If you couldn't register on Halo3.com the first time out, and the idea of buying Crackdown miffs you, then relax: there are still other ways to get into the Halo 3 beta to be held next spring.
The Gamerscore Blog lists two new ways that US residents can get in: by buying Crackdown, by playing at least three hours of Halo 2 online on Xbox Live and then registering at Halo3.com (first come, first served, 13,333 spots available).
Bungie.net also has an updated item on how to get into the beta test, which mentions an additional Bungie "friends and family" program that will precede the public beta.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Family and friends is simply
Family and friends is simply a way for Bungie to co-opt the fanbase. Hardly anyone is daring to call this for what it is: a blatant marketing exercise, because they're scared they won't be special friends with Bungie anymore.
This whole beta exercise is crass. It's sooo important, so exclusive that you too can join if only you have $60 to buy a completely different game!
narcogen
Wait.. what?
In reply to: Family and friends is simply[quote=Anonymous]Family and friends is simply a way for Bungie to co-opt the fanbase. Hardly anyone is daring to call this for what it is: a blatant marketing exercise, because they're scared they won't be special friends with Bungie anymore.
This whole beta exercise is crass. It's sooo important, so exclusive that you too can join if only you have $60 to buy a completely different game!
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I'm having difficulty making sense of your post. The purpose of Bungie Friends & Family, as I understand it, is to *serve* the fanbase, by giving members of it that might not necessarily get in the beta one of the other ways, but that Bungie would like to get feedback from on the game.
What part of that is "co-opting" the fan base? I think perhaps you don't know what that means.
As for who is "special friends" with Bungie... isn't that up to Bungie to decide? Isn't that, by definition, who they will include in that program?
Bungie doesn't owe access to any sort of beta test to anybody, but they're offering a bunch of options to try and get in. Obviously everybody can't get in, because that's the same as releasing the game. Some involve tie-ins with other products. Those who don't like those options don't have to use them.
I really don't see what everybody is complaining about. And that's from a person who loves complaining.
Rampant for over se7en years.
Claude Errera
Heh...
In reply to: Wait.. what?...and here I was, thinking a Friends and Family program (at least a publicly-announced one) was an insane ploy - seems like a totally losing proposition for Bungie.
On the one hand, everyone and their brother will be pestering Bungie to be part of this... when it DOES get implemented, those left out will bitch and moan that Bungie dissed 'em. Far from a crass marketing ploy, I see it as a pain in Bungie's ass, from start to finish, and I'm astounded they're willing to cater to (some of) their fans and make it happen, despite what it's going to cost them (in time and feelings).
I guess we all just see these things from different perspectives. :)
narcogen
Well
In reply to: Heh...Oh, I never said it wasn't going to backfire, especially with that name. But I don't think it was a crass marketing attempt. I think they're trying to do a good thing, but that anybody who remotely thinks they should be included, but isn't, is going to bitch and moan mercilessly.
This is one of those things that small independent developers can do that I think Bungie can't anymore, unfortunately.
Rampant for over se7en years.
Claude Errera
My bad, I guess
In reply to: WellThe original commenter said it was a blatant marketing attempt, not you. I answered your post because I was supplementing your argument, not because I was disagreeing with it. I'm pretty sure we hold pretty similar views on this.
I guess I should have replied to HIM, not you.
narcogen
No harm...
In reply to: My bad, I guess... no foul :)
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Anton P Nym
What else is new?
In reply to: Well[quote]I think they're trying to do a good thing, but that anybody who remotely thinks they should be included, but isn't, is going to bitch and moan mercilessly.[/quote]
It is a time-honoured gamer tradition to bitch and moan mercilessly about not getting into a beta... F&F adds only one more phrase in the litany, as far as I can tell.
(At least they're coming out and saying it straight; imagine the bloodbath if they gave slots away like this and [i]didn't[/i] announce it... because we all know it'd leak out at some point.)
-- Steve