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I was talking to a friend, completely univolved in Halo2 and asked his opinion about a possible early release by microsoft of halo2. he basically said its very possible that microsoft would release "a buggy game" (his words not mine) to compete with the games coming out in the next month or so, ei doom3... i told him that bungie set a nov.9th release date, his reply was that even though bungie may have set that its really microsoft's (bill gates) call in the end because microsoft bought out bungie. (i just thought the opinion of someone outside the halo2 community maybe helpful, in terms of what he said i dont know if it's true... and honestly i dont remember when microsoft bought out bungie) maybe this will shed a new light on the hype...

  • 08.05.2004 9:41 AM PDT
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Microsoft may own Bungie but everything that has to do with Halo 2 is up to Bungie. It will come out Nov 9th.

  • 08.05.2004 9:42 AM PDT
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i just read up on it... micorosft did buy bungie 6-19-2000

  • 08.05.2004 9:44 AM PDT
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Microsoft bought out Bungie in 2000 I think. Than they changed the game from a 3rd person shooter with massive levels, to a more streamlined fps. Of course it was going to be mac only, which would've been awesome! HALO IS MADE ON MACS!

  • 08.05.2004 9:45 AM PDT
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well if microsoft owns bungie, i think my friend might have a point... "it is microsofts call in the end"

  • 08.05.2004 9:45 AM PDT
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Doom 3 is coming out a few days before November 9th, releasing now would have no effect on Doom.

  • 08.05.2004 9:46 AM PDT
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Microsoft isn't retarded. They know not to push bungie into an early release. It would kill them if thier best game was incomplete. They NEED Halo 2 to be awesome. They wont push, they're just on the sidelines encouraging,

  • 08.05.2004 9:48 AM PDT
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dude doom3 is out now... on the pc, thats what im talking about... Im not talking about microsoft competeing with just xbox, but in the game market entirely

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Posted by: triggerhappy336
Doom 3 is coming out a few days before November 9th, releasing now would have no effect on Doom.



Did doom 3 not come out, yesterday?

  • 08.05.2004 9:50 AM PDT
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well my official opinion is that... i have no clue wtf is going to happen on the 24th, so just waiting is the only way we are going to know for sure

  • 08.05.2004 9:50 AM PDT

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I remember reading about a year ago that they kicked out microsoft officials from bungie's HQ. Because it is such a secret project. So, if they did that, then I think they control their own release date. Also check this out: Halo 2 countdown Look in the upper right hand corner.... is that a countdown to halo 2? Why... yes it is, so since xbox.com is owned by microsoft, they placed that timer.

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Did doom 3 not come out, yesterday? yes doom3 is out on pc

  • 08.05.2004 9:51 AM PDT

Cheese is good, when cheese is needed :)

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Posted by: Mike_100
Posted by: triggerhappy336
Doom 3 is coming out a few days before November 9th, releasing now would have no effect on Doom.



Did doom 3 not come out, yesterday?


Yes it did, but i think he's referring to the X-box release which is in October i think

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You can't compare Doom 3 on PC to Halo 2 on Xbox. Halo 2 will not be on PC for a year or so. How would Halo 2 (on xbox) compete with Doom 3 (for PC) make any difference at all? Most PC gamers will not care at all about Halo 2 on Xbox, and people with a good comp and Xbox will buy both, maybe. His reasoning is very thin and mainly, wrong.

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i wasnt comparing halo2 to doom3, all i was saying that doom3 was a huge release... and to compete in the gaming market microsoft may release something just to compete... i was comparing nothing... read more carefully next time before you start flaming, flamer

  • 08.05.2004 9:58 AM PDT
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You need to think. They will not compete. There will be no competition. Some will buy Halo 2, some will buy Doom 3. There will not be competition over two games that don't share the same platform. Now YOU read my post more clearly. And yes you are.

EDIT: This is far from flaming. I have yet to call you a name in anyway shape or form. You don't wanna be in the same topic as me if I have to resort to flaming you.

[Edited on 8/5/2004 10:01:55 AM]

  • 08.05.2004 10:00 AM PDT
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You are forgeting to factor in that the Holiday season is the biggest game buying time of the year. They would sell more in November than now, traditionally.

Technically MS does have the finally say, but since Bungie sold 4 million copies of Halo with MS dictaing the realease date, MS knows it was a not complete game. MS is willing to let Bungie have full control over Halo 2. If MS was just enterested in the money and not letting Bungie finish, it would have came out a year ago.

  • 08.05.2004 10:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: brianru
Microsoft bought out Bungie in 2000 I think. Than they changed the game from a 3rd person shooter with massive levels, to a more streamlined fps. Of course it was going to be mac only, which would've been awesome! HALO IS MADE ON MACS!


Wrong. It was a cross platform title, all of the content for which was made on PC's, and then ported to Macs. It was never meant to be Mac only. The game was, however, announced at the MacWorld Expo.

  • 08.05.2004 10:14 AM PDT
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Bill Gates has nothing to do with it because he does not fully own Microsoft annymore. He probably has some say but not all.

  • 08.05.2004 10:25 AM PDT
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Read my sig. I got the idea from Homer Simpsons Compuglobalhypermeganet episode.

  • 08.05.2004 10:27 AM PDT
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microsoft owns the rights to halo2-10 if they ever make a 10

  • 08.05.2004 10:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: brianru
Microsoft bought out Bungie in 2000 I think. Than they changed the game from a 3rd person shooter with massive levels, to a more streamlined fps. Of course it was going to be mac only, which would've been awesome! HALO IS MADE ON MACS!


Wrong. It was a cross platform title, all of the content for which was made on PC's, and then ported to Macs. It was never meant to be Mac only. The game was, however, announced at the MacWorld Expo.


But it was never going to be ported to windows by Bungie, so first it would be a mac only title, and it was only meant to be a mac only title, it would only be ported to windows if it was succesful enough on the mac platform. Also, IT IS MADE ON MACS!, and it would of probably ended up being a better game if microsoft didn't buy bungie.

  • 08.05.2004 10:38 AM PDT
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Have you seen the old pre-xbox content? Most of its crap. Like the old control room, the old everything looks all -blam!-ed-up.

  • 08.05.2004 10:44 AM PDT