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Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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wtf we need big team battle ranked agian this blows i guess i wont be playing halo no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.11.2007 9:05 AM PDT
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so explain why the stats were reset and there was a socalled "banhammer update"? seems like a waste of time to me. ive already been cheated about 5 times in doubleteam by like level 7s. nice job on that banhammer guys! either that, or its just a terrible yellowbar host. i dont understand why the worst connection gets host in almost every game.

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  • 05.11.2007 9:33 AM PDT

Yep I've been standby'd already today and my friends were yesterday. Come on bungie ban these NOOBS!!!

  • 05.11.2007 10:55 AM PDT

Im sort-of a big deal.

wait a minute. I thought rumble pit was unranked. wtf

  • 05.11.2007 10:56 AM PDT

Well so far in slayer ive played 11 games and 9 of them someone has quit...looks like ill be staying away from any "team" playlists ehh???

  • 05.11.2007 11:16 AM PDT
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Thanks SNAKEEYEZ, I tried checking my cc twice now and I still get the same "Failed to download" BS, I'll keep trying. = /

If I dont have the maps by the time the Halo 3 beta comes out I will be making a call to MS and get my $4 back, and I dont really care about the 4 bills, its the principal of the thing!

  • 05.11.2007 11:37 AM PDT
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WTF! Half the people I play with, including myself can't redownload the new maps again! I would like to be able to play, but it looks like the same issues as before!

  • 05.11.2007 12:46 PM PDT

I just downloaded the maps for the first time last night and they didn't work. So i've tried again about 5 times and i'm still getting an error that says the content i downloaded is damaged. i can play the maps in split screen, but i can't get into matchmaking, because it says I don't have the maps. This is a little annoying...

  • 05.11.2007 1:58 PM PDT
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its dumb that rumble pit is not ranked anymore beacuse that was hard to level up and you would rarly ever see anyone cheating in it. There isnt any FFA gametypes that are ranked anymore.

  • 05.11.2007 3:24 PM PDT

i just tried to download the maps just a few minutes ago and they siad that it fialed to bill my credit card. WTH!!!!! this is getting really annoying cuz i am a huge fan of the games and the books and i cant participate with my friends online.

ps Go Red Wings!!!!

  • 05.11.2007 7:23 PM PDT
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this is crap.
Bungie: you need to keep your dirty privacy invading fingers out of my xbox.
if you guys tried this crap on pc users, you'd get endless grief.
too bad console gamers are morons.

the very idea i cant transfer a purchase from one xbox to another is totally retarded.

One day people will finally realize consoles are pointless and Home entertainment will all be done through a single pc box.
and then all of this "console" discrimination will finally end.
microsoft : bad.
bungie : bad

stop taking advantage of your customers and fans.

  • 05.11.2007 9:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: xXdiceXoneXx
this is crap.
Bungie: you need to keep your dirty privacy invading fingers out of my xbox.
if you guys tried this crap on pc users, you'd get endless grief.
too bad console gamers are morons.

the very idea i cant transfer a purchase from one xbox to another is totally retarded.

One day people will finally realize consoles are pointless and Home entertainment will all be done through a single pc box.
and then all of this "console" discrimination will finally end.
microsoft : bad.
bungie : bad

stop taking advantage of your customers and fans.



u do realize that microsoft is a company that makes pc operating systems, probly the one ur using, right?

  • 05.11.2007 9:20 PM PDT
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I'm getting this same crap, as well. I try downloading the maps onto my new, fresh Xbox 360 Elite and it says 'Purchase failed.' I really kind of want to play Halo again if you don't mind Bungie. HELP!

  • 05.11.2007 9:40 PM PDT
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i dont got a credit card on my account i got a pre paid card i am so pissed tht i can not download the blastacular map pack i did b4 and now it deleted them about 3-4 weeks ago and it wont let me down load them it says purches failed. you will not be chared for this transaction. please try agin later.

i mean really bungie wtf u r letting ur biggest fans down wtf.

  • 05.11.2007 9:42 PM PDT

METAL FOR LIFE \,,/

ya i can'y download them can u please tell me y i tryed everey day for a 3days i want an explanation

  • 05.11.2007 10:48 PM PDT
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1. pc = personal computer. not a "windows machine"
2. I'm on an apple machine.
3. linux is also fine.
4. windows and microsoft suck.
5. my statement was mostly geared towards console gamers seemingly endless ignorance about their rights as consumers, and their ignorance towards what a game "console" really is.
this is a consumer base that is fully brainwashed and thinks that they cannot do anything but buy what is next and new.

so whatever. halo and halo2 is crap. and halo3 will be as well.
live the lie fellas. live the lie.

