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Subject: Bigger pre-Halo 3 community?
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I see a lot of people that made a Bungie just after the Halo 3 announcement, and about 3/4 of people in these forums made their account in 2006. Halo 2 was the most anticipated game in the Xbox history, and maybe Halo 3 will be even more.

Halo 2 was announced 4 years and 2 months ago, and Halo 3 not even 2 months, and this forum is getting big! Almost 500 pages of threads about the little that has been announced so far... It's more than 10% of the Halo 2 Forum! I'm wondering if Halo 3 will be as popular as Halo 2, if it will get new players. A lot of people buyed Halo 2 and not Halo 1.

Now people need to buy the Xbox 360 too, so only Halo fans will buy a Xbox 360 even if they don't find the other games that good. I don't know anybody who is waiting for Halo 3 and doesn't own Halo 2, but I know people who buyed Halo 2 but not Halo 1. Have we reach the maximum of players?

  • 07.01.2006 10:48 AM PDT

(10:19:49 PM) Scruss: oh and pezza, i saw what you did to that cat
(10:20:17 PM) Pezza: You were the one with the video camera breathing heavily. Of course you saw.

I hope to God that we don't have a zillion people who latch onto the game like they played it their entire life. I hope that Microsoft doesn't market it like they did with Halo 2. I feel that people that never played the series will just go and pick Halo 3 up because they think it may be "cool" or what not. What do you think really drove so many younger kids to go out and get a sequel to a game they never played? Marketing. I hope that it doesn't turn out that way for Halo 3.

  • 07.01.2006 10:57 AM PDT

The epic tale that never ends

seven its so true, these young kids are watching t.v. and then its like boom a commercial of a super soldier having to save earth, sounds wicked, they dont even care about the story they probobly made it all up using there wild imaginations, then those kids go on xbl and make a lot of other people misserable, maybe halo3 should be a quiet thing, only the true fans will know about it, and that would take away newbs.

  • 07.01.2006 11:04 AM PDT

(10:19:49 PM) Scruss: oh and pezza, i saw what you did to that cat
(10:20:17 PM) Pezza: You were the one with the video camera breathing heavily. Of course you saw.

Posted by: Spartan 137
seven its so true, these young kids are watching t.v. and then its like boom a commercial of a super soldier having to save earth, sounds wicked, they dont even care about the story they probobly made it all up using there wild imaginations, then those kids go on xbl and make a lot of other people misserable, maybe halo3 should be a quiet thing, only the true fans will know about it, and that would take away newbs.


That would be the best possible thing that could happen. I would love to see no marketing plan what so ever. I just don't want to see Halo 3 turn into a gaint thing like Halo 2 did, people that had never played the first Halo, ever, just jumped off there couch and were all of a sudden Halo fans. I don't claim to be here since the beginning, since i never actually owned Halo since recently, but i remember way back before Halo 2 came out, when i would sit in a room with a few friends at one of my buddies homes and play Halo. We were the few that actually played, then after Halo 2 came out everyone played it and it just didn't feel the same because everyone was doing it.

  • 07.01.2006 11:10 AM PDT
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If the other people who came on in 06 are anything like me then it's because new stuff is going on.

I've been on the bungie boards many other times in the past at diffrent points in the halo saga but under diffrent names and such.

Once the hype and new info go away so do I. Some of you guys stay on the boards all the time so it may seem like halo 3 is drawing all kinds on new attention but more likely it's old fans comming back and some new ones.

I bet the halo 2 boards got a bunch of people before comming out then died down after the game was released.

  • 07.01.2006 11:24 AM PDT

(10:19:49 PM) Scruss: oh and pezza, i saw what you did to that cat
(10:20:17 PM) Pezza: You were the one with the video camera breathing heavily. Of course you saw.

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Marketing also produces money, don't forget that. Plus not everyone that plays Halo 2 and isn't a deranged, rascist, obsceinity-yelling, little kid doesn't post in the forums like we might.

