Bungie exterminates Halo 3 porn sharers

By Robert Purchese Published 4 August, 2008

"'Banhammer' is a complete understatement."

Bungie is playing bad cop with users who upload naughty porn pictures and share them amongst the Halo 3 community.

As of right now, anyone sharing "inappropriate non-game content" will be subject to a full ban from Halo 3 matchmaking and a permanent loss of file share functionality. Their console will also be banned from playing the game for a month.

"Users who have modified content on their File Share - regardless of who created said content - will be subjected to the full power of the Banhammer's thrust," said Bungie on its official website.

"This includes some never-before-unleashed technology that will effectively terminate your Halo multiplayer experience online in every imaginable facet. In fact, the ban is so thorough that simply calling it the Banhammer is a complete understatement."

Specifically the ban relates to modifying, then uploading and sharing files; downloading naughty content carries no penalty, but you'll be in trouble if you re-upload it.

Bungie is also working on another title update for August. It'll be all about tracking user behaviour and implementing separate Playlist rankings for Halo 3 online game types.

This will not replace the existing skill value, but rather compliment the system and add what Bungie calls a "new metric" to track your progress.

The patch, Bungie admits, may seem insignificant, but that is mostly because there is a "much, much larger" series of matchmaking changes planned for September.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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