Microsoft is delaying the release of Halo 2 for Windows Vista after partial nudity on the game was discovered, the software giant said Friday.
Halo 2 for Windows Vista is now expected to hit the stores sometime in the first week of June, approximately two weeks behind the revised May 22 schedule. The game was
originally scheduled for release on May 8, but was delayed due to some technical problems, Microsoft said at the time.
The software giant attributes the most recent delay to an "obscure content error" found in the initial production of Halo 2's map editor. That error was partial nudity.
Despite the error, Microsoft said it would be difficult to stumble across the offending content.
"This file is not in the game itself, nor will someone who simply plays the game ever encounter it," Microsoft stated.
The company has no plans to change the rating of its game, given it affects only the initial run of games and not subsequent shipments. Warning labels will be placed on packaging for the affected games, and Microsoft has developed a patch that can be
downloaded to remove the content in question.
It depends on the format they used to create the game. If they did it in a graphical or VR mode, if is possible that they greated a nude model and then inserted code to create clothing in different situations. Then, somewhere in the process someone forgot a certain piece of code or something didn't code cleanly, etc.
Yeah, but the error was that they used Ballmer, and it had to be exorcised from the code before someone found it and became violently ill. Not to mention the potential lawsuits filed by the Great Ape Society...
Is a Ken Doll nude when you take its clothes off? No. Because it has no genitalia. So when we're talking partial nudity, I'm guessing there are br**sts or p***ses involved. Those don't get created by "accident."
In the same vein as the previous poster, the question is, where they any of Ballmer's private parts??? LOL
This is what I put together after going to bunch of message board that had information on the story.
The partial nudity it refers to was an image of a man mooning the camera. The image was in an error message in Halo 2's map editor. The man was identified as one of the developer at Bungie. The error message was originally in Bungie's internal development tool and was only intended for the amusement of Bungie's developers. When the tool was ported to Halo2's map editor(for public consumsion), the team that did the porting was not aware of this particular error message until after the fact.
I would posted the links I went to but I am not sure about cnet's term of use regarding posting links to other websites.
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The image of a young boy's naked butt would be HIGHLY OFFENSIVE in many corners of the world.
Did you temporarily misplace your lofty, liberal ideals of cultural sensitivity and global awareness? Perhaps it did not occur to you that Halo 2 would be marketed anywhere beyond the Seattle area.
Microsoft isn't bowing to puritan ethic, it is bowing to political correctness.
This is just another example of what a WEIRD country we are. It's ok to let the kiddies play a game with non-stop violence and killing, but GOD FORBID if they see a little skin!! Gimme a break.
Let's look at the Ten Commandments... Hmmm, killing - bad, nudity - nothing there.
It's a "military game", the content is probably some "bomber art" that Master Chief has on a wrecked Warthog in a map.
In the whole scheme of things, do the ratings and these "stickers" even mean anything to most buyers?
This news will probably fuel the demand for the game and create a collector's demand for those "unique" copies of the game with the nudity.
Then there will be the huge number of posts on FAQ and hint sites on how to find it, and we all know that is the result of a bunch of people playing long hours just to find it.
If anything, the patch to put the nudity back in would be more popular than the patch to remove the nudity.
It's not the killing or the nudity, it's killing in the nude that's the problem!!! All that nude killing... killing, in the nude... Nudeness and bullets and railguns, oh my!
Seriously, I think it's all a load of ****-a-dukey. It's a way to spur sales through retail propaganda.
You need to understand that THIS IS A GAME!!! You are not killing people you are simulating war. Are you saying that all who are at war right now are unjust and just running around KILLING PEOPLE? You simulate war. No people actually die. That was ACTUAL NUDITY, and in this case, yes killing people is ok, and nudity is not.
The culture that sends young people to die unnecessarily
I hope you show just as much angst over deaths of young Americans because of a big lie! You expect anything less from a culture that worships ownership of guns? Damn right it's backwards but try explaining it to the right wingers.
But you're telling untruths as to which party is the "morals police". <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2005/08/68433" target="_newWindow">http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2005/08/68433</a> "The Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005 -- is a product of self-described moderate Democrats, with no bipartisan support." Next time, try leaving your blind, uniformed political hatred aside, won't you? And don't even get me started on the music industry, as it was Al Gore's wife calling artists before Senate panels for judgement. Jeez.... it must be good to be a Dem leader, as all your lemmings believe it's "what you say, not what you do" that's important! :-)
>>>QUOTE FROM ME: Nudity is wrong in all cases, other than during sex with a spouse.<<<
So your doctor or nurse in a hospital can never see you naked? How about in a shower room after a game? So many cases you have to cover with this extreme view.
Ten commandments say you shall not kill, but no prohibition on being naked - that was a perversion Adam and Eve brought about and one that pornographers capitalize on. If we see nudity as not being wrong, they have no market.
Since killing is wrong, what about getting gratification from killing as depicted fictionally in a game? Didn't Jesus say, it's just the thought that counts?
Anyway, what we have here is proof of a warped society where you can kill or mutilate people, even if imaginary, but to see the human form in its full beauty is wrong - and remember God was pretty pleased with what He created! But man wants to destroy it in thought, word, and deed.
ggamer2004 also seems to think the cross wasn't meant to be glorious. Where this person get's that idea from is "rediculous". The early Christians who were martyred because of what they believed didn't die because they thought the cross was a travesty, but because after Jesus' resurrection it became a throne.
