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Posted by: Nessy
The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.
Bungie ran both U.S.A official servers based out of Redmond, Washington and E.U. servers based somewhere in Europe. There were a lot, 8 CTF servers and 8 team slayer servers in both regions for a total of 32 servers.
They ran from 2003 to around Christmas time in 2007 give or take a year, I forget. Depending upon your location, they were the lowest pinging servers around. Living in Seattle, I could ping as low as ~16 with a steady ping @33. They had some problems though and were a visible target to -blam!-s and then later, cheaters as well as Halo Bloom type denial of service attacks.
Before H2v came out, on this forum, we were told to expect some awesome surprise. That awesome surprise came in the form of them killing the Halo PC servers and replacing them with the H2v fail servers. By that time we were used to being neglected by Bungie, so I think most people just sorta laughed it off, but it was a metaphor for Bungie's attitude towards us.
The Bungie servers were totally un-moderated and was the Wild West of dedicated servers. We had a lot of problems with TKers that used direct IP to work around the autoban. By that time Gearbox was done doing updates for the game, so it just rotted in front of our eyes. But in the early days, they were a lot of fun to play on and where a lot of us got pretty good playing other good players.
[Edited on 01.03.2010 7:11 PM PST]