- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
As far as I know, you can even get a basic version of Linux and the full version of MAC OSX to the xbox.
For the leak, i think nobody could avoid such a disasster. Just think logical.
About 15 years ago, there was no big promotion or any other campaign for a video game.
In the world of Today promoting video games is quite normal, everyone who got to the theaters know halo2, everyone who read a simple xbox magazine knows it.
So, to develop a perfect game, a sequel to halo 1 of course, you need an enormous summ of employees. Most often those who programmed the software never think of leaking it anyway, because its there income that depends on how the game is sold on the world market. Everything is some how very "secure" or "safe" when the game is just programmed.
But when a software goes gold, it usually ships to big DVD producers, and it enters its final stage. So the software is copied millions of times, the process of making halo 2 dvds should have already started 1 week ago. Also those big concerns making the DVDs habe employees, but however, they dont know what hard work was spent on the software they are copying, so they are the one who leak it. They just get a retail copy of the game and then they make an image via a pc-xbox connection. Like already said, with a mod chip everything is possible. When they finished doing the image, they upload it to the World wide web, to ftp servers first. Then they let some "special" friends have it download with highspeed from these servers and test, whether the image is fully functional.
After this, a few people have a complete copy of the image and they start sharing it via ed2k network, or bittorrent, irc. In a time period of 1 week the file is distributet to the world, everyone can download it, thousands already did.
This happened already serveral times, also to halo 1, not for the xbox release, but for the pc release there was a beta probably uploaded by a gearbox employee.
Or just think of Half life 2, same thing, just a dirty leak. Valve is a great company, they have earned millions of money by selling half life, how ever the leakers where caught by the F.B.I.
. The leak of half life 2 happened, when it still was in an very early stage of development, so this led to an enormous delay. Halo 2 was already gold when it was leaked, so we can be happy, that it wont be delayed any more.
I really liked halo1 and the books that where written to the video game, im looking forward to halo 2, im really excited about the story, about how the master chief will make his way through towards the end of halo2, and finally im looking forward to, how halo 3 will be announced and halo2s end.