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Posted by: The Desert Wolf
im one second from taking this to the next level.
Posted by: RELLIK PIR
Posted by: z0rgy
I believe in all honesty they consider ALL leaked material to be spoilers, whether the leaked materials is screenshot, video, the ending in form of text or whatever. even pre alpha builds.
and it's easy to understand why they want their forums spoiler free...
imo that's the only logical explanation, really.
Well thats fine by most people I know. We don't care what happens to reach anyway. If I move on and start MW2 It would take a God like leap of IQ for bungie to win me and tens of thousands of players back.
Bungie wonders why they get so much backlash.... When you keep your -blam!- so secretive and then bring it to market with stuff that wasn't what we wanted or were promised. We are going to kick you in the nuts and walk away.Hate to say this, but I agree. This whole "We'll show you when it's ready" attitude is fine if we got a look say, next week. But the fact of the matter is, Bungie usually keeps us in the dark throughout the entire development cycle (which is the most important part of game creation obviously) and then reveals everything a month or two before the game's released. By that point it has already gone gold.
The problem with this is that it takes the fans' hands out of the clay entirely, making every game Bungie makes purely auteur. Normally, I'd say they took feedback from the forums, but this latest banning spree and the fact that they will ban anyone who wants to discuss significant weapon changes outside of the single thread stickied at the top of the Halo 3 forum is evidence against that.
Honestly, it seems to me we're just customers now. We raised Bungie to the top with sales, so now they don't have to develop for us anymore, just make the next Halo game and cash the check. I never thought I'd be glad Microsoft took the Halo IP from Bungie, but maybe it's for the best. Without their mega-hype crutch to stand on, Bungie will have to return to actually making new and interesting games again.
Of course I'd love to believe Reach will be different. I mean, it really IS their last chance. But from what I've seen so far, not from the leaks, but just from Bungie's attitude toward us, I very much doubt it. It makes me sad to see a company that was so committed to us suddenly shut us out completely. Like the gracious king was killed and replaced by a greedy dictator.
I hope you prove me and all the other discouraged fans wrong Bungie. You've got some splanin' to do.