  • 05.11.2007 11:27 PM PDT

Posted by: xXdiceXoneXx
1. pc = personal computer. not a "windows machine"
2. I'm on an apple machine.
3. linux is also fine.
4. windows and microsoft suck.
5. my statement was mostly geared towards console gamers seemingly endless ignorance about their rights as consumers, and their ignorance towards what a game "console" really is.
this is a consumer base that is fully brainwashed and thinks that they cannot do anything but buy what is next and new.

so whatever. halo and halo2 is crap. and halo3 will be as well.
live the lie fellas. live the lie.


1. Mac is fine if you are a graphics designer, otherwise, it's not user friendly.
2. Linux sucks
3. Bill Gates donates more per year to charities than any other single person in America, understandibly it's mostly his own, but it's for AIDS in Africa. and yes his OS has some (MANY) problems.
4. The amount of games you have played (1039) says you like Halo just as much as the rest of us
5. You own one of the game consoles (xbox) and will buy the 360 before the release of H3. I know you'll deny this, but it will happen, and you know it.

[Edited on 05.11.2007 11:43 PM PDT]

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ok wellll i want an explanation and now bungie!!!! about how i can not download the halo 2 blastacular map pack so fix it now!!!! i hav been pacinet for 4 weeks now and a am f$%@ing tired of it so i want to play and now so plz fix it god i had 2 get tht out of my system and i hav not got a credit card on my account i hav a pre paid gold card (the 3 month one) and i wantsome answers so plz help me people and bungie

[Edited on 05.12.2007 7:02 AM PDT]

  • 05.12.2007 6:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: J TO THE P
1. Mac is fine if you are a graphics designer, otherwise, it's not user friendly.

that's the dumbest crap I have ever heard. You are truly a puppet of heresy, media ignorance, and windows stupidity.
OS X doesn't help you make "graphics". It'd be great if people like you would stop saying that crap and realize that creative firms, independent small business, and intelligent people that DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE HORRID AND UNSTABLE WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT; use Mac/Apple/OS X because it is user friendly, easy to network, secure, and was built for people who can't do things like, turn a computer on.
stop basing your opinion on iLife commercials.

Windows is about as user friendly as having to levitate a chair with your mind to get viruses out of your computer. And it provides as much security as a cardboard box would be for a home while you sleep on a freeway, in some weird world where it rains atom bombs at night and everyone gives you ebola by breathing.

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2. Linux sucks
I own a compaq v2200. it wont run properly after the service pack update from xp, especially when the wifi is enabled, it crashes in about an hour.
I installed a copy of feather linux, an OS so small it runs off a sd card or usb drive. it ran for 2 weeks, no crash.
then I installed a copy a Xubuntu. A more full version, and it ran very well.
Most of the features of OS X and Vista (multiple desktops, "time machines", recovery points) and a lot of the nice window transitions come from Linux.
Also, Linux opened up a world of life for the gen 1 Xbox Gentoo, and GentooX area amazing Linux distros.
if it wasn't for linux there'd be no user generated content for xbox gmes, like Halo 2... something Bungie applauds on PC/Mac but says is "grounds for banning" on a xbox. Way to go bungie! -blam!-s.

Posted by: J TO THE P
3. Bill Gates donates more per year to charities than any other single person in America, understandibly it's mostly his own, but it's for AIDS in Africa. and yes his OS has some (MANY) problems.
Guilt will make you do that. And he contributes a lot of money to education here. Really what that rich bastard needs to do is take his money and give it to me. Screw everyone else.

Posted by: J TO THE P
4. The amount of games you have played (1039) says you like Halo just as much as the rest of us
You are a ignorant fool for judging me via gamercard info.
I play Halo2 out of sheer boredom. All of my friends moved away from our favorite games and into Halo 2, and now, onto their 360. I'm forced to keep in contact. I bought my copy of halo2 from a homeless guy for $10 that steals -blam!- from Gamestop.

Posted by: J TO THE P
5. You own one of the game consoles (xbox) and will buy the 360 before the release of H3. I know you'll deny this, but it will happen, and you know it.

