Beta 3 Lottery Contestants Outradged

Last night at 12:01am PST, thousands of fans, who put up with 3 nights of 3-hour-long Halo 2 matchmaking sessions, were left out in the cold, when Microsoft/Bungie didn't put up the promised registration form for the additional 13,333 Halo 3 beta spots. Now it's the next morning and still no registration. Fans are now in school, class, work, and all of their efforts may be wasted, since someone either forgot to put up the form, or is just going to surprise people by posting it at some random time. The message boards around the web are boiling with angry posts from disgruntled, albeit committed fans, who’s efforts have appeared to have been wasted. Thank you Bungie... way to treat the people that buy your games!

So will all these hoops people have jumped through be for nothing? Will we now have to plunk down $60 for the horrible Crackdown to get in on the Beta? I certainly won’t. I won’t be used to inflate a messy GTA rip-off in order to get s sneak-pay at Halo 3.

So, what went wrong? Well, It’s obviously poor planning on the administration side. If you are going to put in Dates and Times, and all your times are 12:01 PST, then when people line up for the first-come-first-serve lottery, what time do you think they are going to line up? We’ll you better damn will have your registration up at 12:01. I also have a bit of news for Bungie and MS, no matter where you are located the US runs on Eastern time. We are 3 hours ahead, and when you lead people to believe the registration would begin at 12:01 AM PST, you fuck with a lot of peoples sleep. Thousands of East coasters were up at 3 AM on a Sunday night waiting for the registration that didn’t come. Congrats you assholes! You may sell millions of copies of Halo 3, but that won’t prevent a disgruntled fan from shitting in your next Big Mac.