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Strange evolution how people have come to believe
That we are it's greatest achievement
We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves
Posted by: Jeff McRae
Not only does pezza have a 1 in over 20,000,000 chance of getting the beta, but the UK only has 600 slots, and oh ya they sold all 600 slots to websites for competitions. Ya, that's wonderful.
1. There will be more than 10 spots open for the beta in Australia.
2. Even if Pezza was competing for one of 10 spots with everyone in Australia, from newborn infant to 100yr old women, his odds would be 1 in 2,000,000. I would assume that the percentage of gamers that actually know about the beta and have the means to participate greatly increases those odds. Granted, if there were only 10 spots available, the odds are still pretty low.
Seriously people, I dont know what it is about this topic that makes everyone throw common sense out the window and embrace pure emotion. Achronos has done everything he is legally allowed to do to try to point out that there will be more spots available.
I just dont get why normally sensible members are reverting to the "Screw you Bungie, Im pissed off, and no matter what you say, I'm still going to be pissed off just for the sake of being pissed off" attitude. No one has directly come out and said that Bungie owes them anything, but there is a hell of a lot of entitlement spread throughout this thread.
Concerning doing stupid tricks for a beta slot, I have mixed feelings. Yeah, it would be nice to not have to write an essay or become a random member of some website, but which is greater, your desire to play the beta or your desire to not have to write an essay? Tell me who is a bigger fan of Bungie, someone who -blam!-es about writing an essay to get a beta slot, or someone who writes the essay? Who has the greater desire to get a slot? As JAF stated though, its sad that slots are be "sold" to private sites instead of being used used for thier intended purpose, which is to make Halo 3 a better game. It will still achieve that purpose, but it doesnt make it suck any less. Go capitalism.
Posted by: Pezza
As for the moderators, it isn't really their fault but they need to recognise that blind patriotism to Bungie does not make their opinions better than those actually experiencing the issue first hand.
How does using common sense to understand that we don't know everything we need to in order to come to a sensible conclusion constitute blind patriotism? Replace the word Bungie with anything and it would still be childish to react this way when there is still lots of information on the topic that we dont know.