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Subject: Why is Bungie this big?
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I mean, i check a lot of developers sites, most have a forum and stuff like Bungie has aswell, but none have such great activity nor the interaction between developpers and gamers.Halo is only a partial compound of Bungie's succes, the're more great games then Halo....i guess, with atleast as many dedicated fans, so why arent those developpers so succesvol?

Oke Bungie has FanFest, but not in Europe, and europe is a huge gaming community, it is atleast America's competitor if not owner. So they dont have the nice experience of FanFest, nor do many Americans. So that couldnt make a huge difference.Or it could the interaction between us, and them:we are so much more allowed here then any other developper site, ive never seen any gamer post news at Ubisofts site(Developper and Publisher), so could that be the trigger?Im not sure, are you?

  • 08.07.2004 6:38 AM PDT

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Yea! i love this place! it addicting. its amazing how bungie is so fan based.

  • 08.07.2004 6:56 AM PDT
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Because HALO is the best game ever, and when you have the best game ever your going to have a lot of fans, and when you have lots of fans you will have a huge active website.

  • 08.07.2004 8:05 AM PDT
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Subject: Why is Bungie this big?

because they are on a conquest for world domination....sooo....fill in the blanks.....

  • 08.07.2004 8:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
2 answers that I can easily think of.

1) It's the people who make the games. Great people making kick-ass games will get the attention of gamers that want/enjoy high quality games that have more substance than just shoot it, collect it, beat it. ("huhhh huhh huhhhh he said...." nevermind)

2) It's the fans. I would say that for somone to be a long term Bungie fan means that they not only have been playing the game(s) for a while, but in doing so discovered all of the layers, backstory, and other "eggs" in the game.

Put those together and you have a candle with mirrors on both sides. Bungie makes the games that they do so well, the fans love the games, and Bungie for making them. Bungie enjoys the adoration and involvement of their fans, so they want to make more. It just keeps growing.


Either that or it's just part of the World Domination plot and we're all being manipulated like sock-puppets.


Yeh i know that Halo is awesome thus having lots of fans following them, but you have games like GTA-Series, Splinter Cell, Doom, Half Life. They have got a huge fans aswell, and i have checked their sites, im interested in some of them aswell, though none seem to compete with Bungie..Or are my eyes to much destracted?

  • 08.07.2004 8:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: ApoX
Yeh i know that Halo is awesome thus having lots of fans following them, but you have games like GTA-Series, Splinter Cell, Doom, Half Life. They have got a huge fans aswell, and i have checked their sites, im interested in some of them aswell, though none seem to compete with Bungie..Or are my eyes to much destracted?


Bungie, like Id or Valve, started very small. However, the difference has always been the level of interaction between Bungie and their fans. When Bungie was a small Mac developer, Miguel Chavez, Bungie's official #1 fan, had a small gathering at a MacWorld, just for Bungie fans. A few Bungie employees, mainly out of curiousity, showed up to see what it was like.

That was the beginning. Since then, Bungie's relationship with its fans has grown. Bungie now runs the Fanfest, and they hold it during E3 (Macworld doesn't make much sense anymore, does it?). Bungie doesn't just post to their own forums; they post to other fan forums, such as HBO, and spread their update information all over the internet. For that matter, they don't just post in forums, they've given their fans the option of running their own forums as part of the Seventh Column!

The difference between Bungie and other developers is that they feel their fans are part of their family, and it shows in their work and in what they do for us. For example, two E3's ago, the housekeeping at the hotel I was staying at grabbed my shwag bag, meaning I lost ALL the stuff I had gotten at Fanfest. I posted about it over at HBO, and two weeks later a package showed up for me. Sketch had grabbed a t-shirt, a number of stickers, some way-old (and awesome) Bungie memorabilia, and the Myth soundtrack. John Butkus, one of the animators, grabbed a copy of the first OXM Halo exclusive, took the poster out, and passed it around the office. 40 or 50 different Bungie employees signed it. Lorraine Reyes-McLees, Bungie's resident super-duper artist, signed the cover of that OXM (with a cute little sketch), and also added the blue miniature master chief to the package. Keep in mind, this was BEFORE the action figures were actually released.

