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Halo 3 leaked, thousands download
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article published on 21 September, 2007
Halo 3, the much anticipated next chapter in Bungie's best selling series has been leaked online, over a week before its official release date.
Uploaded a few days ago, the 6.14 GB ISO file has been making its way through P2P and torrents and downloads are in the thousands. The game of course will only play on modified Xbox 360 consoles.
Microsoft claims the game was being sold at ... [ read the full article ]
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21. September 2007 @ 20:32 |
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Wow, that's kinda funny how this stuff has been happening quite frequently lately with movies, games, etc. Makes you wonder if the companies are starting to do this on purpose to gain publicity.
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c.trigger
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21. September 2007 @ 21:36 |
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with all the preorders they can probably afford this
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21. September 2007 @ 21:54 |
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Already beat the game, I'm damn thankful to those people. :P
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chubbyInc
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21. September 2007 @ 22:34 |
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Well over 5000 people have downloaded it from a certain site in particular. I think Microsoft did this on purpose, not for publicity. Could it be possible to have tracking or even verification on these discs which were uploaded so Microsoft can ban accounts when the people try to play online. Might not be the case, but just seems unorthodox on Microsoft's part to allow this to happen.
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kaosX
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21. September 2007 @ 22:51 |
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i thought the ISO was around 7.3 GB ?
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22. September 2007 @ 00:39 |
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Originally posted by chubbyInc:
Well over 5000 people have downloaded it from a certain site in particular. I think Microsoft did this on purpose, not for publicity. Could it be possible to have tracking or even verification on these discs which were uploaded so Microsoft can ban accounts when the people try to play online. Might not be the case, but just seems unorthodox on Microsoft's part to allow this to happen.
They definitely wouldnt have done it on purpose but I wouldnt put it passed them to have some kind of verification embedded into it, such an important release and all.
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Riotard
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22. September 2007 @ 01:40 |
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Yeah definatly somethings not right here, woudl ahve though M$ to do soemthign here to stop these downlaods, such as gettign everone in their company to downlaod the torrent and have no uplaoding, so that no one coudl downlaod it!
Its just tooo strange, somethigns up, personally i wouldn't downlaod it! wacth i recokn M$ will ban accounts if the acheievemnts ahve been acheived before the release date, but ppl who got the game sent to them by argos might have a mechanism to stop their accoutns being banned. It just seems too weird for my liking!
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BIGnewb
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22. September 2007 @ 03:52 |
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umm why do you keep switching letters its really annoying^^^^.and my friend just downloaded the game.oh my god THIS GAME IS IDENTICAL TO HALO 2.i knew this game would be over hyped i knew it.so far i've only played the first level but its the same.
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22. September 2007 @ 03:54 |
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Originally posted by BIGnewb:
umm why do you keep switching letters its really annoying^^^^.and my friend just downloaded the game.oh my god THIS GAME IS IDENTICAL TO HALO 2.i knew this game would be over hyped i knew it.so far i've only played the first level but its the same.
Similar? Yes.
Identical? No.
Try getting past the first few levels before drawing to conclusions.
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ChromeMud
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22. September 2007 @ 04:40 |
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Originally posted by BIGnewb:
umm why do you keep switching letters its really annoying^^^^.and my friend just downloaded the game.oh my god THIS GAME IS IDENTICAL TO HALO 2.i knew this game would be over hyped i knew it.so far i've only played the first level but its the same.
Yeah...uhhh....buy a PS3....it rox!
You're just a tad predictable you know that.
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22. September 2007 @ 07:22 |
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I am sorry for all you that play this First person shooters are so out of date and they are very lame.
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22. September 2007 @ 07:32 |
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This is whats going to happen. People will download this before release date just crackdown with the beta version. People will play the illegal copie before the release date. Microsoft will know you played it when your online playing on live before release date and ban your account. Any who signs into xbox live with this game before or after the release date will get banned. The game has a serial number embedded into it on pursose to ban anyone using the same serial number found on the illegal copy. How do i know that. My dumb brother got banned for using the illegal copy of crackdown....
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F0KUL0VME
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22. September 2007 @ 08:23 |
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Originally posted by nintenut:
Already beat the game, I'm damn thankful to those people. :P
good shit i beat it on legendary its pretty sick.. yo wuts ur gamertag i wanna add some ppl to play wit since matchmaking is down...
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F0KUL0VME
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22. September 2007 @ 08:26 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by chubbyInc:
Well over 5000 people have downloaded it from a certain site in particular. I think Microsoft did this on purpose, not for publicity. Could it be possible to have tracking or even verification on these discs which were uploaded so Microsoft can ban accounts when the people try to play online. Might not be the case, but just seems unorthodox on Microsoft's part to allow this to happen.
They definitely wouldnt have done it on purpose but I wouldnt put it passed them to have some kind of verification embedded into it, such an important release and all.
