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“To say more would spoil be it’s overall its a game that needs to be played.” - Aristotle
Posted by: Wolverfrog
That's a little melodramatic, Snakie. I have a 337 page fan fiction completed which has many elements rendered impossible by this, but I'm not getting upset.
Ah, yes, but videogame development is the career I am currently working towards. A tad melodramatic, perhaps, but can you blame me? For four years I've been one of the best-known theorists on the site--forgive my honesty in my old age, even if it is part arrogance--and now, my principals are preventing me from buying any new content so I can stay that way.
I don't like doing what I'm doing, but it's the right thing to do. Naturally that makes me pissed.
Can't you just see the book for what it is; a fantastic chapter in the Halo universe by an amazing science fiction author?
The book, perhaps. The author... I'd be forced to think about him being contracted to do all this and have no real interest in the lore. The company behind it? If I bought this book, I would merely be supplying them with the capacity to produce content that will disappoint me in the future.
Or are you really so petty that you'd deny yourself a good read you'd enjoy purely due to not liking the company who sanctioned the book?
I would sacrifice a transitory enjoyment in the name of not continuing to be attached to the series as they try to milk it. It's not something I do lightly or easily, but based upon my principals for game and story development.
I take it this means you won't be buying any future Bungie games as they are published by the money-grabbing, souless Activision? Or that you won't be playing The Old Republic or Mass Effect 3 due to EA once being a sequel factory who ruined many good studios?
That is different. I've spoken with myriad people who discredit 343--old employees, Bungie employees themselves, some of the people who have worked with them. They all state that the company exists to turn a profit and nothing else. Bungie has control over their future IPs (although I hasten to add that I am still disappointed in their content of late), as does BioWare. Just because EA is pulling the strings doesn't mean they can corrupt their titles. The thing is, 343i is Microsoft. They're not just pulling the strings any longer, they have the thing in their very hands. That is why I swear off 343i--that and the testimonies I've heard from those who worked there and those at Bungie that discredit them.
You probably should just scrap your PC since it was created by Microsoft, and we all know that they don't give a damn about much else other than money.
Low-blow, and wholly unnecessary. I do this because I care more about the story than the money, and 343i doesn't--it doesn't apply to any other Microsoft products.
Posted by: Terminus
I think Lord Snakie's just miffed about what was revealed as it did not line up with his own theories.
Miffed, yes. But Cryptum isn't the point at which I swore off of new canon, it's just the point in which all of my old theories are now actually dead and I am passing on my title. This isn't my first rant, and this isn't when I decided I was done. This is merely the true end of it.
[Edited on 01.04.2011 7:05 PM PST]