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Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
Question about render to video, stats, API, etc.
Not too long ago, you said that Bungie pro would make it's return someday. Not too long ago, 343 also announced that it would discontinue API support. Now, surely a few people at Bungie understand how big web content and stats have become for the Halo community. I can think of at least a dozen popular community sites built around advanced stat collection, reporting, and service records. These sites will have to go back to screen scraping stats, if they are even provided to the extent Bungie has. It may even mean the end of much of their functionality.
Now that the Halo community and subsequent fan sites are made to choose direction between the franchise they were built around, and the developer that built that franchise, is there anything you can say about future plans to add web features to your games? Did you find render to video worthwhile? Was making an advanced API worthwhile?
These are things that don't necessarily increase game sales, and I would assume that is why other developers do not put the time and effort into them that Bungie has, but they do strengthen the fan community. Has that community been important to you, and do you plan to keep expanding that support in the future?