Dec 10
Class Action Connect lawsuit against Bungie hopes to heal the damage wrought by Halo 3’s missing pixels
You may remember when Halo 3 first came out, some people with way too much time on their hands decided instead of enjoying the game for what it was they would rather count the pixels. When they did, the result was not the promised resolution of 720p but a mere 640p upscaled to 720p - and with some simple arithmetic it is revealed that Bungie “cheated” gamers of a whole 80 pixels of vertical resolution. That’s right, Bungie had the nerve to lower the native resolution by a mostly unnoticeable 80 pixels for the sake of greatly improved lighting.
Now, Class Action Connect is offering a lawsuit against Bungie, so that gamers everywhere can get the money they deserve for having to enjoy the incredible lighting in less-than-HD 640p. Bungie is finally being called out for their grievous affront to humanity, and they could have to pay for Halo 3’s unforgivable lack of 80p. The description from Class Action Connect:
A team of class action attorneys has launched an investigation into complaints that Halo 3 was falsely marketed as a high definition product, but does not actually render native high definition resolutions. These complaints are that, although Halo 3 was advertised as having a 720p resolution (720 pixels), it natively renders at 640p (640 pixels) and is simply scaled up to 720p. Read more about it here. If you purchased the Halo 3 game, you may be entitled to recover money.
Justice prevails once again. However, Halo 3 is not the only game to withhold pixels, or even the worst offender, so it’s time to bring all the other developers who have made games in less than 720p and make them pay too. It is inconceivable that anyone would makes aspects other than the resolution their priority, and even if they made a fun, entertaining, and amazing game they need to be brought to court for every slight aspect that was promised but not delivered. These lawyers need something to do with their time, afterall.
[Via Xbox-Scene]
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/sarcasm
I forgot to close that
Time to be the contrarian again: to be fair, it was promised by Bungie, or at least, from what I read here it is. If a specific feature/specification is advertised, then it shouldn’t be cheated (like my goddamn Guitar Hero 3 guitar batteries…and no, I ain’t letting it go).
Ultimately though, I didn’t notice, and would never have otherwise. So yeah, I think it is retarded, as I’m 100% certain these lazy bums are looking for a handout; I guess they want the game to tie the room together. Well, I didn’t piss on their rug.
I just want to know why you cannot do vertical split screens now with the popularity of widescreen TVs on such a game, where your only alternative is the non-widescreen filling horizontaly split screen that is a chore to look at even on large TVs. That’s just me.
It’s not missing 80 pixels. It is missing 80 lines of vertical resolution. Which, assuming it is still running in 16×9 mode, means that it is in fact missing about 193 thousand pixels.
I’m trying to decide if any people who bought Halo 3 will actually try to get money out of this, should they win. I know Halo has a huge fanbase, and I’d like to think that they respect Bungie enough for what they do not to even go through with this, but then in that huge fanbase are also gigantic tools who will hear about a chance for free money, and then capitalize on it.
Frankly, I would like to see where Bungie “promised” us 720p. Hell, how is this any different than promising that Super Smash Bros. Melee will be released in December? Things don’t always work out, and the people who are taking legal action against the companies who make the games we love to play are complete asshats.
@Poopface Morty
Maybe they did promise it, but they gave a perfectly legitimate reason and it shouldn’t be a big deal at all. A lawsuit is taking it way too far. Furthermore, plenty of games are also lower resolutions that are merely upscaled, and the only reason Halo 3 is getting singled out is because it is such a popular game and they probably think they can get the most money and publicity.
@Dexter345
I certainly won’t and I hope other fans don’t try and get money from Bungie just because they can. However, plenty of people just got Halo 3 because it’s such a big deal and will jump at the chance to make a quick buck. However, I really doubt this is going to actually go anywhere.
I think they’re probably referring to advertising that called it high definition, and also, it says “HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p” on the back of the box. However, neither of those specifies native resolution, and that’s what the 640p is. It’s upscaled straight to 720p or even 1080p, and so I don’t think they really promised anything about native high definition resolutions.
@Matt
I know, I even said “80 pixels of vertical resolution” in my post, but I didn’t want to type that out every single time I referred to it and I still think it isn’t that big of a deal. Even 80 lines of pixels isn’t much and when it’s upscaled it doesn’t make enough of a difference to make a lawsuit.
another idiotic lawsuit to be thrown out of the court.
(at least I hope no judge will take this seriously).
I don’t know if they ever “promised” that it would be in 720, but I think one of the biggest problems is that they never said anything. If no one would have ever found out I don’t think they would have ever mentioned it.
That’s because it hardly mattered, and they did it so they could use the resources for the lighting instead. They knew people would throw hissy fits when they found out, so they were trying to avoid drama since it was wasn’t an issue.
And once again, plenty of other developers do this without saying anything either.
To all those who say that you hope people don’t go get money from this if it wins… every person I know that has Halo 3 would go back and get money. I mean… who doesn’t want a free game or half price game?
“who doesn’t want a free game or half price game?”
People who respect what Bungie has done and the amount of work they out into the game, and that they had a reason for lowering the resolution.
Some people might care about where and how they’re getting money, not just the fact it’s money.
Personally, I respect Bungie and don’t plan on trying to take their money just because some people are whining about not having 80 pixels of vertical resolution.
Yeah, I already said the lawsuit is ridiculous to begin with in this situation, but if it was ever ‘promised’ (like I mentioned above, I have no idea if it was) and that promise is never met as advertised, then I feel those fanatics have some grounds to extort money out of Bungie. False advertising is false advertising, no matter how mundane the matter, and after working retail for about 8 years, I can tell you that people will bitch about anything. Don’t get me wrong, like I mentioned, I think it is rather ridiculous and this is something I never have really noticed myself as a player. I never would file a lawsuit out of mere opportunism. I mean, isn’t this something that could be fixed in a patch anyway?
And also as you mentioned ziz, that other games do this, well, this may keep developers in check from here on out.
Who cares if you’re 80p short, did anyone care before someone noticed? No one seemed even notice it being 80p short until someone actually counted them, so why should we care now?
You guy should just be happy that youve got halo.so what about 80 pixels, and why would someone count them? you should just be happy there is a halo3.Idiots
i mean they should just be happy, not you guys sorry