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Subject: Bungie shouldn't have announced rewards for Reach

Am i the only one who thinks that Bungie shouldn't have announced the rewards for Reach? And only given told us about it after the game got shut down?
Because now we have a bunch of people in here who are playin the game just for the sake of getting a reward, and not giving a damn about it being shut down.

Now when Reach rolls around, these noobs will be flaunting thier "Flair" that they got not for playing a couple of rounds before the game shut down. Instead of seeing Halo 2 through its final Big Bang before it shuts down for good, for sake of missing one of the greatest games ever.

[Edited on 04.14.2010 3:24 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2010 3:21 PM PDT

Hi

I know! But oh well, this "In memory of" day, was planned weeks before the rewards were announced. And i would still play it today.

Halo 2
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Game, experience, memories.

  • 04.14.2010 3:24 PM PDT

As you already know, today's Halo 2's last day. Why in the hell wouldn't we want to get as many players on Halo 2 as possible?

  • 04.14.2010 3:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: ChaosRDE
Am i the only one who thinks that Bungie shouldn't have announced the rewards for Reach? And only given told us about it after the game got shut down?
Because now we have a bunch of people in here who are playin the game just for the sake of getting a reward, and not giving a damn about it being shut down.

Now when Reach rolls around, these noobs will be flaunting thier "Flair" that they got not for playing a couple of rounds before the game shut down. Instead of seeing Halo 2 through its final Big Bang before it shuts down for good, for sake of missing one of the greatest games ever.

Whats your problem? You act like most people that play halo havent played halo 2 I'm glad that bungie is giving away flair. You probably would complain regardless. You complain that people are on and I bet you would complain that people are not playing on the last day.

  • 04.14.2010 3:27 PM PDT
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at least they're playing, though When I came back, this game is actually imo a lot more fun than MW2, I can't believe they're shutting it down, they should make a 360 port, or an xbox live arcade title, this game merits a 360 grade.

[Edited on 04.14.2010 3:29 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2010 3:29 PM PDT

Sure, i want as many players as we can get. But not if they're only doing it for the rewards.

  • 04.14.2010 3:30 PM PDT
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You better get it together, Marine or the Chief'll reach down and pull you inside out by your -blameable-. And that'll be a sweet, sweet mercy. . . compared to what I'm gonna do to you.

-Sergeant Avery Johnson

Everybody gets to pretend that they are true Halo devotees now. I say that if you have over 1000 games in Halo 2 you get some veterencey emblem or something. To the people who played on other accounts you should no benifit from this because you made other second accounts to get rid of your bad records in the first place. My Gamertag is my identity and has been on XBL for about half a decade and people like me should be rewareded.

  • 04.14.2010 3:31 PM PDT

Yeah but there is plenty of other prizes and they wont reveal them. All they did is announce that there will be prizes, but never announced how will you unlock them. Maybe you need to play for like 5 hours or so, or get 25 double kills and etc.

Maybe they would tell us after this day.

  • 04.14.2010 3:33 PM PDT

I really hope they reward a lot of us who are actually playing the game a lot today, and not just one game. Like maybe early access to the Reach Beta :) I've been playing since 10 EST last night, and I'm not stopping till it shuts down, I'm really gonna miss this game.

  • 04.14.2010 3:35 PM PDT

This guy is using this opportunity to be an elitist dick, seeing as he truly believes he is playing it for the playing of it.

Report and move on.

  • 04.14.2010 3:37 PM PDT

Posted by: III NO LIFE III
Posted by: ChaosRDE
Am i the only one who thinks that Bungie shouldn't have announced the rewards for Reach? And only given told us about it after the game got shut down?
Because now we have a bunch of people in here who are playin the game just for the sake of getting a reward, and not giving a damn about it being shut down.

Now when Reach rolls around, these noobs will be flaunting thier "Flair" that they got not for playing a couple of rounds before the game shut down. Instead of seeing Halo 2 through its final Big Bang before it shuts down for good, for sake of missing one of the greatest games ever.

