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Quelle surprise, you can now download a beta version of PC Halo from the seedier corners of the internet. I honestly think that games companies do this sort of stuff on purpose.
Leak game. Assorted thieving geeks and internet fanboys (who wouldn't buy the game anyway) download game. Geeks play game. Geeks moan about bugs on web forums. Developers read geek moans, and fix bugs. Geeks start to love game. Geeks evangelise about game on web forums. Geeks tell friends how fantastic the game is. Normal people start telling other normal people that game is going to be greatest thing ever. Game gets released. Game storms the charts on a thunderous snowball of hype. Job done.
Leak game. Assorted thieving geeks and internet fanboys (who wouldn't buy the game anyway) download game. Geeks play game. Geeks moan about bugs on web forums. Developers read geek moans, and fix bugs. Geeks start to love game. Geeks evangelise about game on web forums. Geeks tell friends how fantastic the game is. Normal people start telling other normal people that game is going to be greatest thing ever. Game gets released. Game storms the charts on a thunderous snowball of hype. Job done.
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Quelle surprise, you can now download a beta version of PC Halo from the seedier corners of the internet. I honestly think that games companies do this sort of stuff on purpose.
Leak game. Assorted thieving geeks and internet fanboys (who wouldn't buy the game anyway) download game. Geeks play game. Geeks moan about bugs on web forums. Developers read geek moans, and fix bugs. Geeks start to love game. Geeks evangelise about game on web forums. Geeks tell friends how fantastic the game is. Normal people start telling other normal people that game is going to be greatest thing ever. Game gets released. Game storms the charts on a thunderous snowball of hype. Job done.
Leak game. Assorted thieving geeks and internet fanboys (who wouldn't buy the game anyway) download game. Geeks play game. Geeks moan about bugs on web forums. Developers read geek moans, and fix bugs. Geeks start to love game. Geeks evangelise about game on web forums. Geeks tell friends how fantastic the game is. Normal people start telling other normal people that game is going to be greatest thing ever. Game gets released. Game storms the charts on a thunderous snowball of hype. Job done.
I doubt it. All it takes is a member of the development team to give it to someone else. It happens.
I've the E3 demo of Doom3 from someone who works in the industry, and can say that its the most bugged, unstable, glitchy piece of software I've ever came across, and not a game at all but a graphics demo. If this was leaked deliberately by ID, they would be doing no-one any favors. I've a geforce 5 fx, on a 1.8Ghz with 512Mb memory.
It runs like a three legged dog, in 640 x 480.
Still, its being worked on, optimised and tweaked, and I'm in no doubt its going to be a pretty cool game (although I'm more exited about HL2)
I've the E3 demo of Doom3 from someone who works in the industry, and can say that its the most bugged, unstable, glitchy piece of software I've ever came across, and not a game at all but a graphics demo. If this was leaked deliberately by ID, they would be doing no-one any favors. I've a geforce 5 fx, on a 1.8Ghz with 512Mb memory.
It runs like a three legged dog, in 640 x 480.
Still, its being worked on, optimised and tweaked, and I'm in no doubt its going to be a pretty cool game (although I'm more exited about HL2)
Nice. Jedi Academy has been leaked twice now as well. Beta near the end of July and the proper Pre Gold near the end of August.
4 or 5 playable levels and 3 multi-player levels, no wonder its less than the size of a 650mb CD.
I would be tempted to try an download it myself, but I dare not incase it contains a virus. I would like to try it though, especially sine the release has been put back to October, which is a bad move since Half-Life 2 is aiming for a Sept 30th release.
Can anyone give me a file size? A quick look on most p2p networks reveal 'halo' ranging between 18 and 207 mb
Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Can anyone give me a file size? A quick look on most p2p networks
> reveal 'halo' ranging between 18 and 207 mb
I'd say the 207 mb is far to small for a game like Halo. Its probably a gameplay video. 18 is just a joke.
> Can anyone give me a file size? A quick look on most p2p networks
> reveal 'halo' ranging between 18 and 207 mb
I'd say the 207 mb is far to small for a game like Halo. Its probably a gameplay video. 18 is just a joke.
Just checked on another forum and the Beta is aparantly 464MB big.
So everyone here is discussing the illegal download of leaked software?
Tsk tsk
Tsk tsk
Must be quite a large demo, although a large proportion of that will be taken up by graphics.
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