Halo & Microsoft

Okay, think about this: HALO is basically a PC with an Nvidia graphics card and an MS operating system (cut down) on a hard disk, with a DVD player. How long before someone hax0rs the OS to be copied (i.e. onto a PC where it could be a second boot) or makes an emulator?

Of course Bungie sold out. May have sold out, I should say. Not because they signed with a big company, but because it increasingly appears they did so by way of disappointing fans. It's fine to disappoint fans if it's to make a better game, but not as a strategic move to make more money off the same game.

What it looks like to me is they've compromised the game in a way that will indeed cause it to make less money (they've already got their fat check, no?), sacrificing it to the Xbox launch. In return they get a better long term situation. This is disloyalty to their fan base in service to something that may never affect players. That's rotten. Of course they've a right to do it but it's perfectly appropriate for their fans to condemn it.

And let's not forget what happened before the MS deal. The multiplayer aspect of Oni, which its development team adored and played constantly, was axed seconds after they arranged to release the game for the PS2. It stank, but we all forgot about it because we know Microsoft sells babies on eBay.

In Microsoft's defense, the hype machine was turned way the hell down after the buyout. Microsoft also seems to have a pretty good track record when it comes to games. If Bungie had to sell out to a giant Corporation, MS was probably their best bet, but *IF* they've agreed to never release Halo for PC, or if they've agreed to dumb the game down by forcing players into 3rd person perspective, scaling back the multiplayer, not releasing the level editing tools - then that's a full service sellout and a betrayal, and not the kind that's defensible with the old "purpose of a company is to make money" excuse.

That fears of these things have been voiced for a long time and never flatly denied argues they are at least flirting with those possibilities. Or that it's not their decision to make.

Does anyone know whose music that is in the Bank of America ads?

testing my poop

Would you people WAKE-UP HALO IS DEAD!!!
unless your buying a xbox(suckers)
by the time xbox comes out I'll be sporting a
1.5gigAMDCPU/NV20pro/512DDRram/75gigATA100HD
kickyourfuc#ingasssystemandxboxwillbeplayedonbypoorcan'tfindajobchildren

Ever notice how everyone always gets excited as hell when they start seeing screenshots and movies of a game that is undoubtedly 2 years away? Then 2 years comes around and every other game being released looks as good or better than the screenshots you saw 2 years ago... I do. It happens all the fuckin time.

xbox will NOT be as fast as you all seem to think
It's not break-through tech, just shit that should be out NOW,not in a year
I'm sure every fifteen year old will have to have one and sure as shit content will be dumbed down for it

I will take 100 for Bungie!!!

Halo Halloo!

http://www.shugashack.com/onearticle.x/11731

for posterity. =p

Toilet Ducky makes my mouth blue

There's a fucking X-Box ad showing above.

When Halo's released for the PC we'll all look back on this and have a hearty chuckle. I'm not concerned in the least. EBWorld, yeah right. Like they've ever got ANYTHING right...

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i 0wnzx0r your precious bungie no one can resist all M$ mounds and hills and mountains of $

Halo, if it ever ships, will be dumbed down to console levels anyway. You can't expect the game to be as good as other FPSs when it's designed to be worked with a gay console controller.

So who cares. I stopped caring long before.

Bungie doesn't even have control over the decision. Microsoft has a half a billion on the line in the marketing department alone. They're going to tell the guys at Bungie when to ship, and on what to ship.

Bungie sold out, and this is part of the price.

Fuck Microsoft, Fuck Halo, Fuck the X-Box.

They can go fuck themselfs
MS sucks, as soon as i heard it was being delayed on the PC i knew they got on their knees for the almighty dollar

Hmm...

actually this rumour has already been denied by Bungie, read more about it on http://halo.bungie.org/

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Oh, man... it's starting again. Eric points out that VoodooExtreme has a report that EBWorld is no longer accepting preorders for Halo... because the PC version has been cancelled. Look, folks... if the PC/Mac versions get cancelled, you'll hear about it from Bungie, not from some tipster to a big gaming site. (Louis Wu 06:36:53 UTC)
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Ok, who broke the shack again?
I cant reply to anyone

ahhh falling asleep on the PC, a sure fire way to know your a moron who's been on the PC too long.

If MS takes Halo away from me I will go matrix style on their asses.

This thread is incredibly inflammatory.

This game is going to disappoint anyway. Just accept it and move on..

I figured it was bad news a few days back when Halo disappeared from my release list at work. I think it'd be cool though to have it on PC/Mac/X-box at the time of the x-box release just so that anyone could get online and play.

yeah xbox is going to suck donkey balls

If MS decides to nuke the PC version I will seriously consider not getting an Xbox

err -- halo.bungie.org is a FAN site.

the halo.bungie.com page never gets updated :)