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1/3/2007 7:13:51 PM
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Halo 3 Beta Update
In light of the recent Microsoft press release, we give you some more details on how to ensure your participation in the upcoming Halo 3 Beta program, and a few more tidbits about how we plan to take care of the Bungie faithful.
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i hope you can just rent it $60 is too much for a game that i wont even play that much.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ZenoM0RPH Crackdown+Halo3= boosted sales / Xbox360+Halo3=more 360s Sold/ Already have a 360 + Already planning on buying Crackdown= Dont really care![/quote] lol, I dont really care ever if microsoft boost there sales, and I to have a 360 but i have no real intention on getting crack down. If i dont play the beta that dosent mean i'm not a 'real fan' of halo I think halo is awsome and i can wait for halo 3's reliese. However it would be cool to think that I had some sort of input into the development of the game if i did end up playing the beta it and it would be awosme to exprieance the game early before relise, but hay as I said if i have to I can wait. [Edited on 1/4/2007]
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i will sleep outside ebgames... :)
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Crackdown+Halo3= boosted sales / Xbox360+Halo3=more 360s Sold/ Already have a 360 + Already planning on buying Crackdown= Dont really care!
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sounds cool frankie. but to be be honest it's blantently obvious that microsoft are trying to boost sales of crack down by having the the beta on selected versions of the game wich is a little bit tacky if u ask me, but atleast everyone gets a chance to play the beta (even though peolple would have to shell out 50 for the game though). and microsoft know thay will be making serious money, sales will go through the roof if halo 3 is involved ! But hay ! I'm really looking foward to halo 3, even if i dont end up playing the beta [Edited on 1/4/2007]
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Not an official answer. But its safe to asume that it is 3hours of total gameplay time. The first registry is over those people have been selected and a new registry will open on or after Feb. 1-3.
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I have two quick yet important questions: 1: does 3 hours of gaming in halo 2 mean 3 hours of actual gameplay or do matchmaking and party waiting lobbies count? 2: for the registration of 13,333 on Halo3.com, would you have to have been one of the original participants when registration opened up, or is it registration/reregistration after the 3 hours of gameplay? [Edited on 1/4/2007]
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[quote]As well, when “Crackdown” hits store shelves, gamers eager to take home a copy of the highly anticipated exclusive action title for Xbox 360 will find [u]marked boxes[/u] of “Crackdown” that include an invite to participate in the coveted “Halo 3” multiplayer beta program when it becomes available.[/quote]
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In a recent discussion about the value of games, my friend saw a game as worthy of buying if the game would equate fun and monies. Too much monies and not enough fun was bad. Less monies for more fun was always better, but the possibility of paying an average sum and getting something truly unbelievably fun was possible. He said, "If I cannot get fourty hours of fun in a fourty dollar game, it's not worth buying". If games cost as much as the time a user would spend, Halo 2 is far more than Fifty, five hundred, and likely five thousand hours. I wonder how much I would have spent on Halo 2 with my combined hours. [Dollar Sign]
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I have a clan site, only serious gamers need apply . http://www.sedativechunk.com/ Subliminal Forces is my clans name . You must be registered at my site then click on link to submit your info to gamebattles.com . My organizqtion is the future of professional gamers who along with www.The-ShadowCorp.com , we will be taking new members applications . Beta version of Halo3 and all games will be reveiwed and have imput from the players posted on our websites. We signed up for beta version and hopefully will be chosen as beta testers. We have over 50 members already.
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Ive just pre ordered ctackdown just to be safe, as ive entered 6 competitions to get in, but dont think i have.
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hope i registered early enough.(
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Johnrap This isn't merely a sneak peak at Halo 3 we're talking about. This is a one time experience that you might will talk about for years. Seriously, like all those people who claim they were at Woodstock. This isn't just a "demo," as some have called it. It's a beta. It involves understanding requests, following through and properly submitting feedback. Then as reward you get to see a bit of how the process of refinement works. For many of us this is our first ever glimpse at game development. So, all the spoil sports out there, just buy the game at full release, but don't ruin the fun of the experience for the rest of us.[/quote] Its not a once in a life time experience, you'll be experiencing a hell of a lot come the actual release. You say its not a demo... demo /de'moh/ 1. A demonstration of a product, often of an early version or prototype. A demo is a far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest themselves than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching. Jees, erm, that sounds a lot like the Halo beta. First glimpse at game development? The game will be almost fully developed by the time the beta comes out, all they'll be changing is how the network and matchingmaking options work, none of the 'core' game will be changed. P.S. i actually think crackdown looks like one hell of a fun game :)
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Some extremely awesome news! Getting into the Pre-BETA thing would be ultimately the win. But chances are Crackdown will be in my hands upon release xD.
