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syberanarchy writes "Gamespot reports that Halo 2 has already been leaked to the internet via French newsgroups and P2P networks, almost a month before release! Any chance this bombshell move could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date?" See also gamesindustry.biz and The Register.
Yep, I've seen a bittorrent for the PAL version of Halo 2 already. I don't think that'll ever work for people of the USA, but it might be a cause to move Europe's release dates up.
As for me, I'm buying it anyway- I want the limited edition copy with the metal case and behind the scenes DVD.
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Exactly why would this delay it? It's not the source, it's the compiled game... that's all. It happens with nearly every high-profile game (journalists are always so trustworthy...)...
...could be a way of increasing the pre-release hype?
Bureaucracy loves company.
no, the'll take valves approach and delay it indefinatley
Pirates will be pirates, law abiding citizens will be law abiding citizens. There is probably alot more to this release date, there is most likely alot of TV ads and magazine ads that are set to launch at the same time.
Okay, okay. First they invent a language where you DON'T SAY MOST OF THE LETTERS IN A WORD. Then they sell nuclear reactors to Iraq. Then they infiltrate Burger King with criossandwiches. But THIS is going too damned far.
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It's not like ALL games end up on FTPs, torrents, DC, whatnot. :P
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This has been like this for years. For as long as the "scene" exists. Nothing to see here, move along. But frankly, the more intermediate poeple getting their hands on the Gold master before it's heading out to press, the easier it is to leak.
Does anyone understand why this could force them to push up the release date?
They've hyped November 9th too much. I just can't see Bungie changing their release date, no matter how many reasons there may be.
I don't even have an Xbox, but what is the hardware you would need to burn the Xbox ISO once you downloaded it off P2P? I'm merely curious.
CD burner? DVD burner? Xbox equipped with modchip or no?
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I like how on the front page directly under this story is the article U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft.
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"Any chance this bombshell move could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date?"
Yes.
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I saw the torrent available. Not that I really care much about it since I have no xbox, and I prefer Halo on PC over the xbox. I just like the controls on PC since I was so used to those.
I have seen it here: The Piratebay
I suppose people would be downloading this as a backup to the product they already legally own, right? Oh wait, the game hasn't been released yet...
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I don't think anyone [sane] is suggesting that Bungie/MS leaked it themselves on purpose, but they might want to take the lemon and make lemonade out of it, by molding it into a huge PR gimmick.
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Shiver me timbers, bring me some halo 2 smartly now ye blige rats.
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You can't spell Conspiracy without piracy.
"Gamespot reports that Halo 2 has already been leaked to the internet via French newsgroups
Sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhuddup... That's the one thing they haven't tried to shut down yet. Let's just agree to lump usenet under the broad umbrella of "p2p filesharing software".
...but it's insanely amusing that it happened right before the "US Declared War on Intellectual Property Theft".
IP Theft pre-emptively attacked!
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If I remember correctly, Halo 2 has already gone gold. It'll be difficult to increase the speed of a release at this point. There are a lot of logistical factors that they'll have to overcome to increase production for an immediate release.
If they DO release sooner, and there aren't enough copies, that will also cause a case where people will go to the 'net for the game.
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could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date The poster means that it may bring the release date forward, to reduce lost sales. That's assuming people downloading the game translates to lost sales, which itself is of course an unresolved ever-raging debate.
That would be a great arguement if the game hadn't gone gold before being leaked.
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Bungie is one of those companies that I love and they deserve every penny they get from my purchase. They are passionate about what they do and have a great community. But what with the internets and all, it's bound to happen.
"It should be noted that players who download the game illegally could face a maximum penalty of $100,000 per infringement for copyright violations."
:P
In the Netherlands at least it's legal to download, but illegal to upload stuff like this.
I'd like to see them try to extradite an infringer.
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When I actually have something insightful to say about this topic. I forget my password, and hotmail isn't working.
Anyways: Back in the day, my friends used to work for a CD duplication plant. After a couple of the CDs have been duplicated, they give me some of the CDs (with no labels on them btw) and thats how I got most of my prerelease stuff 8)
Any chance this bombshell move could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date?
Not to be a throll, but I think it will only push up the release date for more draconian laws
Come on! Why do they want to release things so early?! There is a difference between pissing people off, and really really pissing people off!
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er... i mean wtf... damn french pirates...
;-P
That's freedom pirates!!
