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Subject: Halo 2 Playlist Update & Stat Reset
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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., cause microsoft definantly doesnt make computers.

bungie : bad

stop taking advantage of your customers and fans.

  • 05.12.2007 6:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: charger hemi
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.

cause microsoft definantly doesnt make computers.

  • 05.12.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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i am having trouble downloading the new maps the blastacular map pack when i go to down load it it says purcheas failed you will not be charged for this transaction please try agin later and i hav been trying alot and it let me get them before but it deleted them some how and now it wont let me download them i hav tried deleting the old map packs didnt work and i am using a prepaid gold membership card for xbox live the 3 month card the gold membership so do you know what is wrong if so please tell me i really would like to be able to play all the match made games agin and get my rankings back ecspecholy team slayer i mean really wtf now its mandotory 2 hav thoses maps i mean really and i can not download them ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh plz help me please help me and i really apperchiate your help alot thank you so much thank you =] . please help me please than you very very much =]

  • 05.12.2007 6:51 PM PDT
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i am having trouble downloading the new maps the blastacular map pack when i go to down load it it says purcheas failed you will not be charged for this transaction please try agin later and i hav been trying alot and it let me get them before but it deleted them some how and now it wont let me download them i hav tried deleting the old map packs didnt work and i am using a prepaid gold membership card for xbox live the 3 month card the gold membership so do you know what is wrong if so please tell me i really would like to be able to play all the match made games agin and get my rankings back ecspecholy team slayer i mean really wtf now its mandotory 2 hav thoses maps i mean really and i can not download them ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh plz help me please help me and i really apperchiate your help alot thank you so much thank you =] . please help me please than you very very much =]

  • 05.12.2007 6:52 PM PDT
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Uhm Bungie this is kinda bull Crap if you know what I mean. I can't play more than 4-8 games then I start getting errors that FAILED TO LOAD MAP. Yet when I go to Content DOWNLOAD I can't get into it to download any of the maps now. SO WTF???? HELLO!!!!!!!!!!! Now I can't even play Halo 2 anymore because I only get frustrated with it. When I used to play it for fun and to relax just killing people. This is upsetting and a bunch of BS if you know what I mean. I can't play ranked games anymore. I can't play no more than 8 games in a row otherwise I start getting erros that I FAILED TO LOAD MAP, even the basic maps that come with the disc don't even load. I thought maybe I could play a custom game, LOL!!! YEAH RIGHT IT WONT LOAD EITHER. GET YOUR GUYS STUFF TOGETHER. I Only have a gamer tag on Xbox Live just to play Halo 2 and now I can't even play it.

Thanks for Screwing up the game play, You will be losing alot of players now. I can assure you that.

  • 05.12.2007 7:21 PM PDT
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THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS IS GAAYYY just becauce i didnt buy the new maps i cant play my haloo -blam!-tt thiss is so -blam!- dumb.....so i cant play team snipers or anything else...AND THEY GOT RID of 8v8 they need to bring that -blam!- back and make it able so u can play even if u dont have the dumb maps

  • 05.12.2007 8:20 PM PDT

GO SOX!

Well thanks for screwing up Matchmaking, guess I will just be waiting for Halo 3. Its too bad because I had just started back up with H2 again...

  • 05.13.2007 5:46 AM PDT

You know, reseting the stats was cool. Bringing in new maps, hey thats great, i'm not going to buy them but good job doing something with the money we're giving you. BUT, making it REQUIRED to have the new maps downloaded to play certain playlists is -blam!- retarded. I mean, what the -blam!- are you guys thinking?
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"Oh, its ok, they can't play rumble pit, but they can play hardcore!" Good thinking! What about snipers? Instead of playing that should we get our sniper fix in Big Team Battle? Damn, you guys are ingenious. But wait! The first week of July I can download the maps for FREE! and then play all of the playlists again! Oh dang, if I thought you guys were smart before, I'd say you should get the Nobel Prize or something. GO BUNGIE!
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  • 05.13.2007 8:38 AM PDT
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its been a few days and i'm still not able to redownload the maps....what should i do?

