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Lol, let's pass up 10's of millions of dollars because there might be complaints. Not giving us H2 back has and will continue to draw a lot of complaints and the only way to stop that is to give us the damned game back on Live, where it belongs. I'd say a bad idea is to pass up the gold mine in H2 marketing based on possible complaints. If MS does it right, there will be nothing to complain about. Give us H2 MP as it was, no jetpacks or any of that crap...we just want H2 back. CEA was created to make money and the 10 year celebration was just a marketing tool to make that money. It was not a gift, it sold for $40, the going market price. IMO they will make an H2A eventually and it will also be done for profit, it's always about the money, only kids think otherwise.

Well, except for button glitches and superbounces, all the other Halo's had problems and glitches. Halo had every bit as many glitches as H2 as far as CMP is concerned. After a while the superbounces were policed well so that was not a major problem after a few months...it was a good way to get rid of cheaters because you could film it and they would be banned pronto. There's glitches and cheaters in all the Halo's.

Do tell

Once again, you cannot find a quote by me saying H2 is being remade. It's only in your head and you decided I was insinuating it was being made. Whether a game is being made or not cannot be insinuated...it either is or it isn't and I either said it was or I didn't say it at all, there is no gray area on this. You are fabricating information about me on this forum and I want you to shut up about it. Your other comments are so disjointed from my quote that a response is not in order. Take your pills mister. As for crossing the line...read my first paragraph again.

Great post and to add to it, CE made Bungie a lot of money but nothing for MS except as the foundation you were speaking of. Halo 2 MP made MS a boatload of money and set the future of the Halo series and Live itself. Imo, MS should make H2 MP available again to Live, somehow. MS owes H2 fans that much.

Yeah, that is old news and it was stated for that time period. Since then CE has come out and people from 343 have said that if there's enough support then H2 may be remade/remastered. Have you not seen any of those more recent interviews? Your news is too selective...yet again. The announcement would not come just before or just after H4 comes out, they would not shoot themselves in the foot. I don't know why you missed that point, it makes perfect sense. Luckily for us H2 fans, you are no more informed than anyone else outside of 343.

So where's the quote on the denial? They would not announce it now because H4 is coming out, even you should understand that. I hope it comes out but you pretend to know for sure. Now...back up your claims or stop talking down to anyone who mentions a Halo 2 remaster/remake.

Lol, the game that deserves to be remade more than any other is Halo 2. It made Live what it is today imo.

No such thing as 'worst' when it comes to H2 levels. Some levels are more fun than others and some are more difficult but they are all classic to me. Hardest on Legendary for me was Cairo.

Good thing you don't know what you are talking about. Back up your statement about 'very little profit'.

No. Stupid poster is stupid.

So you bump an old one?

Now you are making things up. Quote me where I said it is now in development. Go ahead, quote me. I did not say it is in development. I said when it is made, I will laugh at you and I will do that, count on it. There you go again with the name calling, it's the first refuge you hid behind and you are still doing it. For the record, I could care less about what you think, since your world is make believe. As for raging, reread your posts, you are the raging one. Find the post where I said H2 is in development right now.

Yeah, sure, they wouldn't make move without consulting you. Lol, as far as I'm concerned your development ring doesn't exist. Some people like to make up reality as they go along, and that is you. Perhaps you want to make an announcement about H2A, since you are so high up. Like I said, when H2A is announced, I'll certainly celebrate while thinking of you.

TL;DR. You are not very smart, are you? You can pontificate all you want, H2 will get done by Nov 2014 and nothing you can type will change that. I believe you had a couple of courses in programming and now you are the worlds greatest...in your own mind. Whatever you typed means nothing, all MS has to do is hire the right amount of the right people and it will get done. Going to lash-out some more, maybe call me a few names? That's a good little fellow, go take your nap now.

Were you born narrow minded or did it take years to develop? You know absolutely nothing about the way corporations work. If MS wants to make Halo 2 in 3 years, then it will be done. All your drivel means nothing. You can pontificate all you want but when H2 is released in 2014, I'll be there to laugh at you. Rewrite could very well mean rewrite the whole thing, there is not much development to do, no artwork, no new music...get it, all the programmers need to do is sit down and rewrite H2, everything else is pretty much there for the rewrite. This biggest point that you can't seem to grasp is you are talking about 1997 to 2002, yes it took 5 years...for a small company to develop a new game. A lot of game programmers have come along so there is an abundance and MS is no small company. If you organize it correctly and hire enough of the right people even an idiot should see that it won't take 5 years. Frankly, any people like you at 343 who say 'we can't do that' should be fired and replaced with 'I can' people. Again, there is plenty of time to remake Halo 2 and all the name calling on this planet will not make you a smart person. Also, why wright 'too long;didn't read, then you read it and call me a moron?

Yup, it's a rewrite, none of the development time, no story line development, no artwork development...just make the damned thing compatible with the current Live servers. It's a lot of work but MS has the people, there's plenty of time. To people who know what they are doing, it is a simple rewrite, that's what they are paid to do. Just because I can't do it does not mean it's not simple work to leaders in the field. Besides, H1 came out in 2002, H2 came out in 2004, with your scale of time they were working on H2 2 years before H1 was released. I'd say the total amount of time it took was 3 years...and that was for a new game, not a remake.

Good point, for H2A there is no development so no way is it going to take 3 years to remake H2.

It didn't take Bungie 3 years to make Halo 2 in the first place. The majority of the work is still there, 343 just has to rewrite, not invent the wheel again.

It's not as complex as you let on. They simply decided not to screw with CE because they knew it would adversely affect sales, there was no doubt about making the game imo, they knew it would sell. It was a simple and wise decision, and by making that decision there was no doubt. I have no idea where you pulled disbelief from.

Those weren't doubts, that was good solid thinking. Not memories for remembrance sake, they didn't want to mess with the gameplay of the game they were certainly going to release. I think you introduced the doubt part. I think they were saying, OK we are going to do this thing but we don't want to mess with the engine because that would upset the apple cart. Rock solid thinking, not doubt.

Nobody said they have to remake every game...we just want H2 on Live again. Why is that a problem? I would consider 343 lazy if they don't remake the only Halo game not on Live. Do you have a link to these doubts about CE? I hear a lot of information that is never backed up.

So you think there are separate servers for every game, maintained by separate individuals? The whole point of a remake is to make H2 compatible with the existing servers.

I don't think MS will be lacking in any resource. MS will always be making new games so now is as good as any time to start the remake of H2. Why would there be no chance of matchmaking for H2?

It's not the game that deserves anything, it's the fans, I don't think it has anything to do with deserve except for the fans. Fans deserve an H2 remake because it's not on Live...fans deserve matchmaking, ranking, 4 player coop, a screen that does not have shadows. There are many reasons to remake H2, the fans deserve it.