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Posted by: dalmedya
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Posted by: dalmedya
Cost aside, I don't think MS are set up for huge dataflow in a short period. They'd need quite a few servers on multiple internet connections, dedicated solely to the podcast.
I'm betting they have better things to spend their money on, at least from their viewpoint.

and Windows Update doesn't generate (and support) tons of traffic?
Yes, it does, but that is a vital service, and the files and whatnot hosted would usually not compare in size to a video podcast.

Posted by: aku
um... I think you may have forgotten the fact that they release videos on Bungie.net pretty frequently. A few notable ones were the Halo 3 Announcement trailer, the vid-docs, and the first Blomkamp Halo short. If they wanted to do a video, they could host it with no problems.
None of those (with the exception of the announcement trailer) would have been downloaded as rabidly as a podcast.
And I'm fairly certain they were hosted elsewhere. AND they were pretty much one-offs.



Yes, they were hosted elsewhere, on Microsoft servers, judging by the redirect you have to go through to get them. Which would be a viable option in this case, as well. All I'm saying is that the technical difficulties, while possibly providing an obstacle, would in no way whatsoever be insurmountable.


Edit: After reading your response to Recon, I noticed that you seem to be making a gross misjudgment, either about the number of downloads the podcast would get, or an underestimate of the size of the previous downloads. Windows Updates are most certainly smaller than a video, but you are not considering the fact that literally millions of people are downloading it at the exact same time, due to people using the default windows settings for automatic updating.

[Edited on 09.16.2007 6:49 PM PDT]

  • 09.16.2007 6:44 PM PDT
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Oh dear. Clarification time.

MS certainly DO have the hardware for it, but would they be willing to use it?

Considering the automated nature of the Updates, how do you know they are not 'rolled-out' over several hours?

Anyway, my opinion is that MS can host a video podcast, but they won't.

  • 09.17.2007 2:18 AM PDT

Posted by: dalmedya
Anyway, my opinion is that MS can host a video podcast, but they won't.


Why wouldn't they? As I read this thread I've started, that's the question I keep coming back to. First you guys said "It would be to big." Why? "Well, maybe it wouldn't. But they wouldn't be able to." Why? "Well, I guess they could. Well they wouldn't want to." Why? I think the answer this time will be the same as last time: "well, maybe they would..."

  • 09.17.2007 7:59 AM PDT

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Why is there no video in the podcast?

Because that would require a lot more work than a regular podcast, and they're pretty busy as it is.

  • 09.17.2007 8:17 AM PDT

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Taxes do nothing to affect the share of wealth, since taxes are only applied to income.

So that's not even a part of the conversation at all, so it's pointless talking about it....

"for a "best" moral to exist, there must exist the "best" moral base. If the base of morality varies from location to location, culture to culture...then there can't be an absolute moral..

what do you mean they are pretty busy? do you mean to tell us that when bungie makes their biggest release to date, and the largest release in video game history, that they do not have time to video tape the free bit of entertainment that they are nice enough to give us?

of course they should tape it. and they should not make me have to download it, they should put it on a dvd and mail it to me (i mean use ups air), insert it into my 360, and then hit the green button. that is what they would do if they cared about the fans.

  • 09.17.2007 10:28 AM PDT

Posted by: Shishka
Why is there no video in the podcast?

Because that would require a lot more work than a regular podcast, and they're pretty busy as it is.


Well they record the audio don't they? Why would it be so much harder to stick a $50 video camera in front of themselves while they do it? Doesn't seem like much work to me. And I'm sure Bungie, being a gaming company, can hire a tech to splice(sp) the two feeds together.

Posted by: sesquipadelian
what do you mean they are pretty busy? do you mean to tell us that when bungie makes their biggest release to date, and the largest release in video game history, that they do not have time to video tape the free bit of entertainment that they are nice enough to give us?

of course they should tape it. and they should not make me have to download it, they should put it on a dvd and mail it to me (i mean use ups air), insert it into my 360, and then hit the green button. that is what they would do if they cared about the fans.


Is this the kind of junk that passes as sarcasm these days? So sad...

  • 09.17.2007 12:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: SPARTANofSPEED
Well they record the audio don't they? Why would it be so much harder to stick a $50 video camera in front of themselves while they do it? Doesn't seem like much work to me. And I'm sure Bungie, being a gaming company, can hire a tech to splice(sp) the two feeds together.


The podcast you listen to is not a straight rip, but an edited piece. Editing video takes more time, and more effort. Further, a vidcast of the three of them just sitting together and talking would be boring as hell, and soon enough you would be back to whine about how they should be giving tours of the office, or splicing in slivers of gameplay, or all these other things that would turn the podcast into a much larger production than it wants or needs to be.

Bungie isn't a video studio, and Frankie, Sketch and Luke aren't cinematographers. The podcast is something they do for fun, and if you haven't figured out yet, isn't a high priority action item compared to everything else on their plates. It's clearly more work than you think it is.

  • 09.17.2007 1:24 PM PDT
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Eh?

Yeah, we've noticed that the podcast doesn't seem to be on the top of the to-do list.

  • 09.17.2007 2:30 PM PDT

Posted by: Shishka
The podcast you listen to is not a straight rip, but an edited piece. Editing video takes more time, and more effort. Further, a vidcast of the three of them just sitting together and talking would be boring as hell, and soon enough you would be back to whine about how they should be giving tours of the office, or splicing in slivers of gameplay,


I wasn't saying it is boring or that it would be necessarily better with video feed to accompany the audio feed. I was saying that when I think of a podcast, I usually think of audio and video, and that it is odd that Bungie's doesn't have video. I wasn't saying the current status is boring or whatever, but that it is merely odd.

Posted by: Shishka
...or all these other things that would turn the podcast into a much larger production than it wants or needs to be. Bungie isn't a video studio, and Frankie, Sketch and Luke aren't cinematographers. The podcast is something they do for fun, and if you haven't figured out yet, isn't a high priority action item compared to everything else on their plates. It's clearly more work than you think it is.


Yeah, you've got me there.

  • 09.17.2007 7:10 PM PDT

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