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Subject: Microsoft announces final Halo 2 PC release date, reasons for delay...

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According to IGN, Joystiq, Kotaku, and Gamespot this is what Microsoft is doing:

(From Kotaku)
"After bumping the PC version of Halo 2 from May 8 to... eventually, Microsoft today announced the new ship date for the shooter.
Halo 2 will now ship to retailers on May 22, i.e. in two weeks, letting PC gamers experience the joy of blasting Brutes and cruising on Games for Windows LIVE!!!!!!!
The game was initially derailed from today's launch because the Games for Windows folks wanted to tweak the install experience (you can play and install at the same time, pretty cool) and to address "other" technical issues."

Sources:
IGN
Gamespot
Kotaku
Joystiq

Side Note: It is pretty cool that you can actually play the game while it loads

Hope this clears some confusion!!

  • 05.08.2007 4:52 PM PDT
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Yeah, apparently I was actually 100% correct with my thread. Kthx everyone. :P

  • 05.08.2007 4:56 PM PDT

This isn't official, at all.

Just restating the rumor before..

  • 05.08.2007 4:57 PM PDT
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Except that now the major league gaming websites are finally saying it.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm tired of waiting for "official" word. If Microsoft/Bungie/Hired Gun cared for their PC fan base, then they would've said something by now. Also, considering that it wasn't released ANYWHERE at stores today, I'd say that you need to start putting some faith on something besides "the official word," because the "official source" doesn't give a s*** about us.

  • 05.08.2007 5:00 PM PDT
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^well according to someone they got it by shear luck and it works fine other than live isnt working (which is what i think is the reason for delay) and yea sounds pretty much like they dont care about the customers who actually gave microsoft their first dollars..... the pc crowd..... noooo they are more interested in the xbox crowed cuse they are far more numerous.....wooooo..........

  • 05.08.2007 5:17 PM PDT

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Man I can't wait until...eventually!

  • 05.08.2007 5:23 PM PDT
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and also if this is the official word then why havnt they put it back on Game for windows website? im thinking that it is gonna release sometime this or next week once they fix the bug in live. but we will never know until it is actually released and we have it in our grubby mits.

  • 05.08.2007 5:26 PM PDT

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No, May 22nd probably isn't a official release date, but as far as the games for windows webstie, it is hardly ever updated. It took them a month to upload the box art and description for the game, and the trailer for halo 2 vista has been released and it stil isn't on the games for windows halo 2 vista page.

  • 05.08.2007 6:21 PM PDT

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Guys this isn't still a rumor! This stuff comes straight from Microsoft. I don't know why people still want to call it a rumor when the game's publisher released the info.

  • 05.08.2007 6:24 PM PDT

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And yes, May 22nd is when the game will ship according to MICROSOFT.

  • 05.08.2007 6:25 PM PDT
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Im sorry, but until I see Bungie post something or Microsoft actually post something one their own sites, im not going to believe the other sites...

Microsoft...you handled this very, very poorly and every single person who was involved with this delay catastrophe should get slapped across the face for every person they pissed off today...which is alot.

  • 05.08.2007 6:33 PM PDT

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I am pretty sure you can believe IGN, one of the most respected video game sites on the planet.

  • 05.08.2007 6:36 PM PDT
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All that new tray and play features and crap i could seriously care less, and honestly don't want to see that on a pc game. The hard drive is way faster and getting that extra 3 minutes of the laggiest game play you'll ever experience is not worth my time. They are really pushing their luck with this and if they delay it anymore they won't see my money in their hands.

EDIT: Don't you only install a game on your pc once, unless your a moron and get some weird ass virus...but i plan on only installing the game once, not multiple times. Sorry MS, but you are putting more time into something that already works.

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  • 05.08.2007 6:40 PM PDT

What it is.

It's a Live issue. The installation is fine, from my understanding. Hopefully this 22nd crap is false(even though it's most likely true), and that some places will have it on Thursday.

