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[Captain N]

I went to go send a message about how it might be delayed until tomorrow...it said I can't do that before "Exceeds the daily limit of messages to friends"..what's up with that?

 

[DeadCell]

Must... keep... eyes... open...

 

[Dai Kaiju]

This is so depressing. Can someone post a funny cat picture?

 

[sevenchaos]

Must... keep... eyes... open...

Exactly. *yawn*

 

[sableholic]

they will have a...

if this don't go up today.

Well now that I'm at work, I could care less if it goes up at 4pm as long as it goes up today. It would have been nice to come home and it be dl'ed, but hey what can u do.

 

[Mojovonio]

Did they just ****ing forget?

"Damn, there was something I had to do today..... I already bought the toilet paper..... hmmmmmm..."

 

[segarr]

It wouldn't be so bad if there wasnt all this friends and family and rules of three bullshit.
If everyone was waiting together it might not piss me off so much. But I feel so screwed that I bought a game I didnt want because I didnt hit a lottery to play one I did!!!!!!

Agreed 100 percent....this whole thing was messed up from the start, and the fact that they can't even get it out on time now is just icing on the cake.

How could one of the most prosperous companies in the world **** this thing up? I mean seriously, didn't someone like, I dunno, plan ahead in case there was any problems? Is that too unreasonable?

 

[jmdajr]

not that it matters, but my media connect and media share stopped working.

I have no idea what the hell is wrong.

just wanted to complain more. sorry

 

[SonnyBoy]

How can they not be somewhat better prepared for this? I mean really, are they shocked by this at all? Did they not expect the demand to be so high?

 

[DSN2K]

did Bungie not test the Crackdown link before today ? WTF is going on I'm so pissed off.

 

[Falagard]

Hey, has anyone seen this?

"Crackdown Delay: We Know!
Posted by Frankie at 5/16/2007 5:22 AM PDT
With any luck this will be a short delay. People enetering the Beta through other methods - Friends and Family, Rule of Three and so on, are unaffected."

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=12468

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I kid.

 

[Lakitu]

How can they not be somewhat better prepared for this? I mean really, are they shocked by this at all? Did they not expect the demand to be so high?

They could be prepared for this by releasing it on time. That's how. Everything afterwards was supposed to be a problem.

 

[Mr. Mechanical]

 

[Shake Appeal]

I really don't think it's anything to do with demand or the number of people. I am increasingly certain that the Crackdown downloader is simply broken.

 

[Captain N]

I don't care that I bought crackdown with the idea of being able to play halo 3 beta on it some day..put the damn thing up on the marketplace and worry about the crackdown biz..later..maybe make it an extra week or two on the crackdown disc..to make us feel some what special.

 

[Sean]

Play Aegis Wing while you wait... free XBLA game that is quite fun in MP.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156303

 

[giga]

What a horrible morning. I couldn't sleep but 30 minutes last night thinking of all the fun 8am was gonna be. Look how that turned out. ****.

I have to go get a urine test--just got a job yesterday. That'd be a lot more entertaining than waiting for the ****ing thing to un grey.

Sorry Microsoft but you guys screwed up. =/

 

[got2bekidding]

How can they not be somewhat better prepared for this? I mean really, are they shocked by this at all? Did they not expect the demand to be so high?

It's not even demand. The damn thing just never worked period, I mean wtf Microsoft?!

 

[Community Forum]

Spring is here
the rabbit said
Then the cat ate it
and now it's

 

[NJ Shlice]

 

[Eric WK]

How can they not be somewhat better prepared for this? I mean really, are they shocked by this at all? Did they not expect the demand to be so high?

I don't think it has anything to do with the demand.

 

[painey]

Hey, has anyone seen this?

"Crackdown Delay: We Know!
Posted by Frankie at 5/16/2007 5:22 AM PDT
With any luck this will be a short delay. People enetering the Beta through other methods - Friends and Family, Rule of Three and so on, are unaffected."

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=12468

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I kid.

How is work in the lunchroom Frankie?