There are good people that play Halo 2, they jsut aren't diehard fans like us nerdy little wastes.


True. There are a lot of people out there that are not the kind of people that you would hate to meet on live. I just hope that they don't attract more of the demographic that are to the other side and just play because they are -blam!-s and they feel like pissing people off. To them, they don't really care they just decide to jump on the boat because all the "cool people are doing it", not that most of the die hard fans are cool its just that for the most part they jump on because other people are doing it. That is however a question more about character then the actual game. I just hope that Halo 3 doesn't (marketing wise at least) turn out like Halo 2.

  • 07.01.2006 11:25 AM PDT
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either way...halo 3 will be a HUGE deal in the market....because there are now so many fans of halo...

but i deffinitely dont like marketing...

  • 07.01.2006 11:31 AM PDT
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You kids talking about kids that have never played the Halo series should not pick up Halo 3 are blatantly selfish and stupid. Just because you have played thorught both games since they first came out (so have I) doesnt give you the right to say other people should not have the oppurtunity to enjoy this great game. You kids are selfish losers. Others should also get to enjoy the game just like you have. Stop being selffish.

Everyone (old enough) should get the oppurtunity to play this game, not just the old school players.

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  • 07.01.2006 11:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: s4ndp4perm4n
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You kids talking about kids that have never played the Halo series should not pick up Halo 3 are blatantly selfish and stupid. Just because you have played thorught both games since they first came out (so have I) doesnt give you the right to say other people should not have the oppurtunity to enjoy this great game. You kids are selfish losers. Others should also get to enjoy the game just like you have. Stop being selffish.


I'm not being selfish, I'm just saying the online community on Halo 2 isn't the best. And, I've already stated that little children are still going to buy the game. By the way, you might want to think of some better insults than claling random people kids before even knowing who they are. You should also get a tehsaurus and think of a new word for "selfish", I couldn't help but notcie you used it three times in your three sentenced post.


LOL p.s. I'm 25

  • 07.01.2006 11:49 AM PDT
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Well Microsoft won't stop advertising its biggest game franchise just because some fans say so. This game is 17+ and we can't prevent kids to play it, and it's not really the marketing goal since more than half of Halo players are 17-, myself I was 11 when I first played Halo at its launch with the Xbox, that's 5 years ago. I think it's OK that younger players play but they have to understand that it's not always fun for older players to be matched with them. I know now there is the "Family" zone but there is no way to tell the player's age (if they ask it everybody lies) and there is almost nobody in the Famlily zone because kids find it denigrating or something like that.

  • 07.01.2006 12:06 PM PDT

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OK, yes, it is very true that I'm a dumb ass. I'm not denying that. However, isn't the whole point of a beta to increase the amount of users until you get someone dumb enough to try something you haven't anticipated.
Johnrap - Unofficial Dumbass of Halo 3 Beta

i made my account that i used to use back in 2001 but when i got the 360 i couldn't figure how to transfer my live account over to the same email address so i made a new email address and, regrettably, a new bungie.net name. i could still use my old one but it doesn't have my gamer-tag linked to it anymore :(

  • 07.01.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Bunqie Jump
i made my account that i used to use back in 2001 but when i got the 360 i couldn't figure how to transfer my live account over to the same email address so i made a new email address and, regrettably, a new bungie.net name. i could still use my old one but it doesn't have my gamer-tag linked to it anymore :(

Similar situation.

  • 07.01.2006 12:19 PM PDT
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I have the same problem, I created my account with my hotmail account that I use only for MSN Messenger (now it's Windows Live Messenger) and I created my Xbox 360 Live account using my actual email gmail address (that I didn't have before) and now my Bungie account isn't linked to my GT anymore... I don't think we can change our Bungie login address and I don't want to create a new account because I use the same name everywhere, it's the same name as my gamertag.

  • 07.01.2006 12:21 PM PDT