14 DAY TRIAL // Halo: Reach, this year's biggest Xbox 360 exclusive, has broken quite a lot of records and, according to Xbox Live charts, is quickly becoming the most played online title, which, sadly, means that a lot of people tried to cheat the system and get special things.
If you've been playing fair and square though, fear not, as Bungie has just announced that it will take action on over 15,000 Halo: Reach cheaters, and that they will suffer for their actions.
More specifically, the guilty ones are those that used an exploit that enabled them to reset their challenge modes over and over again, earning thousands of in-game credits which they then used in regular multiplayer modes.
All of these cheaters have now felt the power of Bungie's ban hammer, which completely reset their credit score, as well as enabled a one day credit earning ban, in order to appreciate what they have taken advantage of.
"We are in the process of applying credit resets to approximately 15,000 users who we have identified as the most egregious Challenge Reset abusers," revealed Bungie in the official Halo: Reach forums.
"A one day credit earning ban has also been applied, mostly to ensure that recipients receive an in-game notification of the action taken.As with any such measure, we have taken the time to carefully select our criteria to eliminate false positives."
"A more comprehensive pass will be occuring in the coming week as our automated Banhammer mechanisms grow accurate enough to satisfy our high bar for burden of proof. If you are thinking about getting an easy 50k credits by using this exploit, I would strongly advise you to reconsider."
Bungie has emphasized the fact that it has taken action only against those that used the Challenge exploit, but it is currently monitoring all of the reported exploits, and seeing if people are taking advantage of them in an unfair way.
If you spotted such a thing in online Halo: Reach matches, report it to Bungie as soon as possible.