And you thought I was crazy… (Updated)
September 19th, 2007Here it is: Official confirmation that playing Halo 3 early will get you banned. You can’t even play offline, as your play history will give you up as soon as you connect. Completely ridiculous but as I predicted.
Find Halo 3 in the wild and you may as well just let it go until 9/25.
*UPDATE* Apparently this story has already been nipped in the butt bud (thanks Megan). Microsoft has “clarified” that the ban only applies to Microsoft employees who play the game early. Whether this was the original policy or MS changed it quickly before the story could blow up is uncertain, but now that their stance is clear, feel free to play some Halo 3 early should the opportunity come up!
September 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Heh…so much for my last comment on this.
There has to be a critical mass where banning thousands of loyal customers wouldn’t be worth it once the cat’s out of the bag…
…right? :-p
September 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Dumbest thing I ever heard. I guarantee you, anyone with this game before the street date will go buy a 360 and play this game until the release date, at which time they will return the 360 they bought and start over on their own machine. It’s what I would do.
September 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Want to tempt it?
Here you go, overnight and 2-day shipping available.
Even after posting this I’m sort of considering it. Of course, this is probably just a mistake anyway and they won’t send anything out until next week anyway.