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Old 03-20-2004, 08:09 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Halo2 release and live gossip

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I was wondering if any of you have any more info on the release of Halo2? Rumor has it, it won't come out until the day after Thanksgiving EVEN if it's ready earlier.

The Official Xbox mag is confirming a holiday release.

Also, I'm hearing that players who want to play Halo2 online will not only have to pay for Xboxlive, BUT will have to subscribe to a premium service of approx $25 a month for Halo2 live.

The release date is killing me, but having to pay a premium for one game, that's in excess of 250% of the current rate to play every other game...that just gripes my ass!!!

Somebody quick...tell me I've been misled!
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Old 03-20-2004, 02:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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About the release date...I'll be disappointed if they don't keep working on it until it's time to ship out; there's always a bug to fix, an effect to be added, a feature to be implemented, some polygons to be touched up on, or whatever else. If it's ready before its release date, then release it earlier!

If we have to pay $25 bucks to play Halo 2 online ON TOP OF the regular X-Box Live fee, there will be many pissed people. If it was only a small fee with the X-Box Live fee, then that'd make many more people happy...and if it had no extra fee, mark my words, Halo 2 will sell itself and X-Boxes like crazy (probably more than when the X-Box and Halo first came out).
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Old 03-20-2004, 03:07 PM   #3 (permalink)
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wtf?! 25 on top of the x-box live fee?! Thats gotta be a bullshit hoax rumer but after all what do I care..I want to see my opponents face when I own him.
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Old 03-20-2004, 09:21 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Halo 2 comes out internationally in September, this fee rumour sounds like bollocks.
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Old 03-20-2004, 09:46 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I agree with that call.
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Old 03-21-2004, 08:02 PM   #6 (permalink)
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That would be a mistake if they were to charge an extra $25 dollars. If they only charged .50 more on top of the xbox live fee they would make more money in the long run.
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Old 03-21-2004, 08:08 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I can't believe you would believe that there would be a 25 dollar charge for ANY xbox live game... please put down the crack pipe

Halo2 will pay for any extra costs of extra servers just by all of the extra subscriptions to live it sells...

Day after thanksgiving would probably be a bit late in the holiday season, typically finished games release in october in order to maximize sales and allow for the maximum amount of advertising. Also, consider that halo2 is not just about seling games but selling MORE CONSOLES. Which means release it ASAP...
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Old 03-22-2004, 01:12 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I hope that extra charge rumor is a lie. But what's sad is, if they add the 25 buck charge we will all still reluctantly hand them our credit card. Microsoft has our nuts in a vice and can squeeze them anyway they like and they know it....
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Old 03-22-2004, 01:20 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Before it comes out, better invest in a nice couch eh?
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Old 03-22-2004, 06:31 AM   #10 (permalink)
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come on guys, $25 a month for only Halo 2? there is no way in hell they would do that....

it will be xbox live compatible, end of discussion. the standard fee for xbox live will be the ONLY fee you have to pay. Bungie and Microsoft (as much as you hate the latter) would not make such a bad marketing move. MMORPGs don't even cost that much.....
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Old 03-22-2004, 12:32 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I can believe microsoft would charge an extra 25$. They will do anything to make extra money and they can always lower it in the future to make them look like some nice generous company. Snakes they are....
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Old 03-22-2004, 01:52 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I can believe microsoft would charge an extra 25$. They will do anything to make extra money and they can always lower it in the future to make them look like some nice generous company. Snakes they are....
for the love of all things LOGICAL, they won't charge 25 fucking dollars a month to play one game that costs 50 to BEGIN WITH! As much as you guys hate Microsoft, they aren't THAT bad.

If we take all logic with Microsoft out of the problem, the fact still remains that no one would fucking pay 25 dollars a month to play Halo 2 online. You can say you would, but you wouldn't. It's too much money for one game that isn't even an MMORPG.....

it would be <i>slightly</i> different if there wasn't a cover charge for xbox live already implemented. but there is! they won't throw another figure into the equation. it would push away too many potential customers
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Old 03-22-2004, 03:10 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Yeah, that rumor is bullshit, there's no way ms would do that. It'd be suicide for the system to do a double charge like that. It wouldn't make sense for ANY company to do that, not even Microsoft, with all its money and shit, wouldn't have the grapes to charge anything above what it already charges for its proprietary online service.
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Old 03-22-2004, 09:59 PM   #14 (permalink)
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/watches the demo again.

awwwwwwwwwwwww yeahhhhhhhhhhh
Wake me in September....
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Old 03-25-2004, 07:16 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I can't wait for this game. I really doubt the rumor about the additional fee. One of the things that I am worried about is that XBox magazine said that they hadn't seen the human pistol in any of the screenshots or demos of the game. I hope they didn't take it out, that gun rules for secret sniping(no vapor trail to give you away)
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Old 03-26-2004, 12:24 PM   #16 (permalink)
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My guess is that they're leaving it out of the demos because there's too much cool stuff they want to show. I can't Imagine one of the most popular weapons from the first game being dropped.
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