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i cant wait......and now back 2 my essay.
chek this out
www.titancomp.com/bmcprod

  • 10.14.2004 9:17 PM PDT
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THIS IS SAD
I can align myself with the folks at bungie, after seeing all the hard work they have done.

[b] to defeat the enemy, you must defeat his objectives [\b]
the objective here is to release HALO 2 pirated and it shall be DEFEATED.
its very simple - just get the XBOX Disc -(made by bungie) on Nov 9th.

I don't want any pirated crap, not after waiting 3 years for this.

on offensive front, I will look and report all sites that support this pirated version.

  • 10.14.2004 9:19 PM PDT
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some people might think that oooooooooo i got halo 2 before you, well i would like to say on behalf of all the loyal fans of bungie and the halo franchise that the people who get halo2 on nov 9th will be so happy and they will look back on all this and say those 26 days were long indeed, but were so worth it.



Thank bungie.

  • 10.14.2004 9:20 PM PDT
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real sorry to hear of this and i hope this person gets caught! plus i hope that the people who made the choice to down load and pass it along are also caught and punished! i know what its like to have art stolen from you and it p***** me off that this happened. i mean the game comes out in less than a month and we have waited 2 years now. and these jerks cant wait a few more days and buy it on the 9th like everyone else? what gives with these a******s? where did they get this copy and who coughed it up? i mean it didnt just appear out of thin air! did some one from microsoft lose thier copy? i hope you guys catch them and make examples out of them!!!

  • 10.14.2004 9:22 PM PDT
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I don't think its just to hype up the game's release. Bungie's asking for the community's help because theres millions of us, and were bound to stumble upoun the websites with halo 2 leaked. There is a limited number of people tracking it down from Microsoft's side. If all they have to do is look at an e-mail and check out a link, its a lost easier for them than if they have to search the entire damn net. I've already sent two links. This is the same thing that happened with Hl2, they asked for the community's help. However, its not going to delay Halo 2, because Half Life 2's delays weren't caused by that leak. That was just a cover up. I also hate people with modded xbox's, copying the game to your hard drive is just like stealing it from the store. People work really hard to make these games, pay the damn $50, wait a few months for it to drop, or don't buy it at all jerks.

  • 10.14.2004 9:23 PM PDT
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Congratulations! We've just B****ed away twenty pages of threads and got ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE! If We'd get our griping butts off the forum and go look for these people we might get SOMEWHERE! Doesn't SOMEWHERE sound better than NOWHERE?

  • 10.14.2004 9:25 PM PDT
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im new to the forums but i will find these hackers and report any site that has halo 2. you guys worked hard you didn't deserve this >=(

  • 10.14.2004 9:27 PM PDT
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let me add a little something....
I bought the HALO 2 Smokin gun tee and the 7th Column Tee. - just to show my support for bungie at this time[\b]
and i will be standing in line on Nov 9th 2004 at 12:01 am to pick up my COPY. (For which i paid $59.11- which i got from working hard out in the sun)

This is not mp3 or some movie or some cheap piece of software.
[b] this - you beotches is HALO 2


We will hunt you down and slaughter you fukin leakers and all who download

  • 10.14.2004 9:28 PM PDT
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i am here for you, sirs

www.thepiratebay.org

shut 'em down ;)

  • 10.14.2004 9:28 PM PDT
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kill the reds, kill the reds, kill the reds!!!
(the reds are the pirates)

  • 10.14.2004 9:29 PM PDT
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we need to do a protect halo 2 msn chat. that way the forums wont be clogged

  • 10.14.2004 9:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nmo Vain
is this a spoiler? http://kirix.yellowdisk.net/txt/halo2%20story.htm


I read it, and it is utterly flase. There was nothing on drones, New Mombasa or the New materials that we received in the XBN and EGM mags. This is written by a halo fan.

