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Subject: Why no Halo 2 for PC?!
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The title says it all.

  • 08.11.2005 7:30 PM PDT
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Why should they?

Halo 2 for Xbox already has online play (Xbox Live), a campaign, and everything. Bungie is doing the right thing - They should focus their time working on and improving Halo 2's online play, rather than work on something unnecessary.

There is a solution though. If you have Halo for PC and you download the Custom Edition, I believe you can download some Halo 2-like weapons and maps (If anyone wants to correct me on this, feel free to, since I may be wrong).

[Edited on 8/11/2005]

  • 08.11.2005 8:07 PM PDT
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They should make it for pc because some people like me dont have an xbox and cant download the maps for custom edition.

  • 08.11.2005 10:15 PM PDT
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Why can't you download the maps?

And, I think it's high time Bungie quit fooling around with H2 and started developing their next game - whatever it may be...

  • 08.11.2005 10:17 PM PDT
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my problem is that MIcrosoft is suposed to be a bout the PC gamer. Thats what it was started about, and that is what it stil should be about. Ihave no use for a console exept a place to collect dust. And I have a playstation1 for that.

  • 08.13.2005 6:59 AM PDT
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Yo people,

Give it up with these forums, i dont mind 'em, it's just that your not gunna get an where with them.

Spartan 012.

  • 08.13.2005 12:58 PM PDT
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There busy with the halo movie and inproving halo 3. god

  • 08.13.2005 1:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: go gerbils go
They should make it for pc because some people like me dont have an xbox and cant download the maps for custom edition.


I'm one of those people. Besides, if they make Halo 2 for PC, they'll bring in more money, won't they? The people who don't have Xbox will get the PC version and Bungie will bring in more money. Halo PC fans get their new game; Bungie gets more money. All are happy.

  • 08.13.2005 1:30 PM PDT
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ARRRG!!!! People please stop asking. Halo 2 XBox is still going on Live and Moneysoft is profiting from it so theres not going to be any release of Halo 2 for PC soon, if at all. And if anyone really cares a lot, you should mail or talk to someone that actually works for Microsoft or Bungie instead of asking the people that just play the games.

  • 08.13.2005 3:17 PM PDT
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They won't release h2pc till they see enthusiasm for h2$box diminish.

Besides, bungie doesn't care too much about the pc fanbase. If it truly cared, we'd all be online controlling dual-wielding Mark VI Chiefs.

  • 08.13.2005 6:22 PM PDT
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Yeah me15ter is right......bungie has forgotten about us.....there only there for the $ mostly which makes sense......the xbox live ppl have given them a wuite a hassle so they haveta take care of them first.

But i still have a faint how that somday....someday maybe very far from now....we might be able to smash up a covanent skinned oppnent with a brute shot....sigh

  • 08.13.2005 7:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: aM Inspire
Why can't you download the maps?

And, I think it's high time Bungie quit fooling around with H2 and started developing their next game - whatever it may be...

H3 should b the next game, i would sooo like a multi format h3, peeeps on the pc and 360 could play together, i wonder if thatlll work, neway, they should quit fooling around with h2 on xbox, they xboxers have their maps and now its our turn, H3!!!!! please!!!!.

  • 08.13.2005 11:55 PM PDT
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And, I think it's high time Bungie quit fooling around with H2 and started developing their next game - whatever it may be...[/quote]
H3 should b the next game, i would sooo like a multi format h3, peeeps on the pc and 360 could play together, i wonder if thatlll work, neway, they should quit fooling around with h2 on xbox, they xboxers have their maps and now its our turn, H3!!!!! please!!!!.


Er i would like to follow the story line by getting Halo 2 on PC first by the way, not Halo 3, in fact you meant Halo 2.

Spartan 012.

  • 08.14.2005 4:42 AM PDT
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I think its worth to get the xbox just to play halo2. its great online alot less lagg then on halo pc. the netcode is better. and me and my brother love playing it together coming back from work. And with pc you have to have 2 copies of the game and 2 computers in order to play together. Nothing agianst the halo pc i love it and have a copy myself. But the whole idea of not waiting for you computer to boot. and having someone next to me playing with against other people is better.

  • 08.14.2005 10:18 AM PDT
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well I'm back from summer camp and my tenure away from civilization has ended. It seems I'll jump on the band-waggon once more. For the old-timers good to see you here still and I'd like to welcome any new members who've came, you'll be seeing a lot more of me in the near future. (sry if my typing scks I haven't seen a computer in a bout 2 months) anyways it is in my opinion that if anything it's Microsoft's doing for a no-show of Halo 2 PC. IF they "decide" that it will not be profitable for them, they just won't give the go-ahead to make it, even if it's not Bungie making it. Eventually, I hope, MS will give the rights for some poor game company to make the port of Halo 2 but I do not see this happening in the near future, right now Halo 2 and the Halo series is too hot a commodity and MS does not want another sub-par game like Halo PC tarnishing its image, Unfortunately Bungie now has no time on their hands, they're constantly pushing forward..and leaving Halo 2 PC in their dust.

