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Hey my friend said that on EB Games' website it tells you that Halo 3 comes out on June 30th, 2006. Is there any truth to this? What should I do if Eb Games is wrong?

  • 05.24.2005 1:06 PM PDT
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  • 05.24.2005 1:08 PM PDT

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hey did any one check the lastpage some kid called a level 18 a noob when hes only alevel 19 whopty f u c k i n g do hes one level higher that really make him better i bet the other dude could own that piece of trash that relly fu ck ing cares about his lvel what does he win for being a level 19 , nothing so he can go waste his life geting his level up while we have fun with his friends , i personally dont care about my rank ad i playmore costume games then i do match made i could easily be in the level 20s if i wanted to but i have a life unlike that laos kid im a level 16 and i dont give a -blam!- i could be a level 1 and i wouldnt care its a game and so u people just enjoy the -blam!- game u pricks and one more thing who ever uses the word noob is an idiot and their proubily smoking some -blam!- so please enjoy the damb game jeasus criest

  • 05.24.2005 2:15 PM PDT
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it is possible that it will come out that day, because i heard that xbox 360 comes out in August, im not sure what year, but i know it comes out on one of the augusts.

  • 05.24.2005 2:21 PM PDT
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I was looking at the leader board and its clear that some of the people on the leader board are cheaters. For example the leader in head to head ELITExGUNNER clearly used boosting to get to the lvl he is he player like 10 games in a row with halos elite and won every one either 10-2 or 10-4. I was just wondering how you could miss this and why are they still on the leader board. I mean its crazy that the number one player on head to head cheats and you miss it. I mean if you dont catch the #1 player who do you catch? You keep saying that you have all this technology to catch anyone who cheats and yet the first player on head to head clearly cheats and you don't even catch him.


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  • 05.24.2005 2:23 PM PDT

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i totally agree how can u not catch the 1# player in head to head thats actually kind of funny though its not cool for the people that play that i think they should bann him and kick him off the boards i personally hate cheaters god they should just all die a very pain ful death !

  • 05.24.2005 2:37 PM PDT
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i played a game of skirrmish with a friend, so we we were looking for 6 players to start. the two players that had been placed on our team had used standby so i quit the game but i need to know if that gives me a chance to get banned for getting placed in a game were stand by was used.

  • 05.24.2005 3:10 PM PDT
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Frankie, the good Ol' Bill Gates of Microsoft said that Microsoft would release Halo 3 as a kind of, "In your face Sony!!!" for the release of PS3. Does this mean that Bungie is currently working on Halo 3, in order to have it finished by the time Sony will release PS3? Is there any information you can give us?

  • 05.24.2005 3:21 PM PDT
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Is there any way to preview thew new maps that are coming out?

  • 05.24.2005 3:28 PM PDT
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bugnie...bungie...bungie... im ashamed of you. why cant you frix the easiest glitch? this is probaly the 5th time ive complained about this. the problem is that i will be playing a game with friends on live then on my screen it says something like bob betreyed joe and bob commited suicide. the weird thing is, it says i get booted from the game. one question forwhat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why do i get booted when sme crackhead betrayes the people? WHY!!!!!! but nots the worst part , the worst part is if they win my stast go down and if they lose my stats go down! thats just f***in wrong!! please bungie fix this propblem and make halo two a better game for everyone who experiences this!

  • 05.24.2005 5:13 PM PDT
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i have a suggestion about the quitting situation.if someone quits you can put "force even teams" so there wont be a difference in the number of players at one time.i think that would be more fair.
GT: Y Even Try.check out my stats.

  • 05.24.2005 5:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: STEALTHKILLER04
bugnie...bungie...bungie... im ashamed of you. why cant you frix the easiest glitch? this is probaly the 5th time ive complained about this. the problem is that i will be playing a game with friends on live then on my screen it says something like bob betreyed joe and bob commited suicide. the weird thing is, it says i get booted from the game. one question forwhat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why do i get booted when sme crackhead betrayes the people? WHY!!!!!! but nots the worst part , the worst part is if they win my stast go down and if they lose my stats go down! thats just f***in wrong!! please bungie fix this propblem and make halo two a better game for everyone who experiences this!


This man is right, it's the dumbest glitch in the world, and then you don't do anything and get booted for it!!! What's the problem, and you need to fix it!! I've been tormented by this for many a month now, and i've lost several levels because of this. PLease repair the situation soon!

  • 05.24.2005 5:49 PM PDT
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hey savage if ur talkin about me then bring it on! I'll have a team slayer match. you get your people and i'll get my people. My gamertag is homestar6592.

  • 05.24.2005 6:35 PM PDT
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Why are people quitting all the time? And what can you do to stop it? Can you ban them?



This is a tough one. We can't ban people for quitting, because we can't force them to play. It's annoying, it's lame, but it's not cheating and we're not in charge of their games. It's human nature. They don't like a map, they quit. They don't like losing, they quit. They got off to a bad start, they quit. We ARE looking at ways to mediate the problem, but a good example of our dilemma is this: If you were playing, and your wife went into labor, you quit and you get back and we've banned you from matchmaking? You're pissed! Not only that, but now you have a BABY. Which requires feeding and probably wants to go to a party school to do some binge drinking.


I have a solution (sorry if this has been posted before):

If someone quits in the middle of a game, lock them out for 10-20 minutes. Simple. If they are quitting just because they don't feel like playing that map, or they are losing, chances are they plan to start a new match right away. Don't let them, thus deterring them from quitting. If they are quitting for a legitimate reason: wife goes into labour, spilled hot coffee on yourself, phone call, whatever... chances are you don't plan to get right back in immediately after you quit, so a 10-20 minute lock out is not a big deal.

What do you think? Will Bungie people read this post or should I email my suggestion to someone directly?

