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Bungie goes to NYC for Launch Event
Bungie + Halo 3
09.24.2007 at 10:55 am
No one ever comes to the Midwest. Anyway, check out the site for more information.
“Tomorrow, Sept. 24th, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Best Buy in lovely New York City (the Best Buy at 44th and 5th), Bungie, Microsoft and tons dudes will be on hand until midnight, playing Halo 3 with the fans, goofing around, doling out tons of prizes, holding competitions and generally spreading the seeds of Infinite Win throughout the core of the Big Apple.”
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Halo 3 Beta: Feel the Wraith of the Fanboy
Xbox360 + Bungie + Halo 3
05.16.2007 at 5:27 pm
What follows is not for the faint of heart. That’s right, message board posts strait from the Bungie Forums.
There is simply no excuse for this.
“Crackdown launched in February, the Halo 3 public beta itself was announced in November of last year for Christ’s sake! Microsoft and Bungie had months on end to plan this out and make sure there weren’t any screw ups. Now, do you mean to tell me that a bunch of people at one of the world’s largest corporations couldn’t come up with a plan to release this beta on time when they had months of preperation?! First it was the map pack, and now it’s this Crackdown debacle. Microsoft, and whoever else is responsible for the beta launch, should be truly ashamed of their performance this year.”
“I agree, it simply comes down to terible planning, testing and implementation. If they had done these things properly, they wouldn’t have so many angry fans.”
“It just blows my mind how they managed to screw this up, failing to learn their lesson after the map pack delay.”
“Agreed. Months to test but at the last minute, failure. I blame XBL/Xbox/Microsoft. Not Bungie, they’ve already delivered the Beta for people (non-Crackdown’ers) already.”
“OMG i swaer to god that now that this has happened bungie need to make the beta last till july 1 and i think they did a bad job when they had all this time now whos with me on the extened time for the beta?”
“i want everyone here to make a game. as big as Halo 3. make it online. and not encounter 1 problem. stuff happens, nobodies perfect. if you took off skool/work for this, you have NO life, its gonna be there when you come back. its not like you can try to be the hightest rank, since me n many others have had it ahead of time. so quit whining.”
“Don’t give me that crap. They shouldn’t have promised. They don’t get a free ride cause their job is hard. If you promise something you have to deliver. If you don’t, then you have to deal with the -blam!- storm headed your way. They deserve every part of this.”
“The promised a BETA. A beta is unfinished and has PROBLEMS. They promised a beta and we GOT a beta. Software that is unfinished and has problems. Learn to cope man. Have you ever messed anything up? Have you even been late to work, or screwed up a big project? Should your boss flip out and fire you the first or second time you are late, even when you TOLD them you would be late cause you were new and had problems.”
“What the hell does the software being unfinished have to do with the Crackdown delay? Do you even know what you’re talking about? It hasn’t been delayed because of software issues, if that were the case then the Friends and Family invites as well as the Rule of 3 invites would also be delayed. It is ONLY the Crackdown release that is delayed, a release that is handle by the Microsoft Xbox Live team. They simply screwed up, there is no way around it. And please, don’t give this nonsense about this being too big of a release. The size of the audience has nothing to do with simply throwing the game on the marketplace and enabling the download through Crackdown. Obviously, the Xbox Live team is having some technical issues with enabling the download through Crackdown. But as I said before, with months and months of advance planning, there is no excuse for this complete failure!”
“Hey tacroy, I’m not a multi-billion dollar corporation who has had 6 months to get this right. And when I frick up, I take responsibility immediately and fix things. For the record, this isn’t the first time Bungie and M$ have messed up regarding the Halo franchise”
“Get off Bungie’s back guys! Let Bungie work! I would like to see you manage a beta program for a few thousand people. Do you have any idea what has to go into it?
-First off you have to figure out the logistics, delivery; who gets it, how to get it there, the channel for it to go across, server redundancy to assure they don’t get overloaded, caching on all those servers, etc.
-Next, they have to setup a feedback system. They have to set it up so it pulls stats correctly. They have to write their own application for this. They then have to figure out how the best way to view those stats would be, and then design a software to parse them. After that, they have to figure out a system to submit bugs.
-Then as an extra step, it has to be pretty hard to have an app verify a game is present before continuing. Xbox live will have a hell of a time trying to serve up the beta, by being launched IN A GAME. On the Xbox 360, downloads are to be launched form the dashboard not game, so that makes it even harder.
-Then what you have to do is the normal download, which it itself is hard. Bungie essentially had to put a product key check INTO the dashboard (like your windows activation key) then it had to launch the download after that, again, not to easy.
-After that, they have to make sure everyone can actually play, or get there download.
So you guys, leave Bungie alone. That isn’t even the skim of the surface, there is allot that goes into this. For those of you complaining because Crackdown won’t let them download the game, you have obviously never beta tested. The rollout of a beta goes through all sorts of hitches, get use to it if you want to beta test. It is most likely that the link in the Crackdown menu is pointing to a wrong DL link, or something similar. The link could have been changed to provide a faster or more reliable download, or a last minute porblem was seen with it, so now they have to figure out a redirect without comprimising the speed. Complaining about a problem Bungie knows about won’t help.”
“Cullend is right, everyone needs to relax and be patient. The Xbox Live team is working on the servers and the beta should be up before the day ends. Harassing Bungie isn’t going to make it work any sooner.”