Code leaked. Game leaked. Big difference there.
Nice of them to pick on the guys who made one of the most popular PC games to date (and I'm sure increased PC sales quite a lot..).
OK probably a dumb question... But if the program is complete (as proved by the fact that its leaked, as if we didn't know it anyway) why isn't it just release already. I can never understand the long pause that occurs after games are apparently completed. I mean if they CAN push up the release date why wouldn't they?
I could see this happening to a game that does not have such a high demand/ratings for
- i.e. Company A spends 2 years on a new game - It's full of bugs and is not getting any good reviews - a flop. they leek it. Then turn around and claim that the leeked version killed their profits and write it off come tax season.
They have not once pushed the date back. Every rumor about release dates, aside from the official one at E3 2004, were just that, rumors. Mostly ones generated by gaming sites and whatnot.
As for trailers, you're nuts. Of course they want to tease us. It's called marketting.
Yes, but did Bungie?
Whether you like Microsoft or not, this is bad. Many people have poured their hearts and souls into making that game not just because they like making cool stuff, but because they like to bring happyness to people. The person who leaked this clearly has no respect for the creators of the game.
As a game developer, I urge you to show some respect for the creators of the game by not downloading or distributing it. My first game came out a couple of weeks ago on PS2 and XBox and it's both frustrating and disappointing to see it readily available on P2P networks. How would you like to see something you've worked on for 50+ hours a week for months on end being freely copied around?
If you're intent on doing it, at least wait until the game has been released and if you like it, please buy it to support the developers. $50 isn't much to pay considering the number of hours of entertainment you get from the tens of thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars that would have gone into producing it - infinitely better value than a movie.
No. It's too hyped up.
No one has answered:
1) Why the hell would this force Bungie to push forward the release date? I'm sorry, but I didn't spend the time or money to mod my x-box, and I don't want to play the goddamn game in French, since I don't speak French and I'd kind of like to know what the hell is going on when I play the game.
2) Does this mean pre-orders in France are going to be canceled all of the sudden? I doubt it. Even with filesharing, artists can still sell millions of albums.
3) Who is responsible for this, exactly? Pirates? Like the ones from Penzance, or the less musical Barbary Pirates? Someone said French journalists. Uh, RTFM. There's a big difference between "news groups" and journalists.
Hm... risk a $100,000 fine for illegally downloading it, or risk a $1,000 fine for stealing a physical copy when it's released...
it wont affect Bungies release date, but it will be a good excuse to delay HL2 some more
It will all be very tasteful double-page adverts saying "9/11" in big numerals, like Microsoft did when they released a new version of flight simulator on 9/11/2001.
As sad as it is, is anyone suprised that it happened? I mean, it's only the most anticipated game of the year (HL2 was the most anticipated game of last year, it's just coming out this year). I've got my preorder in, and I know a lot of other people who won't bother with it either. However, there are people who will always look to cheat the system, and as much as we hate it there's no use crying or screaming or starting flamewars that this will hurt 'the programmers'. But that's not the worst of it.
.00001% of their yearly profits. What's next, that each copy will be biometrically tied to us, so we need to activate out consoles with a thumbprint identification before we can turn it on?
My main concern is the response and backlash from the Corps. It's not that I condone the behavior of these thieves, but I'm desperately afraid of the cure will be worse than the disease. Already we have games that can't work in everyone's PC, or disable programs you legitemately install. We have operating systems that require you to phone home every time you change your hardware, just so that the company can make sure you're not stealing
And what's going to be the target of the corporation's wrath, you ask? In this case, it's going to be USENET, BITTORRENT, and IRC. Three out-of-the-mainstream networks that corporations will try to convince law makers are nothing but havens for pirates and thieves. You'll hear the words "Terrorists" and "Child Pr0n" before this is over, too.
It's a tough world we live in. No matter which side you stand for, this much is certain: you're going to get screwed.
This "leak" is just a pretext for the USA to declare war on France.
We've all been waiting for an October Surprise, and it looks like this is going to be it. You heard it here first.
Now if you'll excuse me, there are some men wearing sunglasses who would like to have a word with --
Any chance this bombshell move could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date?
Man, I hope not. I've already put in for vacation the week of November 8th through the 12th for an all week frag fest. I guess it can still happen, I'll just have to miss those midnight release parties if the release date is pushed up. Alas
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On the contrary, I believe this occurence should force the release date forward - i.e. get it legally earlier; this would lighten the blow of piracy by making legal release concurrent to the leaked one, causing less copies to be stolen (people have a greater chance of buying games as opposed to copying when the game is actually available in the stores.)
