Found this just now on halo.bungie.org. There isn't an individual news item link, otherwise I'd link you to it. Tomarrow, however, there will be, and I'll post it then. But below is the text.
Right at a billion freaking dollars?! I realize at this point that it was probably just people seeing how damn high they could push it. The fact that it ever went above 200 dollars is what gets me. Those would be the people who still mainly were probably interested. Why? You'd rather pay 200+ dollars for something NOW, rather than wait another few months and get it for 50 bucks?
This planet sucks.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">How to be stupid, in public
Yesterday, we got word from tyler holt that a rather bizarre auction was going on over at eBay. Someone who'd registered on Thursday had started an auction for a Halo 2 pre-release playable game. There was a bit of discussion in our forum about this - many people warned the bidders that this was likely not real. By yesterday evening, things had gotten out of hand; the bidding, which had been creeping up by $50s and $100s all day, suddenly started jumping by thousands. At 11:38 pm (PST), the bid had reached $100,000. By 15 minutes after midnight, it peaked - at $99,999,999.00. And that's where it closed, at 7:15 this morning. It's quite possible this page will be yanked by eBay - there's fraud on all sides, more than enough to go around - so we've put up a static (no working links) local copy. The exception is the Bids link - that works, and points to another local page. Bungie's been alerted - but I'm really doubting this is anything but a scam, in any case.</font>
Yesterday, we got word from tyler holt that a rather bizarre auction was going on over at eBay. Someone who'd registered on Thursday had started an auction for a Halo 2 pre-release playable game. There was a bit of discussion in our forum about this - many people warned the bidders that this was likely not real. By yesterday evening, things had gotten out of hand; the bidding, which had been creeping up by $50s and $100s all day, suddenly started jumping by thousands. At 11:38 pm (PST), the bid had reached $100,000. By 15 minutes after midnight, it peaked - at $99,999,999.00. And that's where it closed, at 7:15 this morning. It's quite possible this page will be yanked by eBay - there's fraud on all sides, more than enough to go around - so we've put up a static (no working links) local copy. The exception is the Bids link - that works, and points to another local page. Bungie's been alerted - but I'm really doubting this is anything but a scam, in any case.</font>
Right at a billion freaking dollars?! I realize at this point that it was probably just people seeing how damn high they could push it. The fact that it ever went above 200 dollars is what gets me. Those would be the people who still mainly were probably interested. Why? You'd rather pay 200+ dollars for something NOW, rather than wait another few months and get it for 50 bucks?
This planet sucks.
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Frogblast the Vent Core!
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It's never getting released. Period. It's one of the most infamous games in all of history. I don' think they /should/ release it, it would take away from the hype. *snicker*
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