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Halo Wars stats wiped, may not come back

by Justin McElroy on Jul 29th 2009 7:30PM

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.

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Tags: glitch, halo-wars, leaderboards, microsoft, robot-entertainment, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (54)

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.

Seriously, guys, I was number 1 on the Halo Wars leaderboards.

In that case ... I was number 2!!!

me #3

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!

First!!! Wait....FUCK!!!

There was a leaderboard?

There was multiplayer????

Yeah, well I top you all because I'm #0 in the leader boards!

There's a Halo Wars???

There's a pocketcup???!

You played Halo Wars?

Loser.

i guess this happened when a bunch people logged playing MODERN WARFARE - just cant wait for 2

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*

Unpossible, there was nowhere near 234,563 people even playing Halo Wars.

Now I'll never prove I was 234,563 on the leaderboards.

I didn't really play Halo Wars online at all, but I'd imagine if I had this would be pretty freaking irritating to me. What is their reasoning for doing this anyway?

Btw, awesome picture.

"were wiped out by a glitch in Xbox Live"

in the article.

shitty...

This is a crushing blow for stat whores in the game I reckon.

i wish this would happen with every game. maybe the cheaters at the top would give us real players a chance lol

So, you say they cheated?

how would i know?

How WOULD you know, hmmmmmmm?

Yep, they were meaningless to everyone but the guy in the #1 spot.

By hundreds, you mean two.

j/k

that right Archi, we all know everyone returned this game when they found out it was an RTS,

they probably did this on purpose so those two people go back to playing the game to get back their score

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.

Halo 2's ranking system was wiped. I loved the game at the time, but my stat washing killed the fun for me. So I started modding. I've since cleaned up and keep a midrange skillrange in Halo 3 that I wouldn't really mind loosing.

Well, it's not like they shut down the game servers....yet.

Still two more people than what MGS Online has though, huh?

I hope people realize I'm joking and not being serious like -some- people.....

I believe the number one went by "Spartacus."

That deserved an upvote

This is wonderful news.

Someone got pissed off at MS because he couldnt pass number 1 so he reseted it :)

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.

You guys are so right! When Little Big Planet came out all the HaloWars kids traded theirs in so they could play with each others sacks!! Shoryuken FTW

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...

@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..

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.

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.

I wish this would happen to the RB2 leaderboards. Those are all kinds of broken.

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

LoL, damnit, someone posted it above.

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)

how the fuck you get a virus on an Xbox dumbass

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.

I never said anything about getting a virus on the xbox... Microsoft also makes this product called Windows, you might have heard of it.

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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