Anyone disagree?
I've got news for you, it doesn't just happen with all high profile games. It happens with ALL of them. Even in the era of cartridge based games (NES, SNES, GENESIS...) the ROM data would end up on pirate BBSs and also in the form of counterfeit cartridges in Taiwan, South America, etc... That's just what happens.
For PC games, same thing. Game goes "gold", and it would appear on Warez sites before the first boxed copy ever hit store shelves. The reason this happens is there is ALWAYS going to be some low-paid shmuck working at the duplication factory who thinks it's cool to release the "zero day" warez to pirates, and/or selling it to the pirate groups.
I've got news for you, it doesn't just happen with all high profile games. It happens with ALL of them. Even in the era of cartridge based games (NES, SNES, GENESIS...) the ROM data would end up on pirate BBSs and also in the form of counterfeit cartridges in Taiwan, South America, etc... That's just what happens.
For PC games, same thing. Game goes "gold", and it would appear on Warez sites before the first boxed copy ever hit store shelves. The reason this happens is there is ALWAYS going to be some low-paid shmuck working at the duplication factory who thinks it's cool to release the "zero day" warez to pirates, and/or selling it to the pirate groups.
This doesn't mean the game is completly finished. For instance localization, translating to different languages. Age verification. Box cover printed. Manual translated and printed. And of course the game image created and cd's pressed.
Then all the parts got to come together and be shipped all over the place.
This all takes time and the real potential of delay. Say you discover that the final image your ready to press has a flaw. Have to do it all over again. Then telling the audience that, sorry it gonna be delayed 2 days is impossible. All those ads "on sale on XXXX-XX-XX" will be wrong.
Just because a game is ready for sale does not mean it is immidiatly in a shop.
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This is probably not a huge issue as it seems. The thing is the leak is only for the Xbox version and not the PC version. To effectively make use of this you need 1-A PC to download it, 2-A DVD writer to burn it, and 3-A modded Xbox to play it. The torrent has already been up for 12 hours at the time of writing this, but there are only 100 peers right now. Compare this to a purely PC game where you can install from the downloaded file straight away, the Sims 2 had 1000 peers before the end of the first day of release. But then again one month IS a very long time so you never know what's going to happen..
1. Typical idiot l33t-kiddy response. Console fpses are not PC fpses. They are not designed to be played with keyboard and mouse. Live with it.
2. Possibly. Or it could be somebody in one of what are countless distribution plants. I hope they get caught, but chances are they won't.
3. Wrong. This is played through X-Box Live. Games played over Live do not need CD-keys. If you have a paid-up Live account, you can put any Live-enabled game in your system and just play it. This is how you can have a second hand market for Live games.
4. Just plain stupid. A lot of developers have put their heart and soul into this game. Nobody deserves this (if, in fact, the effect is all that big - remember, you still have to mod your X-Box to play it).
Games are available on the internet before the official release date ?
That's appalling !
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Come on, is this news ???
Well, they've a few weeks in which they could run a new 'homely feel' site about plumbing:
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"Wrong. This is played through X-Box Live. Games played over Live do not need CD-keys. If you have a paid-up Live account, you can put any Live-enabled game in your system and just play it. This is how you can have a second hand market for Live games."
You CANNOT play any Xbox games on live unless you are playing off a legal retail game disc. There is no way around it.
Does anyone else find it ironic and kinda funny that on the main page this story comes right after a story about the US cracking down on IP infringement. Just my 2 cents
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It always amazes me that so many people take the "soure stolen, we have to delay"-thing at face value. What exactly was the link between those two things supposed to be? Sure, ahving your game stolen sucks, and a couple of days of collecting evidence might be in order, but rewriting the entire schedule? Come on! They were lagging behind schedule, and a convenient excuse came along. Nothing wrong with taking the time to do it well instead of rushing release, but that bad excuse annoys me.
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Meh.. /var/tracker/www/include/secrets.php on line 7
www.piratebay.org:
Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Host '192.168.0.8' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' in
Couldn't connect to server.
No wait, its back up again! And the latest news is:
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...