“patience is one thing.. being a -blam!- is another… they are only near 5 hours past the time they predicted.. that doesnt destroy credibility or anything”
“I disagree. They told us months ago that this was the day. If they weren’t able to keep their word they should’ve moved the date back.”
“I agree. people need to lay off bungie. -blam!- happens, and people that can’t deal with the fact that -blam!- happens the most with a beta need to make sure they take every possible precaution not to reproduce. -blam!- selfish bastards can’t handle a little unexpected delay. Jesus christ it’s not like they aren’t trying everything they can do to get it off the ground.”
“Can we just stop with assuming all Crackdown beta people are d0uch3b4gs?
Don’t toss me into that category. This thread should be titled “To The Flamers” or something like that. Not what it is currently.”
“Agreed. I bought Crackdown for Crackdown itself, but, it was also nice to get the Beta. I could’ve tried to get into the Beta through the other methods, but this was one of the sure fire ways to get in. Everyone who got into the Beta this way isn’t an immature child, however, most of the people who did are portraying us like that. Please be open to new thoughts and don’t stereotype people because you think your better than them (elitism).”
“I think people have a right to be upset, Bungie and MS said a time and a date for people. People had to jump through hoops and or buy a 60 dollar game to get into it all to in the end help bungie beta test there game. While i am not personaly attacking calling them lazy or idiots, i know its complicated. Although stop making promise if you cant hold them up.. it would of been fine if they just one day released the beta , everyone would cheer bungie and build lots positive feelings. Now with this blunder could possible be fixed in a few hours or a few days, and builds bad feeling for there hardcore fans.”
“Who is going to be held responsible for these failures? Is someone going to get fired or will someone have courage and admit their mistakes and resign from their current position?”
“heres an idea stop being a puss and wait, its no-ones fault.”
“If it’s no one’s fault then why did something go wrong?”
“i think the geniuses at bungie should be held responsible. these idiots should have tested this crackdown method before hand seeing as how EVERYBODY bought one for the reason of being able to try the beta. instead these clowns decide hey, let’s play halo 3 ourselves days before the trial begins.”
Bungie should cancel the beta…
“..but not because they can’t get it to play nice with XBLA. They should cancel the open, public beta because that public that they are catering to is acting like a bunch of inconsiderate, unappreciative and disrespectful fifth graders.
People wonder why gamers have such a bad rap in our society, and I think this proves why. Since Halo 3 isn’t on time, the community is unleashing unneeded and ungrateful comments towards something that would have never happened a few years ago. Bungie knows that they don’t have to give you a beta to a game that will be releasing in a couple of months, but they are taking a chance that we, the gaming community, will be a resource for hunting for bugs and glitches.
And how do some in the community thank Bungie? But writing things like ‘Bungie NOOBS’ or ‘I missed work for THIS,” would only make Bungie want to decide to cancel the Beta altogether because the people they are going to be trusting with their software might not even help them, or are extremely unconsiderate. And even then, I can see the moderators of this board right now wondering if they should start banning people because they are blaming Bungie and Microsoft for the late delivery of this Beta. Unless you work for Microsoft or Bungie and can help provide a viable solution to fixing the problem with the Crackdown distribution client that Bungie and Microsoft are utilizing, don’t say things that paint a bad picture of Bungie OR Microsoft. It’s just foolish.
So, to all of those who want to blame Microsoft or Bungie for something they don’t really owe you, please think twice about looking like an inconsiderate jerk.”
“The only problem I see is that Bungie/MS have ignored there paying customers for 6hrs over the game that will make or break the 360.”
“Oh go fall down a hill Bungies not going to send u and f+f code for your brownnosing efforts.”
“The appreciative people are waiting patiently and realize this isn’t the end of the world. Hundreds of thousands of people undoubtedly own Crackdown yet we(gratefully), only see a handful of malcontents here.”
“Ugh, NO. It’s a tiny bit of the playerbase actually whinging on the forums- those who are content have no need to post, do they? There are NEVER any “I am happy, i am good fan” posts only “uggghh i H8 u lal” posts on any given forum.”
“They arent ignoring us, they said they’re fixing it, so they’re fixing it just be patient….I can say with confidence Bungie(being the best and most loyal game making company ever) will extend the beta, Im sure. It being just 3 short weeks, and this inconvience of the unable to download.”
“SEVEN AND A HALF -blam!- HOURS LATE AND ONE UPDATE SAYING “WERE WORKING ON IT” I DON’T CARE IF WHINING ISNT GOING THE CHANGE ANYTHING THIS IS COMPLETE -blam!- HORSE -blam!-”
“I agree. Microsoft sucks ass at fixing things.”
“i agree even though people keep saying this is not bungie’s fault it is their fault, however that they are not informing us, as they should be, it would help trim down the ammount of action on the forums.”
“Seven and a half hours?! ARE YOU INSANE?! -No. Be happy you’re getting to play such a fine game as Halo 3 is. I don’t even have a DOUBT in my mind that you will just play the game, annoy a good beta-tester - who reports all bugs he comes over - with your squeaky little voice, saying how much this game rocks and how much Bungie & Microsoft both suck *PIE* for their technical difficulties.”
“I agree, this is unacceptable this will not be simply tossed to the side like every other screw up this is a big issue. Get the beta up and extend the play date this is what you get with consoles nothing but problems and I am sick and tired of it!!!”
I was going to post more but it pretty much goes on like this for 100’s of pages. Good luck Bungie.
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