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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 9/12/08
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Posted by: UltraZelot
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Posted by: mongoose4
Frankly, not that informative. I would probably find other places to read about golf.


more tears plz

Who the f*** cares about your golf game??? We want new informations about halo 3!
And why is it so hard to know the date for the TU2? -.-
Some new informations/pics for the new map pack were nice too...


This is BUNGIE.NET, not HALO3.NET. This is where you get info on all things Bungie, not just Halo 3. Many people frequenting the site are not just fans of Halo, but also Bungie and like to know what's new and happening in general with Bungie and their employees, not just when something is gonna change in Halo 3. If there's nothing to report right now, would you rather they just not have an update (even though it's called a WEEKLY UPDATE). That's like telling someone their MySpace or Facebook page sucks because they keep putting up info about themselves in it.

I'm glad they at least make the effort to come up with an update of some sort, even when there is no Halo 3 news to report. It's either that or they could just let the site sit dormant for a month until they have an announcement to make. Personally I prefer the former.

It's probably "hard to know the date for the TU2" because they don't have a date yet. If they have some last minute things to put in that they aren't sure how long they will take to implement, why would they lock themselves into a specific release date for it? So people like you can complain when it isn't done by then? Seriously.

[Edited on 09.13.2008 10:34 AM PDT]

  • 09.13.2008 10:25 AM PDT
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Great update, some people can never be pleased.

  • 09.13.2008 10:28 AM PDT

TU2 Alignment
Sounds like Bungie is getting the screws tightened for this TU/patch/Autoupdate. We are all patiently waiting for the release and hopefully no one loses an eye in the 64-man roshambo tournament. I am actually really excited to see this TU in action, really pumped for the playlist update as well.

Ultra Ban
KEEP IT CLEAN doesn't do this one enough justice. Players that find themselves on the wrong side of the banhammer are really going to be stirring up a storm over their "unfairly ban." I like the aggressive offensive actions that the banhammer is partaking.

Oh So Beautiful
Had to post a comment on that members thread the video was so amazing. Showing us all the amazing work that we all take for granted. That was cool that Bungie gave that member props in the Weekly Update.

Bungie Invitational
Excellent write-up of your golfing event. That is good that you were able to host this event seeing as Bungie was too busy to put it on last year because of the crunch to get us Halo 3.

Bungie Podcast
Downloading, now.

GO HAWKS!

[Edited on 09.13.2008 10:39 AM PDT]

  • 09.13.2008 10:37 AM PDT

"Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"

Thank goodness that I've never been one of the poor fools to slight Bungie! I'm a good player, honest! :D

I had a really weird dream about playing halo three with my brother and two friends last night... and an achievement for getting seven kills in a row without dying... it was weird.

  • 09.13.2008 10:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: ThunderBunny4
The ban update is going to cause problems. "-"One, you are going to anger retailers like EB games and Gamestop, they lose money on the game returns and that's not good for business.

Losing online privileges due to violations of the code of conduct does not warrant a full refund, therefore the game would be sold to the video game store with store credit being the compensation. This store credit will be spent on more video games and accessories. This is in fact good for business.

Posted by: ThunderBunny4
You are also going to get on Microsoft's bad side because your game is so big that now people return it and do not buy it. They lose money there. Plus, people just have xbox live to play halo, campaign is not worth playing through more than 3 or 4 times so they would just cancel the account. Microsoft loses even more money.


Halo 3 is worth quite a bit compared to other video games in the secondary market. The store makes a good markup and someone else will very likely buy the game at a decent markup, Microsoft has little more care about halo 3 than it's interest in Download Content, Although I bet they do keep track of 2nd market sales figures because they do care. As far as frequency of play for Campaign, plenty of people still play it, and I don't really think it has any bearing on anything your discussing.

Your also assuming that an extremely high percent of halo 3 players are only interested in halo and don't play any other online game, one of XBL's strong points is the all encompassing online game subscription, with few exceptions.

Posted by: ThunderBunny4
Finally, you are going to anger the people banned, online ranked is a privlege, custom games with friends is mandatory. You can not say, well you messed up in our game so now you cannot play with your friends. Not only could they step in and say "you are taking away from my game that i bought" Microsoft may help the customer because the world is about making money, and if that means hrting Bungie, that is what they will do.


