Halo 3 beta's Friends & Family program explained

by Dustin Burg { May 5th 2007 at 11:30AM }

This week's Bungie Weekly Update brings a variety of news. Most importantly, Frankie details how the Halo 3 beta Friends and Family program will work. If you don't know, the Friends and Family program is a small number of people who will get to play the Halo 3 beta earlier than the general public. It's kinds of a thank you to those who are loyal Halo community members. Anyway, Frankie said that they have already selected the lucky few and all who qualified will be notified on May 11th via a PM on Bungie.net. Yup, those of you who are lucky enough to be part of the Friends and Family program will get your Halo 3 beta download code on the 11th exclusively through Bungie.net's PM system. So, be prepared, watch your PM inbox, and don't take it to heart if you aren't selected. We still love you.

Again, there is just too much Halo 3 news in this week's Bungie Weekly Update for us to recap, so make the jump already. Frankie doesn't write a mini-novel every week for his health, it's for you!

Tags: beta, bungie, bungie weekly update, BungieWeeklyUpdate, frankie, halo, halo 3, halo 3 beta, Halo3, Halo3Beta

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Slevin @ May 5th 2007 12:29PM

So... everyone was supposed to play that beta at the same time... Yeah! MY ASS!

Bungie sucks!

Zac LaCombe @ May 5th 2007 2:30PM

@ #1.

Bungie sucks for what? Letting people loyal to them and their game play it early as a reward? Hell, I know there's little chance in hell I'll get invited to the Friends and Family, but I think it's great that they're going to reward some for their loyalty. I'm tired of everyone's whining. They don't HAVE to let us play it! They're doing it to be nice. They don't actually need us to test it.
Everyone needs to stop complaining.

Maxi @ May 5th 2007 2:31PM

Everyone in the rule of 3 program will *Rolls eyes*

This is another selected Beta to probably test the server with 50k players.

massive_98 @ May 5th 2007 2:59PM

I'm quite as excited about Halo 3 as I was about Halo 2. I will still buy it, just with 10% less excitement.

massive_98 @ May 5th 2007 3:00PM

I'm NOT quite as excited about Halo 3 as I was about Halo 2. I will still buy it, just with 10% less excitement.

AgentESPIO7 @ May 5th 2007 3:07PM

Man, i must be a horrible person. I've never even PLAYED Halo 2. I never had an original Xbox, and when the 360 came out I bought Halo, but since then I always mean to buy Halo 2 but never get around to it. Oh well, hopefully I can buy it before Halo 3 comes out because Halo freaking rocks :)

mattclarkie @ May 6th 2007 6:46AM

This is slightly off topic. But I half expect them to release a boxset at the time when Halo3 goes classic which contains 1,2,3 and the Multiplayer maps. With 1 and 2 repackaged in 360esque boxes.

I think that would be great and may give some of those people who never played the originals a chance to do it. I for one am annoyed my Halo:CE is the classic version especially as my Halo 2 is a launch day and they don't match. Why do they hideousify the classic games. It is as if they are saying, hey late boy suck on this lame boxart and pay us for it. Surely it costs them to redesign the classics boxes.

David @ May 8th 2007 10:40AM

The classic boxart is just a classic frame with the original cover inside, it does'nt cost that much, and who cares if the sleeves dont match, you dont play the sleeves, if it bothers you that much search on the net for it and print it off. Google is your friend.