- Deadguy
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For the record.. I'm not bellyaching.. but the Anti-announcement seems kinda' weird.
Imagine how much nicer this would have played-out if they just kept the Superintendant stuff rolling, and perhaps had someone at E3 flash a superintendant card, and never said a word about postponing anything.. No release of information, just a big.. "nope.. nothing to see here" and kept going with the superintendant thing back at the site.
A lot of people enjoyed the superintendant thing, is there REALLY a reason to stop it now?
No date yet, no big reveal yet.. but if they had acted like this was all in the plan, I think it'd get more attention than it is now. Everyone KNOWs there was an info release coming, and so when it doesn't happen, it creates suspense when it comes from Bungie.
Microsoft's info release was lame. "Oh, we already looked good at E3, so we didn't want to overdo it." yeah ok, and the news resulting from clamping down on Bungie's release information isn't desirable at all? They didn't just clamp down.. they ANNOUNCED they'd clamped down (repeatedly). Bungie's not owned by them anymore, so the deal refers to a publishing delay?
I'm not sure why Bungie stated that their publisher was blocking this, rather than clarifying that M$ was blocking it. Especially since M$ is all over the place going.. "yep, we're cool.. not wanting to spill the beans yet....Hey! see that everyone?! we have BEANS that you'd like to SEE, but we're.. 'ho hum'.. not yet, we did enough to our competitors at E3.' We're just cool like that" Sure.. just like Gates had HIS mouth shut about Halo 2 And 3's production and initial relase date info? Yeah.. THAT'S a success story waiting ot happen!
Is Halo going multi-platform? I hope so. It would sure beat having Microsoft control everything like this.
The fact that everything stopped, points to a LONG delay here.. what a shame. Unless of course they're coming out to DragonCon in Atlanta on Sept. 1st to see the 405th, and wanted to release the info there?
One question for the informed though...
When you speak of delaying this announcement, are we talking about delaying it a week or two, a month or two? or (gulp!) a year or two?
I, for one, would certainly feel better having that kind of info at least, even if it's like a 2 month ballpark. It would also allow publicity to come to YOU for YOUR game, rather than M$ for their delays..
Anyways, looking forward to it.. (I'd even buy a $60 screensaver from you guys). Sorry about all the wasted time on that E3 video thing, I hope that it CAN be salvaged, and/or maybe redirected into a jab at this delay.. C'mon Luke.. you can do it.. umm..?.. use the force?
:)