After months of waiting and constant jokes about having bought the Halo 3 "demo", er uh Crackdown, 8:00 AM EST, the announced time of arrival, came and went and still our "download the Halo 3 Beta" boxes remained grayed out. Now, as of 10:40 EST, the Beta remains unavailable.
Bungie's Frankie is already on the case, saying "We have alerted the appropriate Live authorities and they are taking care of the problem as we speak. More news as it comes in. With any luck this will be a short delay. People enetering the Beta through other methods - Friends and Family, Rule of Three and so on, are unaffected." So, only the people that actually paid to play the Beta are affected...not good.
Do all the people who bought Crackdown just to play the Beta care about the fact that all the other three groups of Beta players are unaffected?? Apparently not, and they are pissed! A scan of the Bungie forums reveals more anger than David Banner right before he turns green. At least one kid is happy though, saying, "7:03 and no download but my parents just decided to let me skip school :):):):):) so its all good." Glad to know the parents have their priorities in the right place. How could little Johnnie possibly go to school after being scarred by the trauma of the absent Beta?
A couple of other comments were "YES I AM SAD AND NO I STILL HAVE NO BETA :"( *BEATS HEAD ON CONSOLE*" and "I just died a little inside...still grey."
The absence of the Beta is annoying to be sure, but making it even more annoying is the fact that Crackdown has like 17 unskippable pre-load screens that make it VERY annoying to even check for the Beta.
Unhappiness abounds.
More when it becomes available.
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