- Shishka
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Rules for ILoveBees Discussion.
It's clear that some rules need to be made and enforced. The ilovebees speculation can be good, but it's getting out of hand. Almost as bad as the out of control discussion is the people complaining about it. So, here are the new rules for ILoveBees discussion.
1. ALL ilovebees discussion must take place in New Mombasa. ILB threads started in any of the other forums will be locked. Note that I said locked, not moved.
2. Any threads that are made that are repetitive and offer nothing to the speculation will be locked.
3. If discussion in a thread gets out of hand (IE, speculation goes from being decent, thought out ideas to worthless drivel), the thread will be locked. The exception to this rule is if spammers attack a thread, in which case the mods will do what we can to clean up the mess.
4. Those of you that thought that the countdown on ILB.com pointed at an early release of Halo 2, Frankie O'Connor has said this:
Halo 2 comes out on Nov. 9th or Nov. 11th for the UK. It does NOT come out on Aug 24th. You know what does come out on Aug. 24th? Some OXM special which does NOT, and I repeat does NOT have a Halo 2 demo on it. No clue how that rumor gained so much momentum. But to reiterate, Halo 2 comes out Nov. 9th or Nov.11th for the UK.
Further, this was said in a later update:
I've sorta been following the fuss – too busy to really get into it, but Halo 2 will still release on Nov. 9th in the US and most other places, and Nov. 11th in the UK. Nor will we release a playable demo, anytime soon. In fact, we're so busy with the game that there's no chance we'll even think about a playable demo until after Halo 2 ships. And that is official. It isn't happening folks. The game is however, happily on schedule for November 9th.
Further still, Achronos has also commented that Halo 2 is not coming out on the 24th in various replies to threads that consider other possibilities. The bottom line is that this means Bungie's official stance is that Halo 2 is NOT coming out August 24th, nor any other time except November 9th (11th in the UK). As such, people that make the suggestion that the game IS being released on the 24th are insinuating that Bungie employees are lying. Bungie doesn't like that. Therefore, any threads trying to discuss false release dates such as August 24th will be locked or deleted without notice, and repeat offenders will be blacklisted from the forums.
Note that this does not mean ILoveBees discussion is banned from the forums. Just discussion about false release dates.
The moderators will be enforcing these rules with extreme prejudice. ANY inane threads about ilovebees will be locked, and a explanation may or may not be provided.
Those of you that aren't interested in the ILoveBees mystery, don't read the threads, it's that simple.