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In a halo 2 movie trailer, a quick website comes up with www.ilovebees.com
wwent to the site, looks like a normal bee site, a countdown begins
Halt - Module core Hemorrhage
Control has been yielded to the
SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX
This medium is classified, and has a
STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION
PHASE 1 COMPLETE: Network throttling has eroded
in 3 days (which is august 10th) this medium will metastasize
COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL
(COUNTING DOWN TO AUGUST 24th)
Make your decision accordingly
after going into the site, it looks as if hacked
the sentence
compromised a huge tactical advantage, and that mounting a big evac operation will completely give the game away.
1st Lt Sorenson: Not even Standish would let them
went into another part
Aug 24, 1995 Microsoft inflicts Windows 95 on an unsuspecting world.
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I went hiking in Claremont Canyon yesterday to clear my head. Three hours, six miles, and 1000 ft elevation change later, I was sweaty, sunburnt and still fixated on the bug and its countdown. While up there, didn't pay enough attention to the trail... scratched my palms slipping on loose gravel, more than once. Now it hurts to type.
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Aug 24, 1456 Printing completed on the Gutenberg Bible.
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You know the special dates that mean something to you, but not everyone else? (For me, March 21 will always be the day I got called to the Vice Principal's office for cutting 8th-grade chorus. I think it's because I have a permanently ingrained mental image of the yellow hall pass that was sent from the VP’s office to collect me.)
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Aug 24, 79 AD Mt. Vesuvius erupts for the first time, destroying Pompei.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
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(tries to stop thinking about it)
In halo books, talks about fall of troy, likes to compare with mythology
First the Roman borders fell, on august tenth the invaders spread all over the Roman Empire
and finally on August twenty-fourth Rome was defeated
august 24th which happens to be 77 days away from november 9th. oh yeah, bungie happens to leave 7s all on their games
The blog, which was created by Microsoft/Bungie indicates that something extremely important will happen on this date, something on the same level as other major historical events.
The date 11+09+04 if added to create a sum is the number 24.
From August 24th to November 9th there are 11 weeks, which of course are 7 days a piece. The SPARTAN number for John, Master Chief is 117.
The game has been tested in alpha/beta stages for the past year, sufficiently long enough to collect enough data for a release, especially based on the excessive in-house testing that has occurred at Bungie over the last two months.
The game recently acquired its international and ESRB ratings, something that happens usually right before or after a game goes gold, not three months in advance.
Recovering from the "delays" which have plagued the game, it would justly serve the fanbase for an early release.* It would remove Halo 2 competition from other potential great games to be released in Fall/Winter, which would intern benefit Microsoft.
The game was 90% complete during E3, in May. We are now three months off that date. Frank, has already said he has played through a near-complete campaign build of the game. Complete enough to be rated by the ESRB and foreign rating firms. This would indicate a game just shy of gold.
It's the only modern game which could successfully survive and still exceed profoundly in sales with a "stealth release."
It's a sure thing. With copies already on hold at every electronic gaming outlet, there's no need for a pre-emptive marketing ploy. Just like the ARG/blog, marketing can occur word-of-mouth with a game like this and still be successful.
A stealth release would only secure even more of a spotlight, being that its the only one done within recent history and its being done with the most anticipated second-generation game ever. It would demand media attention just due to the covert nature of the release.
A two-week, fourteen-day media blitz (from 08/10 to 08/24) would be much more affordable for Microsoft in promoting the game then a drawn out, five-month promotion ring for a game to be a top-seller for Christmas.
The original "Fall" release date for the game was September 1st, before the Bungie marketing campaign at E3 2004 set an "official" release date as November 9th. The previous date is less then a week from the date in question and is closer to the original, estimated date of March - June which was set by Microsoft, based on information gathered from Bungie on the date by which they would consider the game ready to ship back in 2003.
Bungie has not denied this as of yet. With the rampant information, it would only negatively reflect against their marketing scheme by promoting a countdown to something apparently this significantly. With thousands of fans, all over the world, now expecting this, it would behoove Bungie to allow it to be perpetuated without some sort of rebuttal simply restating the release date.
Recent webcams have indicated that the entire staff seems to be involved in a daily meeting with men dressed in business suits. This has only started happening within the last week, indicating a drastic change in pace from their frantic activities of the "crunch-time-weeks" just prior.
The date is a Tuesday, which is the normal date a video game ships.