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I agree with Lars. Even in its current restricted format, people are using the saved games feature to make incredibly cool (and often hilarious) videos. How something will look in the saved game film has become something that people are discussing even during games now, which I think is fantastic and really good for the Bungie Community.
I am not so sure, however, about allowing videos and files to be generally uploaded to the Bungie.net servers for viewing by groups. I'm not much of a tech guy, so I can't really speak to the specifics of it. But looking to sell 10 million games, that's an awful lot of potential saved film videos (and they would have to be videos rather than saved-game data files) being hosted by Bungie.net, at the same time that is is functioning as a Halo 3 stats bank and dealing with increased web traffic due to its popular video game. Moreover, there seems to be some possible potential for abuse of this feature -- just imagine ten guys from the same clan all posting their clan's Halo 3 "24 hour Release Day Halothon with No Kill Limits" video -- all from their own perspective or edited slightly differently.
I understand your point about increasing and revitalizing the utility of Bungie.net's groups with this feature, but I'm just not sure about the idea's feasibility. Maybe someone else can speak with more authority on the subject.
Personally, I think that groups that provide links to videos hosted on other sites designed for file-hosting will see the same amount of popularity regardless of where the videos themselves are stored. There are plenty of those groups out there that use YouTube or other video hosting sites, and I don't think that the community necessarily would be brought any closer if the files were hosted on Bungie's servers rather than elsewhere.
As for Bungie itself posting a in-game video file every once in awhile, I think that this is a great idea. Not so sure about the whole "pick out the best game statistically and post it" thing, but posting the Weekly Humpday Challenge video (as previously suggested in a couple of other threads) would be great.
To be honest, though, I'm a little indifferent either way on this last point.
[Edited on 06.06.2007 4:49 PM PDT]