Whats your problem? You act like most people that play halo havent played halo 2 I'm glad that bungie is giving away flair. You probably would complain regardless. You complain that people are on and I bet you would complain that people are not playing on the last day.


I don't have any issues with them giving away flair, read my post better.
What i do have a problem with, is that a ton of bandwagon people who left Halo for Gears/CoD/BFBC ect, are comming back to play and acting like real Halo fans because they heard they get some free stuff if they play an old game. And these are the same people that after a few months of Reach being out, will turn right around again and say "Halo sucks, lollolol" and run to another game.

  • 04.14.2010 3:37 PM PDT

I think you just shouldn't worry about it, maybe a lot of people just didn't like Halo 2, but would still like the extra flair for playing the game today. Nothing wrong with that IMO. There are gonna be other prizes for the people who put more time into the game today, so just sit back and wait. I bet we'll here what the prizes are on Friday in there weekly update.

  • 04.14.2010 3:40 PM PDT
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hers the problem, my xbox is acting up and refuses to read any disc.. so i can't play Halo 2. If it were the case of not announcing the rewards, id feal betetr about it... atleast until everyone gets them and brags abotu them after the last day... that'd just eb kicking me while i'm down.

It may not be my case for a lot of people but the whole reward thing is quite unfair on the people that can't play Halo 2 on their xbox. If it were widespread to the pc i would appreciate that, but taht wouldn't make muchs ense and would seem selfish on my behalf

  • 04.14.2010 3:41 PM PDT

"Light a man a fire and hes warm for a day. Light a man on fire and hes warm for the rest of his life."

I disagree, I can happily count myself a halo 2 veteren having played alot of halo 2, on the PC. The PC versions population is tiny and Im pleased to be able to rent and play on a day that not only lets me show people I am a halo 2 veteren in Reach but play halo 2 with lots of people many who woudnt be there if it wernt for the promise of reward.

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  • 04.14.2010 3:45 PM PDT

Brains beats brawn get used to it

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Variety is the spice of life.
Long live games.
Death to all fanboys.

Posted by: ChaosRDE
Posted by: III NO LIFE III
Posted by: ChaosRDE
Am i the only one who thinks that Bungie shouldn't have announced the rewards for Reach? And only given told us about it after the game got shut down?
Because now we have a bunch of people in here who are playin the game just for the sake of getting a reward, and not giving a damn about it being shut down.

Now when Reach rolls around, these noobs will be flaunting thier "Flair" that they got not for playing a couple of rounds before the game shut down. Instead of seeing Halo 2 through its final Big Bang before it shuts down for good, for sake of missing one of the greatest games ever.

Whats your problem? You act like most people that play halo havent played halo 2 I'm glad that bungie is giving away flair. You probably would complain regardless. You complain that people are on and I bet you would complain that people are not playing on the last day.


I don't have any issues with them giving away flair, read my post better.
What i do have a problem with, is that a ton of bandwagon people who left Halo for Gears/CoD/BFBC ect, are comming back to play and acting like real Halo fans because they heard they get some free stuff if they play an old game. And these are the same people that after a few months of Reach being out, will turn right around again and say "Halo sucks, lollolol" and run to another game.


1) You're overgeneralizing

2) You're an idiot for thinking that there's only one definitive definition to what a "real" fan to any game is.

  • 04.14.2010 3:46 PM PDT

I never said there was only one definition. But even a remote definition would not include the people who joined the game because they heard they were getting free stuff, and then ran back to CoD after they played a game or 2.

  • 04.14.2010 3:48 PM PDT

"Light a man a fire and hes warm for a day. Light a man on fire and hes warm for the rest of his life."

Posted by: ChaosRDE
I never said there was only one definition. But even a remote definition would not include the people who joined the game because they heard they were getting free stuff, and then ran back to CoD after they played a game or 2.

I am a halo fan but I still play other games.