Rarely rarely doubt that i got my copy from some newsgroups and the patch was separately done by another user who im sure doesn't work for m$ lmao.
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22. September 2007 @ 09:49 |
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yeah, so who didn't see this coming...as a matter of fact, just this past monday on our local radio show "elliot in the morning" some guy called in and said that his friend just quit his job at the UPS, now, that isn't all that big of news, however...he also said that his friend found the shipment boxes of halo 3 and took like 6 of them...lol!
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miraail28
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22. September 2007 @ 10:11 |
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I have a question. The people who did download this cracked game wouldn't they just play it on their modded version and then just buy the original and use that to play it online? I mean wouldn't that make perfect sense?
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22. September 2007 @ 10:20 |
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Yeah you would think so. But people dont want to spend money thats all.
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22. September 2007 @ 11:28 |
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probly is a trap to ban people.
But some people dont want to play online like a few of my mates so they would be fine i could play it earily lol.
But sadly im moving tomoro moring and wont beable to play it for around 3 weeks.
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22. September 2007 @ 13:04 |
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Originally posted by nintenut:
Already beat the game, I'm damn thankful to those people. :P
good shit i beat it on legendary its pretty sick.. yo wuts ur gamertag i wanna add some ppl to play wit since matchmaking is down...
I don't have Live, but I will soon.
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22. September 2007 @ 13:54 |
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Originally posted by wolf123:
I am sorry for all you that play this First person shooters are so out of date and they are very lame.
Your not making much sense since all types of genre games have been around forever & by your own admission you've just said all games are out of date & lame...lmao
Back on topic: i've just seen the multiplayer video from bungie & how you can rewind the game & make the little movies from it as well as dropping vehicles on opponents...lol... what an unbelievable game it's going to be & shifting the enviromnt around aint a bad thing either,not sure if it includes making your own maps
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?...nk=h3savedfilms
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edsrouter
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22. September 2007 @ 14:22 |
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You know it really makes me wonder how big of a tax write-off M$ has after all of this. Games of the future won't even be played on a disc you can buy from a store, but more than likely played exclusively from a server. Enjoy this while it lasts guys.
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22. September 2007 @ 14:25 |
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To be fair, I think we all knew that Halo 3 was going to be over-hyped. And to be even more fair, its next to impossible for this to have leaked out without the company's okay.
Anyone here who reads the New York Times, will probably remember reading a few months back an article about "The Powers of Fanboy!" For those of you who are confused; the article was about how hollywood and game developers and whatnot are consistantly leaking out games and scripts early so as to establish a base demographic, as well as let extra hype surge out. With the base demorgaphic, they can see where the target intrest areas are and who their target audiance is. With Halo 3 there has been a lot of worry about the audiance being mostly preteen kids (which is bad for the company because preteen kids, generally speaking, have less money).
The extra hype surge comes forth from people who host Halo Parties and whatnot and unviel their "pre"Pre-Release copies of the game, or just from people who brag to friends. The one thing that is most true of human nature is the fact that if someone has something we don't - We want it! And come first opritunity to get it, we will... The reason this is a good move on Microsoft's part, is because they know that only a very small percent of X-Boxes are moded, and those that are will pirate the game as soon as possible anyway, so releasing it does not, in theory, cause any profit loss. In fact, because so many people without modded consoles will see friends with the game, they will be there, in store, cash in hand, waiting for the first copies to hit the shelves.
We've seen this time and time again. Not many people remember but this happened with GTA: San Andreas for the PS2. Maybe 8% of PS2 owners have a modded console, so the profit loss is nothing major, but that 8% will be doing a lot of free advertising (bragging) on RockStar's behalf, making sure that when it is released the other 92% of people will be waiting in lines.
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DoomLight
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22. September 2007 @ 16:47 |
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lol this is a nightmare for Msoft. i personally dont care for halo. and i doubt it will hurt MSOFT much. really. the only people getting this game are the ones that dont think its worth paying for. there is plenty of fans out there that will pay for this game. i mean my friend that works at game stop. one store has over 2000 pre paid orders. so the scant percent playing downloaded copies. isn't a big enough dent. i think all companies should factor in the pirate loss in their over all tallies in any product made these days.
so they have a more realistic profit figure. they gotta get their head out the clouds. people will pirate anything. so they should at least factor a 5% loss in each product lol
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F0KUL0VME
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22. September 2007 @ 17:17 |
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im sorry but i have one more thing to say.... HALO 3 IS DA SHIT!!! ...thank you
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BIGnewb
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22. September 2007 @ 19:07 |
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after playing a couple of levels the game has changed and im starting to like it.the first xbox game that i like :D wow im pretty satisfied right about now.great game and worth buying.wow now i gotta buy 360 which i dont have the money for :@
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