  • 05.08.2007 6:50 PM PDT

omg MS cant even make a good game that can install, thats what the wait is for!? this blows, also i did get amused by Master Meow

  • 05.08.2007 6:55 PM PDT
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Please STFU, quit crying, Jesus, Look My friend Runs a walmart, he is the head honcho, He is the Store manager all nikkas report to him, He checked his computer today for inventory and he said That wall mart will get its shipment directly from manufacture on the 22nd, Just wait two more weeks folks.

  • 05.08.2007 10:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rooo
Please STFU, quit crying, Jesus, Look My friend Runs a walmart, he is the head honcho, He is the Store manager all nikkas report to him, He checked his computer today for inventory and he said That wall mart will get its shipment directly from manufacture on the 22nd, Just wait two more weeks folks.

God you are back.

  • 05.08.2007 10:16 PM PDT

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I didn't think I was ever crying. The map editor on Counter Strike suits me well enough, plus only a week until the Halo 3 beta.

  • 05.08.2007 10:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: strike08
tweak the install experience (you can play and install at the same time, pretty cool)

Delay the release for 2 weeks so we can play the game 5 mins earlier when we finally get it... I don't understand.

  • 05.08.2007 11:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: strike08
tweak the install experience (you can play and install at the same time, pretty cool)

Delay the release for 2 weeks so we can play the game 5 mins earlier when we finally get it... I don't understand.


My thoughts exactly.

  • 05.09.2007 9:28 AM PDT
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Microsoft didn't say a thing in any of those. Those are blogs. Blogs which are crawling all over Gamepro's bogus article because it's the ONLY one out there. If there was a problem with the installation process, WHICH SOMEHOW managed to get through the extremely tough shakedown, testing, and evaluation of the final testing you'd hear all about it from Microsoft personally. Any damage caused to the partition from that problem could make Microsoft legally accountable if they didn't take the appropriate measures to prevent it should a copy get out.

It's Gold. It's been to the duplicators. It's been shipped. Any problems are from the duplicator, not the development process.

  • 05.09.2007 10:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: Zeph
Microsoft didn't say a thing in any of those. Those are blogs. Blogs which are crawling all over Gamepro's bogus article because it's the ONLY one out there. If there was a problem with the installation process, WHICH SOMEHOW managed to get through the extremely tough shakedown, testing, and evaluation of the final testing you'd hear all about it from Microsoft personally. Any damage caused to the partition from that problem could make Microsoft legally accountable if they didn't take the appropriate measures to prevent it should a copy get out.

It's Gold. It's been to the duplicators. It's been shipped. Any problems are from the duplicator, not the development process.


ill go one further than that. IGN got a near finished copy for preview and wrote an article on the download and play portion. They claim it worked great this was right before masproduction on the game disc. Over at www.majornelson.com Major has been playing it for a month now. he has achievements unlocked and claims he has done multiplayer mode too.

perhaps one of sony's goat heads got in the shipment.... lol

  • 05.09.2007 11:32 AM PDT

Im sick of these threads. [Barf]

  • 05.09.2007 5:35 PM PDT
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Helooo?

Games for windows live website:

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Games/Pages/Halo2forWind owsVista.aspx

officially updated. says may 22.

  • 05.09.2007 5:55 PM PDT

What it is.

I went to Walmart today and they said come in tomorrow at around the same time(it was about 7pm) and they should have it. That's also their release date they have set in the store. So maybe i can get lucky and snag myself a copy. I also went to Circuit City where a guy said the game is "supposed to be released on the 22nd". I kinda chuckled after he said supposed cuz that only made me figure that when he was checking his comp, it porbably had a note saying not to release until the 22nd(just an assumption). The 22nd isn't that far off, but the fact that the Halo 3 Beta will be out, i won't care much about Halo 2 Vista.

  • 05.09.2007 6:55 PM PDT