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Subject: Aug 24th, Halo 2 not coming out. Simple reason why
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If anyone has already said this then forgive me, but has any one thought that a lot of people have preorder halo 2 for Nov 9th and thats only though EB games and what not. Best Buy, Target and other stores who said they would start taking preorder about a month before the game was released have said nothing. Now if the Halo 2 was coming out on the 24th (which it is not) Target and Best Buy would be over run in the morning and they'd probably run out of Halo 2 games, which = loss of alot of money = pissed of companies. I think this is a fairly good plain and simply reason why Halo 2 will not come out the Aug 24th. Please tell me what you guys think.

  • 07.30.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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Bungie plans to ship A LOT of copies of Halo 2 when it comes out.

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Well this happend with gta.Vc and the ps2. Both of them seem to be doing fine.

People,although disgruntled, will pick it up on a later date. They won't lose money for realeasing it on August 24th.

  • 07.30.2004 12:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spike99
Well this happend with gta.Vc and the ps2. Both of them seem to be doing fine.

People,although disgruntled, will pick it up on a later date. They won't lose money for realeasing it on August 24th.


Agreed.

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There are many others reaons as well. More people are starting to realize that Halo 2 will come out on Nov. 9, thankfully. The strongest argument for Nov. 9 is the date being OFFICIALLY released at a Microsoft press conference.

  • 07.30.2004 12:03 PM PDT

ICE 0ne
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gamestop and several online stores also have preorders.

  • 07.30.2004 12:03 PM PDT

[color=white]Good point, Spike99. At worst, people who don't get it (if it comes out on) August 24th will pick it up on August 25th.

Again: IF it comes out 8/24.[/color]

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True but some companies plan on give out speacil stuff when you preoreder from them like, Best Buy. I was talking to a guy there and he said u could oreder online but u wouldn't get free stuff they were going to give you. I'm sure they could release it on the 24th but this is one of the biggest games ever and it makes it much easier for companies to have a bunch of people preorder.

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^^ thats where i pre-ordered mine, gamestop/ or babbages. . . but it's being mailed to my house. . . 1 day air shipping so if it comes out 9th, i will get it 10th or 11th latest, since i have school i had to do that or i wouldnt get it for like another 2 months...

  • 07.30.2004 12:06 PM PDT

ICE 0ne
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gamestop always sends out all the free stuff with preorders. i've got like 5 shirts from preorders, heh.

release date for halo 2 is nov 9th, but they usually ship the games to the stores the day before. they usually also send out preorders day before. means if you have it overnighted, you will have it nov 9th.

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Posted by: Jason Mraz
If anyone has already said this then forgive me, but has any one thought that a lot of people have preorder halo 2 for Nov 9th and thats only though EB games and what not. Best Buy, Target and other stores who said they would start taking preorder about a month before the game was released have said nothing. Now if the Halo 2 was coming out on the 24th (which it is not) Target and Best Buy would be over run in the morning and they'd probably run out of Halo 2 games, which = loss of alot of money = pissed of companies. I think this is a fairly good plain and simply reason why Halo 2 will not come out the Aug 24th. Please tell me what you guys think.


Actually Jason, this theory works against you. I pre-ordered Halo 2 in-store at Best Buy last week. If you don't believe me, fine. (When the camera phone gets home a bit later, I'll post a picture.) If the rest of your theory is true, (And Best Buy Really Did Say That...) that means Halo 2 is indeed coming out on August 24th.

  • 07.30.2004 12:20 PM PDT
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i would like to add that If it did coem out Aug 24, half the world wont kniow

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  • 07.30.2004 12:23 PM PDT
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Actually Jason, this theory works against you. I pre-ordered Halo 2 in-store at Best Buy last week. If you don't believe me, fine. (When the camera phone gets home a bit later, I'll post a picture.) If the rest of your theory is true, (And Best Buy Really Did Say That...) that means Halo 2 is indeed coming out on August 24th.

And when did Best Buy tell you Halo 2 would be coming out (Let me guess Nov 9th)? Don't you think if Bungie was planning an early release they would have to notify all they resellers first? I'm sure that if the resellers had been notified the secret would be out.

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Posted by: Jason Mraz
If anyone has already said this then forgive me, but has any one thought that a lot of people have preorder halo 2 for Nov 9th and thats only though EB games and what not. Best Buy, Target and other stores who said they would start taking preorder about a month before the game was released have said nothing. Now if the Halo 2 was coming out on the 24th (which it is not) Target and Best Buy would be over run in the morning and they'd probably run out of Halo 2 games, which = loss of alot of money = pissed of companies. I think this is a fairly good plain and simply reason why Halo 2 will not come out the Aug 24th. Please tell me what you guys think.


