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Posted by: Achronos
It isn't our shiznit anymore.
Posted by: z0rgy
halo is M$'s money maker and biggest and most famous franchise. every person that has an xbox have AT LEAST played a halo game in their life, and 90% probably own one.
so they make map packs and force you to buy it by reducing the amount of playlists you can go in without these maps.
you buys maps with microsoft points, that you have to buy.
now if you give us a way to make maps ourselves, then nobody is going to buy the maps anymore. if they dare make us pay for content we can make ourselves, then people will play custom for free. 90% of players would not buy the maps anymore, they'd make less money.
that's why forge is so badly limited. that's why we'll never ever EVER have a map editor of ANY kind in a halo game. I'd bet my nuts on it without a doubt.
That's a very pessimistic way of looking at it. In my mind, I always thought Bungie made the games (I know MS owns the IP). Bungie created Forge very brilliantly. They knew a complicated map editor wouldn't be vey popular (as the little kids wouldn't know what to do, and their ADD would kick in and they'd do something else), so they made a system that is easy to use and works well with all age groups.
The experienced forgers are crying for a more advanced forge system, but Bungie can't deliver because they are trying to cater to the more casual gamer. However, I do like the system of a simple and a complicated forge tool, but that would cut time from other aspecs of the game. All in all, I like our current system (maybe Bungie could make it a bit more helpful, but not as complicated as Far Cry). There, I just flipped your argument into pure optmism. :)