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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 5/16/2008
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You shall be missed, Frankie.

  • 05.16.2008 10:12 PM PDT

*I sense a disturbance in the forum*
Jaws on Zanzibar?
Sniper 's Ed 101
my myspace
teh explosion
purchase a leaf blower at any Sears store
After kim saying pc gamers are more mature:
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we r?

I'll miss you frank

  • 05.16.2008 10:17 PM PDT
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We will never forget you Frankie.
LONG LIVE FRANKIE!!!!

  • 05.16.2008 10:19 PM PDT

Superintendent
The group home for the Investigation of the little green men.

:'(

My favourite bungie celebrity is leaving us? But he is what made the bungie updates worth reading, even a mention of his name would cause excitement.

This makes me a very sad panda.

  • 05.16.2008 10:20 PM PDT
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Time brings an end to all things...

You did a good job.

Farewell.

  • 05.16.2008 10:21 PM PDT
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And let us never forget Frankie who journeyed into the howling dark. For his decision required courage beyond measure. Sacrifice, an unshakeable conviction that his fight... *our* fight... was elsewhere. As we start to rebuild, the Weekly Update will remain barren, a memorial to Mister Chief's fallen. He enobled all of us, and he shall not be forgotten.

[Edited on 05.16.2008 10:36 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 10:22 PM PDT

FML?

*tears*

Franky, we will miss your strange accent, and the highlight it brings to bungie. We will miss your shiny head, and its' subsequent shine it delivers upon bungie's work.

leave if you must, but a task i beg; deliver to bungie a replacement head and accent, who has the same character as you!

Nay, it is challenging, and dare I say impossible, but do it, and millions will rejoice!
*tears*

  • 05.16.2008 10:23 PM PDT

My name is Michale J. Caboose, and I hate babies!

/cry
Good luck to you Frankie

  • 05.16.2008 10:35 PM PDT
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Don't leave Frankie and mister chief u can has recon. *Sniff*

  • 05.16.2008 10:40 PM PDT

Frankie no!!

Well, I hope you have a great time doing whatever you'll be doing next, hopefully you'll pop in from time to time to say hi to everyone. You will be missed, Frankie

Anyways, great update, I loves me some good 'shops.

  • 05.16.2008 10:51 PM PDT

Who is frankie?

EDIT: Why was I so naive that I would be the first to think of this joke?

[Edited on 05.16.2008 11:02 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 10:56 PM PDT

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I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

Goodbye Frankie... We will miss you!

  • 05.16.2008 10:58 PM PDT
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I never really knew ya Frankie, but goodbye. I'm sure things won't be the same without you.

It was hard not to "lol" at the RickRoll. Damn the need for other humans to sleep...

  • 05.16.2008 11:00 PM PDT

Frag the weak, hurdle the dead.

So i genuinely started feeling sad, that kind of sad you feel when you think you're dog was laying under your car when you backed up. :(

I met Frankie at PAX 07 and he didn't have anytime to talk b/c he had to whisk away the Halo 3 [insert build here] before something happened to it, but he still took the time to take a picture with me and sign my badge. In that very short time I got the feeling he's one of those few that really love what he does and says to himself " what do the players want to do " for the purpose of game play not sales.

You will be missed and I hope you're life rocks!

p.s.

I really appreciate the fact that you replied to so many of my messages.

  • 05.16.2008 11:03 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

goodluck Frankie, you will be missed here.

  • 05.16.2008 11:12 PM PDT

Frankie, I wish you luck in all of your future endeavors. You've been THE best PR guy I've ever seen, and your humor (almost!) every Friday always made my day a bit better. I think everyone here is going to miss you, and I'm really glad that you'll still be working on the Halo series. 'Till next time!
Edit: I hope that Luke will write the Weekly Updates now that Frankie has moved to other projects. Luke's a very good writer, and he also has a good sense of humor. I think he'll do very well.

