- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recoton007
Posted by: UXB
People here are badmouthing Bungie because they don’t develop games for the PC platform which is sort of like badmouthing Mercedes Benz for not manufacturing BMW’s. I have no doubt that the people at Bungie care about the PC gamers but due to the resources available and their focus on the Xbox platform – the platform they have been successful with - they are unable to dedicate resources to develop for the PC in conjunction with their Xbox development. They do after all have to run a business, pay salaries and ultimately generate the revenue required to create new and better games.
I don't quite see how that analogy is applicable in this situation, but to stick with the car analogy, it's more like BMW stopped making parts for the BMW 2002 model even though thousands of people still owned the car, and were willing to fix their cars instead of buying new ones. Bungie would obviously be BMW in this case, with the halo series being the car parts, and we being the vintage car owners.
In starting this thread, I firmly believed, and still do believe, that Bungie was afraid that it could not grow larger in both size and legitimacy, without "piggy-backing" on the horse that is Microsoft. In their attempt to expand, they sold themselves out, transfering their true administrative control to Microsoft and its Xbox. In their doing of this, they betrayed not only Mac fans, but also PC fans as well.
So the question is four-fold:
"If you agree that Bungie has abandoned the PC gamers, at which point did they start to do so?"
"Do you think that the ports were really Bungie, filling in the demand for Halo on the PC, or was it just n effort to collect money from an untapped source?
"If you disagree with the subject in question, why do you think so?
and finally "With Bungie separating (legally) from Microsoft, do you believe that they will finally turn their attention to the PC audience?"
With Bungie separating from Microsoft, this thread is now open to the future, and while we wait for Bungie's word on what projects it will confront next, we can only sit back in our chairs and couches, not expecting anything more than they have offered in the past, but always holding on to that grain of sand, that is hope...
spot on...spot on! The greed must stop! I'm sure bungie has heard all this before, and maybe now that micro$uck decided to p1ss off, maybe we'll be ok...or maybe bungie is too concerned in lining their pockets as well..
[Edited on 10.15.2007 7:21 PM PDT]