Most of it appears to be concerned around the Multiplayer elements from the game. So its probably the online structure just not being able to cope with the demand, or something.

Sorry to double post, I don't want you to think I'm an ass, but I wanted to try and answer the question.

I have no freaking idea. I haven't heard anything about the game having problems, and alot of those posters had trouble with the single player mode. Maybe older model 360's having trouble reading the disks?

opps.

Its true!

I bought a brand new Halo 3 (regular cheap edition) and loaded the game. Immediately the Xbox tells me that the "disc is unreadable, sisk may be dirty". I clean the disc, which is new and perfect already, and was able to get into the main menu.

First I could not load the campaign map or any multiplayer map. The game tells me "Player failed to load map" and so I open the disc drive and try again.

Now I am able to get in the game, watch the opening cutscene, walk through the forest before the game stops and the "disc is dirty" message pops up again. This happens several more times before I curse loudly and profusely and try turning on and off the console.

Shortly after my console makes a loud grinding noise and im worried I scratched the disc. I open it up, looks fine and try to play again. Now the game doesnt load. "Unplayable Disc" is what it tells me on the desktop. I try putting in Bioshock, Gears of War, and even KOTOR 1+2.
Everything is now an "Unplayable Disc". :(

I think my disc drive is now broken.

So now I am waiting for a box to be sent to me so I can ship my Xbox 360 to be repaired. 3-5 days for the box, and 3-4 weeks for my console. *SIGH!*

The scale of this problem doesn't appear to be too bad, but this still isn't good for Microsoft. They just got back some respect after RRoD was supposedly fixed and now they have to deal with Halo 3 problems.

@xerox me
It seems alot of things aren't going well for microsoft recently.

also, your avatar is fucking adorable.

It has to do with the Hard drive. try taking it out and using a memory stick. thats what I did.