[Edited on 05.16.2008 11:19 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 11:14 PM PDT

Proverbs 16:23 A wise man's heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction

Fight For Your True Calling I The Bungie Army
Do you have what it takes to become a ninja? Join
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nooo you can;t leave you are bungie its bad anuff that you don't the weekly update but now your leaving??? please you are bunige don't leave ( or no more recon and beer for you)

  • 05.16.2008 11:15 PM PDT
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wow.. this update made me so freakin sad! frankie! your the one that got me so stoked about halo 2.. then halo 3! your gifted at writeing and don't let anyone tell you diffrent.. no one in bungie will fill our shoes, I know Luke will agree with me on that and he in his own way will grow into that possition! but as a regular reader.. Ill miss you and despite what any one said the bungie commenity will never be the same =o( I guess nothing is forever...

  • 05.16.2008 11:17 PM PDT

33rd Mythic conqueror (Campaign Solo Legendary All Skulls On)

I made this picture for you Frankie, you will be missed...

Goodbye Frankie

[Edited on 05.16.2008 11:34 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 11:29 PM PDT
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I don't usually post in these things, but this is special. G'bye.

  • 05.16.2008 11:35 PM PDT

Frankie makes me sad. Bad Frankie. :'(

  • 05.16.2008 11:36 PM PDT
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i damn near cried today when i read this update. this is a tragedy of the highest caliber. i am lost in a sea of questions.

Frank? Why? Oh why, Frank? Why are you leaving?

i am emotionally affected to the deepest center of my core.

near hopelessly depressed,<

the snucka

ps

you will be missed. do great, as always.



[Edited on 05.16.2008 11:41 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 11:38 PM PDT

Frankie gone is:
No Weekly Updates
No community feeling at Bungie
No podcasts
No bad jokes in podcasts
No making fun of bald people
No one lagging accross half the map (I have seen Frankie doing that on film)

We will miss you Frankie...

[Edited on 05.16.2008 11:47 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 11:40 PM PDT
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In Frank's (Mister Chief's) letter, he/it stated about working further on Halo with Microsoft Corp. And they already have stuff on it. Anyone else want to elaborate?

"Dear Bungie Fans,

It’s not you, it’s me.

In many ways, you’re too good for me. You can find someone better. Maybe a little hairy dude. Maybe a Hungarian Unicyclist. I just know that I don’t deserve you, and that this is just as hard for me as it is for you.

Yours truly,
Frankie.

I am leaving you. I am off to work more closely with Microsoft on the Halo franchise, so I shan’t be too far away, but I wanted to take this last chance, appropriately enough in a Weekly Update, to tell you a very fond thanks. Thanks for being the most energized, enthusiastic, loyal, faithful, creative, imaginative and incredible community any video game could ever have.

Thanks for being patient when things went wrong, when playlists didn’t work, when matchmaking broke, when bugs were being fixed. Thanks for the mail, the screenshots, the movies, the machinima, the models, the paintings and the sheer enthusiasm and talent you’ve shown me over the years.

Thanks for not following through on the death threats.

Thanks for sticking with us through thick and thin and thanks for the loyalty you’re going to show Bungie over the coming years.

And on that note, let me tell you a bit about the coming years. It was very hard for me to make the decision to move on, but one thing that made it just a bit easier, was seeing the amazing work that’s coming down the pipe. I was busy working on a story for one of our next games, an experience that is destined to surprise, amaze and entertain like nothing we’ve ever made before. That game has an amazing team invested in it, and one that will be tasked with building the Next Big Thing. You should see what they’ve already achieved, you truly should.

And there are other things rumbling at Bungie, just as secret, just as epic and just as incredible. And the thing that turns all that rumbling into incredible gameplay experiences is, has always been and will always continue to be, the people. The brilliant, talented, industrious gang of geniuses who brought you everything from a monochrome Pong clone to the staggering vistas and vision of Halo 3.

Artists, engineers, musicians, designers, writers, administrators, producers, managers, even our security staff are Bungie people, through and through. They are all, every last man, woman and Bob, the very essence of the spirit of the company and the thing I will miss most of all.

There are too many to name. More than 120 now, more than double the number than when I first started, about halfway through Halo 2. Amazing to think that I am Old School Bungie, when I never felt like anything other than a wide-eyed child in a moonlit candy store.

So thanks again. And look forward to all that candy. They’re making it for you.'





[Edited on 05.16.2008 11:50 PM PDT]

  • 05.16.2008 11:49 PM PDT
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Dear lord in heaven.

Goodnight, sweet prince.
Frank O'Connor
1768 - 2008
D':

Either way, nice shoops everyone.

  • 05.16.2008 11:49 PM PDT