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are these options to enlist open to the entire world, or just the USA like the sign up was? Cos if it is then yet again we in the UK and europe and the rest of the world have been crapped on yet again
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They are doing this to get more people to buy crackdown. Yes people will buy crackdown for the demo. Poor saps that made the game.
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This isn't merely a sneak peak at Halo 3 we're talking about. This is a one time experience that you might will talk about for years. Seriously, like all those people who claim they were at Woodstock. This isn't just a "demo," as some have called it. It's a beta. It involves understanding requests, following through and properly submitting feedback. Then as reward you get to see a bit of how the process of refinement works. For many of us this is our first ever glimpse at game development. So, all the spoil sports out there, just buy the game at full release, but don't ruin the fun of the experience for the rest of us.
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Cant wait!! Hopefully some specific info for the UK will be appearing soon tho :-)
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Novumber eel [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Scott2k44 nice... the americans get there keys this month but the europeans need to wait before we can even sign up. good job bungie.[/quote] Yes, the europe/america situation is a bit funny... but then... Im from Britain. Well done Scott2k44, I'm sure everybody here is thrilled by your flagrant racism. Go enjoy yourself, go on, like, a LONG way away from these forums where NOBODY wan't to listern to your bull-blam!-[/quote] since you clearly misread my post i to am British, i dont / wont complain about the whole british american thing since most of the americans ive come across seem fairly decent. the sales in america are indeed higher than europe however bungie will need to get a large audience for the game anyway so offering it to Europe is an advantage. as for being racist..... k well whatever floats your boat because what i said wasnt racist.
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I'm a few months from being 17, so I can't enter the beta like most people are... so let's hope I count as an "active member" :-) Which is a problem, because GoW just came out and until now I've been playing on my friend's accounts. Well I guess it's back to Halo 2 for the moment. Thanks Bunige for all the ways to enter the Beta, and congrats to those who get in!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] twinkiemaker [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Frankie Anyone who purchases the upcoming Xbox 360 game “Crackdown” will get automatic entry into the Halo 3 beta. If you have a Crackdown disc you’ll be able to activate and download the beta once it goes live [b]next[/b] Spring.[/quote] I'm hoping this is just a failure to adapt to it being 2007. If not, is this a discrete way of saying that the beta (and Halo 3) won't be released until 2008?[/quote] If you think the beta is released in 2008, you're a very silly silly boy. Stay in school. We're still in winter at the moment.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Frankie Anyone who purchases the upcoming Xbox 360 game “Crackdown” will get automatic entry into the Halo 3 beta. If you have a Crackdown disc you’ll be able to activate and download the beta once it goes live [b]next[/b] Spring.[/quote] I'm hoping this is just a failure to adapt to it being 2007. If not, is this a discrete way of saying that the beta (and Halo 3) won't be released until 2008?
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Anybody know if the Beta will allow guests? Cause I can only play online at a friends house.
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i spent about an hour on December fourth with 3 computers and 18 tabs up in firefox refreshing halo3.com untill i got in. thats all ive got to say
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Yeah i'm hoping too, will most likely have to buy this crackdown rubbish, and yet am not sure whether it'll allow me play halo 3 or not. Seems a bit sh**y how bungie seem to be ripping people off at every oppurtuinity, but then again the xbox360 seems to be just one big advertisment with the ability to "BUY" updates for your games. BUY? What's up with this? Charging people for the gaming experience. Maybe halo 3 will be worth it, Maybe bungie will take there thumb out and stop some of the thousands of modders still playing on halo2, or maybe they'll implement a feedback system that if nothing else, gives a user the impression that they'll look at it, at least.
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The info in the Crackdown news release [i]suggests[/i] that the beta invitations will be valid in Europe as well as the rest of the world - excerpt from it reads "Crackdown is scheduled to hit store shelves across the planet on Feb. 20, 2007. When the Halo 3 multiplayer beta surfaces in spring 2007, owners of Crackdown simply need to load their copy of Crackdown into their Xbox 360, use the disc as a key to download the Halo 3 multiplayer beta from Xbox Live Marketplace, and join the battle." As I live in England, here's hoping!
