Hey guys, we've got some great news: Convincing girls in bars with bizarre priorities that you're the world's top Halo Wars player just got a heck of a lot easier. Shacknews reports that all of the game's leaderboards were wiped out by a glitch in Xbox Live and developer Robot Entertainment says that they may not ever be recovered.
To that one poor soul who actually was at the top, we can offer only this pat on the back, along with the assurance that even though it seems like this tragedy has made his hours of Halo Wars sacrifice meaningless, it's simply not so. ... No, they were meaningless way before that.
Reader Comments (54)
Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:33PM (Unverified) said
Seeing as how you have to usually maintain a high score; the people on top should still be active enough to make it up there again. I personally wouldn't care. Maybe I would be a little upset but I would get over it in the next minute.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:54PM (Unverified) said
haha....not that it matters but I was #1 in 1v1 and 2v2 for a short period of time near release of the game, I gave up after I reached it....I have photo's to prove it! oh snap!
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:34PM (Unverified) said
i guess this happened when a bunch people logged playing MODERN WARFARE - just cant wait for 2
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:37PM (Unverified) said
Oh no! Now the person who is number one won't be recieving hate mail for being good!*Looks both ways in an evil way*
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:44PM (Unverified) said
Unpossible, there was nowhere near 234,563 people even playing Halo Wars.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:37PM Cap Morgan said
Now I'll never prove I was 234,563 on the leaderboards.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:43PM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
This is a crushing blow for stat whores in the game I reckon.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 7:51PM (Unverified) said
Yep, they were meaningless to everyone but the guy in the #1 spot.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 8:06PM Mouthsmasher said
Kind of makes yout think about how meaningless these kinds of stats are. I can imagine that there's a few people out there (none of them seem to be here on this site) who are enraged about losing their ranks, probably screaming inside their tiny heads, "Do you have any idea how much time I spent getting there!? All that time now wasted!" I imagine that we'd be hearing a lot of angry people if a more popular game's stats, like Halo 3, gor erased.
As a whole, I think much of the gaming community focuses too much on their scores, achievements and ranks rather than on actually enjoying their video games. I pity the person who spends hours and hours trying to build their online scores and reputation, which ultimatly amount to nothing in real life.
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As a whole, I think much of the gaming community focuses too much on their scores, achievements and ranks rather than on actually enjoying their video games. I pity the person who spends hours and hours trying to build their online scores and reputation, which ultimatly amount to nothing in real life.
Posted: Jul 29th 2009 8:10PM DangerMouse001 said
Well, it's not like they shut down the game servers....yet.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 8:15PM (Unverified) said
I hope people realize I'm joking and not being serious like -some- people.....
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 10:11PM TestOutYoGamesForOnce said
Someone got pissed off at MS because he couldnt pass number 1 so he reseted it :)
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 8:42PM (Unverified) said
If I had my rank wiped in GOW2 I'd quit. So much hard work down the drain. Wouldn't be able to convince myself to do it all over. I despise Halo, but I certainly feel for the guys that put hours into the game only to see their hard work lost.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 9:40PM CyberKnight said
Oh, please tell me it didn't reset the total experience points earned. That would set my quest for the General rank achievement back another couple years...
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Posted: Jul 30th 2009 1:22AM Red Son Rising said
@Cyberknight
yea, thats what im thinkin. i was 50k away from my third star playing standard 1v1 almost exclusively. if this reset my stats towards general i quit, ill never get it now..
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yea, thats what im thinkin. i was 50k away from my third star playing standard 1v1 almost exclusively. if this reset my stats towards general i quit, ill never get it now..
Posted: Jul 29th 2009 9:44PM (Unverified) said
Imagine all the losers who would be crying, literally, if this had been Halo 3 stats. I swear kids would be killing themselves over that.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 10:08PM (Unverified) said
Or shoving remotes in their assholes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc
I know it's not Halo, but the principle remains the same.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc
I know it's not Halo, but the principle remains the same.
Posted: Jul 29th 2009 9:59PM (Unverified) said
I wish this would happen to the RB2 leaderboards. Those are all kinds of broken.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 10:21PM Avolii said
Want to know what the person who was number one did? I bet it went something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn9wDHOXw-A
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 11:32PM (Unverified) said
Lawl... Microsoft doesn't even try with backups, much less an off site backup, yet they try to blame their users for getting viruses.
(just to clarify, I side with Microsoft on that issue for the most part, but it seems hypocritical of them to claim it)
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(just to clarify, I side with Microsoft on that issue for the most part, but it seems hypocritical of them to claim it)
Posted: Jul 30th 2009 9:55AM (Unverified) said
I'm sure if someone wanted to make a 360 virus they could do so easily. I'd imagine actually infecting the console would be the hard part.
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Posted: Jul 30th 2009 9:33PM (Unverified) said
I never said anything about getting a virus on the xbox... Microsoft also makes this product called Windows, you might have heard of it.
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Posted: Jul 29th 2009 11:58PM (Unverified) said
Mwhaha....
I was just able to borrow this game...
TIME TO GO FOR NUMBER 1
*1 hour later*
Yeah I'm gonna go play some WaW.....
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I was just able to borrow this game...
TIME TO GO FOR NUMBER 1
*1 hour later*
Yeah I'm gonna go play some WaW.....
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