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Subject: Halo 4 - Buy and Play

Posted by: Murcielago00
Oh? Doesn't look like you've ever played.
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[Edited on 12.12.2012 3:29 PM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 3:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: A Broken Lamp
Posted by: Murcielago00
Oh? Doesn't look like you've ever played.
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  • 12.12.2012 3:27 PM PDT

Posted by: Murcielago00

Posted by: A Broken Lamp
Posted by: Murcielago00
Oh? Doesn't look like you've ever played.
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It's clearly a fake
Do you really think he would be on this website without ever having played an Xbox game?

[Edited on 12.12.2012 3:31 PM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 3:30 PM PDT

Looks like MS just can't give up that $

  • 12.12.2012 3:31 PM PDT

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It would have been a much more successful marketing push to say "Get a specialisation before the 18th and the maps are yours for free!"

I was a level 38 when I noticed it was specialisation related, and I was deadset on playing more to get the maps, but nope. No point now.

Well done on missing out on a opportunity to turn the mistake into a winner.

Also, are they SERIOUSLY deleting comments on that article?

Also also too, people need to remember that 343i and Microsoft are not separate entities. THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME. Xbox Support and 343i are just different departments.

So yes, it's fair to say that Microsoft and 343i both screwed up here.

  • 12.12.2012 3:37 PM PDT

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However, the point I'm making is that people seem to care more about those who received a free copy getting screwed out of it, rather than them receiving future compensation to make up this error.
What's more likely:

The giant corporation fesses up and compensates it's customers?

or

The giant corporation tries to cover it's ass and get back the money it lost?

It's not a case of us trying to get back at those who got it for free, it's a case of us looking at the two options and realizing that one is far more likely to happen(and actually is happening now)then the other.

  • 12.12.2012 3:46 PM PDT
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I've been playing Halo since 2002. My earliest memories include hiding at the shotgun window on Damnation and killing my dad with grenades while playing co-op on Pillar of Autumn.


Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
"I can't win, these maps suck, -blam!- you 343i, wah wah wah."


Fanboy detected. Firing logic cannons.

  • 12.12.2012 3:57 PM PDT

Major props to my hommie Sheeef. He made Recon possible for me. Long time recovering emails and passwords. And it was his. lol.

OMG ok this is super old.

  • 12.12.2012 4:05 PM PDT

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One sure thing is that when they do the "18th is over your trial is over" Halo 4's Crimson DLC playlist will drop drastically.

And many, myself included won't buy the maps.

Their problem, they need a solution that makes both entities happy.

Have the season pass or bought the LE, well you get X amount of MS points as a gift.

Got the maps for free because our fault? Keep them and spread the word the maps are good.

Many solutions and they can't decide.

  • 12.12.2012 4:22 PM PDT
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Your 'beliefs' mean less than dick to me.

Any LE/map pass buyers who are whining about the map situation are really a bunch of self-entitled little pigs.

If you're really, honestly going to miss that $10, then maybe you should be smarter with your money and not blow it on TBD video game content.

If you say it's the principle of the thing, then you're an idiot.

I bought the map pass, and for a while there it looked like these maps were actually going to appear in normal playlists, unlike the Reach DLCs that nobody bought. But no, everyone started crying, so this'll end up just like Reach's map packs. Right now I barely play Halo 4, but if by some miracle 343 puts out a TU that actually improves the game as a whole, then more map variety in the playlists would only be a good thing. That's what's important to me, being able to actually play the maps that I paid for, not just having them sit on my hard drive because I paid for them and no one else could be bothered.

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  • 12.12.2012 4:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gibsonsg527
Looks like MS just can't give up that $


Why would they?

What motivation would ANY corporation have to let money just walk away?

  • 12.12.2012 4:37 PM PDT
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"Uhhh...Yeah! This is our....uhhh....new promotion!Yeah, that's it! Try before you buy.........yeah!

Took the words from my mouth

And the sheep will buy it regardless.

Like an old user once said.

"How long are you gonna let a man in your ass, to know you're being -blam!-?"

  • 12.12.2012 4:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: antony X1000
It's a really bad cover up, but at least my LE was kind of worth it again.
It still isn't worth it

  • 12.12.2012 4:40 PM PDT


Posted by: spartain ken 15
343i censored all the "complainers"
lol

  • 12.12.2012 4:40 PM PDT
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I'm not upset over the fact that the maps are going to "go away" in 6 days. I could care less but what bothers me is that MS came up with what they think is a solution to a mistake they themselves made. I would completely understand if they sent out a message stating that they had some internal problems and the maps got on the marketplace for free so they had to take them back. But trying to cover up their mistake and then delete comments just makes them look worse. It'll be interesting to see the fallout from this.

I certainly won't be buying them. I bought the maps for Reach and they were pretty good but I only got to play them a couple times. The only thing I worry about is them making the DLC maps mandatory down the line. I would sell Halo 4 in a heartbeat and put that money aside for Destiny or Skyrim DLC.

/rant

  • 12.12.2012 4:43 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: antony X1000
It's a really bad cover up, but at least my LE was kind of worth it again.

  • 12.12.2012 4:44 PM PDT
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Wow, I expected better from a former Halo fangirl.

Hey, let's delete all comments and disable them, that way, they will see we are not under Microsoft's payroll!!!

Pathetic, truly pathetic.

  • 12.12.2012 4:45 PM PDT
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Quick question. Are any of you who downloaded them for free able to unlock achievements? If so I seriously doubt the maps were meant to be trials. I never downloaded any demo that allowed me to unlock achievements.

  • 12.12.2012 4:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: nightspark
Quick question. Are any of you who downloaded them for free able to unlock achievements? If so I seriously doubt the maps were meant to be trials. I never downloaded any demo that allowed me to unlock achievements.

Yup I've gotten a couple achievements from playing and me either.

  • 12.12.2012 4:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Arcane Phoenix

Posted by: nightspark
Quick question. Are any of you who downloaded them for free able to unlock achievements? If so I seriously doubt the maps were meant to be trials. I never downloaded any demo that allowed me to unlock achievements.

Yup I've gotten a couple achievements from playing and me either.

Then they are trying a halfassed cover up. It would have been so much easier for them to admit they screwed the pooch.

  • 12.12.2012 4:54 PM PDT

Got the maps for free (lol)

Played them

They suck just as much as everything else in the game

Lol, you can keep your -blam!- maps.

  • 12.12.2012 4:56 PM PDT


Posted by: MrR46
Any LE/map pass buyers who are whining about the map situation are really a bunch of self-entitled little pigs.


Stopped reading right there. False.

We paid for what we were told we would get. Maps. When someone else gets the same thing for free? We have the right to call it out and make a huge deal about it.

Reason: We paid for our stuff. You didn't. Really that simple.

  • 12.12.2012 6:39 PM PDT