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Subject: Should Bungie license optimatch source code to other devlopers?
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If the other developers REALLY wanted the system, they'd make one. Halo 2's was made a long time ago, and skills in have improved since then... So if anything, every game since then should have had a better one, but they didn't.

In short, developers are lazy.

  • 06.13.2007 2:29 AM PDT

There's nothing to stop anyone implementing a similarly-featured system to halo 2's.

But nobody cares enough.

Why the hell do developers spend three years on a game and then cobble some -blam!--poor excuse for a lobby system onto the front of their MP and call it finished?

  • 06.13.2007 3:11 AM PDT
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Posted by: RhythmKiller
There's nothing to stop anyone implementing a similarly-featured system to halo 2's.

But nobody cares enough.

Why the hell do developers spend three years on a game and then cobble some -blam!--poor excuse for a lobby system onto the front of their MP and call it finished?


My guess --> To be original, but they fail in their originality b/c typically their pregame lobby system is -blam!

  • 06.13.2007 10:34 AM PDT
Subject: Should Bungie license optimatch source code to other devlopers?

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Poll: Should Bungie make availible or license optimach source code?  [closed]
No:  33%
(2 Votes)
Yes/any way they can:  17%
(1 Votes)
License for profit to other developers:  0%
(0 Votes)
Freely availible to Microsoft internal developers:  0%
(0 Votes)
Availible to all developers:  33%
(2 Votes)
Undecided/don't care:  17%
(1 Votes)
Other (please post):  0%
(0 Votes)
Total Votes: 6

^topic

I ask because I think Optimatch is one of the best gamefinding systems on Xbox live. In my opinion, it would benefit all gamers if the source code was released to other developers to make use of. Pretty much every other game would be so much better with Optimatch instead of finding a server manually.

  • 06.13.2007 12:44 AM PDT