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Players interested in access to the [[Halo 3]] Beta test were to play at least three hours of [[Halo 2]] [[multiplayer]] sessions on an [[Xbox 360]] on [[Xbox Live]] during the three day period beginning February 1st at 12:01 am EST and ending February 3rd at 11:59 pm EST.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | Players interested in access to the [[Halo 3]] Beta test were to play at least three hours of [[Halo 2]] [[multiplayer]] sessions on an [[Xbox 360]] on [[Xbox Live]] during the three day period beginning February 1st at 12:01 am EST and ending February 3rd at 11:59 pm EST.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | ||
Afterwards players are to sign up on www.halo3.com on February 5th for their chance to participate in the [[Halo 3]] Beta Test. If the player is one of the FIRST 13,333 to do this and meet the requirements* they will receive an invite notification in February to participate in the [[Halo 3]] Beta.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | Afterwards players are to sign up on www.halo3.com on February 5th at 1:00PM EST for their chance to participate in the [[Halo 3]] Beta Test. If the player is one of the FIRST 13,333 to do this and meet the requirements* they will receive an invite notification in February to participate in the [[Halo 3]] Beta.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | ||
If not selected to participate in the [[Halo 3]] multiplayer beta players interested have one more chance to get in.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | If not selected to participate in the [[Halo 3]] multiplayer beta players interested have one more chance to get in.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | ||
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*Age of 17 and older.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | *Age of 17 and older.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | ||
*3+ hours of [[Halo 2]] [[Xbox Live]] play.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | *3+ hours of [[Halo 2]] [[Xbox Live]] play.<ref name="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9491" /> | ||
===Affect on [[Bungie.net]]=== | |||
On the night of February 4th hundreds of people gathered on [[Bungie.net|Bungie.nets']] [[Halo 3]] forum and on www.halo3.com to talk of the beta. Most people thought that beta regression sign ups would start at 12:00AM EST, but this did not happen, with no words from [[Bungie]] or [[Microsoft]] on when It was going to take place, the forum went into a frenzy. As many as 3 full pages of beta threads were locked in a short amount of time. Once again, at 3:00AM EST (12:00AM PST, [[Bungie]] time) the time came and passed, but large numbers of locked threads. Finally, dismay of many Halo fans who stayed up more then 24 hours waiting, the entry for Phase Two of the Beta Started at 1:00PM EST and within a minuet the www.halo3.com sever overloaded and crashed and did not come back online until 1:40PM EST. With many people dismayed about this there was another flurry of locked threads, but as access to the site came back it died down. | |||
==Phase Three: Crackdown== | ==Phase Three: Crackdown== | ||