Glitchy "Socialite" achievement unlocking - Gears Of War 3

I was just playing some private CTL games, when I noticed that the progress bar for the "War Supporter" Onyx Medal ("Socialite" achievement) was reading each game as a separate event.

This has happened to THOUSANDS of gamers and as proof that I would never hack ANY achievement, I recorded what was going on.

EPIC have stated that this "glitch" was entirely their own fault and WOULD NOT BAN ANYONE who accidentally unlocked it.

I will NOT divulge the exact setting I used as I'm still unsure of what happened. Visit the websites I mentioned at the end of the video if you wish to know how it can be done.

EDIT: http://twitter.com/#!/GearsViking/status/132934085030064128
In the above link, Rod Fergusson (Director of Production for EPIC) confirms that you WON'T BE PUNISHED if this accidentally glitches on you over at his Twitter page.

This is further evidenced by Peter Knepley, Senior Multiplayer Programmer for EPIC on his Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/#!/PeteNub/status/132881833108054016

My video diary (with previous entries) to date:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0CF25EFAED39DBA8

Music:
"Ask DNA" by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Gears Of War 3
• video game
• Achievement (video Gaming)
• Xbox
• Xbox 360
• socialite
• glitchy
• glitch
• War Supporter
• Onyx
• Onyx medal
• Seriously 3.0
• Ask DNA
• Cowboy Bebop
• The seatbelts

[flashandruna]

is this patched?

[gdt82]

@flashandruna I believe so. Others have tried after the title update, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

[FamousHexs]

were you playing with anyone else

[gdt82]

@FamousHexs No... you saw on the video I was playing against BOTS. Just to let you know, that Rod Fergusson, Director of Production at EPIC has just tweeted that we WON'T be punished for this. The link is in the info tab above.

[cosmicmelon]

The same thing happened to me too. I got it Onyx around 3:00 A.M. :P They are most likely going to patch this soon though.

[gdt82]

@cosmicmelon I reckon they will. But this is EPIC we're talking about. It took them a number of weeks with GoW2 when hackers started proliferating the game before they released a title update (TU). Unless they release an obvious TU, this will still be available when the next special event occurs.

[ThoseGuysTime]

Dat happened 2 my mate he's got it onyx

[dooklik]

it did happen to me too i got it onyx imnmediately

[555slipknot6sic6]

my m8 had the achivement foor doing the events and I think he was in a caprute the leader private match too

[vanthony58]

That happened to me!

[ExiledMarine]

I might be able to shed some enlightenment, now being said might, it was because of (I think) the double exp event due to the fact you can only do a playlist event once to recieve the ribbon which awards the point, since the Double Expericance didnt award a point I bet it that it simply didnt know when to stop awarding points due to the sheer lack of a ribbon. Plus it couldn't have just been can you dig it because even after the event it was still happening to me and my roomate till exp wasdone

[Gears3ownsall]

Today i was doing quick TDM and this was happening to me