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Subject: Halo 2 Piracy
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Im looking on that stupid Gamerfaqs and it's like a rank thing TOTALLY FOOKIN DESCRIMINATION LIKES!

  • 10.18.2004 9:57 AM PDT
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Hey everyone, you ALL should read this. It's a good blog. NO SPOILERS OF ANY KIND! Just some insite. http://rampancy.net/onhalo2piracy Great article.

  • 10.18.2004 10:22 AM PDT
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Let me tell you guys that I am most angry about this French piracy thing. Sadly I´ve been exposed to the pirated copy of the game (It was on display on big screen at a flea market) I am disgusted. How can this piracy thing be so effective? I mean Last week was the code that had been stolen, and now you have the Xbox disc with cover and everything. I am sorry this had to happen to my favorite Team. I just hope that somehow this French version is not the gold version ( please tell us that it is incomplete or something).

My utmost respect for Bungie.

  • 10.18.2004 10:42 AM PDT
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I Agree with Sal Valper I also seen it on display ona 62 inch at a flea market and people were buying the iligal copy and selling it

  • 10.18.2004 11:08 AM PDT
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Bugie i also know his name and know where he livs and such if you want more info e-mail me at rabbit_338@hotmail.com i will tell you the rest there im not anouncing it on the foums

  • 10.18.2004 11:09 AM PDT
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Wow this really does suck. I seen the news story online and had to come and read up here to see what exactly has happened. I can't even begin to imagine all the texture files, code, mapping etc... that you guys put into these games, and some guy steals it and puts it online :( . I do have a question for you though. If you want to track down where the files are being downloaded right now, why not use sites like packetnews or ircspy and shut down the servers offering the files?? Or maybe even shut down irc search engines like these. This would seem like a logical step towards killing all piracy period, not just for this game. We all know these bad places for getting games are out there, so why havent the FBI (or who ever) shut down these places? I will never understand why people download this stuff, I mean think about it, you don't get the nice DVD Case or instruction book. You don't get the quality of game like you get with the bought product, and you can't go online and play the game if your X-box has an Illegal chip in it. Makes no sense to me, but then again i'm a programmer myself and would never steal this stuff. I hope you find who did this, and I hope they get the Max penalty for it.
If any of this was not supposed to be posted because it breaks the rules i'm sorry. I had to ask those questions though...

  • 10.18.2004 11:22 AM PDT
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Someone said that it was "pirated" off the internet in France. Can somebody confirm this?

  • 10.18.2004 11:44 AM PDT
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I dont know if anyone else has replied to this, but i dont think that they are going to play Halo 2 on an xbox emulator on their pc. Its called a mod chip bro. People buy em and install em and it lets you run unsigned code on your xbox. Its stupid, but people do it. That is probably what will happen. Im sure who ever does the modchips has hacked the game regions too so that people who download it in america can get past the PAL and play it on NTSC. Being 3 gigs in size like the articles are saying is pretty damn big though so only people with extremely fast connections will download it. Its ridiculous. I want this game so bad ive had the limited edition on order since feb. Im sure i can make it another moth. Ill just play some other xbox titles and wait. I dont know french so it would completely ruin a story. Especially one that is so hyped up like Halo 2.

  • 10.18.2004 11:45 AM PDT
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you know its not about legal stuff to me i would not care if GTA san andreas was pirated huh i wonder why it hasnt leaked yet or metal gear snake eater?I could care less about those games and i think everyone else would not even notice but becuse this halo2 and bungie and we are the most hardcore fans ever and bungie is the best they are special and we all have so much respect for bungie and we will show that on nov 9 when we go out and each buy 2 copys of halo2 and make sure it breaks all sales records for all games ever that is how we can help bungie and show our respects i have 2 live xboxs so i need 2 copys hell ill buy 3 and hang one on my wall in tribute to bungie.ps ill have my 3 copys on the 3rd cuse im a manager at game crazy.p.p.s.we are having midnight release on the 8th with halo2 tourney at 10:00p.m. 2 hours before the games realesed so go get your copy at game crazy at 12:01am nov,9 dont be late.

  • 10.18.2004 11:52 AM PDT
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anyone else gonna camp in the parking lots of your local game store allday the 8th were gonna have a party in the lot with food drinks and lots of halo2 fiends hanging out waiting that will be a good day with only hours to go see you all then.

