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About all of these people stating that they are the biggest and most devoted fan to any game ever. This is completely untrue. Quality online PC games, have huge followings. As much as i hate to admit it, counter strike (one of the worst games ever) has a larger following than Halo. Huge tournaments take place every year. As for Halo for PC, it is one of the worst online communities because it is full of unmature kids playing in the lag filled servers. As for the game getting out, it's really quite sad, but I don't think that it is going to change anything. Those who want to buy it will, and those who don't (even if the game wasn't leaked early) would have been able to get it from hundreds of locations online on november 9th. I see how bungie is mad because of the possibility of spoilers getting out to the fans that want to find out the story on their own when they buy the game on the 9th, but truthfully, you aren't going to see any spoilers online unless you go out of your way and look for them. All of the "die" comments being made on these are quite hilarious, and shows the age group of a lot of the fans. Not all modders are bad, some do it because of all of the cool applications that can be put on your xbox, and to back up the games that they themselves own instead of having to carry a bunch of dvd cases around when they travel, or a cd wallet. Seen some people braggin about how they are going to be getting the game early, by opening up shipments to their stores or whatever, when in essence you are doing the same thing that whoever stole the french copy did. No one is going to look up to you because you get the game three days early or whatever. Well, thats my two cents on some of the posts that stood out to me, when i glanced over the 70 some odd pages.

  • 10.18.2004 3:39 PM PDT
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Oh, and on a side note, the caps lock button is not needed when posting online. Neither is 5 million exclamation marks after a SENTENCE!!!!!!111111!!!!

  • 10.18.2004 3:41 PM PDT
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I was actually looking for halo 2 online, wanted to get it early, but by the time i found it i realized that its just not right, and my advice to you at bungie is to check out www.xbconnect.com, tonnes of people are playing halo 2 on the halo 1 system link servers there, you should see if u can pry any info out of neone there, good luck finding the bastards. P.S. The place i found the game was on a peer to peer network, so its hard to trace exactly who it is that put it there.

  • 10.18.2004 3:52 PM PDT
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is it really a crime if you have prepaid for halo 2 and you just want to get your hands on it early? they wanted to release it for the holidays but there is no point in me waiting to play it considering i have already paid for it. i was never a patient person but i will tell you many places refuse to distribute it so its farely rare to find online. all of these places are protected by the privacy act clinton signed though so they are protected.

  • 10.18.2004 4:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: kidwhoknowsall
Bungie should have forseen it...obviously someone stole a copy from the manufacturing plant...either one they should've used a more secure plant or made sure that in the plant that they had video surveillance (which they should 24/7)....it is a shame that this happened but it also could have been prevented....

not going against MS but i had to get my xbox repaired
i sent in 1st time...never fixed it
second time fixed it but theres still a loose screw in it somewhere
for some erason I THINK microsoft does not have good costumer service

  • 10.18.2004 4:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xpocalypse
About all of these people stating that they are the biggest and most devoted fan to any game ever. This is completely untrue. Quality online PC games, have huge followings. As much as i to admit it, counter strike (one of the worst games ever) has a larger following than Halo. Huge tournaments take place every year. As for Halo for PC, it is one of the worst online communities because it is full of unmature kids playing in the lag filled servers. As for the game getting out, it's really quite sad, but I don't think that it is going to change anything. Those who want to buy it will, and those who don't (even if the game wasn't leaked early) would have been able to get it from hundreds of locations online on november 9th. I see how bungie is mad because of the possibility of spoilers getting out to the fans that want to find out the story on their own when they buy the game on the 9th, but truthfully, you aren't going to see any spoilers online unless you go out of your way and look for them. All of the "die" comments being made on these are quite hilarious, and shows the age group of a lot of the fans. Not all modders are bad, some do it because of all of the cool applications that can be put on your xbox, and to back up the games that they themselves own instead of having to carry a bunch of dvd cases around when they travel, or a cd wallet. Seen some people braggin about how they are going to be getting the game early, by opening up shipments to their stores or whatever, when in essence you are doing the same thing that whoever stole the french copy did. No one is going to look up to you because you get the game three days early or whatever. Well, thats my two cents on some of the posts that stood out to me, when i glanced over the 70 some odd pages.

Sure, the Counter-Strike community is huge. It was, more or less, the revolutionary online game that brought everyone together 4 or 5 years ago. I don't like that game either, but try to discern the fact that in 22 more days, that will all change. Online community gaming will change. When over 4 million people step online to take the fighting to each other, everything will change. The mere couple thousand will be taken from world wide on Halo to a mere couple thousand in 25 percent of Rhode Island ( You know how small Rhode Island is, don't you?)
As for getting the game about 6-12 hours early, I don't expect people to look down on me. I just want to get a small edge on the maps on XBL ;P plus I am just tired of waiting since August, 2002, to be frank. And I know that many of you out there have waited as long as me too, but i just see it the earlier, the better, even if it is ony a half-day. It's not really pirating in that essence.