  • 08.14.2005 3:11 PM PDT
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ok....heres my opinion for all this Halo 2 PC.........
it SHOULD come out.....and for all of us pc gamers...it better!!!....i know u guys (bungie) is doin well with h2 xbox and live and is havin trouble with those cheaters and just recently cought 2 thousand of em....congrats to you...but plz lay off of that a little bit and pay your respects again back to us pc gamers....we would appreciate that and would continuously be loyal to you.....but atleast give us an expected date off arrival of H2PC or a even just an answer if it is gonna srrive....thanks alot!

  • 08.14.2005 8:24 PM PDT
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I'm not sure if i want gearbox porting halo 2. Something tells me they might learn from their mistakes. They did make halo custom edition, which *fixed* some of the problems with halo pc.

  • 08.14.2005 10:08 PM PDT
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Everyone's forgotten already that the Xbox was supposed to be an upgradable console, haven't they? Well, now you remember, ask yourselves why $soft is coming out with the 360...

Mr B says the main reason for this hold on H2 PC is xbox live. I think he's right, but I doubt even microsoft is brazen (the word I'd really use it stupid) enough to think it can take over the gaming industry with Xbox live (thats just their console crusade):

Xbox Live is a profitable "service". It's a big profit "service" (even with all the issues they're having with it). In the end, thats what every business is asking: how do you make the most money for the least amount of work? (One could argue that the reason it's taken Microsoft so long to fix the modder issue in H2 Xbox live is becaue they weren't willing to throw their full weight [and the money that goes with it] into the effort; that it hadn't become a costly enough issue yet; that enough people weren't dropping their subscriptions in disgust because of cheaters...but that's a little off topic.)

Would you be willing to pay for an xbox matchmaking-style service to maintain H2? Sony charges people for their online server use in the Everquest and Everquest 2 series. Its economical logic, why would a company want to be paid a one time sum when you can get a monthly charge out of your customers? Or if you need it spelled out in dollars; why charge fifty dollars for H2 PC once, when you can charge $50 to buy the game and then $30 every month for the privillege of playing that game with your friends? Call it covering expenses for the 1.8 patch or the next great mod (Sony makes you buy these too) and maintaining the servers (paying for the juice to keep them up and salaries to dedicated moderators). Even if every server had a moderator checking it hourly and a new map or weapon coming out every two months, they'd be exponentially increasing their profits per user on a regular basis.

Until the answer to these questions is a resounding yes from the PC community, there will be no affermative answer from Microsoft on the H2 PC. dillema.

That's just my opinion mind you...

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  • 08.14.2005 10:13 PM PDT
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Bungie wont Release Halo 2 PC until Microsoft get Enougth Money for them selves the reason they probably aint releasing it is cause they are making enougth money with Xbox Live if they were to release halo 2 Pc it would be free online play which would mean people with xbox live would get halo 2 pc with free online play and microsoft would lose money because no one would be on live its just Microsoft man they are Gready Kunts after money.

If Halo 2 did come to pc it would be a lot better, it would have better graphics sound everything But i doubt they will release it until xbox 360 comes out and halo 3 comes to that and when they have all the money they need it will be finally released althou i maybe wrong.... Just hope for the best i guess.

  • 08.15.2005 5:57 AM PDT
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Yo people,

PC is always generally better than a console, consoles you cant really uprade properly, but the PC can rediculously awesome if you had the right mind, the right stuff, anything. But when you think about it, have Bungie said no yet? Think about that, and also when you think about it, its rediculous if they dont.

Spartan 012.

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  • 08.15.2005 6:14 AM PDT
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Keep this forum up people, i want to see it be locked, and also want Bungie to realize we are serious.

  • 08.15.2005 12:17 PM PDT
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I think they should have H2PC. Even though I have h2 for the xbox I'm too cheap to spring for the xbox live money. So I play PC/CE. Yes CE has H2 maps but I'd have to disagree they are not nearly as good as the real Halo 2.

  • 08.15.2005 8:53 PM PDT
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True, the Halo 2 maps arent that great in my opinion, the battle rifle doesnt even have a magazine to reaload, and why does it reload like a Assault Rifle, and why is it sooo strong, and why are the Spartans looking crap?

  • 08.16.2005 9:37 AM PDT

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