Most of this is utter garbage. The longer you went on the less sense it made, the grammatical errors encountered throughout the post started growing exponentially and I cropped the rest to save space..

Well now I'll try to keep it brief. Some of the actions they are banning for are Federal Crimes. When people cheat through IP flooding and various other nefarious activities they hurt Bungie and Microsoft. No one likes a cheater, when someone gets cheated they get pissed off and stop playing the game. Without action the cheater density only grows. Ban Hammer... it should be a Riding Banmower

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  • 09.13.2008 10:48 AM PDT

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Well, this doesn't sound too good. Not the Update, but about the date of when the AU2 will be issued being pushed back. I don't know why, but I get a bad feeling about it. Not saying it will be bad. Just feels like it will be. Then again, I could just be over-reacting.

Another thing that kind of stinks is not seeing any of the new maps. I take it that these maps won't be out until around mid-October, or later. I'm not complainning, just wondering. Well, whenever they come out, I'm sure they'll be awesome.

  • 09.13.2008 11:01 AM PDT

Oooo you're gna die!

ok but you havent justified why they ban boosters, if you think true skill works as it is you are wrone i just had to win about 60 games of team slayer in a row to get my 48 from a 47 (check my game history if you dont believe me) the system sucks wheras if i make an new account ai can get from 1-50 in that many games, you dont seem to be an experienced player so i doubt you have been cheated against many times, bungie cant find the majority of these cheaters any way because there are simply too many.

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Poor Luke. I didn't know he was colorblind.....

  • 09.13.2008 11:23 AM PDT

I, like many, disliked the soundtrack to the "oh so beautiful" montage. So I created a new soundtrack for the vid. Check out my version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvHS3Mvb-rc

Much love to the original poster for an awesome montage (minus the music).

  • 09.13.2008 11:31 AM PDT
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AutoUpdate 2 = Loss of halo 3 players and MLG players

im sorry bungie but... this update is a bad idea. if this update is as bad as it sounds... then i quit halo

[Edited on 09.13.2008 11:40 AM PDT]

  • 09.13.2008 11:37 AM PDT

SOMEONE HELP ME!

Goddamn it, it's happened again!

These guys complained a lot about finding marshmallows on the golf course throughout the day. We were all really shocked that anyone would suggest that a Bungie team would drop marshmallows on the golf course. Apparently the kind folks over at our “home course” knew we were coming and maybe the caddies there want the BR spread tightened.

Bungie Podcast


I REMEMBER THIS QUOTE! It's like Deja vu! I swear! I remember reading it in a past update, and even thinking it was Deja vu then! Oh god, I'm scared. Someone help me.

  • 09.13.2008 11:47 AM PDT
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when tu2 comes out, are the ranks resetting?

  • 09.13.2008 1:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: lukems
This Weekly Update will sweep your leg. You got a problem with that?


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your use of the english language in this update is outstanding! Great write up Luke, the "HAVE MERCY!" part about shishka was very funny

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Posted by: oJZWo
when tu2 comes out, are the ranks resetting?

Ranks are not resetting, nor is experience. Bungie is just adding playlist ranks. Your current skill level and rank will still be in your service record.

  • 09.13.2008 2:20 PM PDT

s3x on the flag

This is a solid update. Certainly as solid as my bowel movement this morning :-O

Not nearly as solid is the TU2 release date slip, but oh wells.

Solid moreso is the retroactive banhammer....nice.

The environment montage was great....I believe that was alfalfa I saw 23 secs into the video. That is beyond awesomez.

  • 09.13.2008 2:56 PM PDT

When are the guys going to get banned that have 2 EXP and are a level 50? That is totally lame playing with those cheaters. Go play COD4 if you want to be a cheater!

  • 09.13.2008 3:00 PM PDT

"Seems to me you should spend less time on that article and more time working on that novel you've been working on!!!"

Thunderbunny4 and Ultra Zelot, you got coned by shadowscrub and Fearing. Well said you two, well said.