  • 05.13.2007 11:33 AM PDT
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IT SAYS U NEED MAPS FOR THIS REQUIRED PLAYLIST

BUT I HAVE THEM AND I CAN PLAY THEM

BUT JUST NOT ON MATCHMAKING!

I CAN PLAY THEM IN CUSTOM GAMES JUST NOT IN MATCHMAKING WTF IS THE PROBLEM BUNGIE!

  • 05.13.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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I never thought i'd say this, but Bungie you are lame. I will not renew my xbox membership that i've had for the last 3 years under multiple accounts, and i will not purchase Halo 3 even though i have a preorder. Why would you ruin Big Team Battle? You are alienating yourself from some of your most hardcore supporters. I consider myself a die hard fan, and have played everyday for the past year and half. My game is BIG TEAM BATTLE, and by resetting the ranks, you have completely RUINED the quality level of the games. People playing with guests ALWAYS quit immediately, and nobody tries in the absense of rank. You have ruined gaming for me, Halo was the only game that I could play for more than a day without getting bored. I am NOT the only person that feels like this. You will lose my entire clan's worth of Halo 3 purchases, and possibly more. Shame on you for abandoning your veteran fan base and Big Team Battle players to create a more polite environment for your oversensitive, touchy feely casual gamers that can't handle language or intense gaming. Thanks for removing a truly enjoyable experience. I will be goddamned if I'll start playing skirmish and slayer with nerds that have memorized spawn points and consider -blam!- combo on lockout to be in keeping with their "MLG" idea of perfection. Bungie, you are a disgrace.

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  • 05.13.2007 2:41 PM PDT
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1) BS making the new maps mandatory to enjoy matchmaking, as I have tried several times on both my 360 and regular xbox, and I cannot download the maps. So now I can't play most of XBOX live. VERY FRUSTRATING

2) To the butt-clown that whined about the ranking reset, saying he's "now WASTED 4000+ HOURS OF MY LIFE".... dude, the ranking reset didn't waste 4000 hours, sitting on your fat ass all day playing video games did. Do you really think having that rank gave your pathetic life that much meaning? I mean seriously, when you go on an interview, do you think your boss is turning you down because you can't prove your rank? No, he's turning you down because you're brain-rot.

Seriously, video games are fun... I play for a couple of hours a few nights a week. but 4000 hours? that's 4 hours a day for 2 years and 9 months. Get a life, dude.

  • 05.13.2007 8:16 PM PDT
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Really awful thing to do. Now not good players must get destroyed until the good players get high rankings again. Way to take the fun out of it.

  • 05.13.2007 9:22 PM PDT
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wtf bungie why is it that so many ppl are failing to load maps now it seems like everytime i join a party someone fails to load the map i hate you bungie thank you for messing up a good thing.

  • 05.13.2007 10:37 PM PDT

Booger 747

its nice to see that u say we won,t be charged again. but funny on my bank statement i got charged twice for your repairs. what bungie not get enough people to buy them that they double dipped the rest of us?

  • 05.14.2007 7:10 AM PDT
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Why would you ruin Big Team Battle? You are alienating yourself from some of your most hardcore supporters. I consider myself a die hard fan, and have played everyday for the past year and half. My game is BIG TEAM BATTLE, and by resetting the ranks, you have completely RUINED the quality level of the games.


It's not ruined. You just need to take a week or two and let everyone's ranks (listed or hidden) sort itself out. This is not the first time the ranks have been reset.

However, I'm disappointed with mixing BTB Slayer and BTB Skirmish. I like to play slayer, some objective here and there is OK, but even 50% is too much (and it seems like I get more like 70% objective when I play the mixed playlists). Since Team Slayer is where all of the cheaters are, there is no other "slayer only" playlist left for me. An unranked "slayer only" playlist was awesome, because people had less reason to cheat (although some still did for whatever reason), and so BTB Slayer was perfect for my tastes. Less cheating, more players, it was awesome. I never had to wait that long for a game, and I don't see why I now have to play assult on Terminal every other game. It's very disappointing.

