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F-f-f-f-fling yourself.

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Posted by: Halo2 lover mike
heh ill jus get demo wen it cums out c if its worth buyin it


Sorry, but we speak English here. :/


dont be an ass if u understud what he said then leave it alone


I for one honestly didn't know what he was trying to say. It's really so easy to type in English, I don't know how people fail at it so well.

  • 06.09.2007 10:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: XworstpirateevaX
Just give the game time. It will have more and more people as time goes on.


I wish I could say I agree with you, but see my post a couple above yours where I say that I doubt time will "cure" the game.

H2V really has until 25 September 2007. If H3 stays on schedule and comes out then, most of us who have both an X360 and Vista PC playing H2V will probably dump H2V and go play H3. H2V will be a ghost town by then if numbers don't pick up during July and August and, really, I doubt they will.

  • 06.09.2007 10:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: ShadowzKiller
Sad how bungie put money into something that died so quickly.

I think it may be more for the modding community, just look at haloCE, once the modding starts ands spreads, it will probably spread like a firestorm, like people trying to get a map with a scarab VS scarab going or people doing HCE > H2V maps, well i hope anyways, just cant wait to mod the crap out of it, scarab guns for all!

  • 06.10.2007 5:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: Romanticide
On the server list, there are apparently only 14 people playing....


well when your target audience is less then 2% of all PC gamers what did you expect? 100,000 people online the first day?

  • 06.11.2007 6:34 PM PDT
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well if you've been with microsoft for a while, you'll relize a patern. microsoft dosnt hire people to test there game they let the public do it. good example the vista and any other computor program that coes out by microsoft. i heard vista has all kinds of bugs, even my friend, who knows more about computors that you know about life, said he should have waited till they came out with a patch for it, before he got vista. then they charge you for the patch. (marketplace >_> ) i bet it will be the same with this. they'll give it awhile then they'll come out with a patch you'll have to buy.

and btw, what can be fun about a game that you can get an assassination award in the middle of a gun fight, just by simply pressing the melee botton when he's at the far left or far right of your screen( about to walk past you)

  • 06.11.2007 7:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Theartofhalo 3
well if you've been with microsoft for a while, you'll relize a patern. microsoft dosnt hire people to test there game they let the public do it. good example the vista and any other computor program that coes out by microsoft


Oh man, I laughed so hard.
This may be the case with some of their games, but rest assured they have extensive in house testing of their new OS projects and their new Office projects. Why do you think all of the OS's have codenames? Did you think they just decided to slap Longhorn together, then sell it as Vista without even basic tests?

Fact of the matter is, they test as much as they possibly can. See all the hardware options out there? Do you think software companies have the sheer amount of resources to test on every possible combination? They test within reason and then draw a logical conclusion as to which hardware will work.

should have waited till they came out with a patch for it, before he got vista. then they charge you for the patch. (marketplace >_> ) i bet it will be the same with this. they'll give it awhile then they'll come out with a patch you'll have to buy.

LOL, Microsoft won't charge for game fixing patches or OS fixing patches. They might charge for new features, but they're not going to charge for patches which fix the core functionality. I don't see a "Marketplace" or "Microsoft Points" logo on my Windows Update or Vista Ultimate Extras menus. I didn't get charged for the first H2V patch.

even my friend, who knows more about computors that you know about life
ROFL. Care to compare resumes? :p

  • 06.11.2007 7:45 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

The game may be dead now, but give it some time until it drops down to $20. That could be at the end of the year.

  • 06.11.2007 7:59 PM PDT
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I think we should all write Bungie a letter that goes a little something like this:

"Dear Bungie,

Stop sh***ing on the PC gamers."

  • 06.11.2007 11:42 PM PDT
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good example the vista and any other computor program that coes out by microsoft. i heard vista has all kinds of bugs, even my friend, who knows more about computors that you know about life, said he should have waited till they came out with a patch for it, before he got vista. then they charge you for the patch
You heard......
How about you TRY?
I personaly have had NO problems with VISTA. It's all you people scared of Vista cuz XP is apparently sooooo much better. I hated XP since day one and it won't change!

  • 06.12.2007 4:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
I think we should all write Bungie a letter that goes a little something like this:

"Dear Bungie,

Stop sh***ing on the PC gamers."
"P.S.

Please stop leaving us in dark alleys with bleeding asses and forty dollars less than what we had before we bought your game."

  • 06.12.2007 11:54 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

"P.S.S.

Stop pissing on us too."

  • 06.12.2007 11:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Romanticide
On the server list, there are apparently only 14 people playing....


Apparently....

  • 06.12.2007 2:41 PM PDT
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drama queens.. theres a couple of hundred people online .. remember the browser doesnt show full games even if you click show full servers.. also i noticed that my friends custom games seems to disapear off the live browser.. even though the game will still be active and if you invite people in they can still join

  • 06.12.2007 2:57 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
I think we should all write Bungie a letter that goes a little something like this:

"Dear Bungie,

Stop sh***ing on the PC gamers."
"P.S.

