Part of that deal reportedly has Microsoft retaining rights to the Halo franchise and also having the first shot at publishing future Bungie titles. We could very easily see every (or almost every) employee leaving the studio to start a new company (see: Wideload Studios, Certain Affinity, Giant Bite, Double Aught, etc.), but how much is the Bungie name worth? To Microsoft, probably a lot, but to the employees, would the incredible amount of money required to pay Big Daddy Gates really be worth it? Wouldn't they be better off using that money to build a nice developer environment?
We're still receiving the stock response from Microsoft: "There's been no such announcement. We continue to celebrate the tremendous success of the global phenomenon that is Halo 3." Here's how some other sites have weighed in on the rumor:
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Then again, who's to say they'd be a Halo farm? The franchise has already been given to other devs before (Ensemble, for example), and MS isn't against new IPs.
However, to address the full rumor of Bungie leaving, with its name. Let's think hypothetically that there was even an amount of money in the world that one convince MS to give up the name. Why on fucking earth would ppl spend that much money, when they could call themselves "Bungey" and set up (with that much cash) their own freaking dev studio island resort.
That makes no sense, and if that's the case, you can bet the industry to be working full steam to discover how much money that actually is, even if it involves inventing a new number system. After that, probably quite a few articles analyzing the silliness of spending that much on a name.
but if they bought back a controlling share of their stock then they certainly could control their future. that hadn't been noted in yesterday's post about this
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You sound like a scorned lover. lol
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I don't think M$ can afford to lose Bungie. That's their bread and butter for their console. Hopefully they can pay Bungie off to silence and keep them under their commands.
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if true, this could amount to them buying their souls back from the devil
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*twirls*
What developer makes Madden football for EA?
some of you don't know. I do because I'm in the industry.
its Tiburon, if EA handed the game over to another developer would most people notice. sure bungie is more synomous with Halo, but the main stream audience I don't think would really notice. that is just my opinion
of course all the game media would make a point out of it.
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It shows that even Brutes have regular sized penises
Those PR folks at Microsoft make the launch of Halo 3 sound like the second coming of Jesus.
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You are absoultely right. I have all the respect for Halo 3 but Ska Oreo is being a idiot. He agreed on the earler comment on Halo 3 being the second coming of Jesus. all i know is that when "Jesus" comes, I want to see it in at least 720p....my set-up is 1080p is would I want that personally
They're announcing Pimps at Sea.
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To play devil's advocate though, one reason why Bungie may want to call it quits with the Halo series, is because Microsoft was probably pushing hard for a Halo 4 (especially seeing what Halo 3 is doing to its sales). Still, I have to wonder why Microsoft hasn't come out and squashed this rumor...this rumor could effect game sales and most definitely MSFT's stock price!
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Marathon 4, confirmed.
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The reasons why I have hopes on a new Marathon game are:
Halo 3 Spoiler Alert* [Even when I believe everybody knows the ending by now]
Halo 3 Ended with Spartan 117 in a cryogenic-chamber in the freaking space and as we all know Marathon and Halo stories take place in the same universe, in fact the Halo arc takes place 200 Years before Marathon that means John could be frozen for 200,I mean why the hell not it worked for Fry.
Halo 3 is plagued by Marathon references, if you played Halo 3 you at least know the name Marathon and with Halo 3 hype and wikipedia now everyone knows about Marathon hell I didn’t knew it existed until Durandal hit the live arcade. Seriously until 2005 I was a PC fanboy in fact I knew about myth (I think I played it once) but I dind’t knew Bungie did it in fact until Halo no one knew who the hell was Bungie unless you were a long time Marathon Fan but everyone else was in blank.
I think Halo 3 Arc is finally done I mean the rings exploded and with MS in space waiting to awake continue with Marathon or a prelude to Marathon probably introducing John as the Main Hero wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Now I just want to add something, Can I be in the FDF Union?, I don’t have photoshop but I was thinking on being Reverend Preacherbot, Robot Santa or Calculon.
I take reverend preacherbot for 200 Alex,I can change it later if I don't like it right?
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