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Subject: Why would M$ let bungie free?

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

I mean. I am glad just like any fan.

But you know how M$ never gives anything free without earning something.why would they give their best developer away?.

Halo/bungie for many of us was the only reason we have a 360 at all

Why would they? What could they possibly gain?.If I were Ms I would have never given bungie their freedom

I mean
1.-buying a triple AAA developer
2.-bungie making system sellers (halo)
3.-Give developer freedom including ability to make games for the conpetiton
4.-????
5.- Profit!

Worst Ms decitionn ever?

[Edited on 06.30.2011 10:31 AM PDT]

  • 06.29.2011 7:10 PM PDT
Subject: Why would ms let bungie free?

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-

They got Halo out of it.
Also, Bungie's contract with M$ was up.

[Edited on 06.29.2011 7:12 PM PDT]

  • 06.29.2011 7:11 PM PDT

Posted by: Xplode441
They got Halo out of it.
Also, Bungie's contract with M$ was up.
No, Bungie bought themselves back.

  • 06.29.2011 7:14 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-

Posted by: Luke35120
Posted by: Xplode441
They got Halo out of it.
Also, Bungie's contract with M$ was up.
No, Bungie bought themselves back.

I was pretty sure they were on a 10 year contract, but maybe it was longer and they bought themselves out.

  • 06.29.2011 7:15 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?


Well halo was theirs freedom or not.

Contract?
I tough that they were plainly bough (it says on the bungie's stor page)
Posted by: Xplode441
They got Halo out of it.
Also, Bungie's contract with M$ was up.


[Edited on 06.29.2011 7:17 PM PDT]

  • 06.29.2011 7:15 PM PDT

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Maybe M$ feels obligated to listen to their flagship developers request and let them go based off the fact without Bungie, M$ wouldn't be where they are.

M$ should be grateful.

  • 06.29.2011 7:28 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

Yeah M$ should be very grateful.the xbox would be nothing without bungie.

Poor ensemble, dont make me remember.I miss age of empires :(

Posted by: Luke35120
Posted by: Luke35120
Halo Wars was developed by the now non-existent ( :( ) Ensemble Studios.

...Meanwhile, the Take 2 partnership was to be short-lived. In 2000, Microsoft, recognizing the brilliance of the Halo project, decided to acquire the game, the company and the employees, and bring Halo exclusively to Xbox Microsoft's first video game console. The news sent ripples of excitement, anticipation and disappointment throughout the industry. This meant no PlayStation2 version for sure, and it put the PC and Mac versions in doubt, at least as far as the press were concerned...
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  • 06.29.2011 7:37 PM PDT

Posted by: BestSpartan117
Yeah M$ should be very grateful.the xbox would be nothing without bungie.

Poor ensemble, dont make me remember.I miss age of empires :(
RIP Ensemble.

To be on topic, I don't think Microsoft had a choice in letting Bungie go free.

  • 06.29.2011 7:39 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

That seems to be the most likely explanation

  • 06.29.2011 7:52 PM PDT

When he was younger, he was the one who always had the jokes and riddles that would keep the spirits of the Spartans high. Over the years however, his lifetime of combat had hardened him, as it had all of the Spartans. Within Will, John thought, something special had been lost.
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Compromises are reached. You can't force someone to do something and expect them to do it well. It was a no win for everyone considering that Bungie had bigger plans in mind than feeding the M$ pig. It's like a bad break-up. M$ and Bungie simply have conflicting ideals and aspirations. Only in court after the divorce it was decided that Bungie's baby had to go with M$ despite knowing full well said baby would be sold and trodden on like a street-corner sex-slave.

RIP Halo
November, 15, 2001 ~ July, 7, 2011

Remember her as she was :(

  • 06.29.2011 8:24 PM PDT

The bible is the best book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM A PROUD CHRISTIAN. HALO IS AWESOME BUT GOD IS MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!
Did you knew that JESUSdied for you?

