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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.
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"
Slashdot also sent out a warning that posting any kind of information about the leak will result in "having your ISP account's ability to post to Slashdot crippled as we can and we will ban your account from access to vital parts of Slashdot's online experience"
Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
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.
.45 LongSlide with Laser Sight when a Phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range is obviously the best choice.
Fine. Goodbye. Threatening customers en masse is yet another reason to ditch these guys in favor of systems where they don't act like Saddam Hussein all the time. Better yet, find an open-source and distributed gaming network. I don't even have an XBox or Halo, but I'm as pissed off as I can be at their mouth-frothing, scattergun, -1, Troll threats. Why would I ever sign up with these DICKS if they can start pulling the plug on you at their whim? Next they'll pull your plug for dissing their game on your blog. Then they'll pull your plug for using bad language during the game. Then they'll pull your plug for using a
It's their right to be raging assholes, it's my right never to buy their product because of it. Piracy sucks, but wiretapping your customers sucks worse. Looks like Big Brother is alive and well and (why am I surprised) works for Microsoft.
From the official Bungie forums posting:
A link or offer to give out a link via private media on the forums will get you banned permanently. The same goes for any kind of leak-related spoiler information. Further, you risk having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and will ban gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience. We are NOT kidding around here. There will be no warning, no appeal, you'll just be gone.
Well, first of all isn't it kinda late (and lame) to pretend that the leak does not exist? If you don't talk about it maybe it didn't happen, right?
Second, I am kinda pissed off at their attitude. Who the fuck are you to tell me what I can talk about and what I cannot talk about? You will ban access to online play? Err, I bought this game in a store, paid money for it, it says "multiplayer" on the box. Not to mention that I have doubts about their technical ability to associate Xbox Live accounts with forum postings.
By the way, note to people with reading comprehension problems: I am not defending those who leaked the game, I am ranting at Bungie's arrogance.
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Dude... you're posting on slashdot with a sig about hating Linux and your calling that guy confused?
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
Why? Do you work for Bungie?
> Nabbing a CD off an assembly line is no better than downloading the game off the
> internet, it's stealing plain and simple.
While nabbing the CD from an assembly line is indeed stealing, downloading it from the net has nothing at all to do with stealing.
Additionally, stealing the CD is actually worse than downloading it, as only the former causes them to lose something.
Stealing
Copyright
Yeah I'm as surprised as you that it got modded up. The moderators actually got it right. Creepy indeed...
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Yeah, that'll work, because we all know security through obscurity is the best solution.
Security through obscurity is not a solution to the problem of games getting leaked. Good old-fashioned physical security and trustworthy personell are the only reliable methods. It's not the solution to piracy either, because that "problem" doesn't have a solution.
The fact is, anyone who was going to pirate knows where to find it.
Not true. I wanted to get a leaked copy, but I didn't know how until I saw that slashdot post. I'm downloading it right now. I didn't bother to go out looking for it, but after being handed a link reading slashdot comments I would have read anyway, there's no reason for me not to download it and give it to all my xbox owning friends.