  • 04.14.2010 3:52 PM PDT

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I agree and disagree. Personaly as someone has already said on here, the players who have been dedicated all this time should get something different. I still think that people who have stuck with halo this whole time deserve something too. I have every Halo game have played and beaten every game. When H3 came out, i'm sorry to say I put my H2 down and moved on. Just the same for CE. Things change, such is life. Regardless I have all the games since the moment they came out, so I am a Halo fan not just H2 fan. Unfortunately I played H2 online with a different account so I don't know how many games I played. If that means I would'nt get any flare like you all with your original accounts then so be it. I aint complaining. The fact is I have enjoyed H2 and noone can say that I am not a fan. If it wasn't for that game I would'nt have obviously bought my 360 for H3.

  • 04.14.2010 3:52 PM PDT

can someone post a link to where exacly bungie said their giving us flair?

  • 04.14.2010 3:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Posted by: ChaosRDE
Posted by: III NO LIFE III
[quote]Posted by: ChaosRDE
Am i the only one who thinks that Bungie shouldn't have announced the rewards for Reach? And only given told us about it after the game got shut down?
Because now we have a bunch of people in here who are playin the game just for the sake of getting a reward, and not giving a damn about it being shut down.

Now when Reach rolls around, these noobs will be flaunting thier "Flair" that they got not for playing a couple of rounds before the game shut down. Instead of seeing Halo 2 through its final Big Bang before it shuts down for good, for sake of missing one of the greatest games ever.

Whats your problem? You act like most people that play halo havent played halo 2 I'm glad that bungie is giving away flair. You probably would complain regardless. You complain that people are on and I bet you would complain that people are not playing on the last day.


I don't have any issues with them giving away flair, read my post better.
What i do have a problem with, is that a ton of bandwagon people who left Halo for Gears/CoD/BFBC ect, are comming back to play and acting like real Halo fans because they heard they get some free stuff if they play an old game. And these are the same people that after a few months of Reach being out, will turn right around again and say "Halo sucks, lollolol" and run to another game.


Well I hadn't played H2 in a long time before this all was announced. That said there is in no way truth behind the fact that I would run from Halo to any other game. I obviously have played other games but if you look at my record I still consistantly play H3 more than other games. Halo, regardless of which instalment I'm playing at the moment will always have me coming back.

  • 04.14.2010 3:55 PM PDT

Kill the bastards!

Well if they aren't much of a Halo fan then they wouldnt be reading the weekly updates would they?

  • 04.14.2010 3:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Im5andwatisthis
Well if they aren't much of a Halo fan then they wouldnt be reading the weekly updates would they?


You don't nee dot read the updates to know about it.
The info gets passed around by word of mouth.
People who cared enough to read the updates tell their friends, they tell their friends ect..


And just so we can be clear here, Im not raging about the people who left the game and came back. Im not even complaining about people who moved on to Halo 3 like I, and most of you did.

What I AM complaining about is the people who left Halo, started trash talking it, and then came back when they heard about Reach, and are now only playing H2 for the sake of getting some extra armor/emblem/whatever we get for this.
We should be playing for the sake of seeing off what was one of the greatest shooters to ever grace the xbox, not stupid little rewards. Because I personally would be playing even if we didnt get rewards.

After Halo 3 came out, i still bounced back to Halo 2 every now and then to get a flashback. Only played it for a day, maybe more. But i still played for the sake of keeping one of my all time favorites alive.

[Edited on 04.14.2010 4:05 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2010 4:01 PM PDT
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I thought that only players who are using the GT from their original xbox will get the Reach stuff... Am I mistaken?

  • 04.14.2010 4:02 PM PDT

Tru7h. C4RN4GE. Bungie.

I am playing only to meet some community members and hopefully some Bungie Employees.

The Halo 2 emblem is just extra, but still awesome.

  • 04.14.2010 4:06 PM PDT

you wanna get the freebies and rewards ALONE ? How SELFISH.

  • 04.14.2010 4:08 PM PDT

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