitter feed you will see them.

@j3ffro919: Or people can read my post above yours :D

Sorry, phone doesn't update when posts happen, when I wrote my post no one had made mention of it.

Oh sweet. Kinda slept through the first one, managed to grab this one. Wonder how many will be released in total; looking forward to it.

I wonder if we can undo the patches and get the text file cheat to work again =/

I need moar golden keys!

I missed it. I think longer windows are needed.

of course while im asleep... :/

And they just dropped another one

X360: WB5T3-JS3W6-JRXTX-KR333-FTXBZ

WinPC: CT5TB-H3ZX9-6TTBJ-JT33J-TFJRK

PS3: WB5T3-JS3Z3-RSTWT-SJ533-FTXBT

@j3ffro919 said:

And they just dropped another one

X360: WB5T3-JS3W6-JRXTX-KR333-FTXBZ

WinPC: CT5TB-H3ZX9-6TTBJ-JT33J-TFJRK

PS3: WB5T3-JS3Z3-RSTWT-SJ533-FTXBT

Those have just expired if anyone was wondering.

@Cincaid: Thanks for posting this. Managed to snag one late last night.

The following SHiFT codes will be active from 6pm CDT to about 8pm CDT.

WinPC: 5BWB3-JWZRS-RT3JJ-BTJB3-RRJKH

X360: 53KTT-KSJ5F-36XTF-KXTBB-XTCRC

PS3: 53KTT-KSJ9B-69TWB-STWBB-XTC6B

The following SHiFT codes will be active from 6pm CDT to about 8pm CDT.

WinPC: 5BWB3-JWZRS-RT3JJ-BTJB3-RRJKH

X360: 53KTT-KSJ5F-36XTF-KXTBB-XTCRC

PS3: 53KTT-KSJ9B-69TWB-STWBB-XTC6B

Gearbox is currently having an issue and redemption will not work for the moment (personally confirmed on 360).

Randy Pitchford will update Twitter when it works.

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic

EDIT: I just went to the man's Wikipedia page. Not a bad read...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pitchford

RE-EDIT: It works now!

@mlarrabee: It also gave me errors on pc but i managed to redeem it.

I just input the PC code and it worked with no errors.

Where do I enter the codes? In game?

Yeah, PC worked fine for me. Looks like they figured it out.

@Lukeweizer: Theres an Extras menu on the main screen. you have to register to SHIFT, which gives you a golden key, and after you redeem the code you get another one.

Great, now I can use one for the end of each playthrough on my Zero.

@Swaboo said:

@Lukeweizer: Theres an Extras menu on the main screen. you have to register to SHIFT, which gives you a golden key, and after you redeem the code you get another one.

Awesome! Thanks a lot!