- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I sincerely doubt if any of the Bungie staff actually read these forums, however if I'm wrong Bungie, <LET ME KNOW>
-While I agree that cheaters have all but ruined this game online, and that the leaderboards are a testament to those with absolutely no life and no grasp of the real world, taking them away is hardly going to fix anything. As long as they play for rank, that imaginary number represents their whole LIFE for the past year. The players at Bungie know this, and stick mostly to their LAN games.
-I cant blame them, online has become a wasteland of cheaters anywhere above lvl. 30.
How many times have you played someone modding and actually heard them get excited about getting a killtacular, or talk about "owning" you? As if they had done something.
-Like most legit players I waited anxiously for each patch I downloaded, thinking that each time it would get better. As I played on however, I noticed slowly but surely all the cheaters resumed their stand-by-ing, their modding, their lag devices. Even as they were being banned in droves, an endless supply of 2-month cards kept these A**holes in the lifestyle they were accustomed to.
As my online Halo experience became more and more jaded, so did I.
The sad fact is this;
the people at Bungie are as much to blame as the cheaters.
-Do you really think the players at Bungie dont cheat while online? To be able to win at the game THEY created? Glitches in the code like modding and super-jumps were implemented by Bungie programmers to give them a "secret" edge. Now that secret edge has become a virtual Pandora's box. They wasted time with compensating patches, and auto-banning progams when there are REAL steps Bungie and XBOX live could have taken to truly ban and eliminate the cheaters. --For instance;
-They could have matched the cheating player to their credit card number or their IP address, and banned that account and user from XBOX LIVE, not just from Halo match-making. Also, each XBOX console produces a unique serial code online, giving them a tangible way of tracking and punishing those ruining online gaming. However, the truth is that its too expensive for them to follow up on so many cheaters, and between Bungie and Microsoft no one can decide whose responsibilty it is to get rid of cheaters. The money they spend trying to fix all these problems is actually beginning to cut into the astounding amount of money WE paid them for Halo 2. You know they cant have that...not with a new office to finance, and God knows what else the gamers have helped them pay for.
The end result: they cut their losses and move forward with Halo 3, and Halo the movie.
More money for the Microsoft cash cow.
Thanks for a job well done Bungie. Now like Microsoft you truly are a major corporation; stepping on so many heads to get to the top, leaving those who supported you from the beginning on the floor.
-Just a little advice for Halo 3; -Dont blow it by announcing an early release date. TAKE YOUR TIME to insure the code isnt faulty, and try to remember you started out just like us, design Halo 3 to that end.