- Hylebos
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Posted by: Rakata
Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: Rakata
Bungie does care, MLG got it's own permanent playlist, no other halo community has that.
Grifball... Rocket Race... Infection... Team Swat... yup, guess MLG is the only community Bungie has ever listened to.
Maybe you should look up the definition of permanent, or lern to read. Griffball is Double exp WEEKEND, so is Infection.
While Swat and Rocket Race were created by bungie, not by a group of the halo community.
I read your post, rather, I ignored that part, because the permanence of the gametype doesn't really matter. Note the fact that although grifball is a part time playlist, it draws in more people than MLG could ever wish to muster.
Infection and Team Swat were both community creations that came from the Halo 2 era. Infection was known as zombies back then and to my knowledge was a honor rules version of slayer, and team swat was made using custom game options. Both got popular so Bungie turned them into playlists. Rocket Race also came from a community member if I remember, and Grifball obviously came from Rooster Teeth. The fact that they are permanent or not doesn't matter, they exist. The point remains, MLG isn't the only person who has imput about how Bungie makes their games. MLG only exists as a playlist because Team hardcore and Team Tactical both failed. They get absolutely no special treatment compared to anyone else. If the population of MLG dropped, Bungie would retire it too.
I think you also might be confused how things work. Bungie created the MLG gametype. Afterall, they created the game, and have the rights to anything made using the game. You see the message that says that every time you save a forge map. Bungie is nice enough to let an organization like MLG use their game to make a profit in their league. They are happy that someone would want to use their game in a professional setting.
But did Bungie remake lockout, chillout, and midship because of MLG? No. They remade them because the community wanted them and because they happened to fill gaps in the Halo 3 map line up. Don't you think that if MLG were the ones who comissioned blackout they would have complained about that one window thing that apparently makes the map fail?
Why invite players from MLG? Because those people are dedicated Halo players. They invite a ton of other people from their community too. Its not just MLG.
Do they listen to MLG? Sure. Just like they listen to everyone else. Just like how they are listening to us in the forum. But in the end Bungie does what they want. And guess what? Team Slayer gets a higher population than MLG. So guess which way they are going to swing?
[Edited on 10.09.2009 11:43 AM PDT]