  • 10.14.2004 9:32 PM PDT
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listen guys, lets not get this out of all preportion here! there has been piracy since the days of the zx speccy, as a stundent of ecconomics and sociology there is a little thing which rules the world...ecconomic determanism! and we are all living in its unholy land.
i dont think the fact that this french version has been posted up on file sharing sites will hurt bungie's / microsofts sales in the slightest.
The people who want to play this game on live will have to buy the original copy and many people seems to think that it is a good thing to reward a company who have really spent time making this part of the game, what looks to be a deep and varied ( not to mention totaly cool ) experence. sure the one player game is something we are all looking forward to immensly but be honest after thats done we still have a mode which will provide near endless fun, the pirate copys dont get that and so will miss out.
sure it must be frustrating for the programmers artists, team members who have worked hard on the cinematic one player experence and dont want this spoiled, but listen u dont have to read these spoiler things, wait till some of the more reputable sites and mags review the game, these people know how to give u the gist while respecting the fact u want to live the experence, not hear about it from them!
what im saying is just wait till the 9th / 11th ( if your in uk grr! ) get ur game and play it : u know its going to be great, and nothing which has happend with this leaked version will change your experence unless you let it!
im a bit older and wiser than a lot of the players on the forum and unlike some i would have been more suprised if the game had remained under wraps till the date of release, there was just to much potential money to be made from the rip verison.
like most of you here my copy is on pre-order and has been for a bit now this will not change because it has been pirated.
unlike others on this board i don not hate or wish violence or other misfortune on the pirates either, as great as this game will no doubt be, it is only that.. a game! and no form of entertainment is worth enciting hatred over, there is already to much hatred in the world as things stand.
-my advice, forget the leak ever happened, buy the original and enjoy one of the best slices of digital entertainment im sure we will all have seen in many a year - and have fun, this is entertainment after all.

ill see u on the battlefield people ..keep it tight and check those corners : )

  • 10.14.2004 9:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: CrowClock
we need to do a protect halo 2 msn chat. that way the forums wont be clogged


where would this be, sir?

  • 10.14.2004 9:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: thehunter1320
Posted by: CrowClock
we need to do a protect halo 2 msn chat. that way the forums wont be clogged


where would this be, sir?


we all chat on the msn messenger chat duh =p

CrowClockX@hotmail.com

  • 10.14.2004 9:37 PM PDT
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Hey guys, I've been an avid Bungie fan before Halo playing games like Myth, and I'm sorry I didn't do it sooner, or under better circumstances, but I signed up today just to tell you I am 100% behind you guys, and as soon as I'm done writing this, I'm off to look for links. You guys deserve better than this, and we all know that and agree to it. You guys are dedicated people, working on this for three years to perfect it. You have some pretty loyal fans out there who will do their best. I'm proud to be one of them. The people that did this should and will pay. I'd be sweating right now, thinking about having Bungie and Microsoft on my back if I was one of them.

Some people just don't get it do they? It isn't about getting Halo 2 as soon as possible right after it had been completed, it is about going along for the ride and enjoying every minute of it. I would rather wait another year, if I had to, then download it right now, if that is what you guys thought was best. I hope that they get everything coming to them. I total agree with what everyone has said so far. Major Fatman reporting for duty!

  • 10.14.2004 9:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: TitusCrow
listen guys, lets not get this out of all preportion here! there has been piracy since the days of the zx speccy, as a stundent of ecconomics and sociology there is a little thing which rules the world...ecconomic determanism! and we are all living in its unholy land.
i dont think the fact that this french version has been posted up on file sharing sites will hurt bungie's / microsofts sales in the slightest.
The people who want to play this game on live will have to buy the original copy and many people seems to think that it is a good thing to reward a company who have really spent time making this part of the game, what looks to be a deep and varied ( not to mention totaly cool ) experence. sure the one player game is something we are all looking forward to immensly but be honest after thats done we still have a mode which will provide near endless fun, the pirate copys dont get that and so will miss out.
sure it must be frustrating for the programmers artists, team members who have worked hard on the cinematic one player experence and dont want this spoiled, but listen u dont have to read these spoiler things, wait till some of the more reputable sites and mags review the game, these people know how to give u the gist while respecting the fact u want to live the experence, not hear about it from them!
what im saying is just wait till the 9th / 11th ( if your in uk grr! ) get ur game and play it : u know its going to be great, and nothing which has happend with this leaked version will change your experence unless you let it!
im a bit older and wiser than a lot of the players on the forum and unlike some i would have been more suprised if the game had remained under wraps till the date of release, there was just to much potential money to be made from the rip verison.
like most of you here my copy is on pre-order and has been for a bit now this will not change because it has been pirated.
unlike others on this board i don not hate or wish violence or other misfortune on the pirates either, as great as this game will no doubt be, it is only that.. a game! and no form of entertainment is worth enciting hatred over, there is already to much hatred in the world as things stand.
-my advice, forget the leak ever happened, buy the original and enjoy one of the best slices of digital entertainment im sure we will all have seen in many a year - and have fun, this is entertainment after all.

