I only ever buy the Bungie games ahead of time unless it actually comes with someone useful ingame and not gimmicky. And even then someone usually sells the pre-order xbox live codes on ebay and then I just buy it that way and save about anywhere from $10 and above like with the Sgt. Johnson add-on character from ODST. I still wish Halo kept all the fun glitches and Easter eggs out-of-level like In Halo 2 where there were literally at least 100 different secrets, and since #2 I just have not seen that inspiration to really play the Halo series as intently as i used to. Speaking of secrets, has anyone else read about how hackers got the Halo Reach code off the xbox.com website and actually have distributed it across some bittorrent websites and that cutscenes and even the legendary ending itself were leaked onto YouTube until Microsoft Corporation got wind of it and removed the videos from YouTube under a copyright claim?