  • 10.18.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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Nah dude, I'll have it by the 8th ( Mid-Day) and I'll be digesting all the Single Player stuff ( I have been starving for 2 years!) as well as kicking it on a System Link game, but listen to this (this proves how addicted I am to Halo 2). Last nigh, I had a dream I got Halo 2 and was playing it all day and my friends were like, you can only have one person on an xbox for system link and we only had 4 and I got a bunch of money out of the bank and bought 12 more xboxes and 12 more Halo Twos.

  • 10.18.2004 12:13 PM PDT
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heel yeah man iv had drems of playing halo2 for weeks thats a good one the dream of buyiing 12 boxes and yeah ill play single player first too then hope on live for the next 2 or 3 years tell halo 3 on xbox next we got it bad when we dream of halo2 we are the most hardcore fans ever of any game halo 2 is all that matters

  • 10.18.2004 12:17 PM PDT
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hell yeah i messed that up i get to excited when i talk about halo2 the best game ever i havent even played yet i bet it gets perfect 10s as well as halo

  • 10.18.2004 12:19 PM PDT
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LMAO! I had a dream about it to! lolololol!

But it wasn't playin it all day and that I was actualy MC, I can remember fighting The Flood although I don't know if they're in Halo 2, i've heard rumours but that's all im saying, and I got a good look at that screen when bungie was makin the vid, Test Boss.

Muwhahahah!

But I really hate waiting as soon as I completed Halo I totally loved it! It was like no other game that could have that kind of story line and graphics!
Even the music was brilliant!
I've played it on System Link so many times!
And I've been playing it since last xmas!
Completed it on Legenadery WITHOUT ANY CO-OP! hardest lvl I'd say was The Control room though! anyone who says the library and piller of autmn and the maw are hard! they're lieing cause to me! they were pish easy hell I managed to not die once on the POA heh!

I also liked Oni that's a good game that was one of the first games I got for the PC, still got it heh!
And Myth, never really played that.

Man! that's a long reply!

  • 10.18.2004 12:32 PM PDT
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You know what would spoil it and it's happened so many times!

When you are dying to play a game for months and it turns out to be garbage lol!

But so far! Halo 2 has had me at the edge of my seat so I couldn't say anything bad about it!

  • 10.18.2004 12:34 PM PDT
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BTW Bungie! that Halo 2 site is very confusing!

But the weps and vehicles look wicked! well done guys ;)

Good job!

  • 10.18.2004 12:36 PM PDT
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This goes to "Ummm yeah": You were not the main offender. Now, when someone comes in and trolls around and insults everyone without a care in the world, a line must be drawn.

  • 10.18.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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.................................?

  • 10.18.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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man i was trying not to belive the leak hopeing it was just a marketing stunt and someone e mailed me screens no spoilers think god just the loading screen and elite profile select and a shot of some pretty forest god it was so pretty the leval looked so lush and open trees looked the best ive ever saw in a game omg now i cant wait sorry guys i wont check my email any more for fear of a spoiler ill only go to this site

  • 10.18.2004 12:49 PM PDT
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SEND ME THE E-MAILS! =(

Ain't fare!!!

He gets to see it and I don't :(

CURSE YOU!

Wait what am I saying! ill have better experience playing it instead of looking at some pish!

  • 10.18.2004 12:57 PM PDT
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Yo, this game's gonna be great. What would be a knock out punch though would be if the graphics they have been showed us, weren't at their max and were at their minimum and when we get it'd look like Doom 3. Dude, I'd die

Another Dream I had was that I had the Battle and a SMG and I was paying an updated version of T&R and I was on this 1 plateau and I whipped out the BR (Since I luv how it sounds) and was taking pot shots at the Covenant and then the Elites came out of Pods from the sky and I took out 2 SMGs and blew lots of them away, then I got a Jackal Shield and a Plasma Sword and i said to myself in the dream : I'm dreaming. It's weird cuz I actually knew I was dreaming and that it wasn't real :(....but in a few weeks, it'll be reality :P

  • 10.18.2004 1:04 PM PDT
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Yes, I know. I have weird dreams lol.

  • 10.18.2004 1:05 PM PDT
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Dustin, I'm adding u to my XBL friends. Accept my request.

We'll tear sh1t up in co-op and multi-player :P

  • 10.18.2004 1:07 PM PDT
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i wonder if you can get the shield i also wonder if ther is another flying machine other than the banshee and why did they say they took the atv out if so that sucks there has got to be secret vehicles i mean think about it the covies have the wraith,ghost,banshee,humans have a tank and a warthog,does anyone else think thats not fair there has to be a longsword to fly

  • 10.18.2004 1:10 PM PDT
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  • 10.18.2004 1:11 PM PDT