Hehe, be sure to read http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/
Move the date "up" means SOONER, "back" means later. This has been addressed in multiple posts in this thread, if anyone bothered to read them. Bungie was not behind schedule, the game was gold and the theft was either from one of the early 'press' releases or by an employee at the pressing plant. People who don't bother getting their facts straight before posting tend to annoy others.
The French finally DO SOMETHING!
Whats with not releasing the Demo first anymore?
Doom3 did not release a demo untill after the game was launched.
I guess they didn't want all the bad mouth publicity they were going to get due to the fact the game was going to require some heavy horsepower to run it.
...Make the Master Chef cry. =(
...Or, at least break out the SMGs to "flip-out-and-kill-people-in-a-hospital-zone-on-fi re-while-Ninja's-chase-him." (Paraphrased, of course.)
New games are pirated months in advance all the time.
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I hear the version going around has French audio with English subtitles.
I demand a little more proof. How about a link or a torrent or maybe even access to a ftp server with halo2.
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1) old news
2) this didnt originate from french newsgroups, it just happens to be a french version of the game
3) its not even newsworthy in the slightest
My guess is that a lot of people downloading it just want a shot to pratice early so they can kick butt online the day of release, or to check it out and see if it's worthwhile to buy at all.
.001% impact on sales in the end.
Programmers should be more concerned with making sure paying customers are happy than worrying over the ogeyman of "lost sales" due to piracy.
Do you really think Halo sales will suffer as a result of this? My guess is that it will go on to record breaking sales, and this has like a
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1. who said anything about designed? All I said was that people who play them don't know how to play PC fps games with a mouse and kb.
3. Umm... the cd-key is embedded on the disc. If you have a x-box modchip you know that you can't play iso'd xbox games on xbox-live.
4. Heart and Soul doesn't bring home the bacon.
Microsoft announced earlier this morning that the Xbox2 would be cartridge based. "This will allow um, er, better graphics and sound for the Xbox2, yes that's it," Allard was quoted as saying.
But if I were an Evil Game Studio and I had a high profile game about to ship, I might consider making a slightly tweaked version of the game available on the net just prior to the release. Said version would work OK for a while, then on the release date or after some number of times being started, it'd cause your console to boot up to a message with an 800 number and a code. For a 1 time fee of $75, you'd be able to unlock your console, at which time the pirated version of the game would delete itself.
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And, of course, this is all completely valid justification for warezing it.
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Look up "irony" in your dictionary.
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1) I play both. Been playing PC fpses for over 10 years, console fpses for about 3. Can't really say I prefer either.
Myself, I used to be extremely anti-IP. It just bugged me that we were mandating artificial scarcity. I still feel that way, but the singularity is so much more important. When we build that cyberthalamus, most issues including this one will just go away.
When you are hosted on a computer, everything you view can be recorded by you, as your brain is a computer. Once this happens, any form of copy protection is dead. But at the same time our mentality will change so we won't seek copy protection.
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So if Bush's daughter gets murdered, I'm sure you'll assume it's a publicity stunt for sympathy? Cynicism...overrated.
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Hey your game sucks. Nobody will bother pirating a bad, low-profile game. Hell don't even bother with paying for copy protection with crap games!
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with a chipped xbox and tunneling software you can play halo 2 single+multiplayer(on private networks).
several copies are floating around
- torrent
- irc
- usenet
There are many generation 4 mod chips that allow you to play xbox live games with no problems.
Xenium ICE
SmartXX
etc...
And people wonder why the US Government is so worried about Intellectual Property and Copyrights. Why do anything at all if someone is just going to steal it? Of course Bungie/MS will be fine with people nibbling off their plates but most companies, especially small business, cannot afford to allow people to nibble. Yet people nibble whether it's MS/Bungie or Activision. (br> Slashdot must have plastic ceilings because the glass would just be too expensive to replace.
I've played the French version, the Covenent invade earth and as Master Chief you have just 24 hours to surrender.
I think that if you play it on Elite you also have to try to stop other Master Chiefs from attacking the Covenent to secure lucrative oil export rights.
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All those ads that say "on sale on XXXX-XX-XX" probably ARE wrong anyways, seeing as they're just made-up dates written by GameSpot, IGN, etc. etc... as in, very very rarely actually stated by the game developers/publishers themselves!
I've said it a while back before, game studios need to look closer to home to figure out why this happens.
Someone close to these companies are leaking the games. It wouldn't surprise me if it is someone in the QA department or someone who works where the game discs are mass produced and can make one disappear without much notice.
