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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 3/21/08
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i hope the man cannons on the side dont take you all the way to the other side


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  • 03.21.2008 8:40 PM PDT
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Do you see Call of Duty handing out maps for free? Their releasing some new maps, April 2nd I believe, or somewhere around there, and they are charging for them. No developer with a huge fanbase is going to just hand out maps for free when they could get paid for them. People want money for there work, that's just how the world works. They'll be free eventually, but when demand goes down, that's when the price goes down (or dissapears entirely).

  • 03.21.2008 8:43 PM PDT
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and if all of the man cannons work it wont be an Avalanche it will be a pin ball machine

  • 03.21.2008 8:43 PM PDT
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I recall Bungie saying Microsoft set the price, but I'm sure Bungie had a hand in making them free. Sure, sure, marketing issues, legal stuff, and all that other drib-drab aside, my main point was to make something special for the people who bought them. An extra map or something, you dig?

@ FearlessHen

In direct combat, yeah. The Wraith is a mortar and can shoot at angles, which gives you the advantage in rocky terrain and over-the-line-of-site combat but it's very rarely used in that fashion.

What I'd like to see most, and am most giddy of the prospect of, is capture the flag by having a Hornet quick insert a team to the roof or upper story of a structure and then the flag carrier getting into the side seat to make a quick get-away.

  • 03.21.2008 8:46 PM PDT
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When will the Legendary Map Pack be free?

We are not currently aware of any plans to release the Legendary Maps for free.


Uh-oh, I smell a party pooper!

  • 03.21.2008 8:50 PM PDT
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"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood"

- White Goodman, Dodgeball

The map looks awesome, but I disagree with the pricing. Halo has 11 maps for proper matchmaking atm. Thats far too few and its going to take light years to get all the decent maps into matchmaking, due to the fact half the damn community refuses to pay 800 points.

  • 03.21.2008 8:51 PM PDT

PM from Equus Asinus: "Calling me a moron for somthing wich you have no part in is stupid. Maybe if you used proper grammer I would feel you as a threat. But, I think you owe me an apology."

No way in hell I'm buying the legendary pack. I bought the heroic and the only time I was able to enjoy those maps was on the DLC playlist. A waste of money IMHO. I'll wait until they're free this time.

Pay extra money to have the 1% chance of getting the new maps in mm? Yah, ok. I love Halo. I love Bungie and I know they don't set the price but this just sucks, period, no matter how you sugarcoat it.

Wolf-

  • 03.21.2008 8:53 PM PDT

PM from Equus Asinus: "Calling me a moron for somthing wich you have no part in is stupid. Maybe if you used proper grammer I would feel you as a threat. But, I think you owe me an apology."

Posted by: Module 7
Do you see Call of Duty handing out maps for free? Their releasing some new maps, April 2nd I believe, or somewhere around there, and they are charging for them. No developer with a huge fanbase is going to just hand out maps for free when they could get paid for them. People want money for there work, that's just how the world works. They'll be free eventually, but when demand goes down, that's when the price goes down (or dissapears entirely).


Your online economy is based off of XBox Live. Community and even designer support for player content has been around for more than a decade for the PC. The reason things are the way they are for the XBox is because the live service that you pay for was sponsored by a company. It's not a community gathering. The online community that uses Halo 3 and COD4 (XBox 360) is backed by an economy. The minute that people start fronting the cash to run the system is the minute that you get free content.

Get a real computer and play real games.

Wolf-

  • 03.21.2008 8:57 PM PDT
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GT: Greg Is So Hot

Posted by: OrionWolf
Get a real computer and play real games.

Wolf-


My game says Bob died of dysentery and a thief stole 11 oxen.


Also, original music in the trailer! :O

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  • 03.21.2008 9:13 PM PDT

I tried to sign my signature here but the pen busted off in my screen.
:(

Posted by: OrionWolf
Your online economy is based off of XBox Live. Community and even designer support for player content has been around for more than a decade for the PC. The reason things are the way they are for the XBox is because the live service that you pay for was sponsored by a company. It's not a community gathering. The online community that uses Halo 3 and COD4 (XBox 360) is backed by an economy. The minute that people start fronting the cash to run the system is the minute that you get free content.

Get a real computer and play real games.

Wolf-


Too bad every computer game I ever played is filled with cheaters using mods in every good game out there. At least on Xbox Live, not all, but most of the cheating is delt with quickly.

  • 03.21.2008 9:13 PM PDT
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Yes Thank You!!!, an over veiw of the map!!!

  • 03.21.2008 9:22 PM PDT
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Talk to the Soul | ~B.B. | Know Your Duardo |  | Hero | ISFJ | 77135 | 94371

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Sweet.

I love the comparison shot.

  • 03.21.2008 9:22 PM PDT
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My comment was towards the guy that said, basically, that Bungie should give out these maps for free. I think it's pretty obvious that developers with big fanbases will hardly ever give out maps for free.

  • 03.21.2008 9:23 PM PDT

Don't ask about the name-- it's a long story

12 player FFA?
Bungie = EPIC WIN (again)

How about a permanent 16 player FFA? Even if it's just Social?

Haven't played SWAT yet but I loved it in Halo 2 (I owned the hardest in that playlist)

  • 03.21.2008 9:38 PM PDT
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I have a thought... why is it that they can't require the heroic maps for all gametypes once they're released? If they can require it for some, it just doesn't really make sense. If you can get online to play Halo 3, then you can get online to download the map pack for free. The only reason not to do this would be if the person saves their data on a memory card, but seriously who doesn't have a hard drive to use?

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Posted by: Achronos
No.

Chris Butcher is my hero.

  • 03.21.2008 9:40 PM PDT

If Legendary Brawl is Free for All and ranked, doesn't that mean that you could achievements in it? For example overkill or Two for One?

  • 03.21.2008 10:46 PM PDT
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trash ass maps

  • 03.21.2008 10:51 PM PDT

"The debts of meat will live on in eternia." -lukems

first!

(in my mother's eyes)

  • 03.21.2008 11:08 PM PDT

I wanna know what moonligh sonta looks like!!! Argh.

  • 03.21.2008 11:15 PM PDT

not too much of an update but still good. cant wait for legendary maps and cant wait for heroic to be free so i can actually play my maps with some of my friends.

MLG top ten had some wierd lineups, the one on the mongoose should have been first and the #1 should have been #3

  • 03.21.2008 11:21 PM PDT
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my original post I called this update weak. At that point in time, there weren't visuals along with the descriptions. I'm really looking forward to Sidewinder. Brings back memories of HaloCE and a roomful of beers and buds. Cheers for choosing to bring back one of the originals.

  • 03.21.2008 11:48 PM PDT
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i love bng

  • 03.21.2008 11:51 PM PDT