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Halo 3, the much anticipated next chapter in Bungie's best selling series has been leaked online, over a week before its official release date.

Uploaded a few days ago, the 6.14 GB ISO file has been making its way through P2P and torrents and downloads are in the thousands. The game of course will only play on modified Xbox 360 consoles.

Microsoft claims the game was being sold at High Street retailer Argos before the company corrected its mistake and took the game off shelves. But the damage had already been done.

Microsoft has told potential buyers of the game to avoid YouTube where the ending of the game has been readily available since the game was leaked.

Source:
GI.biz

Microsoft has told potential buyers of the game to avoid YouTube where the ending of the game has been readily available since the game was leaked.

SAMAS wrote:Probably not.

After all, it's not exactly considered cool to hate on Halo.

Levy Leah wrote:

SAMAS wrote:Probably not.

After all, it's not exactly considered cool to hate on Halo.

Actually, at least in my experience, this is quite the opposite. As the saying goes, "The Internet hates anything that's popular" ; I know of quite a few people who would gladly pull something like the Harry Potter spoilers, simply because (to them, at least) it's the cool thing to do. And to be frank, the vast majority of Halo players out there are just getting it for the multiplayer (though this is very generally speaking; I do enjoy Halo for it's single player, though I am likely in the minority).

Or maybe it's just that fanboys get defensive when their ultra-popular game/series/franchise/whatever is attacked, and the internet makes it easier to tell that a game is not, in fact, universally loved.

Levy Leah wrote: Err, please excuse this if I am wrong, but was this directed at me? I certainly wouldn't consider myself a Halo fanboy, I just believe that it's a very annoying and rude act to deliberately spoil something simply because you think that it makes you cool, or simply because the game/book/movie is popular. Just because the series has it's own douchbags dosen't make those people spoiling it totally innocent. (my same stance on the Harry Potter spoilers, at any rate)

General Zod wrote: So? I simply think the "lol it's bashed because it's popular" defense is horribly retarded and overplayed. I'm failing to see how posting the ending video to a game that's not released yet on youtube (where it's retardedly easy to avoid) is even remotely comparable to walking into a crowd of fans and purposefully spoiling anything. Nobody's forcing you to search for the video. As it is I always see fanboys bleating about how something popular is bashed just because it's popular regardless of whether or not there's any other reasoning behind bashing something.

Levy Leah wrote:
Ah, sorry about that then. To make it clear, I was talking about those people who walk into a store, carrying signs or shouting our spoilers, not to the youtube uploads. (which are quite easy to avoid, though they usually get spammed every where)

Badme wrote:It's easy to trick people into seeing stuff on youtube: disguising videos isn't really difficult. And what if the spoiler is a one-line thing, like 'Snape killed Dumbledore?" Someone can just put that in big, title letters for the first 5 seconds of an otherwise normal video, and you're SOL.

General Zod wrote:Couldn't you just close the video the moment you realize it's a spoiler? Even if this actually was the case, I've never understood getting so worked up about spoilers. It's not as if knowing the outcome or one trivial fact about the story is going to somehow make the quality of it any less. (Honestly, who plays FPS games for the story anyway?)

Stark wrote:

General Zod wrote:Couldn't you just close the video the moment you realize it's a spoiler? Even if this actually was the case, I've never understood getting so worked up about spoilers. It's not as if knowing the outcome or one trivial fact about the story is going to somehow make the quality of it any less. (Honestly, who plays FPS games for the story anyway?)

The idea that anyone would care about Halo spoilers simply boggles my mind. Boggles it right out the door and down the street.

Stark wrote: The idea that anyone would care about Halo spoilers simply boggles my mind. Boggles it right out the door and down the street.

Laird wrote: There are some people who actually enjoy the game and the story, would you want someone to ruin some movie/game/book series that you had followed closely and enjoyed, then have some retard on the internet/real life come by screaming "LULZ!!!! hurhurhur derp!!111 X happ0nz @ der EnDZ!"?

chitoryu12 wrote:Which generally means that someone, probably from eBaum, will likely go around to game stores and start shouting the ending of the game like they did with Harry Potter 7.

If you can't make them watch your video, scream it's contents in their ear.

General Zod wrote:

Laird wrote: There are some people who actually enjoy the game and the story, would you want someone to ruin some movie/game/book series that you had followed closely and enjoyed, then have some retard on the internet/real life come by screaming "LULZ!!!! hurhurhur derp!!111 X happ0nz @ der EnDZ!"?

Maybe it's just me, but I figure if a tiny bit of information about what's happening will completely ruin it for someone, then perhaps it wasn't that good to begin with?

General Zod wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I figure if a tiny bit of information about what's happening will completely ruin it for someone, then perhaps it wasn't that good to begin with?

Vendetta wrote: Depends what that information is. "Vader is Luke's father" is a tiny piece of information, but it fucks the impact of Empire Strikes Back if you know it going in.

It doesn't actually take much to spoil something, because it changes the approach of the audience from "find out what's going to happen" to "waiting for X to happen".

KlavoHunter wrote:

chitoryu12 wrote:Which generally means that someone, probably from eBaum, will likely go around to game stores and start shouting the ending of the game like they did with Harry Potter 7.

If you can't make them watch your video, scream it's contents in their ear.

If you actually think those people were from EBaumsworld, you make me giggle.

Don't post spoilers. This is obviously the first, best thing to do. If you just can't resist, please indicate that your post is a spoiler in the subject.

If you post an unmarked spoiler, it will either:

1. Be deleted.
2. Be edited.