Also, I think it was a mistake to include the new maps in Team Slayer. I wish I had not downloaded the updated versions, because it seems like every game I play is on the new maps (unless I have a player in the party who hasn't updated them). I really enjoyed Hang 'em high on CE, one of my favorites, but Tombstone, I must say, is my least favorite map at this point. Yes, including Backwash. If I wanted a game where I fire on and get fired on from across the map the whole game, I'd play Team Snipers (I don't ever play Team Snipers). It's just no fun. No fun at all. Frustrating, yes, fun, no.

Anyway, the months following the H3 BETA are going to (I believe) revive H2 matchmaking even more than the recent news/leaks/etc. for the H3 BETA already has. I believe we'll see a lot of former H2 players coming back to brush up on their skills, especially after having the BETA for a while.

I'm hoping we'll see at least one more playlist update prior to the H3 retail release. If so, please give us an unranked slayer playlist (please don't say "double team" either).

- Mage



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  • 05.14.2007 8:25 AM PDT
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<.< my favourite mode was btb skirmish ..... and i cant play cause i cant download the new maps.

  • 05.14.2007 10:11 AM PDT
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also, why did they fix bridging? if the banhammer works, then bridging shouldnt be a problem. i used to bridge so i know there would be a good, greenbar host. now, i go into MM and 4/5 games get a laggy host thats not even fun to play on. so they should at least try to fix the host selection so that the best connection gets host.

  • 05.14.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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Well, this could be an end of a long run of halo2 playin. I tried last night again, still cant get the maps fixed up for my box with many friends. Still sittin there in these lame ass game types like hxcore and double team. It wasnt fun, it wasnt exciting in fact i left after the 1st match was over cause the -blam!-s took a flag and threw it to the top of the map for 8 minutes. While up 4-0 in a CTF CLASSIC 5. Oh Well, Bungie has BETA to watch out for now. They will never fix this problem for number 2 cause number 3 is in there hands right now getting ready for a beta release. They took my 4 bucks which could of been used on gas here where its 3.50, than 2 new maps i should of known i wasnt going to play. Thanks -blam!-s, for fixing the problem, without fixing it.

  • 05.14.2007 12:30 PM PDT
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While I am enjoying my new climb through the ranks and the exploring of the new maps, I am somewhat frustrated because I cannot play by myself in a ranked matchmaking playlist. I would love to see Bungie bring back Rumble Hardcore, Rumble Pit, and 1v1... ranked style.

  • 05.14.2007 2:04 PM PDT
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Thanks alot! Await my arse! Maybe to get the cheaters in check but not to reset my shiz! You play so many thousands of games only for you to have them gank them. Crock of crap! Unranked rumble pit...wtf!!! No ranked team swat, rumble pit, and who knows whats next...)(*@U%)(@IU#$*)@#*_) PISSES ME OFF! Oh, and thanks for the maps from the original halo....why would anyone want to pay for that crap?!?

  • 05.14.2007 3:07 PM PDT

DIBBS 11

That's great and everything but, I redownloaded the 2 maps and I see on my account that I have been charged again??? I was charged the first time and I didn't download to a different console. How do I know that the second charge on my account will be removed???

  • 05.14.2007 3:41 PM PDT

Goose got me loose!

