- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recoton007
When Bungie was first founded, it was set with one goal in mind. To provide Mac users with the highest quality gaming performance, offering such games the legendary Marathon and Myth series. As it was developing an entirely new game, soon to be refered to as "Halo," the game was consumed by the Microsoft giant, and the rest is history. But what has happened to their original target market. Let's step out of "they were only making games for Mac users," and expand the idea to say, "their original target market were the computer gamers of the time." What has happened to this target market since then? Following their last game that was ever made for the computer, Myth, they have produced Halo and Halo2, both for Microsoft's Xbox. It appears that the once devoted Bungie has turned their backs towards their loyal computer gamers, and have turned rather towards acting as a major advertisement for Microsoft's gaming systems, urging people to buy the consoles purely to play one of the best FPSs ever made. Am I the only one here that thinks that Bungie has "gone to pot" ever since Microsoft has bought it over? The only Bungie related games that I am aware of are Halo PC, which was created by Gearbox, a mediocre gaming company that produced a mediocre port at best, and Halo 2 Vista, which from what I have heard has numerous upgrades, but is still far from making up for the three year time gap. Am I the only one here that honestly believes that Bungie is NO LONGER about providing excellent gaming experiences, as it is to be the "slave boy" to Microsoft, and to serve to create the Flagship games, to promote their consoles. I don't feel as though I'm the only one to believe this, however, I'm surprised that no one has really addressed this.
We do feel your anger agaisnt Bungie/Microsoft's original goal. Whats more, If you were here for some time you would also have noticed that they stopped posting anything on the front page even about computers. They didn't even inform us of any delay for H2V or any of that. Then again, most of the profit comes from Xbox and such, no thinking gamers, people. Who knows, perhaps things might change.