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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 11:27AM (Unverified) said

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:) hooray... longer subscription
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 11:27AM (Unverified) said

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I'm actually liking bungie alot right now! :) There giving us more then maps, and well it's nice to know that they do things like this;)
I mean it would also be nice to uhh give some free recon for the the first purchasers too;)
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 2:49PM EJ A said

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It's trying to get the former-Halo3-turned-CoD4 players back into the fold.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 11:47AM Jakey777 said

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It would be nice if Reckon was available to all players in first place.We'd have a lot less hatress and account hacking.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 11:54AM aStagnantSleep said

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Nice thinking Bungie.

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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 11:55AM (Unverified) said

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Very nice! Lets a have a sexy time!
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 11:57AM blash said

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How many people actually use Bungie Pro anyways? I don't use the movie/screenshot features since there really aren't that many moments in Halo worth capturing - a service like that is better for games like skate and Burnout Paradise.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:39PM (Unverified) said

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there are lots of people on halo (including myself) who enjoy creating videos of their greatest kills or just funny things like glitches or really luck grenade shots. Just check out youtube for the amount of people making videos of halo moments.

Also, team SWAT as a permanant playlist, Awesome!
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 5:21PM blash said

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that's not really my point - are you going to actually create THAT many videos that you're going to need to get Bungie Pro?
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Posted: Apr 14th 2008 8:16AM (Unverified) said

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What about people who consider themselves map builders. Bungie Pro isn't worthless to everyone like it may be to you.

But I agree with you that being able to go back after a game and capture video clips and screenshots should be implemented in every game (or at least burnout paradise).
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:04PM NoTomorrow said

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The only thing is that they said that they "currently have no plans on making these maps free", so buy right away to get Bungie pro.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:29PM (Unverified) said

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I was wondering if anyone else caught that part. I guess now that Bungie isn't MS, they would like to have a bit of a longer life for income from the Halo franchise...might as well. Other than the occasional "sale" (GRAW2 DLC currently 50% off), most DLC never goes free or changes in price. Might as well keep the money flowing since they don't make anything off of free map packs.

Doesn't matter to me anyway...even though I don't even play the game anymore, I'll download the new map pack. I like Bungie and they can has my monez!
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:21PM Magic Whiskey said

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If they become free I'll download then, but as for my MS Pointz, they went this month to Ikaruga.

As for my DLC map goodness, i'm still somewhere lurking in Chinatown and can't be bothered...
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:38PM (Unverified) said

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although noone ever checks my bungie file share thing and i rarely put stuff up this is cool. kinda giving back instead of just saying here just download the maps give us your money and shut it. bungie's much more fan based than activision. or any other gaming company i can think of.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:56PM The 7th Number said

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I think they should have had a special helmet for those who buy the DLC Map Packs.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 12:58PM Ribs said

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SWAT is legendary required, Awesome!
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 2:06PM (Unverified) said

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I love it when developers give back to the community. I won't be puchasing the map packs due to Xbox Live Gold, or lack there of, but this is still a nice gesture. Good on ya Bungie!
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 2:20PM (Unverified) said

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Id rather they discount the maps. I use the screen shots and videos but what ive got is enough.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 2:30PM ghostbuddy said

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"How many people actually use Bungie Pro anyways? I don't use the movie/screenshot features since there really aren't that many moments in Halo worth capturing - a service like that is better for games like skate and Burnout Paradise."

If I get on Halo 3, and play it with my better XBL friends, I end up going into the theatre a few times in a night. There are lots of moments in Halo worth capturing.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 3:42PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, that sounded like an ignorant statement from a certain-other-game fanboy, or something. Just watching previews of the new maps, I saw tons of "oh shit, awesome!" moments.

I think it's silly to think otherwise, especially when contemplating similar oh-shit moments in other games. Everything is subtle, if only by color and modern design.

On the other hand, Halo has a lot of big things happening with tons of visually-signaled close calls. Rockets, spartan lasers, and sniper trails, for instance. Or giant glowing sticky grenades. Or huge vehicles careening just over your head. Bubble shields creating dramatic near-misses. And don't forget the ragdoll on top of that.

You don't see that in other comparable games, really. Videos more often than not will just be killing sprees as what can really happen outside of that?

But eh, eh. I haven't played either game in awhile, just thinking about it.
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 5:41PM TheMainProtagonist said

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When do these come out again?
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 6:57PM Ribs said

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Tuesday
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Posted: Apr 12th 2008 9:47PM (Unverified) said

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Remember, Love Bungie.
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Posted: Apr 13th 2008 12:14AM Deezul AwT said

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Pass, if they only offer two hoppers for new map downloaders, AGAIN. I an update for the new maps. I played tonight, for 6 or 7 games. One had a new map, and that one was vetoed because of Snipers. ugh.
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Posted: Apr 13th 2008 10:07AM Swamp Donkiey said

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These maps look so much sweeter than the first batch. I hope that bungie keeps making remakes of Halo 1 maps, Battle Creek, Hang em' High, and Blood Gulch need to come out. I will buy these maps even though I waited for the first batch to become free. Hopefully enough people buying these maps will send Bungie a clear message to keep rolling out the updated classic maps. 2 classics and 1 new map bundles sounds about right. Keep em comin Bungie.
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Posted: Apr 13th 2008 4:56PM thepsychedelicpaintbrush said

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Seriously? They don't plan to make the Legendary maps free? Sorry, but after buying the last map pack and NEVER seeing the new maps in a single ranked or social playlist, I will not be buying these. I don't really regret purchasing Heroic because I still got to play with Foundry and I made a map that I'm truly proud of, but then again, I could have done that after it was free as well. I know the DLC playlists are there, but I'd rather not be cornered into playing specific playlists just so that I'm not wasting my money.

It bothers me when a game is split in half by people with and people without DLC. You might get a map, and your friends won't, or the other way around. Then you can no longer play the game to its fullest because either you don't play with your friends as often or because you neglect the new maps to play with your friends. There shouldn't be problems like this in gaming, but then again what company actually cares more about its consumers than its cash? Large corporations will be the downfall of mankind.
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Posted: Apr 14th 2008 8:25AM (Unverified) said

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I completely agree with you. I wanted so badly for everyone to just have the heroic pack. I played it in the dlc playlist maybe 10 times. Screwed around in foundry and forged a bit. Played a little grifball.
It came up 1 time in a ranked ts game for me and that was it.

But i like swat (and so do many many ppl), and if this must have legendary to play swat thing is true that will be a motivator for the masses.
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Posted: Apr 13th 2008 9:32PM (Unverified) said

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I'd have preferred they just sold the maps at a reasonable price of 400msp over giving me something i don't want.

Lets face it this is clearly to try and tempt people back to halo from COD4, well in my opinion the casuals, the ones they want back just aren't going to care about Pro, in fact I'd go as far as to say most don't care about it. So it's not going to be tempting at all, a reduction in price however would spike some interest and certainly give them an edge over COD4s 800MSP map pack, IMO.
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Posted: Apr 13th 2008 10:04PM Gemini Ace said

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We should get more than 6 slots as default. Bungie Pro is too expensive.
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