S'ok

Poor Frankie.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Well now that I'm at work, I could care less if it goes up at 4pm as long as it goes up today. It would have been nice to come home and it be dl'ed, but hey what can u do.

Noooo they need to bring it up so I can start the download on my lunchbreak!

argh this is screwing up my whole day

 

[Falagard]

did Bungie not test the Crackdown link before today ? WTF is going on I'm so pissed off.

Bungie has nothing to do with the Crackdown stuff (nor did they have anything to do with the Rule of Three or Halo.com registrations as far as I know).

 

[rollingstart]

Play Aegis Wing while you wait... free XBLA game that is quite fun in MP.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156303

I downloaded it, but it takes 2 minutes to load up Crackdown, I cant risk it!

 

[Orlics]

How can they not be somewhat better prepared for this? I mean really, are they shocked by this at all? Did they not expect the demand to be so high?

I think we've all agreed that there's a bug in Crackdown or at MS or something.

 

[thelurkinghorror]

Now I'm at work so not complain from me at the moment...
... but I start cry around Neogaf in a couples of hours!

 

[college_boy]

If only there was some game I could play while waiting for the Halo 3 beta. SOMETHING.

 

[pCeSlAyEr]

How can they not be somewhat better prepared for this? I mean really, are they shocked by this at all? Did they not expect the demand to be so high?

I dont think any company can truely be prepared for the server load of millions of crackdown logons all at once...

 

[Laika]

More info?

on bungie.net:

Folks are reporting problems downloading the Halo 3 Beta via Crackdown this morning. We have alerted the appropriate Live authorities and they are taking care of the problem as we speak. More news as it comes in.

 

[itsgreen]

did Bungie not test the Crackdown link before today ? WTF is going on I'm so pissed off.

yeah wtf?

are they retarded? or were they thinking 'hmmm upload in folder X, and it will work'...

but seriously, most likely a crackdown title update is needed... (imo)

 

[Aaron]

All this anger will vanish the second people have finished downloading and start playing. If they extend the beta by a day or something to make up for it, it'll vanish even sooner.

 

[giga]

More info?

on bungie.net:

oh...my...god

 

[Sho Nuff]

Don't rush them, or it will **** up your system like the last Crackdown DLC destroyed my agent profile!

 

[Costanza]

More info?

on bungie.net:

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[got2bekidding]

More info?

on bungie.net:

omg.....just stop already, seriously

 

[EMBee99]

We have now reached Stage Four of the crisis:

The posting of cat jpegs.

I think acceptance is next.

 

[Jel0man]

Major Nelson also STILL down:lol.

 

[Karg]

More info?

on bungie.net:

Dude, come on now.

 

[Falagard]

It's not even demand. The damn thing just never worked period, I mean wtf Microsoft?!

You don't know, it could possibly be demand causing the problem. For example, if the programmers of Crackdown's "check for Halo 3 beta availability" code had a timeout of 10 seconds on the check before putting up the grey button, and demand is causing the request to take longer than that... it could be the problem.

 

[Eric WK]

oh...my...god

Seriously. Can we just get rid of every Junior in this thread?

 

[Lakitu]

It's not only that it's taking so long, but no official has decided to comment. Whether we should keep waiting or what, or just turn off our damn consoles.

 

[pCeSlAyEr]

More info?

on bungie.net:

how many juniors are going to post this??

 

[Mojovonio]

I just beat Aegis with Son of Godzilla and 2 other guys, got most of the achievements and now I think I'm going to go sleep.

I knew staying up till 4am watching Commando was a bad idea.

 

[DarkKyo]

I also bought Crackdown mainly for this reason. Just gonna patiently wait it out(or try to)...

 

[SteveO409]

Seriously. Can we just get rid of every Junior in this thread?

:lol :lol :lol

 

[college_boy]

Major Nelson also STILL down:lol.

Prolly' banging his head against his keyboard as every minute ticks by.

 

[Liquid]

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR...LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR...LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!

 

[itsgreen]

is it time for some lolcats yet?

 

[Eric WK]

:lol :lol :lol