Halo 2 Already Pirated
 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10...s_6110539.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3743110.stm

Here is the article from Gamespot

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Ha! I have a friend that told me that he has a bootleg version of Halo 2, and here I thought he was lying!

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saw this last night, heh, pretty messed up how somepeople can do that.... gimme a break guys, buy the game.

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I like to get stuff early for the sole purpose of getting it early. It's exciting to have it earlier than you're supposed to. And yet I still buy everything I get early as soon as it gets out.

It's not a matter of screwing people out of their money. It's just fun to skirt the rules sometimes.

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Yeah, I have NO IDEA What you mean

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And the parade of pirating scumbags continues. I hope everyone who gets the pirated game gets the maximum penalty allowed by law.

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What the heck, I agree with The Strangler. :wtf:

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Doesn't seem worth it to me when the game is in French and downloading it would take forever. Some kids have too much time. :shakehead

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What, you don't speak French? :sneaky:

I don't think Halo2 depends much on language...
And downloading can be done in 1 night with leaving the computer on..

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I'm not really sure. I mean, in terms of computer measurements, how much does a high-end game like Halo 2 consume? Is it a gigabyte, 50 gigabytes, 500 mb? I've never downloaded something that was even a gigabyte so I don't know if it could really be done in one night. Ignoring the factor that other people with the file would be online all night so you'd have a steady download rate.

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i just called microsoft and gave them 8 sites that are offering the dowload, and they'll shut em down... this shouldnt be happening, i hope they put an end to this real quick... they can't stop the disks that have already been burned though, and that sucks!

the file is between 5-6 gigs for this download,

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So what department did you contact? Did they ask for your name? Did they thank you for doing the right thing?

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piracy@microsoft.com

1-800-785-3448

yep, yep and yep

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Heh, I remember when I constantly reported ROM sites to Nintendo. :D

Well actually just twice. :unsure:

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I got a pretty interesting email from them. They sure are pissed. Help these guys out, this is bullsh*t.

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what's the email? i didn't get one

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Erm, yeah chances are you wouldn't get one. They notified a few media sites, I didn't get it personally, it was sent to the site.

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Man it sucks when people pirate games.

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reports are coming in about the games quality:

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reports are coming in about the games quality:

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The same XBots who praised the first Halo despite the fact that it was really a letdown? Who is surprised?

But the can't stop a leaked game. The amateurs who get into it might have a hard time finding it, but those who regularly pirate games and download bootleg versions leaked months before their release, will return to their regular sources, Usenet groups, and private P2P servers.

Once it's out, it's out.

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Wow, there are rumors that Halo 2 is a huge letdown? Like the rumors that the Xbox was really the "Crashbox" when it first came out? Like the naysayers who said that Halo wasn't the sublime game that it was because they WANTED it to be a letdown?

Don't believe everything you read. Trust a variety of reviews, not someone on the internet who claims to have the game.

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And they cant tell you what you like and do not like

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Of course they'll say it's crappy. If they said it was good, they'd have to back it up with information, which they don't have.

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I personally think that Halo 2 shouldn't be very different from the original, because it was that good of a console game. If it was radically different, I don't think it would be near as good as it can be.

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Exactly. Halo was the perfect FPS IMO and all I really want in Halo 2 is updated graphics, new weapons and enemies, and improved AI. I'm pretty sure all that **** is in.

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I know the sentiment because that's exactly what I said about Perfect Dark in comparison to Goldeneye...And while Perfect Dark is still a great game, to me it will never have quite the appeal that Goldeneye will.

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I personally can't wait for nov 9th.. Halo 2 is gonna be a good game IMO because I mean I liked the first one. Hours of nothing to do hrm. lets go kill some ruthless alien scum :) hehe.. Just IMO though :)

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I couldn't agree more. It's absurd to think that shutting some websites down will deter the distribution of already-existing bootlegged copies to the masses. And if you're smart, you'd never download from these slow, unstable sites anyway. Everyone and anyone who knows anything about bootlegging would use usenet, or bittorrent - neither of which MS holds influence.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is simply no reasonable way for MS to stop the current rampant piracy. Any deterrence will have to be relegated to their next venture. And even then, I'm not sure piracy will stop. After all, we all know MS has never been known to be proficient in deterring it.

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I know a good deterrent: Smart Bombs. Everyone who prates a game gets a J-Dam down their chimney.

"Hey, this illegal copy of Halo 2 is GREAT. I can't wait to pirate all kinds of other games! Whats that sound?"

Its called a B2 Bomber, asshole. :D

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Microsoft did it to themselves, they got sloppy with the control of copies of the game. It was already being spread around before I came over here in early August. Developers don't have the ability to put the game onto discs that a consumer Xbox can read, only Microsoft does, why they ever did it is beyond me, and if they did, they should've kept it on a very tight leash.

What I don't understand is this has all the signs of Microsoft deliberately leaking the game, much in the way Apple leaks software and info out to generate hype. But Halo 2 already had enough hype, and why take the risk of having mediocre feedback if they can sell the game just fine without anything but the name?

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what are the odds that microshaft did release the game just for hype?

The whole E3 level is not in the leaked copy.

It takes 7-8 hours to complete

It have a "crappy ending and people are going to be very upset"

....maybe bungie and microsoft are doing the same thing like when in the star wars script, vader tells luke, anakin killed his father...

by the way, check out: www.halo2.com

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I'm so shocked that I heard it was TEDIOUS from one of my fellow members at another forum. That is TOTALLY UNLIKE the first game! Totally unlike!

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I've heard not all of the story is in there and the subtitles are french. Why would anyone bother playing it :-/ And dammit, i want a pc release date!

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yeah, i heard it was like the library over and over... that kinda tediousness!!! ack!

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What one hears and what one experiences are two different realms. Try to close your hearing and spread open your experiencing.

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Thats sounds like something you would read from a fortune cookie