Another good example is Offensive Tetraboxing. OT was a large HBO LAN party held at Louis Wu's house. Sketch flew in from Seattle (the party was in Connecticut), brought boxes loaded with Halo and Halo 2 goodies (including the limited edition Halo 2 calander), and the camera crew that was filming for the documentary.

Personally, the fact that Bungie adores their fans at least as much as their fans adore them is one of my favorite things about Bungie.

While I cannot say Bungie is the only company that communicates with its fans, I'll say with complete confidence that

  • 08.07.2004 10:56 AM PDT

cmon plz tell me

  • 08.07.2004 11:34 AM PDT
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Thank you for the clear up Shiska. Maybe this should be a reminder for all bungie members....*HINT HINT

  • 08.07.2004 12:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Shishka
...While I cannot say Bungie is the only company that communicates with its fans, I'll say with complete confidence that

that? that what? awwww, c'mon! I must know!


Nice of the character limit to cut me off, there.

"...with complete confidence that no other developer has such a level of interactivity with their fans."

  • 08.07.2004 5:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Sketch had grabbed a t-shirt, a number of stickers, some way-old (and awesome) Bungie memorabilia, and the Myth soundtrack. John Butkus, one of the animators, grabbed a copy of the first OXM Halo exclusive, took the poster out, and passed it around the office. 40 or 50 different Bungie employees signed it. Lorraine Reyes-McLees, Bungie's resident super-duper artist, signed the cover of that OXM (with a cute little sketch), and also added the blue miniature master chief to the package. Keep in mind, this was BEFORE the action figures were actually released.


I think I remember seeing that as a news post on HBO.

  • 08.07.2004 9:06 PM PDT

bah

To sum up what Shishka said, Bungie cares.

  • 08.07.2004 11:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Rip Saw
To sum up what Shishka said, Bungie cares.


Unlike most other gaming companies...

They leave you to create your own community and run with your own kind... Bungie is our own kind! :-)

  • 08.07.2004 11:57 PM PDT

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  • 08.11.2004 10:10 PM PDT
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  • 08.12.2004 7:42 AM PDT
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Whats wrong with that?Not that i know it, i do like Canadian Beagles...or what they are called, they are delicious =P

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  • 08.12.2004 11:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: ApoX
Whats wrong with that?Not that i know it, i do like Canadian Beagles...or what they are called, they are delicious =P

Uh, that's NOT what we mean by the term "hot dog" up here.

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  • 08.12.2004 11:58 AM PDT
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Or maybe the WebMaster is the key to their acces...

  • 08.12.2004 3:27 PM PDT
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We do care. Though lately, I admit we've been more out of the loop than normal just due to an insane workload and a flurry of activity happening as the game gets closer to release. We're still here though, just a little tied up on the sidelines at the moment.

The great thing is that our community is basically self sufficient... we have so many great people out there that even when we are away or not able to get directly involved, we know our fans will keep doing cool -blam!- and ultimately the family continues to grow. The number of Bungie related fan sites seems to have doubled in the past 9 months or so, and that rocks. I'm sure a lot more great sites are on the way...and who knows when the next RvB or Warthog Jump will come out of nowhere and inspire us all to do new cool things...

And yes, without our beloved Webmaster we'd have nothing. We really do owe it all to him in one way or another. Oh, and of course the bacon. We never would have made it without the bacon.

  • 08.12.2004 4:01 PM PDT
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The bacon destroyed my family. My dad would come home at nights - covered in grease and violent.

  • 08.12.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: SketchFactor
....And yes, without our beloved Webmaster we'd have nothing. We really do owe it all to him in one way or another. Oh, and of course the bacon. We never would have made it without the bacon.

Anyone care to wager that the Webmaster cracked Frankie's .net password?


Lol, you mean Sketch right?

  • 08.14.2004 1:41 AM PDT