Bungie.net Community
This topic has moved here: Subject: Why go dark?
  • Subject: Why go dark?
  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • of 4
Subject: Why go dark?

if(!now){when();}
Bungie Favorite Author : Iris::1
Map

I'm curious as the reason why Bungie has chosen to go dark on their current title. Why not illuminate your project? Why not let the community know the current phase, the current challenges, or the current triumphs of your project?

Does Bungie go dark because it is a standard practices among the gaming industry? Is Bungie afraid that someone else will profit from their idea before they themselves have a chance to profit?

Personally I believe that Bungie would benefit from giving the community information about their current project. Especially if the project is a year or two for going gold. Divulging information about the product will not only define your user base, but will also help grow your user base.

Yet on the other hand, I can also see how having the community know too much could be a burden. Everyone has their own input to what they would like to see in the next title, and this could have a negative impact upon the developers and engineers. If anything Bungie should have a 'reverse darkness'. Where information is given to the public, but the studio is denied access to community.

I don't know, rules are made to be broken, and boundaries are made to be exceeded.

  • 09.19.2011 10:41 AM PDT

Bip Bap Bam in the brainpan!

So we won't know what theyre up to, and then when they announce their next epically amazing/awe inspiring project we wil all go "HOLY CRAP THIS IS -blam!- AMAZING!!!"

  • 09.19.2011 10:43 AM PDT

The nuances and features of a videogame in development can change dramatically from month to month. They wait until the game is far more solidified to reveal it as a result. That way people won't get pissed when they find out that an awesome feature that they heard about a while back was cut due to time constraints and other such stuff.

Plus the game is likely rather ugly right now. Lots of placeholders, features that don't work, it's not meant to be seen by external eyes.

  • 09.19.2011 10:48 AM PDT

Hello! I'm Bunie.net's resident medical student (hell i'm sure there are more but I'm the only one who openly declares it!) I love my emblem, and I am periodically active.
I have a Twitter

A game will get more publicity if it releases info in concentrated bursts rather then a constant trickle.

  • 09.19.2011 11:07 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Marvelous Bauble

Current Phase: We're dark!

;)

We put a lot of thought into the dialog we have with you guys and girls, and for a lot of reasons I can't really get into we decided that this was the right approach. With time, it'll make more sense.

  • 09.19.2011 11:22 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Fabled Mythic Member

vanert says: Apparently he went to college with Stosh.
Killane says:
Stosh went to college?
Posted by: stosh
I'm a college dropout.

Change scares me!

  • 09.19.2011 11:25 AM PDT

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

OTK

I need your clothes, your boots and your mobility scooter


Posted by: vanert
Change scares me!
You must of had the same underpants on for years.

  • 09.19.2011 11:28 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Fabled Mythic Member

vanert says: Apparently he went to college with Stosh.
Killane says:
Stosh went to college?
Posted by: stosh
I'm a college dropout.

Posted by: ian1706
Posted by: vanert
Change scares me!
You must of had the same underpants on for years.

Everyone likes Spongebob.

  • 09.19.2011 11:29 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Because white men can't jump/dance/develop high-qualitty AAA video games?

  • 09.19.2011 11:30 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Fabled Mythic Member

vanert says: Apparently he went to college with Stosh.
Killane says:
Stosh went to college?
Posted by: stosh
I'm a college dropout.

Posted by: elmicker
Because white men can't jump/dance/develop high-qualitty AAA video games?

That's racist.









Reported.

  • 09.19.2011 11:32 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Honorable Legendary Member

Sometimes starting back from square one does good...

Ask smart questions
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Because it's better when the lights are off...?

Seriously, I think it's better. If you look back at companies which didn't go dark then you will notice most disappointments, like Fable for the Xbox. (Remember that E3 2003 video and how different the game was in 2004?)

  • 09.19.2011 11:37 AM PDT

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

OTK

I need your clothes, your boots and your mobility scooter


Posted by: vanert
Posted by: ian1706
Posted by: vanert
Change scares me!
You must of had the same underpants on for years.

Everyone likes Spongebob.
touché

  • 09.19.2011 11:39 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Rev.6-8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.


Posted by: urk
Current Phase: We're dark!

in a brutes voice
*how much longer must we hefty this drakness!*

  • 09.19.2011 11:39 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Legendary Member

♫ & ☮
平和と愛


Posted by: DarkONI
Because it's better when the lights are off...?

*starts to sing the Chris Brown song, 'Better With the Lights Off'*

  • 09.19.2011 11:39 AM PDT

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

So they can sell the commentary of what was happening at the time on "The Making Of" disks included in the higher level retail editions.

/cynicism

[Edited on 09.19.2011 11:45 AM PDT]

  • 09.19.2011 11:44 AM PDT

Posted by: A Bit Of Zero
This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons.
Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.

Its been dark for so long, the community is now officially nocturnal.

  • 09.19.2011 12:15 PM PDT

"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"

"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."

- "Cross of Iron"

Yeah...its so dark that i walk into things sometimes...Is Bungie liable for damages like that?

  • 09.19.2011 12:16 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Honorable Legendary Member

Sometimes starting back from square one does good...

Ask smart questions
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I believe that at this point someone would make a silly reference but I'm impressed that nobody will make it.
Posted by: SkilPhil
Its been dark for so long, the community is now officially nocturnal.

  • 09.19.2011 12:16 PM PDT

The T00L B0X A place for people who love Forge
The WorkPLace
No, don't call me a hero. Do you know who the real heroes are? The guys, who wake up every morning, and go into their normal jobs, and get a distress call from the commissioner, and take off their glasses and change into capes and fly around fighting crime. Those are the real heroes.

I am sure hints will be dropped at some point in time. The community will make a bunch of incorrect guesses, bans will be handed out, and employees will laugh.

  • 09.19.2011 12:18 PM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

I <3 you too Bungie

...in the mean time I'm going back to studying Decision Modeling and figuring out OmniPlan and Microsoft Project.

  • 09.19.2011 12:27 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

They're not dark, they're just missing in action.

  • 09.19.2011 12:48 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Legendary Member

Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.

[group]167741|Diner|Where's the food?[/group]

Posted by: urk
With time, it'll make more sense.

I think I get it now. They didn't go dark to hide their new masterpiece from the world: they haven't figured out what to make yet. The world's first case of mass writers block, with a hundred people sitting in a room scratching their heads.

  • 09.19.2011 1:01 PM PDT

I hope you guys are right. This is killing us.

Off-topic: Everyone will now say that it's the right thing to do because that's what urk said.
Posted by: urk
Current Phase: We're dark!

;)

We put a lot of thought into the dialog we have with you guys and girls, and for a lot of reasons I can't really get into we decided that this was the right approach. With time, it'll make more sense.

  • 09.19.2011 1:13 PM PDT

I disagree with you. Just wait until they start releasing loads of information at certain periods of time. That's when everyone will start getting excited. Just simply wait it out for now.

In my opinion, it's good to see BNet nice and calm(er) for once.

  • 09.19.2011 1:18 PM PDT

I run Skirmish!!!

It's probably a game completely different than halo that's why they are staying dark for awhile, to gear up for releasing info on a different game that might shock too many people at once :p

  • 09.19.2011 1:32 PM PDT

  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • of 4