Anyone trying to sneak into the closed beta a few weeks before release get with the biggest ban hammer ever! Literally, they get there accounts banned till 9999 AD, some 7,447 years after the events of Halo 3 take place. This was discovered by a 17-year-old Minnesotan who goes by the name 'Scar' the hard way. An avid gamer with a GamerScore of 61,000 got kicked because he got Epsilon from a friend's friend and tried to glitch it into his account using the two controller exploit.

"I downloaded it from Marketplace and played it for maybe six hours or so all alone, in custom games and campaign. [Then] it would kick me offline every time i tried to play Epsilon. It wasn't until the next day when i signed on that I found out i got banned."
Microsoft refused to comment on the issue whereas Bungie confirmed the screen looks legit.
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