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The french version is great!!!!! The only draw back i've seen so far is that you don't have any guns.... just a white flag.
Gee, I remember PAYING for this game over a year ago! So, now I can finally get my backup copy? Gotta like them frogs.
if you know anyone that gets the rip, just go buy them a real copy. it does injustice to the game playing it in french language.
BTW my friend preordered Doom 3 from Amazon.com a year or two ago. The release date they had written on the site was "March [something] 2003"... so yeah...
Actually it had earlier dates written on the site before that, but of course as time went on and it got closer to the dates Amazon would have to make up a new, more "realistic" date.. which was still like half a year off...
the people who download it AND buy it?
It sucks that it's out there, and this doesn't bode well for things to come... But the talk in this thread makes it sound like Bungee is completely screwed. Really, though... How many modified X-Boxes are there out there? A few hundred thousand? A million? Of those, will everyone download the game (which is in French) and know how to install it? And will they all be happy with a hacked game instead of buying the real thing when it comes out?
Yes this is a problem... But I don't think it will affect sales one bit. In fact I would suspect most who download this will end up buying the real thing... They just want to get a jump on learning to play it first, to get a head start on multiplayer.
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Now where can I find something like BNetd? Is there an XLived for XBOX?
Hrm, I havent seen the download, but i'm wondering The xbox warez community has been working for a long time on cracking the xbox ISO, so that burned games will work on any xbox. I'm wondering right now if the release of this would in any way aid them. Also note, that I have two copies of halo preordered, so I will be waiting, and I will be found at my local EB at 9 PM EST on november 8th. There has been talk of the ISO crack project for a long time, I'm just sort of worried that if this occours, the release dates of many many future xbox games will be delayed while MS and developers scramble to secure thier hardware/software.
Did everybody forget how long it takes to press millions of cds, package them and distribute them worldwide?
This brings up an interesting question: Is it morally wrong to download a leaked version of the game if you already have paid for your preorder? I'm not talking putting $5 down, but rather if you paid the whole thing in full, at what point do you own the game? If you already paid for the game, it's hard to feel bad about downloading an early version of it.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
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Terrible news. Geez.. can't a game make it out nowadays that ISN'T pirated before it's released? The industry is being killed by these greedy bastards who aren't willing to pay the developers for their years of hard work.
This is disgusting.
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Back when I was a warez kiddy I played and beat Alone in the Dark 1 entirely in French. I had no idea what the heck was going on other then it was one extremely strange game. It's also kinda hard to beat a puzzle/adventure game when you can't read any of the clues. Later on when I played it again in English I was stunned by just how much of the game I originally missed out on by not being able to read all the creepy occult stuff. .. My opinion on warez? It's something for kids, honestly, if it weren't for being able to warez operating systems and applications I'd really never had the opportunity to learn the skills I use today to be employed. Games were an impetus to all the other useful exposure. The way I buy software using the money I make with those skills now I think I can say with decent confidence has paid off it's theoretical debt to piracy from when I was a kid. Yea, fundamentally it's just not equivocal, therefore my justification is somewhat flawed, but the alternative is basically that I'd never have been able to or be inclined to buy software like I do, so in some twisted way it's paid off to the software industry holistically.
Basically, it'll never have been fair to the people who made the software I pirated, but the alternative is that today's developers would be out quite a bit of money if my case is even remotely common: warez-kiddy turned computer-professional/gamer.
Maybe this concept isn't as strong as it was back then, just getting those games to work back then was a major technical hurdle in and of itself half the time. I think today's warez kiddies have a lot less to deal with. Back then I was so into just -computers- as a toy that I actually thought it was fun to play with office applications and see what they were capable of. That kind of experience was just totally invaluable, figuring everything out without a manual or help gave me a sort of sixth sense for finding my way through most systems towards what I'm looking for.
I think the industry would be shooting itself in the foot in the long run to stomp out all piracy. (hmm maybe it'd be stomping on a rusty nail...)
A big Swedish torrent site has been contacted by MS in regards of torrents offering Halo2 and I know of atleast one local broadband user who has been contacted by his ISP in regards of his download of Halo2...
I guess they are desperate/nervous.
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does it then mean that Xbox is used for pirated games?
Microsoft revealed the Xbox2 today, and it's a rubber ball that you can bounce up against the wall.
Well you are not missing much, this is how the bootleg french version of Halo 2 looks like:
(*)Translated from very, very European french dialogue.
