Wow, fanboys everywhere have been screaming bloody murder for the fiasco known as the Phase 1 Beta Code Email Disaster. Bungie/Microsoft failed to issue the beta codes to those of us lucky enough to win a free code back in January. They claimed email issues (and client/ISP spam filtering) but put it on the back-burner to fix Crackdown beta code problems.

When they got back to the Phase 1 peeps, one generous soul at Bungie named SketchFactor started issuing codes by hand until a resolution was found. He finally went home for the evening and the following day found Bungie blaming Microsoft. Calls to Xbox support put the onice on Bungie and Bungie’s site claimed that all codes were emailed and that was it. No code, check your spam filter.

Ha! I use a semi-dedicated email server so there’s no reason mine didn’t come except the fact someone at Bungie/Microsoft goofed and it took a long while to sort it out. Perhaps it was just an email server issue (undoubtedly on a Windows box) but no details have surfaced (yet).

In any event, it’s a happy day because I just got my code. Play on Spartan, play on.

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