Halo is s stupid name.
it's a mediocre shooter that is slow and feels like you are floating when you jump.
halo 2 is more of the same, the campaign mode was a complete boring repeat.
the live interface takes full advantage of live, but the limited game options, limited visuals(you ca be master chief AND a covenant... whooptee doo), inability to carry weapons, inability to move/dodge/parry make it weak in comparison to a game like unreal or doom or quake oo any of the other FPS that halo2 is a piss poor ripoff of.

I guess in halo 3 we can be? what 3 characters?
and what's the campaign this time? oh no the covenant are boarding us? it's the flood, look it's a bigger weirder alien that 12 yr old boys must kill! WOW.
shut up.

Microsoft isn't capable of being human and creative and original or innovative.
that's why everyone prefers XP (windows 95 version 10) over Vista(mac os X look alike for windows) AND it's also why they haven't upgraded the interface or usability of their OS in 15 years.
So I only expect more of the same From Bungie, Microsoft's little -blam!-.

I mean they have only been trying to make Halo and master chief happen since their very first release 15 yrs ago as well. a lame shooter for Apple computers. Who suspiciously looks a lot like master chief.


I will never BUY a 360. I ahve had and sold them to retards like you on ebay for quite the profit. you guys are all losers and sheep. keep buying stuff. CONSUME.
the PS3 is way superior and costs the same as a 360 when the 360 has the added HD media playback.
by the way, no 360 game is capable of HD levels of content. you can't fit it all on a dual layer DVD. you need a HD format.

good purchase choice clowns.

Never mind the PS3 comes with WIFI, bluetooth, HDMI 3(not the HDMI 1 in the 360), accepts memory sticks, SD cards AND plays all of it's PS1 and PS2 titles. Microsoft respects you guys so much.
You don't even get backwards compatibility with a 360.
have fun buying all of your games AGAIN. And the PS3 is open to Other os installation, hell Sony even released a kit for PS2 owners to install a HARD Drive and Linux made just for PS2 install.

you fools are buying 360 consoles just to play halo 3. thats a $500 dollar game.
you should have bought an arcade cabinet and invited some friends over, something else none of your fools have, friends.
and no, your "friend list" doesn't count.

[Edited on 05.12.2007 8:45 AM PDT]

  • 05.12.2007 8:43 AM PDT
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MACs are garbage. im a computer science major, and i would much rather use a pc than a mac. honestly, i dont know how u can say that MACs are eaier to use than PCs. theyre nothing but problems. and as far as you saying that u play out of boredom, that must mean that its not that bad, if u have absolutely nothing better to do when ur bored. also popular games are backwards compatible with the 360, and the ps3 really isnt anything special. and u say microsoft hasnt upgraded their interface blah blah blah, maybe because its already easy enough to use? and it works well? but in any case, i hate people like u, who -blam!- about things they dont have to do. heres an idea: if u dont like the game...are u sure youre ready for this??? DONT PLAY IT. dumbass

[Edited on 05.12.2007 10:39 AM PDT]

  • 05.12.2007 10:32 AM PDT
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While attempting to contact the only support available for the Blastacular maps NIGHTMARE these past few days.. weeks actually, which is currently only provided by the staff at 800-4MY-XBOX, I've learned quite a bit about this problem..

1.) The past few days... When you call that number the odds are high that you will wait on hold for 10 minutes or so, only to hear a message that explains "Sorry, unfortunately due to higher than normal call volume, we are unable to take your call right now." "Click". They hang up on you.

2.) Today... I waited on hold twice for 15-20 minutes listening to onhold musac and then... no message.. simply "Click" hung up on again.

3.) When I did actually speak to a human yesterday... Microsoft Xbox Live Support staff explained that Bungie turned off their support line long ago due to the tremendous call volume..

4.) Go try to search for this problem at xbox.com.. You will only find one article about the Blastacular maps (last review April 25th) which says nothing about any problem.. and does not provide any form of support.. and the only information here on Bungie's site is buried in these forums.. Bungies weekly updates state that they've solved the problem(s).
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Clearly MS is doing their best to keep this problem under the public radar.. Bungie passes on their weekly "Hey, we've fixed the problem" messages with no follow through.. They explain that it is not their problem... I challenge anyone to visit ~any~ affiliated website including xbox.com to find ONE comment about this problem.. Not a solution.. Just a single comment.. Believe me, I've tried.. and it does not exist.

