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Come on...you should know better than to post a link to an auction for a possible copy of the Halo 2 beta. Unlikely as it may be, it could still be genuine.

[Edited on 10/3/2004 7:12:08 AM by goweb]

  • 10.02.2004 6:43 PM PDT
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God, that is sad...apparently whoever bumped it up to $102.50 didn't know that there is no beta disc, and it is an Xbox Dev Kit that the beta is on...someone got screwed over.

  • 10.02.2004 6:48 PM PDT
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That's -blam!- up! How could the bastard do that?

  • 10.02.2004 7:55 PM PDT
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ya! and it is rated m and it says its rated t thats so fake!

  • 10.02.2004 8:58 PM PDT
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It's at $255.00 now. I wonder what Microsoft will do about this one.

  • 10.02.2004 9:21 PM PDT
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Bummer, someone is going to get ripped off $255, or maybe he will actually give them the beta.....

  • 10.02.2004 9:37 PM PDT
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He wont.

  • 10.02.2004 9:43 PM PDT
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If he does, lucky for him. Probably only has 5 multiplayer maps and no single player though.

Bummer.

  • 10.02.2004 9:44 PM PDT
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Awwww shucks, some little kid is about to be played out heavily he might as well just admit the clown down......

  • 10.02.2004 10:12 PM PDT
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That person is really breaching Copyright Laws or at least Advertising Standards.
Halo 2 isn't even released yet and it says it's the real full game
Ebay will do something about it because that won't tolerate that bull

  • 10.03.2004 12:03 AM PDT
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here we go again. this ebay spamming is starting to get a little old. some guy did it then a whole crap-load of them started to follow suit for some easy cash. i liked the one that sold back in Jan for about $10,000,000. i feel sorry for the sap that was dumb enough to try and sell it.

  • 10.03.2004 12:08 AM PDT
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I have pictures of the actual game and me playing it on my xbox. I will provide them in a few days once my digital camera is fixed. But be assured this IS THE REAL HALO 2 FOR XBOX. This is NO scam, this is the REAL DEAL. I have personal friend who works for Microsoft and received a copy and gave it to me just a few weeks ago, and now YOU get the chance to play the game before ANYONE ELSE!!

Anyone ever seen a digital camera repair shop? Why would he start an auction with no shots or evidence other than the publicly available picture of the limited edition box?

Nobody has friends at Microsoft. The employees would likely have to give the games back right about now, and each copy has the number in the bottom left corner.

NDA's are serious, nobody breaks them.

Fake. Fakity Fake. False even. I would go as far to call it fraudulent. Preposterous.

[Edited on 10/3/2004 12:14:35 AM]

  • 10.03.2004 12:10 AM PDT
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That is really sad, pissing away all that money on nothing.But i dont know anyone stupid enough to believe it,honestley!

  • 10.03.2004 12:19 AM PDT
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How hard is it to make a bootleg from the backup disk? Any seasoned hacker would be able to do it, I would think.

  • 10.03.2004 12:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: KiLLyourTV
How hard is it to make a bootleg from the backup disk? Any seasoned hacker would be able to do it, I would think.


Not hard, actually. But this be Halo 2, on Beta. That's where it gets harder.
Nobody would be able to do it.

  • 10.03.2004 12:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vella
Posted by: KiLLyourTV
How hard is it to make a bootleg from the backup disk? Any seasoned hacker would be able to do it, I would think.


Not hard, actually. But this be Halo 2, on Beta. That's where it gets harder.
Nobody would be able to do it.


You are probably right, but what kind of protection is there from it. Maybe the original beta tester died, so the NDA wouldn't matter. Highly doubt it though.

  • 10.03.2004 12:40 AM PDT
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The protection is called XDVDFS, only Xbox can read it, it's a file system Windows won't understand.

--Oh, and the propietary copy protection. The XBox protection has been hacked, but I'd expect the Beta protection to be a different beast.

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  • 10.03.2004 12:43 AM PDT
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. I am almost 100% positive there are Linux based apps that can extract ISO's from the XDVDFS file system that XBox DVDs use.

  • 10.03.2004 12:49 AM PDT
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Yeah, I know of those, but naturally I won't post links to them. I in no way believe that this guy is legititmate, but saying it was really Halo 2, the worst case scenario would be the ISO image ending up on the net.

The Hand of Microsoft wouldn't allow that to happen.

  • 10.03.2004 1:00 AM PDT
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This has happened before, a few months ago someone did this same stunt.

  • 10.03.2004 1:35 AM PDT
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Yeah, I have links and almost posted them, but fear of blacklisting stopped me. But, before I am handed wrath by the gods, I really hope it doesn't get out early though. I want to know there aren't those outside of Bungie and the NDA trying to ruin it for everyone.

  • 10.03.2004 1:36 AM PDT