ill see u on the battlefield people ..keep it tight and check those corners : )


forget about XBconnect? check it out.... put on the Halo 2 filter... there are people playing.... nothing can stop them... not even God himself

  • 10.14.2004 9:38 PM PDT
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piratebay has recieved many letters from microsoft, and they arent going anywhere.

and for the people who are talking about the tumors that this is a farce, It's not. The game was leaked.

Also, stop calling them hackers, they didnt hack anything. They didnt hack bungie and steal the game from a webserver or anything like that. The game was leaked by an employee some where down the line.

  • 10.14.2004 9:45 PM PDT
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I really feel for all the people at Bungie, all the hard work they put into this and have it get ripped off. Its really quite sad. The fact of Microsoft not loosing much of a profit doesnt really make much of a dent in the fact that, they spent heaps of time working just to have some idiot rip it off. That has to make them feel -blam!-, I know it would me.

Couldnt you guys make it more impossible for people to get thier hands on a 'working' copy of Halo2?

I mean, You made it, so you can damn well do with it what you want. Couldnt you take the file that is floating around, edit a few things to make it the same thing, but non working, a few different times and put that on the file sharing sites aswell? That would make quite the dent in the amount of people who actully download a working copy. Put more non working copies out there. While that would be in the works, track down the POS that stole your work.

Meh its just a thought, A good one IMO.

  • 10.14.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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How would someone get a leaked copy anyway?(I mean the guy that started the whole leak thing)

  • 10.14.2004 9:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: umm yeah
piratebay has recieved many letters from microsoft, and they arent going anywhere.

and for the people who are talking about the tumors that this is a farce, It's not. The game was leaked.

Also, stop calling them hackers, they didnt hack anything. They didnt hack bungie and steal the game from a webserver or anything like that. The game was leaked by an employee some where down the line.


Yeah man, that is probably it, stupid idiots. Microsoft is probably going to go over employee lists looking at the people related to the whole production of Halo 2 or something like that. Probably start with an inquiry there, and then spread out. Man, those guys are screwed!

  • 10.14.2004 9:55 PM PDT
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Lately, People on Starcraft Battle.net have been saying things about halo 2. About the first few levels and multiplayer -blam!- that I have not been able to find anywhere on the internet at all. So I'm thinkin that maybe I should find out a few things. Plus, whoever stole that copy of Halo 2 is a real -blam!--packer. Bungie went to great lengths to keep the single player campaign of halo 2 secret, then some -blam!- -blam!- packer comes along and -blam!-s it all up. Whoever it is is a testical--blam!- Rectical-wart and deserves to be castrated!

  • 10.14.2004 9:59 PM PDT
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does anybody know if ms or bungie has any acull prgress on this matter
in this situation everybody losses the people who downloaded it and the people who are waiting for it. I don't think this sucks it's just that I was never a huge big time halo fan but I know what it is like to have something stolen from you but you guys chill out halo2 will come out on the nov9 everybody has it pre-ordered and everything is gonna be great

  • 10.14.2004 9:59 PM PDT
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Just to clear up some confusion, when I mean production, I mean the people involved with the copying of discs, not the one producing the game. Hope I'm not bieng to redundant.

  • 10.14.2004 10:00 PM PDT
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04.10.14 - 15.00
Microsoft (in the US) called our ISP and whined about the Halo 2 torrent. Sorry, no recording available. They were kinda pissed off because it's not going to hit the stores for another month... (from piratebay.com)

  • 10.14.2004 10:01 PM PDT