Verifying a key

There are 15 artifacts and the skeleton key. The achievement calls for 15 total. The Skyrim guide book says that the skeleton key counts. Can anyone verify this?

No - it's not true - I played for a long time 4 years ago - at that time the key is not tied to a specific account - if you want I can provide scan the disk with the key in support of those - that they verified the key

Maybe the only You can do now is waiting 'till the game is released. But check your e-mail and verify If they have sent You a Key for the game.

A key? But I already preorder...

The connection negotiation is probably not blocking attacks so well. My idea is to have the VERY FIRST packet sent from your XBox to the service provide a unique key (similar to how your authenticator has a rotating key used to log into your live account)
this key would be based off the XBox SN and other things say time as the seed. This key would then allow traffic from that IP to move forward and continue the verification and sign in process. If that key is used from more than 5 IPs (or whatever number would
work best) in the time frame that IP it auto blocked for a time. There would need to be devices/edge servers that handle this first packet and would only accept this type of traffic and verify it. All other attempts or traffic (without first being verified)
would result in a block of that IP.

So a break down.

1. XBox comes on and sends a verify packet to the edge firewall with a unique rotating key (this is the first packet sent)

2. After the connection attempt is verified traffic from that IP is allowed through to continue the communication other verifications and log in process.

3. All traffic of any kind coming from an outside source that has not provided a key is blocked.

4. Abuse of a key by trying to use it from multiple sources also results in a block.

Make sure you entered the key correctly. Remember it is case sensitive. Also, if possible, you should make your key wpa2 - aes. Wireless will never be completely secure, but wpa2/aes is much better than wep. Some routers offer security features like MAC
locking. Verify that is not the issue and verify it is handing out IP's. Normally those last 2 won't provide a key not valid message, but it is good to look at everything. You may want to check your routers firmware too. There may be upgrades.