Please stop leaving us in dark alleys with bleeding asses and forty dollars less than what we had before we bought your game."


Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
"P.S.S.

Stop pissing on us too."


O.O Bungie, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

[Edited on 06.12.2007 3:29 PM PDT]

  • 06.12.2007 3:28 PM PDT
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P.P.P.S.- If you're going to make a new online feature on the PC, put it in the -blam!- OS, not each game. It's no fun seeing people signing on and off Live constantly because they don't have one of your games running the whole time they're on the PC.

  • 06.12.2007 3:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: lpjuunin
H2v has phailed already. What do you think? ;D


What I don't get is that I could have sworn reading from an online source that it "went gold" before it was even released. and that's just the PC version alone.

Even more ridiculous, copies of Halo:CE are being sold left and right out the wazoo. it's gotten steady at what? 100,000 copies sold each month? This is an outrage!

  • 06.12.2007 3:33 PM PDT
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I may get the game today, if I do, I'll have fun creating my very own Spartan :)

  • 06.12.2007 4:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: Romanticide
On the server list, there are apparently only 14 people playing....

It been dead since they picked it to be on the vista only platform 3% of the pc market

[Edited on 06.12.2007 4:25 PM PDT]

  • 06.12.2007 4:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zer078
Posted by: Romanticide
On the server list, there are apparently only 14 people playing....

It been dead since they picked it to be on the vista only platform 3% of the pc market


It may be only 3% now, but what about in a year? How many people are going to buy a new computer that's pre-loaded with Vista in the next year?

I got $5 that most of the people who hate Vista bought it expecting it to be just like XP, then they get stumped when they find out it's not. Either that, or they watch too many of those lameass Mac commercials.

  • 06.12.2007 4:31 PM PDT
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The Halo Maps Website http://www.halomaps.org
The Halo Movies Website http://www.halomovies.org
The Halo CE Chronicles http://hcec.halomaps.org

Is this game dead already?

Technically speaking software is not alive so it can not be dead.

What you are really asking is “why hasn’t this product met my immediate expectations” or more simply you are asking “why can’t I get what I want, when I want it, and I want it now!”

Here is something to chew on:

The Halo PC 1 & Custom Edition games were released in 2004 and still have a healthy life span. Halo PC was recently reported to have over 130,000 players each month. The Halo Maps website has logged over 4 million downloads for what people declared a dead game at birth.

Windows XP is reaching end of life in 2008 and by the end of this year all new Windows PC’s will be equipped with Vista. Although businesses will be slow to adopt Vista, home PC ‘s will move rather quickly to Vista since it is expected that there will be over 150 million PCs sold for US homes by the end of next year all of which will be running Vista. If just 10% of those new PC’s purchase Halo 2 for Vista then sales will be over 15 million copies. And remember there have already been over 40 million copies of Vista sold.

I doubt that Microsoft is looking for the quick sales like the Xbox game did but instead is looking for a longer term sales strategy as users keep the game “alive” by making custom maps.

To answer your question: No H2v is not dead from the publishers perspective, or mine, however, no one else can speak for you so if you think it’s dead then well that is what you think regardless of the facts.

  • 06.14.2007 4:29 PM PDT
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I get good numbers of people. The game is far from dead.

  • 06.14.2007 4:32 PM PDT
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it was never alive to begin with.

  • 06.14.2007 4:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: Blood Drunk
it was never alive to begin with.


Hell, H2 was never any good to begin with.

  • 06.14.2007 4:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: UXB
Is this game dead already?

Technically speaking software is not alive so it can not be dead.

What you are really asking is “why hasn’t this product met my immediate expectations” or more simply you are asking “why can’t I get what I want, when I want it, and I want it now!”

Here is something to chew on:

The Halo PC 1 & Custom Edition games were released in 2004 and still have a healthy life span. Halo PC was recently reported to have over 130,000 players each month. The Halo Maps website has logged over 4 million downloads for what people declared a dead game at birth.

Windows XP is reaching end of life in 2008 and by the end of this year all new Windows PC’s will be equipped with Vista. Although businesses will be slow to adopt Vista, home PC ‘s will move rather quickly to Vista since it is expected that there will be over 150 million PCs sold for US homes by the end of next year all of which will be running Vista. If just 10% of those new PC’s purchase Halo 2 for Vista then sales will be over 15 million copies. And remember there have already been over 40 million copies of Vista sold.

I doubt that Microsoft is looking for the quick sales like the Xbox game did but instead is looking for a longer term sales strategy as users keep the game “alive” by making custom maps.

To answer your question: No H2v is not dead from the publishers perspective, or mine, however, no one else can speak for you so if you think it’s dead then well that is what you think regardless of the facts.


Thanks for taking all that time to sound pretentious.

I never stated my own opinion, I just asked if it was dead because of the very small amount of players. Especially when compared with even Call of Duty which is still packed with people playing.

I know that Vista is holding a lot of people back...but being lucky to find a server with 10+ players on is...not good.

  • 06.14.2007 5:04 PM PDT

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