Actually Jason, this theory works against you. I pre-ordered Halo 2 in-store at Best Buy last week. If you don't believe me, fine. (When the camera phone gets home a bit later, I'll post a picture.) If the rest of your theory is true, (And Best Buy Really Did Say That...) that means Halo 2 is indeed coming out on August 24th.




Well sir, I did not know that. I am sorry for posting this then. Good job you get a cookie. I havn't been to best buy in a while what is the free stuff there giving u if u preoreder

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Posted by: Abrams_Tank
i would like to add that If it did coem out Aug 24, half the world wont kniow


At first but when your non-computer budddy sees you playing halo2, he'll be running to the nearest gamestore to get it.

Also bungie will Announce it, at latest the day it comes out.

And all people who pre-ordered it will get a nice phone call telling them halo 2 has come in.


So alot of world will figure it, one way or another.

  • 07.30.2004 12:30 PM PDT

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wouldn't it coming out aug 24th also mean the hardcore fans would get first crack at it in stores.

  • 07.30.2004 12:33 PM PDT

Posted by: Cross_Check_1
Bungie plans to ship A LOT of copies of Halo 2 when it comes out.

There are already 700,000 preorders. So Bungie plans to ship one million on the first day.

I kid you not.

  • 07.30.2004 12:34 PM PDT
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Maybe...this is just a thought....the phase two is when they will tell everyone it will come out then(aug 24)...maybe not i dont know...but it makes sence to me;-)

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Grrrr... this is really starting to piss me off.. STOP MAKING THE SAME THREAD OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!! If you've seen someone else do it, and there's been almost hundreds of them, DONT MAKE ANOTHER ONE! Post in the ones that have already been made, and stop flooding the forum >_> asshats.

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Can we get a link where best buy said it wont take pre-orders until a month before its released, because bstbuy.com has been taking orders on halo 2 for over the past year and a half. But i still pre-ordered mine the first day we got word of LE at EB.

2ndly Halo 2 has to come out Nov 9th so all the little kiddies can save up their money ^_^ If the game would come out on Aug 24th like the newbs speculate, the poor chore-doers of America won't have Halo 2 until they have to do a vigirous week of room cleaning, vaccuming, and who knows what else. Oh the humanity!

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maybe it's all a big conspiracy and bungie hasn't told any retailers, and will just ship it, the reaction to stores and consumers alike would be funny...i'm not saying it's coming out on august 24th, because i for one believe it's coming on Nov 9, but I would have to laugh, and applaud Bungie for their balls.

  • 07.30.2004 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: CheesyChief
2ndly Halo 2 has to come out Nov 9th so all the little kiddies can save up their money ^_^ If the game would come out on Aug 24th like the newbs speculate, the poor chore-doers of America won't have Halo 2 until they have to do a vigirous week of room cleaning, vaccuming, and who knows what else. Oh the humanity!


That probably means there not of age to play it anyway =). there was a thread about this on gamefaqs. It isn't that hard to come up with 50$. And like i said, they don't have to buy it right away. The game will still be there in a month anyway,

  • 07.30.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spike99

That probably means there not of age to play it anyway =). there was a thread about this on gamefaqs. It isn't that hard to come up with 50$. And like i said, they don't have to buy it right away. The game will still be there in a month anyway,


The game won't be their in its entirety in a month anyways. Bungie will get the best One-Day sales by having their "official" November 9th release date. Until we see a press release stating otherwise, on the "unofficial" August 24th "speculation" release date there is nothing to argue over. August 24th is foolishness.

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Posted by: Jason Mraz
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Posted by: Jason Mraz
If anyone has already said this then forgive me, but has any one thought that a lot of people have preorder halo 2 for Nov 9th and thats only though EB games and what not. Best Buy, Target and other stores who said they would start taking preorder about a month before the game was released have said nothing. Now if the Halo 2 was coming out on the 24th (which it is not) Target and Best Buy would be over run in the morning and they'd probably run out of Halo 2 games, which = loss of alot of money = pissed of companies. I think this is a fairly good plain and simply reason why Halo 2 will not come out the Aug 24th. Please tell me what you guys think.


Actually Jason, this theory works against you. I pre-ordered Halo 2 in-store at Best Buy last week. If you don't believe me, fine. (When the camera phone gets home a bit later, I'll post a picture.) If the rest of your theory is true, (And Best Buy Really Did Say That...) that means Halo 2 is indeed coming out on August 24th.




Well sir, I did not know that. I am sorry for posting this then. Good job you get a cookie. I havn't been to best buy in a while what is the free stuff there giving u if u preoreder


Sadly, nothing yet... They give you the option of grabbing either the Halo 2 Regular or Special Edition Pre-Order card, but that's about it. Five bucks and ten minutes later, I had my SE guaranteed! But I'm guessing that at Midnight Best Buy will be open and giving out goodies to all the people who want to be the first to get their game. (Like they did with the DVD launch of Matrix Reloaded.)

  • 07.30.2004 12:55 PM PDT

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