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Subject: Aug. 24 Theory
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Sorry if someone came up with this idea previously. I haven't been on the forums in a while, been busy dealing with some personal issues.

In one of Frankie's Weekly Updates I recall him saying something about having Halo 2 almost done 2 months before release to get them to the manufacturer as to be able to make enough copies for the release. Aug. 24 is 77 days before release, and is technically 2 months and 16 days before the launch. 77 days - 30 days(Sept.) - 31 days(Oct.) = 16 days, 7 for the rest of Aug. and 9 in November Before launch.

So maybe August 24 is the day Halo 2 is expected to hit zero bugs or to go gold.

  • 07.30.2004 1:38 PM PDT
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Makes sense.

  • 07.30.2004 1:43 PM PDT
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Yep, thats my theroy but I have have posted it.
Been kinda lazy..But the other one is that bungie has completed the beta. Which is the zero flaws thingy.

  • 07.30.2004 1:44 PM PDT
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The game wouldn't go gold 2 1/2 months before it ships.

  • 07.30.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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Unless it is "gold" now, and they are planning to ship on the 24th...that whole ilovebees thing got me thinking...I think that since everyone is buying these Halo 2 countdown clocks, I think they are going to completely STOP on the 24th of August, and Halo 2 might be released then. Maybe, since the screen said something about the 10th of August, maybe it will be completed by the 10th, and released on the 24th. I guess that this theory is more hopes than anything, but hey, you never know what will happen. I kind of expect anything from Bungie now...

  • 07.30.2004 1:55 PM PDT
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umm.. Doom 3 just went gold and is going to ship on the 3rd of Aug.
Making Halo 2 go gold on Aug 24th is a good a soild theory.
Bungie and Microsoft have to make around 1 million copies of Halo 2.
Also they have to have the pictures and posters for advirtising.

  • 07.30.2004 1:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Buddhist Monk
The game wouldn't go gold 2 1/2 months before it ships.


In Frankie's Weekly Update on 6/4/2004 he said this:
"Although it's five months 'til the game is on shelves, it's only three or four months 'til we're complete. Scary!"

I do think that 2 1/2 months is a pretty far before release to go gold, so maybe that is the day they have set for the Zero Bug milestone, and it will go gold a few weeks later.

  • 07.30.2004 2:00 PM PDT
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full spectrum went gold on a thursday and was in stores following tuesday

  • 07.30.2004 2:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: joedogg9999
full spectrum went gold on a thursday and was in stores following tuesday


I think it went gold before that, but the company just didn't announce it. There's no way they'd get enough copies manufactured, packaged, and shipped to stores in that amount of time.

  • 07.30.2004 2:10 PM PDT
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Indeed he is right. Or FSW wasent a hit game when it first came out it took some time for people to notice it.

  • 07.30.2004 2:12 PM PDT