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The ''Halo 3 Beta'' was announced by [[Bungie]] and [[Microsoft]] to be released at 5:00 AM PDT (8:00 AM EST) for owners of specially-marked copies of ''[[Crackdown]]''. However, many players reported to Microsoft that under the "Downloads" section of ''Crackdown'', the option to download the ''Halo 3 Beta'' was "grayed out" and unavailable. Bungie found the same problem and relayed the information to Microsoft, who promptly posted that consumers had problems downloading the ''Halo 3 Beta'' from ''Crackdown''. At 4:00 PM PDT (7:00 PM EST), 11 hours after the ''Halo 3 Beta'' was supposed to be released, Microsoft announced that they had determined the problem and were creating a fix that would be "most likely in the form of a title update", and that a workaround was expected to be released in 3 to 6 hours. | The ''Halo 3 Beta'' was announced by [[Bungie]] and [[Microsoft]] to be released at 5:00 AM PDT (8:00 AM EST) for owners of specially-marked copies of ''[[Crackdown]]''. However, many players reported to Microsoft that under the "Downloads" section of ''Crackdown'', the option to download the ''Halo 3 Beta'' was "grayed out" and unavailable. Bungie found the same problem and relayed the information to Microsoft, who promptly posted that consumers had problems downloading the ''Halo 3 Beta'' from ''Crackdown''. At 4:00 PM PDT (7:00 PM EST), 11 hours after the ''Halo 3 Beta'' was supposed to be released, Microsoft announced that they had determined the problem and were creating a fix that would be "most likely in the form of a title update", and that a workaround was expected to be released in 3 to 6 hours. | ||
2 hours later, Microsoft updated its announcement, saying that a fix had been found, and that it was undergoing final testing to ensure its accuracy. An hour later, at 7:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM EST) Bungie and Microsoft both proclaimed that a fix had been released. Beta players would have to restart their Xbox 360 consoles, and insert the ''Crackdown'' disc, when they would get a prompt to download an update to ''Crackdown'' that would allow the players to access the ''Halo 3 Beta''. The fix arrived ''14 hours'' after the ''Halo 3 Beta'' was supposed to be released. Furthermore, Bungie said that gamers needed to wait up to 4 hours to | 2 hours later, Microsoft updated its announcement, saying that a fix had been found, and that it was undergoing final testing to ensure its accuracy. An hour later, at 7:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM EST) Bungie and Microsoft both proclaimed that a fix had been released. Beta players would have to restart their Xbox 360 consoles, and insert the ''Crackdown'' disc, when they would get a prompt to download an update to ''Crackdown'' that would allow the players to access the ''Halo 3 Beta''. The fix arrived ''14 hours'' after the ''Halo 3 Beta'' was supposed to be released. Furthermore, Bungie said that gamers needed to wait up to 4 hours to receive the patch that would fix this bug to allow the fix to circulate all of Xbox Live, making it so that some gamers only received this patch at 11:00 PM PDT (2:00 AM EST)...''18 hours'' late. | ||
Due to the bug and the subsequent massive public disapproval, Bungie decided that the Beta would be pushed back from the Beta ending date of June 6th, 2007 at 11:59 PM PDT to June ''10th'', 2007 at 11:59 PM PDT, allowing gamers to have four more days with the Beta, compensating for the one day lost in trying to download it from the ''Crackdown'' menu. | Due to the bug and the subsequent massive public disapproval, Bungie decided that the Beta would be pushed back from the Beta ending date of June 6th, 2007 at 11:59 PM PDT to June ''10th'', 2007 at 11:59 PM PDT, allowing gamers to have four more days with the Beta, compensating for the one day lost in trying to download it from the ''Crackdown'' menu. | ||
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=="Game Over"== | =="Game Over"== | ||
After some gamers downloaded the ''Halo 3 Beta'', they | After some gamers downloaded the ''Halo 3 Beta'', they received a message that the Beta had expired, and that they were not allowed to play it. Fortunately, this message was rescinded automatically after 1 to 60 minutes, or gamers could purge their Xbox 360's server cache and perform memory unit maintenance to manually rescind this message. | ||
Gamers could perform maintenance by: | Gamers could perform maintenance by: | ||