It kills me that people can't follow a simple narrative.
I first thot the slowdown was in play from gazing at the 'partial' nudity. So, Where are the screenshots or links to screenshots? I woulda thot someone would have posted them by now.
ggamer2004... from what you've said, nudity has no place in a violent video game (actually you said nudity is wrong in all cases except with a spouse during sex), and that the games are a simulation of war. So - NONE of the video games are in any way realistic!!! Are you trying to say that in war, every time someone is shot to pieces, or blown up, that EVERY SINGLE TIME they are left with full clothing on and their private parts are covered? THINK AGAIN!! Often, clothing is either torn or burned from the body and there IS nudity in war!
NOTE: I do agree that in this instance, the nudity should NOT be a part of the game, especially since the only way to even see it is through an error in the game, not within the game itself.
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LOL
it in a graphical or VR mode, if is possible that they greated a nude
model and then inserted code to create clothing in different
situations. Then, somewhere in the process someone forgot a
certain piece of code or something didn't code cleanly, etc.
exorcised from the code before someone found it and became
violently ill.
Not to mention the potential lawsuits filed by the Great Ape
Society...
In the same vein as the previous poster, the question is, where they any of Ballmer's private parts??? LOL
The partial nudity it refers to was an image of a man mooning the camera. The image was in an error message in Halo 2's map editor. The man was identified as one of the developer at Bungie. The error message was originally in Bungie's internal development tool and was only intended for the amusement of Bungie's developers. When the tool was ported to Halo2's map editor(for public consumsion), the team that did the porting was not aware of this particular error message until after the fact.
I would posted the links I went to but I am not sure about cnet's term of use regarding posting links to other websites.
make a confusion between "Nude" and "Porn". See:
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.nyclu.org/" target="_newWindow">http://www.nyclu.org/</a>
usps_censorship_josephine_pr_051507.html
and
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" target="_newWindow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a>
Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy
Please note that God made us naked and will recall us naked
too...
MD
coming and coming . . .
The image of a young boy's naked butt would be HIGHLY OFFENSIVE in many corners of the world.
Did you temporarily misplace your lofty, liberal ideals of cultural sensitivity and global awareness? Perhaps it did not occur to you that Halo 2 would be marketed anywhere beyond the Seattle area.
Microsoft isn't bowing to puritan ethic, it is bowing to political correctness.
*shudder* - that might count as "content error"
Why can't these companies ever have a cute japanese girl as their CEO?
Let's look at the Ten Commandments... Hmmm, killing - bad,
nudity - nothing there.
It's a "military game", the content is probably some "bomber art"
that Master Chief has on a wrecked Warthog in a map.
In the whole scheme of things, do the ratings and these
"stickers" even mean anything to most buyers?
This news will probably fuel the demand for the game and create
a collector's demand for those "unique" copies of the game with
the nudity.
Then there will be the huge number of posts on FAQ and hint
sites on how to find it, and we all know that is the result of a
bunch of people playing long hours just to find it.
If anything, the patch to put the nudity back in would be more
popular than the patch to remove the nudity.
The game is about killing people, and Microsoft doesn't worry about that at all, but partial nudity causes a delay in the game shipping?
This is backwards. Absolutely backwards.
Seriously, I think it's all a load of ****-a-dukey. It's a way to spur sales through retail propaganda.
police".
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2005/08/68433" target="_newWindow">http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2005/08/68433</a>
"The Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005 -- is a
product of self-described moderate Democrats, with no
bipartisan support."
Next time, try leaving your blind, uniformed political hatred
aside, won't you?
And don't even get me started on the music industry, as it was
Al Gore's wife calling artists before Senate panels for judgement.
Jeez.... it must be good to be a Dem leader, as all your lemmings
believe it's "what you say, not what you do" that's important!
:-)
Did it occur to you that the image of a young boy's naked butt would be HIGHLY OFFENSIVE in many corners of the world?
Perhaps you didn't realize that Halo 2 would be marketed anywhere beyond the Seattle area.
Microsoft isn't bowing to Republic morals, it is bowing to political correctness.
>>>QUOTE FROM ME: Nudity is wrong in all cases, other than
during sex with a spouse.<<<
So your doctor or nurse in a hospital can never see you naked?
How about in a shower room after a game? So many cases you
have to cover with this extreme view.
Ten commandments say you shall not kill, but no prohibition on
being naked - that was a perversion Adam and Eve brought
about and one that pornographers capitalize on. If we see nudity
as not being wrong, they have no market.
Since killing is wrong, what about getting gratification from
killing as depicted fictionally in a game? Didn't Jesus say, it's just
the thought that counts?
Anyway, what we have here is proof of a warped society where
you can kill or mutilate people, even if imaginary, but to see the
human form in its full beauty is wrong - and remember God was
pretty pleased with what He created! But man wants to destroy it
in thought, word, and deed.
It kills me that people can't follow a simple narrative.
So, Where are the screenshots or links to screenshots? I woulda thot someone would have posted them by now.
ggamer2004... from what you've said, nudity has no place in a violent video game (actually you said nudity is wrong in all cases except with a spouse during sex), and that the games are a simulation of war. So - NONE of the video games are in any way realistic!!! Are you trying to say that in war, every time someone is shot to pieces, or blown up, that EVERY SINGLE TIME they are left with full clothing on and their private parts are covered? THINK AGAIN!! Often, clothing is either torn or burned from the body and there IS nudity in war!