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Posted by: Mike the Monsta
No sheit anybody can buy a ten dollar book but believe or not casual halo fans may or may not look for halo books on the internet,PC/laptop/phone/ipod/ipad.It would also give the game some story to why there are still spartan II's, Where did Halsey go after Reach, and what type of place are you halsey and the other SII's are at? It would also boost halo book sales because as everyone knows ghosts of onyx was an awesome book and it would convince everyone to buy other halo books. So it would be a decision that is financially good and if your worried about losing profit on ghosts of onyx than just make the game 60$ w/o book and 70$ w/ the book. Give the 70$ edition a good sales pitch and blam! you got the entire halo community buying a lot of halo books (in addition to making a lot of casual halo fans into halo fanboys). Think about it a new york times best selling book in addition to the greatest game of 2012. It would be unstoppable. It could also start a trend to make other games include books as an extra in their games (ie. Call of duty,Assassins Creed,etc.) And as everyone knows microsoft <3's making money so if they bought the rights to the eric nylund's books that would equal more money which in turn would could mean having more money to make even better games.sayyyyy halo 5? I know thats just speculation but there is a chance it could happen. Anyway please reply if you would like to make anymore unintelligent remarks like anyone with more than ten dollars can buy something that is ten dollars. This plan would be good microsoft because they make more money, the gamer because they get to read something awesome that they might not have read yet, and 343 industries who is obviously apart of microsoft and is made up of mostly our beloved bungie employees.
I sincerely hope that answers your question smartass
What is this bollocks? I don't know about you, but I don't fancy playing a game where your primary weapon would be rocks and 1 hit would kill you...
Where Halsey went after Reach is explained in First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx, and many Spartan-IIs are on deployments that the other novels are covering. If you're a casual fan then you really have no place in a discussion about deeper plot elements because you clearly know bugger-all about the story.