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MJOLNIR MARK V, I agree with you on that.

Sending your box to M$ takes forever and isnt always cheap. That's why alot of people bring their boxes to us modders, We can repair them for a fraction of the cost. I only charge friends the price I have to pay for parts and thats it.

And, alot of times a broken box can be repaired by a chip.

  • 10.18.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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Yeah, i see what you mean. I only hope that the community for live is a lot better than it is for PC. I had live free for 2 months and it seemed ok. I will buy a year subscription when halo 2 comes out (probrably a few days before so i can have it all set up and stuff). I'll pray it dosn't turn into Halo PC though ;)

  • 10.18.2004 4:36 PM PDT
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Don't worry about that. Halo PC was a flop in my opinion. that was made possible by Gearbox and their undoubtedly lousy work. This had to happen because Bungie was making something ten times as good. I have seen the Multi-Player/ XBL options for Halo 2 and it's safe enough to say that it looks great. Plus, Halo 2 is picking up so much better than Halo PC did, since it was the same 2001 game in 2003, which it got bad credit for. Halo 2 is on 60 seconds for crying out loud and Bungie has been working rigoriously on the Beta with the Microsoft testers for a year (you've probably heard all this however). They worked out about 98% of bugs and lag and have made it easy for someone with a similar connection and skill level easy to play with or against another person.

  • 10.18.2004 4:54 PM PDT
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This Halo 2 piracy is what i hate most about hackers and other people who like to steal game info and make games. And to help bungie out my friend hasa friend who supposively downloaded this illegal halo 2 so i will ask around and see if he knows where he got it from but i will not tell any of my friends names then ill have alot of friends who will hate me but i will give info on the internet site where he got it from.


Good luck bungie on the halo 2 release i already pre ordered it at the local eb games store and good luck hunting down the bastards who made an illegal copy of halo 2.

  • 10.18.2004 5:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: JirotheHero

I wonder when halo 2 is coming out.



I hear its like november somthing...second i think...i duno you might be able to find it on their website

  • 10.18.2004 5:17 PM PDT
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U mean people bungie

look at this:
http://www.bungie.net/Inside/Page.aspx?section=WebCams&su bsection=Main&page=1

Don't worry. It isn't a spoiler.

  • 10.18.2004 5:18 PM PDT
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halo2.peel.net

  • 10.18.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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Look at the webcam. quick!

  • 10.18.2004 5:20 PM PDT
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That might have something to do with the piricy. They said they were giving away a free copy.

  • 10.18.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: g0dfath3r24
Look at the webcam. quick!
Gasp!! thats so cool!

  • 10.18.2004 5:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Chase211
Posted by: JirotheHero

I wonder when halo 2 is coming out.



I hear its like november somthing...second i think...i duno you might be able to find it on their website
November 9th

  • 10.18.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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Wow, it's only ed on someone's arm (even though it's fake).

How can you be a community member on Bungie.net, but not know the release date?

  • 10.18.2004 5:33 PM PDT
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Grrr....stop editing my words Mr. Mod.

  • 10.18.2004 5:35 PM PDT
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i object to that staement that all the die statements are from "unmature kids". i am fully mature. now die.

  • 10.18.2004 5:57 PM PDT
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YES THE CAPS BAR IS F***ING NECESSARY!!!!!!!!

  • 10.18.2004 5:58 PM PDT
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I dont't think some one who has STOLEN HALO 2 from the net is a fan they are just a theif and a loser and they are the ones who ruin good old fun games and new ones to. Though they help change the way we interface with games and they make some games better. stealing is stealing, and I was chenking out XBconnect today and though they ask there users not to use HALO 2 on there tunnel there are always at least 10 hosts doing so. I think any user from a tunnel found using the PAL version of HALO 2 shld be reported to the authorities, and they shld get perma banned from any tunnel service. I am a user of some various tunnels and I hate to see this abuse of xbconnect,or any other tunnel for that matter. I wqas just on there and I was going to play a game or 2 and I was in the NMP rooms and thats all that was being played was HALO 2 so I was really disappounted. Well enough of my ranting. and I wanted to play one game and a guy called me a noob for not having HALO 2. well I hope they get all this cleared up.

  • 10.18.2004 6:01 PM PDT
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If you have to say die about anything you may be a old hairy fat man..... but you sure arent mature you just have a little more pubic hair and you live in your moms basement, or your wives any how, killing anyone wld also be a crime and you wldnt be any better than they are, maybe even worse, there is no fine for murder just a death penalty, they only have to pay up to $100,000.00, you get a nice injection or, the nice throne of death.

  • 10.18.2004 6:07 PM PDT
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Hey if france is involved all I gotta say is "VIVA LA FRANCE!"

  • 10.18.2004 6:15 PM PDT
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HOW CAN PEOPLE TAKE WHAT BUNGIE WORKED SO HARD TO MAKE!
I will do what i can to help in this war to stop the piracy of Halo2

  • 10.18.2004 6:15 PM PDT