Looks like no retailer can actually keep his ugly lil’ paws from tearing open those precious Halo 3 boxes and shower copies down from the rooftops. So what if the game is only supposed to be sold a week later, right? Images are coming in of a lot of Halo 3 copies in the wild, and considering how some retards have been stupid (or sadistic) enough to post the endings on YouTube, one wonders why even bother sticking to a release date instead of slapping on a sticker that reads “Go nuts! Sell as you please” instead of the one that pleads “Do not sell before 9/25/07″.

We’re not sure what’s going to happen in India, considering the games have to be sent to retailers before the 25th, but we’re waiting for some form of communication from Microsoft India on how they’re actually planning to prevent retailers here from going the same way of their crazed US and UK counterparts.

For those that were scared that Microsoft would ban your Xbox LIVE account if you took your purchase online before the 25th, rest easy, MS has got your back, even as they probably fleece the skin off the retailers’ for selling them in the first place.

“We can confirm that Microsoft is not taking any action (such as banning Xbox Live accounts) against gamers who are playing Halo 3 before the official street date. Any rumours or speculation to the contrary are false.”

said Microsoft, in an official press release issued to Pro-G, which had initially warned that anyone taking their copy of the game online before the 25th will have their accounts banned. I wouldn’t mind getting my copy before the 25th, considering I can’t really spoil it for anyone, what with me sitting on a broken Xbox 360 for the last 22 days now.

UPDATE: The official word from Mohit Anand, Country Manager for Microsoft India’s Entertainment and Devices Division is that they are taking enough precautions to make sure the street date is not broken here as well.

We are doing what we need to, and that is all I am willing to say :), but rest assured the game will be on shelves on [the] 25th.

We’re sure it will be, Mohit, but you’ve really got our eyebrows raised as far as they’ll go with that cryptic smiley emoticon there. Oh well, let the inexorably painful one-week wait begin! We waited years for the game, I’m sure we could wait another couple of days… I think. At least until I start crying on the doorsteps of the retailer to let me have my copy before then.

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• bobby sandhu Says:
  September 20th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

  Holy cows…. lol.. well its even bigger blunder then the leaking of CAT exams…. only that its not in India yet… ha ha ha… well… if i was a retailer… i dont know.. atleast i would have opened one of them for myself….

• NightShade Says:
  September 21st, 2007 at 11:57 am

  LOL!!!!! yea ,ditto here ,i were the shopkeeper,my condition wud have been just like that of Jim Carrey in “Liar liar” ,when he was in the lift with that boob chick ^_^
  No1 can be blamed here