I am not trying to be cruel, or to point fingers.. I've been patient, and have waited since they were released.. and then re-released.. and then after Bungie claimed that the problem has been fixed.. twice.. All I want to know is when/if it will be possible to PAY you and download the new maps..

Does anyone know?!?

Microsoft Xbox Live support does not know.. If you do want spend the time to wait on hold with them, I guarantee that this is what you will hear.. "Sorry, we are aware of the problem.. Unfortunately right now we do not have a solution".

I ~just~ got off the line with "Pamela" at Xbox Live support.. and once again.. "We are aware of the problem sir.." you know the rest.. and I was told to go check my card at ( http://billing.microsoft.com ) ~again~. Third card.. guaranteed good.. no luck :( Fourth support call..

Does anyone have any other information? Or have you all been through the same hoops of fire.?

(Edit)

Click the "Support" link on the top of this page... or follow this link ( http://www.bungie.net/Help/default.aspx ) this is what you'll find:
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"Notice: Bungie.net is the community site for Bungie Studios. We are NOT the official location for help or support with Bungie products. To contact someone for support with BUNGIE products... call 1-800-4MY-XBOX."
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Bungie creates their products.... but the kids at Xbox Live Support "support" them?






[Edited on 05.12.2007 1:51 PM PDT]

  • 05.12.2007 11:30 AM PDT

Posted by: xXdiceXoneXx
Posted by: J TO THE P
1. Mac is fine if you are a graphics designer, otherwise, it's not user friendly.

that's the dumbest crap I have ever heard. You are truly a puppet of heresy, media ignorance, and windows stupidity.
OS X doesn't help you make "graphics". It'd be great if people like you would stop saying that crap and realize that creative firms, independent small business, and intelligent people that DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE HORRID AND UNSTABLE WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT; use Mac/Apple/OS X because it is user friendly, easy to network, secure, and was built for people who can't do things like, turn a computer on.
stop basing your opinion on iLife commercials.

Windows is about as user friendly as having to levitate a chair with your mind to get viruses out of your computer. And it provides as much security as a cardboard box would be for a home while you sleep on a freeway, in some weird world where it rains atom bombs at night and everyone gives you ebola by breathing.

Posted by: J TO THE P
2. Linux sucks
I own a compaq v2200. it wont run properly after the service pack update from xp, especially when the wifi is enabled, it crashes in about an hour.
I installed a copy of feather linux, an OS so small it runs off a sd card or usb drive. it ran for 2 weeks, no crash.
then I installed a copy a Xubuntu. A more full version, and it ran very well.
Most of the features of OS X and Vista (multiple desktops, "time machines", recovery points) and a lot of the nice window transitions come from Linux.
Also, Linux opened up a world of life for the gen 1 Xbox Gentoo, and GentooX area amazing Linux distros.
if it wasn't for linux there'd be no user generated content for xbox gmes, like Halo 2... something Bungie applauds on PC/Mac but says is "grounds for banning" on a xbox. Way to go bungie! -blam!-s.

Posted by: J TO THE P
3. Bill Gates donates more per year to charities than any other single person in America, understandibly it's mostly his own, but it's for AIDS in Africa. and yes his OS has some (MANY) problems.
Guilt will make you do that. And he contributes a lot of money to education here. Really what that rich bastard needs to do is take his money and give it to me. Screw everyone else.

Posted by: J TO THE P
4. The amount of games you have played (1039) says you like Halo just as much as the rest of us
You are a ignorant fool for judging me via gamercard info.
I play Halo2 out of sheer boredom. All of my friends moved away from our favorite games and into Halo 2, and now, onto their 360. I'm forced to keep in contact. I bought my copy of halo2 from a homeless guy for $10 that steals -blam!- from Gamestop.

Posted by: J TO THE P
5. You own one of the game consoles (xbox) and will buy the 360 before the release of H3. I know you'll deny this, but it will happen, and you know it.

Halo is s stupid name.
it's a mediocre shooter that is slow and feels like you are floating when you jump.
halo 2 is more of the same, the campaign mode was a complete boring repeat.
the live interface takes full advantage of live, but the limited game options, limited visuals(you ca be master chief AND a covenant... whooptee doo), inability to carry weapons, inability to move/dodge/parry make it weak in comparison to a game like unreal or doom or quake oo any of the other FPS that halo2 is a piss poor ripoff of.

