Halo 2 released...early?

[Cyberxion]

Looks like it's happened again. Halo 2 has been sold well in advance of it's ship date in certain mid-western states. Apparently some smaller stores have fucked up, and sold the game well ahead of time.

And like the greedy fucks they are, the people who've gotten ahold of it early are selling it on EBay. Morons are bidding like mad on this, and the game has been seen going for upwards of $170. In fact, one auction closed at $265.06.

Why people can't simply wait a fucking week or so for the game is beyond me. I don't give a shit wether or not it's the limited edition, the game comes out soon, and they'd be able to pick it up for far less....

[Psyonide]

We can only hope that they get held up in transit so that those cash-happy morons have to rush out to the stores and buy it there, too.

[Roux!]

I hope they get poop on a stick...

Psyonide, I didn't quite understand your post...

[Psyonide]

What I'm saying is this: I hope that anyone who bought a copy of HALO 2 off e-bay will suffer the misfortune of having their package held up in the mail system, so that they haven't yet got it when the game is officially released. Because, I figure that if they're going to pay *that* much for a copy a week or so before official release, they're not going to be too worried about haveing to pay for it again. And they deserve to pay for it again for being tools.

[Cyberxion]

I agree with you totally. The idiot who payed a quarter grand for the game deserves to have it lost in transit, or at the least show up a day or so AFTER the game's released to the general public. That way he'll learn the virtue of patience, next time something like this goes down....

[Soeru]

Bah... I didn't like the first Halo, and I see no reason why to get the sequel(unless the only gaming platform I had was the XBox, which I don't. Besides, there are better XBox games out there). Sorry to offend any fanboys, but I am much more excited about HL2 and Doom 3, which seem to have a more solid gameplay.

About early releases: you can find early releases on IRC, BitTorrent, and such for games even weeks before they are released(not just leaked betas, but complete final versions of console games). Piracy is growing quickly... which makes me feel both happy and worried.