Err… well its on its way… slowly. Today anyone who owned a specialty marked copy of Crackdown for the 360 was treated to access to download the Halo 3 beta and play though mid June. The launch time was set for 5am PST, and so well hyped Bungie had a counter running for the last few weeks on their website counting down to the very moment… and when that moment arrived….. Xbox Live dropped the ball. The little button wouldnt light up and let you DL the beta. I dont blame Bungie in the least, for starters, cause I know some people there and Im biased, but mostly because lets face it.. Bungie gives the Ops engineers at XBL code and say “here you go” and its up to them to deploy it right.

What was really annoying though was that it took them around 7 hours to find out what was wrong, and durring that time not a single update was given. Bungie made efforts to show they were trying to keep tabs on the situation for us all, but when they had nothign to share, it really didnt help. Finaly around 7pm they announced the problem was tracked down and that it would be fixed in about 3-56hours.

Naturally at the 2 hour point, I was logging back in once an hour looking to see if it was enabled. Finaly around 11 (right at the 6 hour mark) I logged in and WHAM I can download the 900 and some odd meg update… WEEE i was happy.. and now im sad…. 20 mintues later im at 2%.  Makes sense really….. 50 thousand some odd people are trying to download this rigth now, and knowing MS they dont have the server capacity to handle it.

Thats ok, tomorrow I can rock it and alls well. I cant wait though, I might have to go into the office a wee bit late, hehe. Soon I will be ajoy in haoley goodness… planning keggers and going to frat parties… studying for my finals with the guys and shopping for a jeep…

(for those that totaly dont get the reference, click the link, if your still lost as to why this 27 year old is making those references… well… I give up..)