I guess in halo 3 we can be? what 3 characters?
and what's the campaign this time? oh no the covenant are boarding us? it's the flood, look it's a bigger weirder alien that 12 yr old boys must kill! WOW.
shut up.

Microsoft isn't capable of being human and creative and original or innovative.
that's why everyone prefers XP (windows 95 version 10) over Vista(mac os X look alike for windows) AND it's also why they haven't upgraded the interface or usability of their OS in 15 years.
So I only expect more of the same From Bungie, Microsoft's little -blam!-.

I mean they have only been trying to make Halo and master chief happen since their very first release 15 yrs ago as well. a lame shooter for Apple computers. Who suspiciously looks a lot like master chief.


I will never BUY a 360. I ahve had and sold them to retards like you on ebay for quite the profit. you guys are all losers and sheep. keep buying stuff. CONSUME.
the PS3 is way superior and costs the same as a 360 when the 360 has the added HD media playback.
by the way, no 360 game is capable of HD levels of content. you can't fit it all on a dual layer DVD. you need a HD format.

good purchase choice clowns.

Never mind the PS3 comes with WIFI, bluetooth, HDMI 3(not the HDMI 1 in the 360), accepts memory sticks, SD cards AND plays all of it's PS1 and PS2 titles. Microsoft respects you guys so much.
You don't even get backwards compatibility with a 360.
have fun buying all of your games AGAIN. And the PS3 is open to Other os installation, hell Sony even released a kit for PS2 owners to install a HARD Drive and Linux made just for PS2 install.

you fools are buying 360 consoles just to play halo 3. thats a $500 dollar game.
you should have bought an arcade cabinet and invited some friends over, something else none of your fools have, friends.
and no, your "friend list" doesn't count.


I could sit here and argue your points back and forth all day and night, but (unlike you) I have a job and a life outside of my house! I agree that the PS3 is a superior machine! It should be! THEY HAD A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER THE 360 LAUNCHED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS BETTER! And I didn't buy the 360 for Halo 3, I bought it at launch and had no idea that H3 was even being worked on.

  • 05.12.2007 11:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: LCS Generic Eric
MACs are garbage. im a computer science major, and i would much rather use a pc than a mac. honestly, i dont know how u can say that MACs are eaier to use than PCs. theyre nothing but problems.

what community college/vocational school do you go to?
And specifically what problems are those?

Posted by: LCS Generic Eric
and as far as you saying that u play out of boredom, that must mean that its not that bad, if u have absolutely nothing better to do when ur bored. also popular games are backwards compatible with the 360,

popular doesn't mean best. halo2 is crap. i play it to glitch, annoy, and screw around. hang out w friends.

Posted by: LCS Generic Eric
and the ps3 really isnt anything special. and u say microsoft hasnt upgraded their interface blah blah blah, maybe because its already easy enough to use? and it works well?

yeah right. live the lie.


Posted by: LCS Generic Eric
but in any case, i hate people like u, who -blam!- about things they dont have to do. heres an idea: if u dont like the game...are u sure youre ready for this??? DONT PLAY IT. dumbass

I don't play it that much and if you and your retarded friends had not noticed I was here talking about bungie's obviously over zealous treatment of their xbox title vs their releases on pc/mac.
so carry your 360/ms/bungie fanboy a$s.

Also as a computer science major I can't believe you haven't instructed anyone who is having problems with the map updates on here to delete their blastacular maps from their main dash, under memory, where they manage their saved games.
your new content will patch/over write the old map pack, without payment/credit card info and it takes about 3 minutes.

the process takes the content marked for deletion and rescues it and updates.
it's what I had to do to get my maps to update.

  • 05.12.2007 2:05 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update
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adam negen, like I said(please don't be defensive this time), not everyone is capable of understanding the value of money, to someone with out it. Even $1 or $2 dollars :-) And perhaps you are still vary young and have little interest in other peoples problems, yet. That you will hopefully gain empathy with other peoples problems over time.

  • 05.12.2007 3:17 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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Posted by: Spartan_Funk
^ Bunch of dorks ^

Wow look at me I got 1st page ZOMFG I teh 1337!


Seriously though, its about damn time. Now maybe this cheating scum and overall trash, can get whats coming. And finally Halo 2 may be worth playing again.
Halo 2 is not worth playing until big team battle rumble pit and CLAN MATCH come back and thats that.

  • 05.12.2007 6:11 PM PDT