Great update! Those podcasts are really flyin out of the machine these days, and that's a good thing. I do wish there was some way to make the Elephants more usable, other than grabbing the other one and bringing it around to the other base for quick captures. They are really cool, but usually they end up sitting at the ends of Sandtrap, collecting sand...

Posted by: JimboMonkey1234
SOMEONE HELP ME!

Goddamn it, it's happened again!

These guys complained a lot about finding marshmallows on the golf course throughout the day. We were all really shocked that anyone would suggest that a Bungie team would drop marshmallows on the golf course. Apparently the kind folks over at our “home course” knew we were coming and maybe the caddies there want the BR spread tightened.

Bungie Podcast



I REMEMBER THIS QUOTE! It's like Deja vu! I swear! I remember reading it in a past update, and even thinking it was Deja vu then! Oh god, I'm scared. Someone help me.
A change in the matrix you say?!! A bomb in the lasagna?!!!

[Edited on 09.13.2008 3:33 PM PDT]

  • 09.13.2008 3:24 PM PDT

OMG
Master Chief w/o his Helmet!


Stosh <3's me vicariously... at least someone does...

I see a d on an an.

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Posted by: lukems
Posted by: mongoose4
Frankly, not that informative. I would probably find other places to read about golf.


more tears plz

If you listen really carefully you can hear Luke laughing at how awesome he is.

  • 09.13.2008 3:43 PM PDT
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wow you guys are really going downhill
lolollolololool
msoft should have held your hands for a little longer cause you guys have no clue what to do on your own llololololololol

  • 09.13.2008 4:07 PM PDT

If you look at this stuff....go to a park or something else active

Great video by tha guy.

LOVE THE MARSHMELLOWS!

Love the Riding Banmower!

[Edited on 09.13.2008 5:06 PM PDT]

  • 09.13.2008 5:00 PM PDT

Take life one step at a time

Posted by: rice eater yumi
wow you guys are really going downhill
lolollolololool
msoft should have held your hands for a little longer cause you guys have no clue what to do on your own llololololololol


Hell, bungie was doing bad with Microsofts hand. Bungie has lost sales and have gotten worse ratings with each game. Halo rocked, Halo 2 was okay, Halo 3 sucked balls. The little fanboys out there are gonna say some -blam!- about this and i will not care. The point is that the Halo series sucked. It had a horrible "ending" and the gameplay just lacked in games two and three. The multiplayer got more problems and the Bungie clan became stuck up bastards. The more money they made the less fans they had. I loved Halo one, but now i like games like Gears. The game is pretty good but EPIC is amazing. They actually care about their fans. People like lukems from bungie talk -blam!- on their fans. So all you fanboys can go -blam!- die. And Bungie can burn in a hole. Oh, and just wait, bungie will fail so hard. They really can only make games for xbox because if anything in any of their games can be brought back to Halo microsoft sues and bungie dies just like it should. Unless bungie changes something soon and starts caring about what their fans want and not just the hardcore fans. Because a company can not survive on hardcore fanboys alone, especially bungie. If you want fanboys, hate me, thats ok, understand, i have lots of friends who think that Bungie sucks for the same reasons.

  • 09.13.2008 5:05 PM PDT

If you look at this stuff....go to a park or something else active

ThunderBunny4, if you hate Bungie so much, just leave. I agree with you that Bungie's games have gotten worse over time though. Halo 3's still a better than average game in my opinion.

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I don't get it, why are people saying good update? It's full of Negativity & a golf game that no one knew anything about. I understand this is bungie.net & not halo.net, but the majority of people read these updates to hear whats going on with Halo 3. You can say no thats not true but really guys what other games has bungie made that are this much a hit or that are current. Halo CE outdated, Halo 2 almost outdated, Myth most people don't even remember what that games was about because bungie won't make another one. Halo 3 is the only reason why this website is as popular as it is. Once Halo 3 is outdated & Microsoft decides that they are going to make another Halo game what else can bungie offer us. Remember that Microsoft owns the right to Halo & they don't have to let Bungie make the next one. So for all those so called Bungie fans when Halo 3 is done & gone who will you be standing by, Bungie or the next maker of the Halo series? We'll probably just have to wait & see.

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  • 09.13.2008 5:15 PM PDT