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Subject: Bungie, I was wondering...

Since Halo is no longer "yours," yet people still buy the games and related items, do you still get part of the profit from the sales? For instance, the Bungie logo is obviously still on the front cases of new Halo 3/ODST/Reach copies, even though you guys no longer truthfully "own" the Halo universe anymore. Yal made those games, so does the profit still go to you, or since the gaming franchise is now in another company's hands, do they get the profit you would have recieved?

Just curious.

  • 08.14.2011 11:10 AM PDT

~ Life is Killing Me. ~

~ I hate, therefore I am. ~

There's probably some royalty checks coming in, but truthfully I don't know who would be able to answer that.

Or even that it would be answered. Generally game developers don't make their revenue books available to the public.

In short, I don't know.

lol

  • 08.14.2011 11:12 AM PDT

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

Get at me

I'm sure they still rake in some money when people by their products, even if they aren't associated with that franchises future.

  • 08.14.2011 11:13 AM PDT

Key

Bungie cannot and does not get any money from anything halo anymore. They gave up the rights to it and so unless Microsoft licenses them to make Halo Apparel (next to 0% chance) they will not make anymore money off of anything Halo.

  • 08.14.2011 11:14 AM PDT

From those games, Microsoft gets some profit and Bungie does Microsoft own 343, so perhaps they put some of that money into 343's pocket. Bungie surely gets their own funds though even now. I'd be surprised if they didn't.

  • 08.14.2011 11:14 AM PDT

Videogames, Anime, and Interwebz. I love it all!

Well they did put the XBOX where it is now. I'd say they're still entitled to something. Perhaps the amount of...

  • 08.14.2011 11:57 AM PDT

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Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

They would still receive royalties for merchandise and games according to contracts that existed. Bungie also stills owns the icon of Master Chief, so any use of him would require payment to Bungie.

  • 08.14.2011 1:23 PM PDT

Youngie by day Youngie by nature.....


Posted by: connordavisj
Well they did put the XBOX where it is now. I'd say they're still entitled to something. Perhaps the amount of...


well played! Isn't the trademark owned by bungie though? They were owned by M$ but they created the characters on their own. Or trademarks and rights, one and the same thing?

  • 08.14.2011 2:03 PM PDT

Brainwashing, idiotic media: "hur dur, vido gaems cas vilenc n iz nt gud. dey ned 2 b baned."

Logic: Really? Then please explain how there's violence in third world countries. I guess they're all poor due to the large amount of video games they buy.

Bungie never owned Halo, Microsoft always had the copyrights to the franchise. Bungie was basically a contractor, if that makes more sense.

If Bungie had "owned" Halo, they would be the ones in charge of H4LO(Halo 4) despite not working with Microsoft.

  • 08.14.2011 4:05 PM PDT