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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:37PM (Unverified) said
Right... Am I the only one who remembers Luke sitting on the bungie forums laughing at people trying to find armor that couldnt be unlocked, simply to keep egging them on and confusing people with saying it could. No, Bungie doesnt enjoy toying with their fan-base at all... :\
I already lost alot of respect for some of the Bungie people from incidents like those around Halo 3, now it seems that when their antics make it to the news, they want to act like their fanbase is soooo important and they wouldnt laugh at toying with them like that. pfft. Bungie must have forgotten they make those podcasts, which people save, and have proof that is completely wrong.
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I already lost alot of respect for some of the Bungie people from incidents like those around Halo 3, now it seems that when their antics make it to the news, they want to act like their fanbase is soooo important and they wouldnt laugh at toying with them like that. pfft. Bungie must have forgotten they make those podcasts, which people save, and have proof that is completely wrong.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:41PM (Unverified) said
i think they like to have fun with the "over the top" crowd who write letters or finds out where they work and play Halo 3 constantly. I think they care, at least somewhat, about the average gamer who in the end just enjoys the franchise.
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Posted: Jul 25th 2008 12:25AM (Unverified) said
I find it funny that my comment got neg rated like that.. I mean does everyone honestly believe an exec wouldnt chuckle about it? Of course to the public he wants to save face, so lets throw that guy under the bus for bringing it up. I am shocked everyone thinks Bungie is that innocent, especially with as I said, past things like that.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 3:23PM (Unverified) said
I can't figure out why the game wasn't shown. Microsoft had a great show but why not go for the knockout punch?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 5:26PM (Unverified) said
Simple: because everyone already knew the announcement was coming, and all that making the announcement would do is completely drown out any and all coverage of anything else MS showed at E3. If they had "a great show" as you say, then why not let that show get as much press as possible and then, only once that has died down, schedule and put on a dedicated event for this remaining announcement. A Bungie-related announcement is worth the cost of hosting a separate event, and the net result is more total press coverage of both the E3 announcements and the Bungie one (when it happens.)
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 8:23PM (Unverified) said
It's true, Halo is a hell of a weapon to have. And to not have to use it is great. BUT, I'm of the mind that if you have the bullets in the chamber- you should use them.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:43PM (Unverified) said
Oh!! Tension between M$ and Bungie rise! Soon we'll be seeing Halo + future Bungie games on the PS3.
Just wait and see. He he he ha ha he ... heee!
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Just wait and see. He he he ha ha he ... heee!
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:47PM (Unverified) said
Considering Microsoft own the Halo IP, Bungie would never be able to port it over to PS3.
Uninformed PS3 fanboys FTL.
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Uninformed PS3 fanboys FTL.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:52PM DeXterminator said
Would the kind folks at X3F please ban this troll. Thank you.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:45PM Gemini Ace said
Isn't Bungie independent now? Why can't they just announce it whenever they want?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:49PM (Unverified) said
Publishers control the release of the product, advertising and out flow of information.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 12:50PM (Unverified) said
Because Microsoft is the publisher of the game, they take care of PR and so what Microsoft says is the final word.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:02PM (Unverified) said
I fucking hate Don Mattrick. Why doesn't that arrogant piece of shit go back to EA?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:54PM ghostbuddy said
Seriously, how are you going cut a Bungie announcement in favor of games like "Your in the movies". Then cut the wendsday announcement with just over 12 hours before it was set to occur.
Then try and down play it by accusing your developer of laughing when it was delayed. After the said developer had already publicly displayed their severe disapointment for the delay. You end up looking like a jack ass.
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Then try and down play it by accusing your developer of laughing when it was delayed. After the said developer had already publicly displayed their severe disapointment for the delay. You end up looking like a jack ass.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:16PM Strider119 said
Bungie is now a 3rd party independent developer and a bumbling Microsoft coprorate decision has pissed them of ...
Yeah that's just great. Why not gift wrap their studio as you hand them to Sony, morons?
The more I read about this more more embarassing it is, Bungie definately got hosed on this one. That's gotta be an egg-face moment.
The only thing that would make up for it is if Microsoft is planning on having some huge gala event at the tokyo game show or something. That would make it ok, I guess.
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Yeah that's just great. Why not gift wrap their studio as you hand them to Sony, morons?
The more I read about this more more embarassing it is, Bungie definately got hosed on this one. That's gotta be an egg-face moment.
The only thing that would make up for it is if Microsoft is planning on having some huge gala event at the tokyo game show or something. That would make it ok, I guess.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:34PM Glitch W said
but the Japanese public doesn't care about MS or Halo so them announcing Bungie's new Halo project at TGS instead of E3 where people care about Halo and in the prime market for Halo seems kind of weird. It's kind of like how Blizzard went to Korea to announce Star craft 2, the Korean audience are the biggest star craft fans so it gets best reception there. Halo would get a lukewarm reception in Japan but a great one at E3
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 7:18PM (Unverified) said
Oh, you're a feisty like bitch aren't you?
