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Bungie Speaks On Halo 2 Leak
BlueMoon writes "A moderator on the official Halo 2 forums posted some speculations and warnings about the Halo 2 leak. To the question where the leak originated he answered "is almost positively the work of some jerk in the manufacturing plant who pocketed the game". They also send out a warning that posting any kind of information about leak will result in "having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and we will ban your gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience"." TalkXbox has a repost of an official statement asking community members to assist in the capture of the folks who leaked the game.
Rule number one: Don't talk about Halo:2 leaks Rule number two: See rule number one
Microsoft employs ninjas? Who knew?!
... to the first Slashdotter to post a link to the Halo 2 torrent whilst screaming "lol ban me you M$ l0s3rz -- i am s0 3l33t!"
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Ha! Detailed language analysis shows that slashdot editorials are written by the Bush election campaign!
I hear in the French version Master Chief surrenders to the Covenant within the first 10 minutes of the game anyway. Problem solved.
*Fortitudo, aequitas, fidelitas.*
Also, Zonk, your account will be suspended for posting links on the front of /. to the bungie.net website. Thanks for the crash!
Haha! He can't remember which way he's trolling!
So is the authour of the parent of this post - "Anonymous Coward" is very definatly a known troll...
Not everything that can be measured matters; Not everything that matters can be measured.
Those are some outlandish claims. Where to start...
First of all you can't play these copies of the game on xboxlive. You can't play any backups on xboxlive because your modchip has to be on and nobody, I mean nobody has a way of playing backups on xboxlive.
Second of all how does it help you to stop spreading information about the leak by posting stop spreading information about this leak on your message board? I mean really. "Lets all just pretend this didn't happen okay guys?" That is a silly attitude.
Third, this is a part of life in the 21st century okay? Bungie should be flattered that someone probably wanted that game out so bad they basically just cost themselves their lively hood and maybe huge financial and/or criminal penalties to play the game early. I am sure that many more people are going to be missing work on the day Halo2 comes out in retail then those who are missing work today as a result of this leak. Lets look at this in a realistic light, anything digital is free for grabs period. Bungie has over a million pre-orders on this title, how many of those were cancelled as a result of this becomming freely available on the internet? None?
Another thing... you guys aren't Britney Spears with a new single who are in risk of being raped of profit. You are Bungie. Your company is a living legend about to release its masterpeice. Your game has a million preorders and the only way to play online is to own a legitimate copy, STOP FRETTING ABOUT IT! IT'S IN FRENCH FOR GODS SAKES! Even I won't download it.
Ninjas? Was this written by an 8 year old?
Parent is correct, the notion that MS employe ninjas is silly. Everybody here at MS knows that Ronin are far more effective in terms of bang for the buck. Ninjas are very expensive, and non-tax deducatble.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
No no; ninjas are the natural enemy of pirates, and the only force strong enough to combat them! It all makes perfect sense
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
...if Bungie were still independent. There was a time when the gaming community loved and respected them. Then they became one with the Borg
The CB App. What's your 20?
Plus they have REAL ULTIMATE POWER!
I was going to do a whole "bungie has real ultimate power" post and would probably get +5'ed for it, but it's friday and I don't feel like karma-whoring. That said, I applaud your joke for the clever application of both obscure internet jokes and a witty pun. Bravo.
Don't mock them. They have Real Ultimate Power.
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
ARTHUR
Please go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest, and if he will give us food and shelter for this night he can join us in our quest for the Halo 2 Grail.
FRENCH HACKER
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. He's already got one, you see?
ARTHUR
What?
GALAHAD
He says they've already got one!
ARTHUR
Are you sure he's got one?
FRENCH HACKER
Oh yes. It's very nice
CUT TO BATTLEMENTS. THE TAUNTER (FRENCH HACKER) turns to some others.
FRENCH HACKER
I told him we already got one.
They all giggle.
Don't mock them. They have Real Ultimate Power.
Yeah, no kidding.
One time I was at a bar with a bunch of ninjas after practicing at the ninja dojo. My friend (who is a ninja, but also a pirate, but also a babe, resulting in a great paradox in the lore of ninjas) thought "ooh, ninjas!" and sprayed all the other ninjas with Silly String. But she accidentally got some on the waitress, who decided to ban all the ninjas from the bar.
Then the ninjas totally flipped out and started stabbing people in the face while others took turns wailing on electric guitars. By the time it was all over, the bar totally looked like the opening shot from Bram Stoker's Dracula except instead of pikes all the people were impaled on pool cues because that's why the ninjas were at the bar in the first place and they wanted to make a point about denying ninjas their pool.
So you people just think twice the next time you start to get all hating on the ninjas. They might just flip out and go all taki ori zenpo kaiten from ichimunji no kamae on your punk pirate ass.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Hey, I could use that version of Harry Potter 3. Hermione gets anally violated by a three-headed dog.
Well that's it. There's no way I'm going to even THINK about Halo 2 if the MS Ninjas are on the case. Everyone knows that ninjas are the real ultimate power. See Ninjas: http://www.realultimatepower.net/index3.htm
A hungry man will tell you anything if you give him a cookie.
IIRC, he died quite a bit in the original Halo as well. I guess it depends on how much you suck at it.
http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/
No, but it's linked to your medical data. So if you've used a leaked copy of Halo 2, and you have a medical emergency, you'll be turned away at every ER and left to die in the street.
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?