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Since BUNGIE is not helping make halo 4. Does that mean they can't make halo games anymore??

  • 08.08.2011 2:51 PM PDT

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Yes. Microsoft owns Halo.

  • 08.08.2011 2:53 PM PDT

Microsoft owns the rights to Halo. So, yes.

  • 08.08.2011 2:53 PM PDT
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  • 08.08.2011 2:53 PM PDT

Bingo.

  • 08.08.2011 2:53 PM PDT

inb4ECOH

  • 08.08.2011 2:53 PM PDT


Posted by: Phenomenon IV
inb4ECOH
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*rage face*

  • 08.08.2011 2:54 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDf6uRabKPE

thats sucks though :( BUNGIE is the best...

  • 08.08.2011 2:55 PM PDT

Posted by: kiknwing11
thats sucks though :( BUNGIE is the best...

That's why they are going to be making games better than Halo........hopefully.

  • 08.08.2011 2:57 PM PDT
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This again......

Microsoft own Halo.

Bungie sold them halo for their freedom as an indie company again after the release of halo 2.

  • 08.08.2011 4:09 PM PDT


Posted by: jyrine
This again......

Microsoft own Halo.

Bungie left Halo behind for their freedom as an independent company again after the release of Halo 3.


Fix'd.

  • 08.08.2011 4:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: jyrine
This again......

Microsoft own Halo.

Bungie left Halo behind for their freedom as an independent company again after the release of Halo 2.


Fix'd.

Fix'd again.
Halo 2 is when Bungie went indie again. It was a deal with microsoft to finish the trilogy.
Don't try and correct something you know nothing about.

  • 08.08.2011 5:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: Halo 2 K1ng

Posted by: jyrine
This again......

Microsoft own Halo.

Bungie left Halo behind for their freedom as an independent company again after the release of Halo 2.


Fix'd.

Fix'd again.
Halo 2 is when Bungie went indie again. It was a deal with microsoft to finish the trilogy.
Don't try and correct something you know nothing about.


Except they did it after they launched Halo 3.

  • 08.08.2011 5:31 PM PDT


Posted by: jyrine

Posted by: Halo 2 K1ng

Posted by: jyrine
This again......

Microsoft own Halo.

Bungie left Halo behind for their freedom as an independent company again after the release of Halo 2.


Fix'd.

Fix'd again.
Halo 2 is when Bungie went indie again. It was a deal with microsoft to finish the trilogy.
Don't try and correct something you know nothing about.

Follow your own advice. It was after Halo 3.

  • 08.08.2011 5:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: jyrine

Posted by: Halo 2 K1ng

Posted by: jyrine
This again......

Microsoft own Halo.

Bungie left Halo behind for their freedom as an independent company again after the release of Halo 2.


Fix'd.

Fix'd again.
Halo 2 is when Bungie went indie again. It was a deal with microsoft to finish the trilogy.
Don't try and correct something you know nothing about.

Follow your own advice. It was after Halo 3.


I do apologize.
I was sure it was after Halo 2...But it may have been the fatigue talking.
Now that I look it was that they joined for halo 2.
My apologizes, it was after Halo 3.

  • 08.08.2011 5:46 PM PDT

Watch This.


Posted by: GPK Ethan
Yes. Microsoft owns Halo.

  • 08.08.2011 8:08 PM PDT

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Well, I don't think it's that they "can't" make more Halos. I mean, they split with Microsoft and still made two more Halos. I'm sure Microsoft would let Bungie make another Halo if they wanted to. They just don't want to. They are ready to move on to something new.

  • 08.08.2011 8:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: kiknwing11
thats sucks though :( Square Enix is the best...
Fix'd.

  • 08.08.2011 8:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: jyrine
Now that I look it was that they joined for halo 2.
No offense, but I' still not sure you have your facts quite right.

They kind of explained all of this in the ViDoc. As I understand it, Bungie gave the rights to Halo to Microsoft in order to get funding to make Halo CE, which they desperately needed. For several years Bungie was in incorporated into Microsoft (the particular legalities of which I am ignorant of). Then after Halo 3 launched, they became independent again, but that meant leaving Halo behind, unless Microsoft gives them permission to make more (as with ODST and Reach).

  • 08.08.2011 8:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Changsta inc
Racism isn't wrong if it's funny.

New are we? Well, that's okay.

Yes, as a matter of fact, they cannot. In the ViDoc (not sure if you watched) they talked about the fact that, in order to keep from closing their doors, Bungie had to be acquired by Microsoft and, as result, all of their IP's (that stands for Intellectual Properties) were also acquired by Microsoft.

So now, until Microsoft gets bored of and can't milk any more money out of it, Bungie could, in theory, buy back the property.
However at that point, the property would be twisted and rung dry of all of it's worth that they most likely wouldn't even want it back for any other purpose than the sake of nostalgia.

Hope this answers your question OP.

-n

  • 08.08.2011 8:57 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDf6uRabKPE

Thanks and also will Bungie possibly ever work on COD?

  • 08.08.2011 9:07 PM PDT

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Posted by: kiknwing11
Thanks and also will Bungie possibly ever work on COD?


Doubtful. Their partnership with Activision is strictly relative to their new project (as I understand it).

  • 08.08.2011 9:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: kiknwing11
Thanks and also will Bungie possibly ever work on COD?
That will almost certainly never happen.

  • 08.08.2011 9:16 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDf6uRabKPE

Alright...Thanks again.

  • 08.08.2011 9:26 PM PDT