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Anybody have an idea where to find an e-mail address for Hired Gun? I'd really like to give them a bit of my mind, but I can't seem to find a contact address. Especially seeing as they haven't got an actual website.... or anybody on the team technologically literate enough to create an e-mail account.

[Edited on 05.22.2007 1:42 PM PDT]

  • 05.21.2007 5:21 PM PDT
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All I can find is the blog: http://blogs.ign.com/MGS_HiredGun/
I guess you could post comments in their blog posts, however it hasn't been updated in a while... I doubt they will reply too.

  • 05.21.2007 5:23 PM PDT
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I'd like to know as well, just so I could tell them how -blam!- -blam!- they are.

  • 05.21.2007 7:28 PM PDT
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  • 05.21.2007 7:37 PM PDT
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I'd really like to give them a bit of my mind, but I can't seem to find a contact adress.


And you wonder why?

  • 05.21.2007 7:43 PM PDT

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HG people post all the time on h2vista.net

  • 05.21.2007 8:12 PM PDT
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I hope you don't on planning on blaming HG for this, considering that the very company's board that you are posting on is at fault for this.

  • 05.21.2007 8:23 PM PDT
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Bungie is in no way at fault for this. Hired Gun was independently contracted to port Halo 2 to Vista, using code and models provided by Bungie. Hired Gun did pretty much the same thing Gearbox did, like creating netcode, sh;tifying the hardware optimization, leaving in the button glitches, and I would guess a lot of other glitches that haven't been discovered yet. The only bad thing Bungie did was make a crap game in the first place....

  • 05.22.2007 1:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: ChAiRMaNWoW
Bungie is in no way at fault for this. Hired Gun was independently contracted to port Halo 2 to Vista, using code and models provided by Bungie. Hired Gun did pretty much the same thing Gearbox did, like creating netcode, sh;tifying the hardware optimization, leaving in the button glitches, and I would guess a lot of other glitches that haven't been discovered yet. The only bad thing Bungie did was make a crap game in the first place....


QFGDMFT.

  • 05.22.2007 1:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: ChAiRMaNWoW
Bungie is in no way at fault for this. Hired Gun was independently contracted to port Halo 2 to Vista, using code and models provided by Bungie. Hired Gun did pretty much the same thing Gearbox did, like creating netcode, sh;tifying the hardware optimization, leaving in the button glitches, and I would guess a lot of other glitches that haven't been discovered yet. The only bad thing Bungie did was make a crap game in the first place....

I could've sworn I had taught everyone here a lesson in the truth. Allow me to reiterate on that lesson.

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=23429

Guess what? It's the same case for Hired Gun as well.

  • 05.22.2007 3:21 PM PDT
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You're implying that Hired Gun/Gearbox screwed up so bad because of unreasonable hardware/time demands put on them by Bungie? That's impossible to prove or disprove; it simply hinges on your feelings about each company. Unless you've somehow got your hands on exclusive correspondence between Bungie and HG.

However, remember when we launched teh raid on the non-H2V Weekly Update? As I recall, Anachronos himself came out to tell us that it was HG, not Bungie that was responsible for all decisions regarding H2V, including when to release information.

I will find the quote if you give me a minute.

Edit: Posted By:Anachronos
This is the Bungie Weekly Update. As Bungie is not directly developing Halo 2 for Windows Vista, we're not going to be the ones announcing much info about it... at least not in our Weekly Update. That's not to say we'll never talk about it, but rather that most of Bungie's collective attention is focused on Halo 3 (and to a lesser extent, Halo 2 maps).

I suggest you look around, I believe there have been rumblings from Hired Gun (the MGS team doing much of the work for Halo 2 Vista) about various features of the game.


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  • 05.22.2007 3:41 PM PDT
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I bet they are happy they don't have official forums or even an email address...

  • 05.22.2007 4:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: ChAiRMaNWoW
You're implying that Hired Gun/Gearbox screwed up so bad because of unreasonable hardware/time demands put on them by Bungie? That's impossible to prove or disprove; it simply hinges on your feelings about each company. Unless you've somehow got your hands on exclusive correspondence between Bungie and HG.

That isn't impossible to prove; I just proved it possible by an official statement by an official Gearbox employee. That's how it went. What makes you think it was any different this time around?

Posted by: ChAiRMaNWoW
However, remember when we launched teh raid on the non-H2V Weekly Update? As I recall, Anachronos himself came out to tell us that it was HG, not Bungie that was responsible for all decisions regarding H2V, including when to release information.

I will find the quote if you give me a minute.

Edit: Posted By:Anachronos
This is the Bungie Weekly Update. As Bungie is not directly developing Halo 2 for Windows Vista, we're not going to be the ones announcing much info about it... at least not in our Weekly Update. That's not to say we'll never talk about it, but rather that most of Bungie's collective attention is focused on Halo 3 (and to a lesser extent, Halo 2 maps).

I suggest you look around, I believe there have been rumblings from Hired Gun (the MGS team doing much of the work for Halo 2 Vista) about various features of the game.

I think you just missed the point of that post as well. Let me point it out to you:
Posted By:Anachronos
This is the Bungie Weekly Update. As Bungie is not directly developing Halo 2 for Windows Vista, we're not going to be the ones announcing much info about it... at least not in our Weekly Update. That's not to say we'll never talk about it, but rather that most of Bungie's collective attention is focused on Halo 3 (and to a lesser extent, Halo 2 maps).

Didn't they do a Weekly Update about Shadowrun? How about the few updates about the Halo books?

Also, Anachronos states that they aren't directly developing Halo 2 for Windows Vista--they said NOTHING about them not telling Hired Gun what to do. Given that Hired Gun has stated plenty of times in their blogs that they were working extensively with Bungie, that should give you an idea that it's the same thing again this time around. Want to know why Halo PC had a crappy net code? Look to Bungie. Want to know why Halo PC didn't get an HEK until six months after the release? Look to Bungie. Want to know why Halo PC supports 56k? Look to Bungie. Bungie mandated each and every one of those features--that means they said that's how it was going to go.

Right now, at this point and time, current Hired Gun team members are on H2Vista.net trying to help those that are trying to unlock the locked features in HEK2. What does this tell you, hmm?

  • 05.22.2007 6:28 PM PDT
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Yes, all true. I agree, that post by Anachronos doesn't really prove anything - I read it only after I posted it.

Actually, I wrote up a long-ish argument, but got to the end and realized that I really wasn't saying anything in it. I am pretty much starting to agree with you. Lack of texture/detail/resolution settings, left-in glitches, bad optimization - all of those possibly and probably were mandated by Bungie. However, I'd still like to at the very least e-mail them and ask them to at least defend themselves. If they point the finger at Bungie, I'll at least be happy with someone to blame.

On a related note, if the H2Vista.net forums have got people from Hired Gun active on them, how come we haven't got anyone here? I don't know, but it almost seems to me as if there's a whole lot of anger inside of this forum, but nobody outside really cares.

  • 05.23.2007 3:01 PM PDT