  • 05.24.2005 6:37 PM PDT
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never mind i skipped page 14 so I totally didnt notice it.

  • 05.24.2005 6:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: super saijen
it is possible that it will come out that day, because i heard that xbox 360 comes out in August, im not sure what year, but i know it comes out on one of the augusts.


At E3, Microsoft confirmed that the Xbox 360 will be released worldwide for the 2005 holliday season. To me, that means November, but I guess October could be a possibility, too. I think August is a bit early, but who knows. I do know, however, that it will be released this year. I have also heard that the price will be somewhere around $299 - $359 US.

The PS3 on the other hand won't be available until around Spring of 2006 and will be around $449 - $499 US. The biggest differences in the price gap are due to the CPU and GPU production cost for the PS3 systems. It looks like a monster of a machine (not to say that the 360 won't be), but I don't see myself paying an extra $100 - $200 for a games system. PS3 will also be using Blue Ray discs rather than HD DVD like the Xbox 360. Again, I don't see paying the extra money for it. Bring on the Xbox 360 and give me my fix of Halo 3!

  • 05.25.2005 5:09 AM PDT
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i like the idea when someone quits, and it is 3 on 4, when some one on the team of 4 dies have them wait out till one of the other 3 die, making it 3 on 3 ^^ that is good idea ^^

  • 05.25.2005 8:24 AM PDT
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i dunno if this is where i can contact frankie but i am in need of a new GT. i think it would be awesome if you would suggest one for me.

  • 05.25.2005 9:10 AM PDT
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I'm wondering where you go to ask questions that are answered in the Weekly what's update? My main question is what's going on with being "booted" from a game when there are no betrayals. I've had this happen in Team Training mostly. What causes it?

  • 05.25.2005 9:14 AM PDT
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My problem is choise, when I enter matchmaking I can't choose which kind of game I can play because I for example like OddBall very match but it's like almost never in matchmaking or king of the hill I would like to have more choise when choosing a game. Is this possible to be put in a future update and why wasn't it included in the game at first?

  • 05.25.2005 11:15 AM PDT
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Can you change your gamertag without getting a new account? I don't like my name. When I first signed up I thought it was just going to be an account name so I just chose one like a login account name, I didn't think it would be my "display name" in the games...

  • 05.25.2005 1:47 PM PDT
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When are we gonna get some of the new maps as (relic preferred) screenshots? I want to use them as my backround. Also are u guys taking ideas for Halo 3 maps cause I have some ideas, I would like to mail in?

Thx,
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  • 05.25.2005 5:33 PM PDT
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Hey man, just read your weekly update and wanted to add my two cents to the quitting problem. One hardcore solution would be to make the penalty for quitting something like dropping a full level. I know this sounds harsh, but people quit when they are losing. How are you going to get any better if you quit? That said it would suck if my wife went into labor and I got penalized so here is the solution. Make there be no quit option. If someone wants to quit they can turn off their xbox and then turn it on and sign back in. The extra hassle would probobly cut down on impulse wuitting. Just a thought. Keep up the good work. Love the sight, love the game.

  • 05.25.2005 9:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: super saijen
it is possible that it will come out that day, because i heard that xbox 360 comes out in August, im not sure what year, but i know it comes out on one of the augusts.


At E3, Microsoft confirmed that the Xbox 360 will be released worldwide for the 2005 holliday season. To me, that means November, but I guess October could be a possibility, too. I think August is a bit early, but who knows. I do know, however, that it will be released this year. I have also heard that the price will be somewhere around $299 - $359 US.

The PS3 on the other hand won't be available until around Spring of 2006 and will be around $449 - $499 US. The biggest differences in the price gap are due to the CPU and GPU production cost for the PS3 systems. It looks like a monster of a machine (not to say that the 360 won't be), but I don't see myself paying an extra $100 - $200 for a games system. PS3 will also be using Blue Ray discs rather than HD DVD like the Xbox 360. Again, I don't see paying the extra money for it. Bring on the Xbox 360 and give me my fix of Halo 3!

The price point for the 360 according to Gamestop is $399.99 and the release date is sometime in November. And it does not currently have HD DVD it is using a standard DVD tray, though if the fans scream for their HD DVD format they may get it and have to pay an extra 100 dollars per machine for it. The thing is that with the way they program games, and I don't know all the specifics, the current DVD discs are being maxed out, so how can they have longer better games in higher resolutions on small storage spaces? I'm thinking that they are going to have to have 2 discs for all games, one for downloading content to your hardrive, the other for basic game operations, like they do for some computer games.

I would also like to voice my opinion that setting up a temporary (20 minutes +) ban of anyone who leaves a game prematurely would be a great idea and would severly cut down on cheating, but that is more for Xbox Live than for Bungie to figure out, and it would also mean that anyone who's modem is broken would be getting banned frequently, but some people just need to get new hardware.

I would also like to say that if you are posting into an official forum and don't know what it is, please don't post and ask what it's for, that is stated in the forum description. And if you don't know how to spell something, open up your word processor, attempt to spell it, and then use spell correction. If this seems like too big a hassle for you, then don't be offended if it seems like too big a hassle for Frankie and Bungie to try and decipher your post and wade through your typos just to tell you that you can't be banned for one person leaving you feedback. Get a Whaaaambulance.

Finally I would like to say thanks to Bungie for taking the time to answer some questions, which they don't have to do, and for taking their time in making great games that look and play great. Also I would like to see a Mister Chief playing Halo 2 against Frankie, and wonder what the score might be if they could?

  • 05.26.2005 9:46 AM PDT
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got online to play today and ive been booted 3 times for no apparent reason !

wanna shed some light on this one smart guy ?

and why cant i boot people who are purposely betraying me ?

  • 05.26.2005 10:02 AM PDT