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Rumor: Clan support being added for Halo 3

Helping keep both the Halo 3 and Fall dashboard update rumor mills turning is news about the addition clan support appearing on Xbox Live. The guys over at MEGATONik noticed a descriptor for clan support while looking through the Halo 3 feature list posted on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The descriptor reads:

"Clans are one option for playing ranked matches. A clan is a player-created group for playing ranked matches as a team. With clans, you know the players backing you up are dedicated, and the players you're going to face will be just as dedicated."

Again, this clan "feature" is listed under the Halo 3 information on Xbox Live accessible by going to Halo 3 > Expand Your LIVE Experience > Online Game Play. Now, we aren't saying that Halo 3 will have its own implemented clan support seeing that Bungie has already denied such feature, but it could be implemented into Xbox Live via an update ... a Fall update. It's a bit of a stretch, but we didn't get clan support in the Spring dash update and Fall does start September 23rd which is a few days before Halo 3 and timed just right to be considered in the Fall. Clan support, either coming in Halo 3, in the Fall update or not at all. We'll just have to wait and see.

[Thanks, zizzy]

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21. One place to manage clans for all games that would rock!

I don't think they would risk a deploy that close to H3 launch. Of course that downtime for maintenance could have set things up and they're just waiting to throw the switch.

Posted at 2:27PM on Sep 15th 2007 by M. Dizzy

22. i would say given the amount of people playing halo and how long people play it for (years...), they could implement clan support next year and it wouldnt make a bit of difference to the vast numbers of people playing it. i cant see ms rushing to get out clan support.

also, the part on the halo 3 section about no ranked invites has me a little worried. thats the worst element to gears of war and what made halo 2 better overall. here's to hoping they meant something else...

and if you cant find the section, it's not under any of the titles but rather one of the bubbles on the marketplace blade or on your xbox live blade. wait for it to make its rounds.

Posted at 3:19PM on Sep 15th 2007 by pierce

23. Thanks for the advice guys :)

Posted at 3:21PM on Sep 15th 2007 by CalabreZ

24. I don't see what's the big deal about clans. In Halo 2 they became useless and by the end of it the majority of ppl ignored the whole clan system. Unless they GREATLY improve their methods, I am not getting worked up over nothing.

Posted at 3:23PM on Sep 15th 2007 by CalabreZ

25. Anyone know if you can access this info in the euro marketplace/dashboard?

Posted at 6:43PM on Sep 15th 2007 by DaveC

26. Wow! Yet another feature Halo's stolen! Let's all get excited and claim it's revolutionary! Woo!!!

Posted at 2:44AM on Sep 16th 2007 by Leo

27. God i'd love clan support.
I wonder if they'lle be clan tags.
[DFG] SytheMaster
I'd like to see that in a online game

Posted at 7:39AM on Sep 16th 2007 by SytheMaster

28. So,the huge game that brought Microsoft a metric ton of console sales (Gears of War) has gotten shafted this entire time with clan support,but the SECOND that overrated,copy and pasted levels,chocked full of 12 year olds game Halo 3 is going to be released they manage to "slip it out".

What a screwjob.

Posted at 12:13PM on Sep 16th 2007 by OTAM

29. Hey Leo...why not try out a different blog, more to your taste. Obviously you don't like the MS console, so why are you here?

Examples of your fanboism:

Posted by Leo on Joystiq:

Sep 14th 2007 4:54AM Err.. "who would want any of that shit?" You realize you're the most fucking pathetic Xbot I've ever seen, right?

And that's saying something.
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[About DMC4 now that it's multi-platform]

Sep 9th 2007 3:52AM God, that's ugly! No wonder it's on that big white clunky thing!
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Posted at 1:08PM on Sep 16th 2007 by Knight Marquise

30. @ 29. Touche sir. You have effectively squashed a fanboy and a flame war.

Posted at 4:58PM on Sep 16th 2007 by CalabreZ

31. @ Project Ekim

The forum ninjas on b.net are not official Bungie/MS employees.

Posted at 5:07PM on Sep 16th 2007 by SpaceGhostFlyer

32. @ 27 .... it will not have clan tags like COD4BETA

halo3 already had the letter and 2 numbers tag and I believe thats what their keeping for now...

when the clan update goes live, does any know if there will be major clan match again????

it was my fave. when halo2 first came out I made a clan called WOO TANG CLANG and we were top 20 on the leaderboards for major clan match... ahhh those were the times.

Posted at 3:20PM on Sep 17th 2007 by nawtcool

33. clan support would be nice for halo 3 but it would be nicer if you can have a clan that would be the same for every game. so you dont have to start a new new one every game

Posted at 3:27PM on Oct 14th 2007 by psychoticpuppyy

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