I LIKE THAT! o]>=
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I LIKE THAT! o]>=
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:26PM (Unverified) said
Thing is Bungie didn't keep their mouth (web site) shut. They hint that there are going to be announcements and when it doesn't happen they look like idiots and then try to blame others for it. They didn't have to hint or say anything about it, it really isn't there place.
I love the Halo francise but Bungie is damn annoying.
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I love the Halo francise but Bungie is damn annoying.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 1:47PM (Unverified) said
I said before that someone should be fired over this eff-up. I nominate Don Mattrick.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 2:01PM Jack Tretton said
Why are you dredging this up? Got a quota to meet?
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 2:01PM (Unverified) said
How do you know what the "plan" was? You are assuming that they were told, just as I am assuming they weren't. Thing is we don't know but still Bungie needs to get over it.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 2:16PM ghostbuddy said
What are you babbeling about?
The plan was to have the announcement at Microsofts conference. But Don decided to cut the 2 and a half hour conference to an hour and a half.
So Microsoft changed the plan sometime between june- and july because of Dons choice. And the announcement was give its own event on Wensday. Some one from Microsoft then phoned Bungie on tuesday night, about 12 hours before the announcement was set to occur and canceled it.
Bungie had a horde of things planned. A mocumentary about E3, a podcast, a trailer, a fan fair at Pax, and a lot more that had to get shelved because of the last minute cancelation. That quite frankly should not have occured in the first place.
Don started taking heat, and he accuses Harold of laughing at the cancelation when he was first told.
No one is assuming anything here but you.
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The plan was to have the announcement at Microsofts conference. But Don decided to cut the 2 and a half hour conference to an hour and a half.
So Microsoft changed the plan sometime between june- and july because of Dons choice. And the announcement was give its own event on Wensday. Some one from Microsoft then phoned Bungie on tuesday night, about 12 hours before the announcement was set to occur and canceled it.
Bungie had a horde of things planned. A mocumentary about E3, a podcast, a trailer, a fan fair at Pax, and a lot more that had to get shelved because of the last minute cancelation. That quite frankly should not have occured in the first place.
Don started taking heat, and he accuses Harold of laughing at the cancelation when he was first told.
No one is assuming anything here but you.
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 2:11PM (Unverified) said
What annoys me about this is Bungie's appearance of a spoiled brat. To me it seems pretty tasteless to go talking like this behind Microsoft's back. This isn't Bungie's style which is "who cares let's roll with this" Instead it's "The people who are paying us didn't want to announce our game, poor us." Then use the fans as their excuse "Oh our poor fans." Your fans can wait, was your game coming out this fall? No? Then there's plenty of time to announce it and plenty of time to wait anyway. Makes me angry.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 2:29PM (Unverified) said
Well, dealing with a large corporation which probably has a lot of unnecessary political drama can be tiring. Also, we don't know how or how much effort was put into the announcement so they might have had done a nice set up to only get told their efforts were for naught at last minute. Especially if they were told they were going to save the announcement for a trump card later, which is really just unnecessary PR maneuvering because real gamers really don't care for that bs.
I can see your argument though, but ultimate we really don't know what fully went down, so all I can say is...
Another Halo Woot :)
It and GoW were the only reason I bought a 360 in the first place :D (and to play Chromehounds but don't tell anyone >.>)
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I can see your argument though, but ultimate we really don't know what fully went down, so all I can say is...
Another Halo Woot :)
It and GoW were the only reason I bought a 360 in the first place :D (and to play Chromehounds but don't tell anyone >.>)
Posted: Jul 24th 2008 4:22PM (Unverified) said
Amen, I'm just happy knowing there is a game to be announced.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 5:53PM ZEBRA NINER said
What the heck is a Bungie? Halo? Is this a new point and click adventure? ;)
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 7:08PM ZEBRA NINER said
Jack Ass! I just used a curse word! OMG! Good times.
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Posted: Jul 24th 2008 7:15PM (Unverified) said
All things point to it being another one of those. Now about Bungie...I don't know. I've bungee jumped before. Could the two be related. Uhm?
Just In: Bungie switched over to the dark side, the better side that is. Expect Bungie goodness on the PS3 soon.
"Why so serious?"
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Just In: Bungie switched over to the dark side, the better side that is. Expect Bungie goodness on the PS3 soon.
"Why so serious?"
Posted: Jul 25th 2008 6:13AM (Unverified) said
There's a Don Mattrick interview over on Eurogamer and he basically states that the Halo announcement is going to have it's own 'event'.
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