I didn't knew there was a court fight for the halo ip.indeed rip bungie's halo saga.

  • 06.29.2011 10:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: KidWitPotential
ya know, im proud to be an inverted player, its like we're a rare breed or something


Do NOT send me Recruitment Letters, doing so will get you blocked faster than you can say "Huh?"

Hold on a second...I thought MS bought the rights to Halo before Halo CE came out? Let me find that magazine.

  • 06.29.2011 10:34 PM PDT

They did. They also bought Bungie, its employees etc.
Posted by: sparten110
Hold on a second...I thought MS bought the rights to Halo before Halo CE came out? Let me find that magazine.

  • 06.29.2011 10:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: sparten110
Hold on a second...I thought MS bought the rights to Halo before Halo CE came out? Let me find that magazine.

That's why it was on Xbox. In 07 Bungie declared their independence from Microsoft but had to let go of the Halo series in the process.

  • 06.29.2011 10:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: KidWitPotential
ya know, im proud to be an inverted player, its like we're a rare breed or something


Do NOT send me Recruitment Letters, doing so will get you blocked faster than you can say "Huh?"

Then how in the world could they mount a court case over the IP? Anyone know what that guys talking about?
Posted by: Luke35120
They did. They also bought Bungie, its employees etc.
Posted by: sparten110
Hold on a second...I thought MS bought the rights to Halo before Halo CE came out? Let me find that magazine.

  • 06.29.2011 10:41 PM PDT

No clue.
Posted by: sparten110
Then how in the world could they mount a court case over the IP? Anyone know what that guys talking about?
Posted by: Luke35120
They did. They also bought Bungie, its employees etc.
Posted by: sparten110
Hold on a second...I thought MS bought the rights to Halo before Halo CE came out? Let me find that magazine.

  • 06.29.2011 10:48 PM PDT

Posted by: Xplode441
Also, Bungie's contract with M$ was up.
I really wish people would stop pretending they know what they are talking about when they clearly do not. It does nothing but confuse others and de-rail topics.

Bungie did not have a contract with Microsoft. They were owned by Microsoft.

On-topic: What did Microsoft get out of it? Money. Bungie bought themselves back from Microsoft.

Keep Halo. Get paid. Seems like a bit of a win-win situation, especially at a time when creative differences between Bungie and Microsoft were starting to escalate.

  • 06.30.2011 4:54 AM PDT

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  • 06.30.2011 5:07 AM PDT
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I wouldn't sell my studio to a large corporation without retaining some rights to buy myself out of it or do what is best for the studio independent of the direction the corporation is taking. Dunno if Bungie set it up that way or not--but creative entities being bought by larger corporations, then allowed to operate as their own team is pretty common from my understanding. I have a buddy who is doing exactly that with his small business, just in ecommerce not video games.

  • 06.30.2011 5:12 AM PDT

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  • 06.30.2011 5:43 AM PDT
Subject: Why would M$ let bungie free?

READ IT.

I won the Star. With this on Week 18.

Halo has (nearly) always been owned by Microsoft, Bungie was just a tool.

Just the day Microsoft bought Bungie, was the day Microsoft OWNED Halo. I think Microsoft got a damn good deal out of using Bungie. But Bungie also got in the limelight because of Halo, and will move on the GREATER stuff.

  • 06.30.2011 5:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: Alex the Awesome
Halo has (nearly) always been owned by Microsoft, Bungie was just a tool.

Just the day Microsoft bought Bungie, was the day Microsoft OWNED Halo. I think Microsoft got a damn good deal out of using Bungie. But Bungie also got in the limelight because of Halo, and will move on the GREATER stuff.
Bungie is not a tool. Anyone who says so is a tool!

/angry face

OT: Whatever the arrangement, Bungie stayed Bungie and is now out on their own doing cool stuff.

  • 06.30.2011 5:50 AM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

Court. That's why.

  • 06.30.2011 5:54 AM PDT

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