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Subject: Bungie is glorious... and money-hungry?

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  • 06.26.2011 4:50 PM PDT

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Actually from what I've seen Bungie gives a lot of money away.

  • 06.26.2011 4:57 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

This has already been debunked. The person had no affiliation with Bungie, and IMO he's a Troll. I don't listen to him.

Some good reads:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=61029839&p ostRepeater1-p=1
http://seventhcolumn.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=6107 5817

[Edited on 06.26.2011 5:04 PM PDT]

  • 06.26.2011 4:59 PM PDT

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This, Bungie gets alot of money but also gives away a lot of money.
Posted by: sparten110
Actually from what I've seen Bungie gives a lot of money away.

  • 06.26.2011 5:10 PM PDT

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FACT: Listening to Patcher may sometimes get you some good predictinos but it always involves some form of trolling

  • 06.26.2011 5:20 PM PDT

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  • 06.27.2011 1:23 AM PDT

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  • 06.27.2011 2:03 AM PDT
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  • 06.27.2011 2:58 AM PDT

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Pachter, the one word in your post that made me immediately doubt it's contents.

This particular industry has an opinion on absolutely everything, and though he may often be right in his predictions, he is also often way off the mark.

He has no affiliation with Bungie nor has Bungie ever confirmed or even suggested this might be happening.

Oh, and a business wanting to make more money? Get out of here.

  • 06.27.2011 3:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: sparten110
Actually from what I've seen Bungie gives a lot of money away.

  • 06.27.2011 7:58 AM PDT

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This, Bungie gets alot of money but also gives away a lot of money.
Posted by: sparten110
Actually from what I've seen Bungie gives a lot of money away.
Basically this. I wouldnt be surprised if Avtivision tried to charge for some extras, and they might actually get that, but knowing Bungie they're not going to make us pay extra for what we expect, and they've been more than generous in the past.

  • 06.27.2011 9:51 AM PDT

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  • 06.27.2011 10:13 AM PDT

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So that would be Bungie pro right?

  • 06.27.2011 10:14 AM PDT
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I think you're being naive. Bungie is a business and having a charge or subscription model for their content is a good way to have a substantial amount of revenue. I applaud Bungie for the level of community interaction that they have but I'm not that stupid to think that they are a charity.

Don't put Bungie up on such a high pedestal that they would sacrifice their business for your personal want to not spend money.

  • 06.27.2011 10:18 AM PDT

If Bungie was money-hungry, they wouldn't be giving proceeds from 20th anniversary stuff to charity.

  • 06.27.2011 11:00 AM PDT

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When any organization like this becomes "a business" something is lost. They are great, they are successful, they are wealthy, but they don't owe any of that to "good business sense".

If they were business minded why the break from M$? M$ does what a business does, it looks out for itself. It shows in it's their products. It's why there were upwards of 3 different grades of Xbox. It's why they have to have 4 different versions of their operating systems. They range from crap to decent enough instead of decent enough to awesome. You pay a premium for a decent experience, when that decent product should be the version that sets the bar at the standard price. It's why there's another halo coming out, it's why they're going to milk the franchise to death. It's going to make them money that's all. And they'll sell the Chief and that universe like a ho on a street corner till it's so used and trodden on that no one will pay for it anymore. The list goes on and on, and M$ has shown time and again that it is nothing more than a business. Come the seventh, Halo is dead to me.
If Bungie were such a business they would have never split from M$. Their ideals more than conflict they are near opposite.
If anyone of you saw that vidoc
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bungie?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/83/mm 6yFEPY9lw
2:17
5:11
but by all means watch the whole thing. I really feel like it hits the points I'm trying to make about what sets Bungie apart from so many other "businesses". It's that they are not "business" minded. Money is not the reason they do what they do. I mean all the money they could be making on their 20th? Where's that going? To charity..

  • 06.27.2011 12:06 PM PDT