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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
My parents often say I should have been a lawyer too and not have "wasted my time" on these videogames.
My phrasing was such because I cannot give details of such interactions between us and Microsoft, especially given our new status. Suffice it to say that things do not always go as planned, but ultimately we can only offer guidance and advice when we are in a creative role on something, not in a managing role. That is a long way of saying that helping to author the content of the ARG is not the same thing as running it. During the actual execution of the ARG, we were still making Halo 3. By the time the "smoke cleared" such as it was, there was nothing that we could to do to deal with whatever issues people had.
Again, I'm not denying it is somewhat lame to have a fun little game be sullied with logistical problems. All I can do is say that sometimes, even though we hear your issues loud and clear, we cannot always resolve the issue to your satisfaction. Further explanation is inappropriate for this venue, and yes, I know that is frustrating. All I can say is that we'll try to make sure something like it doesn't happen again. Sometimes, that's the best we can do.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
Ha, you should've been a lawyer :-)
Does saying that it's "not necessarily a valid assumption" mean that you HAVE tried? If you have, then why not just say so? It might help if you just tell us, "We called 'em awhile ago, and they're useless.... they won't get back to us and we can't really do much else." I think that a lot of people who received nothing would be somewhat appeased by that.
Instead, it feels like rather than backing and supporting its Community, Bungie is backing and supporting Microsoft by protecting some lazy guy in Microsoft marketing who dropped the ball (probably numerous times) during Iris. I would feel a lot better about this if Bungie was saying "guys, we tried to get in touch with them and got no answer" or "here's the email address of Microsoft marketing, if you want to give it a shot," rather than saying "not us, sorry."
I hope you understand, Achronos and Bungie folks reading this, that I, at least (without speaking for other community members), am just expressing how it kind of feels like we were used and discarded. As most of us (including myself) have already said previously in this thread, we love Bungie and love Halo and had a great time during Iris. Achronos, I really appreciate you jumping in this thread to try to provide us with at least some consolation. But the silence and seeming indifference from everyone except Achronos (who, by all rights, shouldn't even have to deal with these questions) remains a big blotch on an otherwise clean record of Community involvement and interaction by Bungie.