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Subject: Weekly What's Update: SPECIAL EDITION!
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Posted by: HaloWorldTour
Hey what about me i bought 4 X boxes do i have to buy 4 disc? that alot of money! By the way they look really good.

Of course not, you just put the 1 disk in all 4 xboxes.

  • 03.25.2005 7:37 PM PDT
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Will there be anmything other than 2v2 and will there be new weapons /vehicles. Also turkey90 uses standby .STANDBY SUCKS. but seriously when will the disk w/ new downloadscome out...????!!!!?????>>?>?>?!

  • 03.25.2005 7:37 PM PDT
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I think I will buy the disc even though it is $20.00. The maps look tight. I can't wait!

  • 03.25.2005 7:38 PM PDT
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the map elongation seems kinda wrong... i mean the name.. think about it
does anything this will be a new longest?

  • 03.25.2005 7:45 PM PDT
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omg i cant wait!!!!

Some said Download would never come... well they were wrong, so -blam!- em' lol

  • 03.25.2005 7:49 PM PDT
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I love them stages man..... new tactics... new glitches......... new everything.... even new hiding spots for when i use the sword... and remember...... ( look at the signature)

  • 03.25.2005 7:53 PM PDT
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B.Net has been taken over by T3H 4W350M3N355!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.25.2005 7:55 PM PDT
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Hey wheres the greatest map of all time boarding action????? and i dont care what anyone says it was a fun and an amazing level

  • 03.25.2005 7:57 PM PDT
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WHY MUST FRANKIE RUIN ALL?!?!?!? Quick poll..... who thinks hang em high should be brought back...... i do...

  • 03.25.2005 7:58 PM PDT
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and for those who thinks the maps are overpriced.. lets do some math...

12/50 (ratio of origional maps to game cost)
9/20 (ratio of new maps to disk cost)

give them a common denomonator...

24/100 (origional)
45/100 (new)

so for every 100 dollars bungie made with the origional game, they sold 24 maps.
for every 100 dollars bungie will sell 45 maps. meaning the new maps cost less to us then the origional maps. so stop complaining

  • 03.25.2005 7:58 PM PDT
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u idiot.. they said they scrapped hang em high because it plays liek ass in halo 2. its not a good level for halo 2 so stop complaining theyr doing us a favor

  • 03.25.2005 7:59 PM PDT
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You are right....... But those levels are so hot..... u gotta love that wizard lookin stage.... and that sidewinder lookin 1

  • 03.25.2005 8:03 PM PDT
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In regards to the announcement of new maps being released in a month and costing $20.

First, if Bungie had not taken 6 months to release new maps, I might have considered paying for new maps.

Most people I know have been playing Halo2 for the past month or two only because they were mislead into believing there would be actual downloadable content and it might be free.

No offense, but your timing and price sucks!!! $20 for 9 new maps and we have to wait another month. What a joke!!! Other games offer comparable downloads for $5 to $10. By not releasing these already delayed maps until next month means that you will lose out to better games (i.e. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory).

That's right I'm not gonna sugar coat it, you screwed up big time. Nearly everyone I've talked to since the official release of information has agreed with me that whoever is in-charge of the companies business marketing needs to remember to consider the customer first.

Without the customer you don't have a thing. The mental giants that keep delaying the new maps and then slap a $20 price tag on it might want to consider working on their resume's because in the public's eyes you are nothing more than a liar or slick car salesman trying to pull a bait & switch.

What ever happened to official release dates being official. I say if you can't make your deadline, don't announce a release date.

It seems that this is becoming accepted as the norm for most videogame companies and the only one who suffers is the customer. Somehow the customer always forgets about how angry they were when the game or maps were pushed back to a later date. Once the game or maps (in this case) finally comes out, everyone is so happy that their anger eventually fades away.

If we the consumer refuse to accept your take-it-or-leave-it attitude, you will have no choice but to provide a quality product at an acceptable price and that product will be on-schedule with your original release date.

Please don't take what I'm saying the wrong way. I love Halo2, but I would have liked it more if it was released on-time (nearly one year prior to it's actual release date). Sure it would have had glitches, but that is what FREE downloadable content is for.

Eventually someone with some pull in Bungie will have to wake-up and realize it's not all about numbers. It is about providing your customer with an experience that will have them coming back for more.

To anyone in Bungie that has any ability to take action and get things done. I challenge you to take a different approach when marketing and releasing your games. If you do, when the dust settles and it comes down to profit margins, you will be on top of the market, because your customers will be happy.

  • 03.25.2005 8:05 PM PDT
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I wonder wut the side movie wit the disc is about maybe a Halo 3 teaser

  • 03.25.2005 8:09 PM PDT
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HELL the fck yeah!! thankyou bungie!! that looks awesome. i understand what you said about HeH not being the same but if you made the br single fire and the starting weapon then it would work. or if you just made it the starting wep. ala MLG rules.

im asking this so you can answer it in the next weekly whats update

what is bungies opinion of the mlg rule set? will you consider makeing the battle rifle the starting gun and/or creating an MLG rules playlist.

you know what will suck? when every one who gets ranked high in the premium playlists loses that rank because bungie disbans the playlist.