Master Chief: (known in french as Jacques)
Jacques:(voice off)
*My fate is to kill those who wish us dead, to take lives, what does life mean after all?
Jacques takes a shoot at a covenant in super slow motion while sad opera music is playing in the background. the shoot goes through a covenant, after a quick shoot of a lawn elf sitting there for no reason, we see the covenant really slowly dying.
Covenant:(voice off)
*Oh Ive been shot! the pain surging through my body is nothing compared to the ellusive questioning of my soul! what does life really mean? (the entire shot is filmed in sepia)
Another covenant wearing an extremely ridicullous sex addict outfit comes into scene and takes a pot shot, the entire scene is filmed with a fish lense for no immediate reason.
The shoot lands in the chest of Jacques commander, Jacques rushes to the commander to take his head between his legs and start crying. The entire shoot is filmed at blue sepia for no immediate reason.
Jacques:
*!Monsieur commander!You've been shot, you must be wandering what your life meant and suffering! and wondering.. and suffering!
Commander cousteou:
*life is suffering Jacques, yes, but beautiful suffering, I still wonder what life means! yet, Im about to depart.
Jacques:
*TELL ME ITS NOT SO! TELL ME ITS NOT SO!
(The opera background music gets even sadder and louder)
Commander cousteau:
*Before I depart I must ask: How many people are having an orgasm right now?
A completely innecesary scene of a lot of french people having sex 1 frame per couple flies by, the entire scene is in black and white and filmed from the botton of a fish tank for no immediate reason.
Jacques:
*... 42
Commander:
*Good answer... remember... I love you!...
Arrevouir!
the commander passes away.. Rain starts to pour. the entire scene is filmed in black and white from a birds eye view.
Jacques removes his helmet, revealing a Clint Eastwood look a like painted as a sad clown for no immediate reason.
Jacques:
*NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the sky becomes thunderous as the camera backs away, revealing Jacques alone (for no immediate reason) holding the dead commander on his knees, crying and screaming.
The screen fades to black
A text in a over stylized almost unreadable font appears.
*JACQUES HAS DECIDED TO RETREAT
TO DISCOVER "WHAT LIFE REALLY MEANS?"
THE EARTH HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY LES COVENANTE'S
C'EST LA VIE!
You:
WTF!!!!!!!
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no, i don't follow the hype machine and i ocasionally browse games at a store, come back home and check gamerankings.
besides, who has time to follow whether it's pink, gold or silver? who cares? there's a thounsand (mostly) similiar games to any other game made.
i wait for the horde to waste their money and tell me if it's good. works well, ditto for music, movies, and any other industry known for crap.
I'm no expert on things like this, but if i ran this company, my policy would resemble something with alittle more common sense:
All copies that are distributed prior to the release date would always have a unique identification number imbedded within the image itself. Each id specifically represents the possessor of each unique copy. Furthermore, that fact will be made -very clear- to those who are approved possessors. If your number ends up on the pirated copy, we send goons to your house who will offer you a choice of three items: an eyepatch, a hook, or a pegleg.
Halo 2 is Leaked! ... so we advertise this to the world, so everyone knows to go and download their copy?
Why? Simply because they don't have to. I know that four hundred people have already paid for the game at the local EB. They did this despite the constant delayed release dates (granted those were by retailers and not Bungie, but a lot of people don't pay attention to that fact), and they'll do it despite a French pirated version on BitTorrent, which is likely to come with a nice IE plugin worm, or some other nice goodies attached. NO worries folks, I'm confident there won't be a change, and there doesn't need to be. If you want to enjoy Halo 2 in an honest and complete fashion, just buy the game. It'll definitely be worth it.
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For the 300 years following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Kings of England spoke only French. A large number of French words were assimilated into Old English, which also lost most of its inflections, the result being Middle English.
If they would have kept their version of bloated Latin to themselves, then me and millions of other English writers would not be shackled to our word processor spell check.
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Rather, they will buy legit copies of Halo 2, and pay the developers the respect, and money, that they deserve for producing such an awesome game. People who steal from Bungie are not true Halo fans. Hmm... it is usually scary when the pre-release hype for a game is so much that people are calling it a classic before they have even played it. This almost always leads to a disspointing experience (see Daikatana, Duke Nukem Forever, etc. for further reference).
Well I thought it was funny.
Oh well...