Yeah guys I am TOTALLY with you. This rank reset is frukn BULL-blam!- I was like a level 20 before they decided to reset them. I FINALLY, let me repeat, FINALLY got the 2 new maps RE-downloaded (took like 3 days of trying)...which is totally unacceptable...and now EVERY time I play, its in a game with nothing but cheaters or people who were probably ranked 40-50'ish. The matchmaking is not fair by any means now. Every game I've played the score has been like 50-15 (the average), with me being on the losing team...whad'ya know? The worst game I played the score was 50-5, no joke, and the best was 50-20'ish. It is friggin ridiculous now. Does anyone have Bungie's number where we can ALL call and say what in the frukn hELL were you guys thinking????? You should've just integrated the 2 new maps into matchmaking and left everything else ALONE!!! Its so bad now that it makes me not even want to play now, sad to say. Screw all you F'n cheaters you can all suck on my fat one. Its a damn shame you idiots can't even play a legitimate game online without having to cheat or stand-by, that is the most idiotic crap I've ever seen in my entire life! If you're getting shot at, dude just fight it out, don't be like OMG I'm getting shot and fixing to die, let me hit stand-by on my modem/router and pause the game so I don't die and can run around and cheat and twack a few people in the back to get my teams score up. You better damn believe I use the feedback system after each map when someone cheats the game, now whether or not the system works is another story since it seems like it doesn't do any good, but I still try. AND I think it was totally uncalled for to FORCE people to pay to download the maps in order to be able to play in matchmaking, I know a few games you don't have to have them, but dang, we all like rumble pit, training, slayer, etc. ranked or not. What is the deal you morons? But let me guess, you bungie retards don't give a flip about us Halo 2 fans cuz ur sittin on ur A$$ getting paid every day to test out HALO 3 (which at the moment I am looking forward to), and yeah, you may have provided us with 2 new maps, but the way everything has gone is unprofessional! Everything was just hunky-dory BEFORE the rank reset and new maps. I say we all sign a petition and send it to bungie's front door and demand an explanation for their nonsense and that they do something about this bull malarkey. It makes me sick just thinking about what you people have done to ruin a FUN game, well...it was until now. AND BUNGIE...READ THIS SHIOT...IF HALO 3 IS "ANYTHING," I REPEAT "ANYTHING" LIKE HALO 2 WITH ALL THE GLITCHES, CHEATING, BRIDGING, STAND-BY'ING, ETC. YOU CAN BEST BELIEVE I WILL NOT BE PAYING FOR OR PLAYING YOUR "MOST ANTICIPATED" GAME, COMPREHENDE????? GET IT TOGETHER YOU IDIOTS!! And to all you hipocrits who read this post and DISAGREE with me, you can kiss my lily white A$$. I have an opinion just like you guys so deal with it. Opinions are like -blam!-s, they all stink and everybody has one. You're probably just one of the MANY sad cheaters I encounter when trying to play a FAIR game online! Its just a game people, its supposed to be FOR FUN, but what part of cheating others out of a "so-called" legitimate game makes it fun? I used to love to play because I could win WITHOUT having to cheat, nor have I ever, but apparently some people who play must suck so bad that they actually HAVE to cheat in order just to be able to beat somebody. And thats another thing that burns me up, when we play cheaters who automatically have an unfair advantage throughout the what, 2 minute game, try to talk smack at the end of the game, I think that is totally uncalled for, I mean don't get me wrong, I talk junk back to people, but for someone who cheats the game and then tries to put down the other team because they literally demolished them with their stupid cheats, man you damn people need to grow some pube hair and grow the F up. You people are trash and do nothing but ruin Halo for all its other "true to the game" fans. I don't know who else agrees or not, but the word FAIR for Halo 2 online, well I'd say that word went extinct a long time ago. This -blam!- is pathetic...

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  • 05.14.2007 5:13 PM PDT
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This is utterly rediculous. I can't play any of my favorite matchmaking because you punks put them off limits to people who don't pay 4 dollars for the new maps. I know that there's probably some clause that I signed that makes this legal, but in customer service terms I consider this basically stealing. I signed up for xbox live to play Halo 2, and the only thing I ever play is team slayer, and I can't do that because you people are FORCING me to charge $4 to a credit card number that no longer exists, when I already F**cking paid $50 for more than I WAS getting before you made this switch. That is to say that before this happened, I was peaved that you have been putting less and less resources into Halo 2 on XBOX Live for the last year or so, and I never complained. But this is the final straw man. You people are so sheisty, it hurts. Needless to say, I'm buying a PS3 instead of an XBOX 360, and I'm considering contacting the Better Business Bureau.

  • 05.14.2007 8:18 PM PDT