  • 03.25.2005 8:09 PM PDT
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Bungie and Microsoft sure know how to make money.

I think they are a bunch of lametards.

6.5 Million copies of halo 2, $20 for new maps. That's 130 Million Dollars for Bungie and Microsoft.

I don't care what they say about balancing developement costs, 9 new maps do not cost 130 Million Dollars to develop.

Conclusion: Bungie and Microsoft are money hungry, greedy bastards who would do anything to wrench more money out of their end users.

I will not be paying for the new maps.

  • 03.25.2005 8:09 PM PDT
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OMG we have to wait longer.....GOODBYE WORLD......<HEN I LOAD MY HAED WITH 30 POUNDS OF BUCKSHOT WITH MY TRUSTY SHOTGUN>......Bungie look at what you have done to me.......NOTE: Turf WILL ME SO FU*KI**G ALLSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! i am running out of charactors left to type my post....9614 9611 9606 and so on and so forth. Gamertag:
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  • 03.25.2005 8:19 PM PDT
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I don't mind paying but...

If I download the first update at $5.99, give me a coupon so I can purchase the remaining retail maps at a lesser price. Don't make me pay twice for the same maps if I want the bonus content on the retail disc.

  • 03.25.2005 8:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: ENRAG3D ELITE
Is there ever gonna be a halo movie??????


My dad told me he heard that Samuel L. Jackson was already cast for the role of SGT. Johnson. So I think that there will be one.

  • 03.25.2005 8:21 PM PDT
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Here’s the thing, every moron, here who says, I’m going to wait till the maps are free, or this is stupid, I shouldn't have to pay for these maps, are wrong. Waiting for the maps is the worst thing one can; do in either case, the longer you wait, more horrible you will be at the maps once you get to play them (compared to everyone who already has them). I know this for a fact, as I did not have an Xbox when halo 2 was released. I had to wait until Christmas to get the dam thing and the game. Then after that, it wasn't until mid February, that my parents updated to a DSL connection. That’s 5 months where people could get better than me at xbl. I regret it so much, they know all the tactics already, after a month of playing, and there is still so much to learn in order to beat the other guy fair and square. So I’m glad that new maps are coming out. My only concern is how do you order the maps. I get the idea that the online purchase will be charged to the credit card one used to sign up to an xbl account. In the halo 2 menu, there is an option to download content, how am I going to select what to download. The first update I got when I signed up, gave me no choice of what to do once I agreed to download content and exit halo 2. I definitely want all four maps immediately when they come out, so much that, I want to know the exact time they are released, so I can take off from school if necessary to get them. Every moment I don't have them, so one else is getting better at them.

  • 03.25.2005 8:22 PM PDT
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dam it, is there any wat to change the way the time stamp is viewed, up there is says 8:22, when i really is 11 at night where i live, dam it

  • 03.25.2005 8:24 PM PDT
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Amen! this games gonna own.

  • 03.25.2005 8:25 PM PDT
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Amen! This games gonna own.
Posted by: xquietstormx1
go for it. if your telling the truth, your a loser. sorry

and its all good....splintercell comes out next week. i can play that till the new maps come out.

  • 03.25.2005 8:26 PM PDT
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OK, Yan Yin, did you read some of the Q&A's at the bottom of the Update. Every thing they had to pay for might cost quite a bit of money. All so, if they are tards, how did they make Halo 2.

  • 03.25.2005 8:27 PM PDT
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I'm reposting this because I'm still pissed.
For all those crap holes I see complaining on here and for future complainers, I just want to let you know you are f'n retarded. I know Bungie won't say it to you but I sure as hell will. So you are f'n retarded. An autoupdate. NEW 2v2 play. Head to Head fixes. 9 NEW Maps. 2 of which are free to us live users before folks without live even play it. All maps will be FREE any damn way by the end of summer! 19.99 if you don't want to wait, thats a steal as far as I am concerned. All this less than 6 months after release! Try feeding your face for a week with 20 dollars, try filling up your tank with 20 dollars, try paying for your electric bill for 20 dollars. What? What? Oooooooh wait thats right you don't pay for any of that. Why? Because mommy and daddy pay for it all and you are used to having everything handed to you.You ungratefull pieces of -blam!-! These poeple worked years to get the game to us, then after its release KEPT WORKING to give you 9 new maps and fixes! AND YOU KEEP F'N COMPLAINING! PULL YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES! Show me one f'n company that has done this much for one game in this span of time.....yeaaaaaaah thats right there isn't one! So my point is thanks again Bungie for all your hard work and you complainers are f'n retarded.
Feel free to repost this.

  • 03.25.2005 8:29 PM PDT