Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Bungie News on Halo PC! Run now, because hell is freezing over! :O
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For the first time in how many years; Halo PC news has been posted on the Bungie site. :D Run now, because hell is freezing over! :O

Intersting Halo PC stats

It gives very VERY interesting news about Halo PC about the support that is given behind the scenes by Bungie, Mircosoft and Gamespy! :D And also about how many people still play Halo PC. :P
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Interesting Halo 1 PC Stat
Posted by sawnose at 6/4/2007 6:33 PM PDT

Have you ever wondered if there's more of a purpose to the yellow sticker with the 25-digit product key than to sell keyboards by wearing out your old one? Actually, there is -- through a complicated, flowcharted process that ranks somewhere between alchemy and string theory in terms of the number of people who have mastered it, the process that prints those yellow stickers also generates a "hash" -- a scrambled summary -- of each, and a list of hashes gets sent to me (actually, I have to pick it up on CD from a Microsoft building) whenever a batch of stickers gets printed. This list of hashes then gets sent to Gamespy, which provides the online service for Halo PC. They make sure that only people with real copies of the game get to play, and only one person per key at a time. Aside from deterring piracy, this helps our legitimate players by allowing you to ban players from your servers, knowing that they have to pay for another copy to get back in.

What does this have to do with stats? Well, I just logged in to the key-admin site over at Gamespy to deal with a new batch of yellow stickers that was just printed, and found that they keep a tally of how many unqiue (and legit) product keys of Halo PC have played online in the last 30 days. Ready?

132,102!

This is pretty impressive for a game nearing its 4th birthday. Incidentally, this includes regular and Custom Edition users, since the CD key is the same across both versions (but it only counts each user once regardless).


[Edited on 06.04.2007 7:10 PM PDT]

  • 06.04.2007 7:02 PM PDT
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Well what else are we supposed to do while we wait for Halo 2 Vista?

  • 06.04.2007 7:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: masterchiefloser
Well what else are we supposed to do while we wait for Halo 2 Vista?

Wonder how many pics of men's asses or guys without shirts with MC helmets are in the game.

  • 06.04.2007 7:20 PM PDT
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I find it HILARIOUS how they post a little snippet about Halo 1 PC and yet still continue to act like as if H2V doesn't even exist. Bravo, Bungie, bravo for giving us knowledge of something we already knew.

[Edited on 06.05.2007 10:07 AM PDT]

  • 06.05.2007 10:07 AM PDT
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if there's that many players.. they should try supporting their game for the first time.

  • 06.05.2007 12:20 PM PDT
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So...This is one the front page. Why do you have to repost what they say in here?

  • 06.05.2007 1:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: brianv
So...This is one the front page. Why do you have to repost what they say in here?


Because this is interesting news and this forums is the "Halo1 and 2 for PC" forums.

  • 06.05.2007 1:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: BaMbOo225
if there's that many players.. they should try supporting their game for the first time.


It's a shame too since gearbox wanted to support it but bungie wouldnt let them.

  • 06.05.2007 1:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: staticx576
Posted by: BaMbOo225
if there's that many players.. they should try supporting their game for the first time.


It's a shame too since gearbox wanted to support it but bungie wouldnt let them.


Gearbox was still going to support us?! M$ didn't allow them?!

Sigh, I'm not even going to bother...so fill in your own lines here I guess:
lpjuunin says something to/about M$.

  • 06.05.2007 1:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: lpjuunin
Posted by: staticx576
Posted by: BaMbOo225
if there's that many players.. they should try supporting their game for the first time.


It's a shame too since gearbox wanted to support it but bungie wouldnt let them.


Gearbox was still going to support us?! M$ didn't allow them?!

Sigh, I'm not even going to bother...so fill in your own lines here I guess:
lpjuunin says something to/about M$.


Hmmm, that sounds interesting, where did you get that little piece of information?

  • 06.05.2007 3:37 PM PDT
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I guese Halo PC is not so dead after all.

  • 06.05.2007 4:34 PM PDT