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Subject: How would you feel if..

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you spent the last 10 years of your life working on 3 amazing products, only to be told that you no longer have control of any of them and can no longer continue to make similar ones?

I'd be pissed.

Edit:

STOP with the technicality. I'm not talking about that. Jeez, can't you people read?

[Edited on 01.08.2012 1:21 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 7:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

And what if I were getting tired of making such products and wanted to reinvent and test new things?

  • 01.08.2012 7:58 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
And what if I were getting tired of making such products and wanted to reinvent and test new things?


No one is stopping you from doing that. You can make whatever new things you wanted. You just can't go back to your number 1.

  • 01.08.2012 8:00 AM PDT
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What if I wanted to spread my wings after being sat on by microsoft for 10 years?

  • 01.08.2012 8:00 AM PDT
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Is the situation in the OP based on a genuine experience?

  • 01.08.2012 8:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: Smyf
Is the situation in the OP based on a genuine experience?
He's trying to prove a point about bungie

  • 01.08.2012 8:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: pet400
What if I wanted to spread my wings after being sat on by microsoft for 10 years?


See my response to the other guy.

No one is saying you can't do other things, it's just that you can't go back to your pride and joy, at all.

Let me try to put this into perspective for you all so hopefully people stop saying the same thing...

You have a child and he/she is around the age of 10, when they are taken away. You loved that child with all your heart. It was your baby. Sure, you can always go and make another, but why can't you still have your first born?

And, no one was stopping you in those 10 years from making another.

It's the parent's "baby", so why can't they have him/her?

  • 01.08.2012 8:09 AM PDT
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See my response to the other guy.

No one is saying you can't do other things, it's just that you can't go back to your pride and joy, at all.

Let me try to put this into perspective for you all so hopefully people stop saying the same thing...

You have a child and he/she is around the age of 10, when they are taken away. You loved that child with all your heart. It was your baby. Sure, you can always go and make another, but why can't you still have your first born?

And, no one was stopping you in those 10 years from making another.

It's the parent's "baby", so why can't they have him/her?
Some people could compare losing a story, or an idea, as losing their child, but it's more realistic to your child growing up and leaving home, you don't want it to happen but yet, it must. The comparison to having your first born taken away cannot work as it is not a specific mother - child bond you have with an idea, I can aggree with the idea that you will be pissed off, but not that you will drown in a pit of sorrow, like what would happen if you lost your first - born.

  • 01.08.2012 8:19 AM PDT

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Even if you're child grows up and moves on, you still will have contact and relations with that adult for the rest of your lives.

Unless one is a bastard to the other.

  • 01.08.2012 8:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan091693
Even if you're child grows up and moves on, you still will have contact and relations with that adult for the rest of your lives.

Unless one is a bastard to the other.
That works with bungie, as most of the 343 employees were originally from bungie

  • 01.08.2012 8:33 AM PDT

A little sad, but I'd move on.

  • 01.08.2012 8:33 AM PDT


Posted by: pet400
That works with bungie, as most of the 343 employees were originally from bungie
Not most, but some.

OP, Bungie wanted to make something new, that's why they split from Microsoft, they weren't suddenly just told they weren't allowed to make Halo ever again.

  • 01.08.2012 8:38 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: Spartan091693
Posted by: HipiO7
And what if I were getting tired of making such products and wanted to reinvent and test new things?

You just can't go back to your number 1.


Woah woah woah.

Who said Bungie cant return to Halo, period? They have a contract with Activision for the next 10 years. Once that is done, they could return to Halo if they wished.

  • 01.08.2012 8:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
Posted by: Spartan091693
Posted by: HipiO7
And what if I were getting tired of making such products and wanted to reinvent and test new things?

You just can't go back to your number 1.


Woah woah woah.

Who said Bungie cant return to Halo, period? They have a contract with Activision for the next 10 years. Once that is done, they could return to Halo if they wished.


Let's be honest. I doubt it would happen.

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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

I imagine it would be something similar to having something special taken away from you. You're heartbroken about it, but you're also excited that you will be able to see it again one day. It will be different from how you remember, because it has grown, but it will still be familiar to you.

  • 01.08.2012 8:59 AM PDT

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Nice animated avatar D lol

I see what you're saying, but this one point I don't think any of you have yet to understand.

You could ALWAYS have done something else. No one was stopping you from doing that. However, now you can no-longer do what you've been accustomed to doing for so long.



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  • 01.08.2012 9:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan091693
you spent the last 10 years of your life working on 3 amazing products, only to be told that you no longer have control of any of them and can no longer continue to make similar ones?

I'd be pissed.

They weren't 'told'. They agreed to it, remember? In exchange for their independence, they had to give up their IP.

Seems like a fair trade to me.

  • 01.08.2012 9:07 AM PDT
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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Technically Microsoft always owned the Halo IP..and Bungie. Once Bungie was strong enough, they asked for their independence back, in exchange for creating three more Halo games.

  • 01.08.2012 9:08 AM PDT
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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Erm, no I don't believe they had a choice to do something else. They were bought to create Halo games, and nothing else.

I'll use the same analogy. Let's say Bungie had kids, and the kids were taken away for whatever reason. Bungie is heartbroken about it, but they also know that the kids are in good hands and that they will eventually see them again one day. Older, wiser, yet still familiar to them.
Posted by: Spartan091693
You could ALWAYS have done something else. No one was stopping you from doing that. However, now you can no-longer do what you've been accustomed to doing for so long.

  • 01.08.2012 9:13 AM PDT

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I'd feel molested.

  • 01.08.2012 9:13 AM PDT

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Technically you're right.

a just married couple wants to adopt a baby because they can't make their own. Sure, it's technically not really their child, but it is their child.

See where i'm going?

I know i'm using a lot of parent/baby analogies, but they seem to convey my point.

EDIT:

Are you sure...? Wasn't Oni created during their contract with microsoft, aswell as the myth and marathon

[Edited on 01.08.2012 9:16 AM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 9:14 AM PDT

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Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War.

I can't help but think that this is only going to be a good thing for Bungie. Sure letting go of something you worked so hard for is hard.....I dunno I just have a feeling that it was the right move.

  • 01.08.2012 9:27 AM PDT
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I come to Bnet to distract myelf from homicidal and suicidal ideations.

I would hire a good lawyer so when the original contract was signed the said situation would not occur.

  • 01.08.2012 9:48 AM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.

I'm sure it must have been hard for the Bungie employees; but giving up Halo was the price of freedom, and to Bungie, that was very important.

  • 01.08.2012 10:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan091693
you spent the last 10 years of your life working on 3 amazing products, only to be told that you no longer have control of any of them and can no longer continue to make similar ones?

I'd be pissed.


I would not be mad as I made the decision to break off from the company that owns the game I made. Since I did not own the game and I made the choice to break off it would completely irrational to be mad.

  • 01.08.2012 10:07 AM PDT

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