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Tallahassee?
I spent two weeks in Tallahassee one night.

If Bungie was a food what food would it be?

  • 02.20.2012 11:45 AM PDT

RIP Logan ~B.B.


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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?
This is an excellent question that is well worth answering. Leave it to Microsoft to kill something awesome like the Bungie-era Halo stats API. I miss the Bungie-era Halo world already.

Well, the API was new to Reach, but Bungie at least turned a blind eye to site scraping, and it was their depth of service record reporting that made the stat sites so appealing anyway. It's something you simply can't do with most games. No one offers a service record like Bungie, let alone advanced features like online clip sharing and rendering. There are communities out there with tens and hundreds of thousands of users out there on Halo stats sites, and many tournament sites have started to take advantage of Bungie's stat reporting to track team and season stats, etc. I'm sure the devs and followers of those sites are eagerly waiting to find out what direction the sites now take. If 343 isn't going to offer the support that they depended on, they will be looking to whatever Bungie's next game is. I'm wondering if the level of service record support Bungie gave to Halo was an afterthought, or do they intend to make that kind of detailed attention to everything they make from now on.

  • 02.20.2012 11:54 AM PDT

// Chapter
// My PC


2/15/12: Francisco Porras, I'll miss you. Rest in Peace.

Are you (Deej) a fan of the Assassin's Creed series? If you are, are you excited about Assassin's Creed 3?

  • 02.20.2012 11:56 AM PDT

What am I thinking of at this very moment in time?
Also are you able to disprove Einstein's theory of Relativity?

  • 02.20.2012 11:57 AM PDT

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

Posted by: Obi Wan StevobiIt's pretty evident, from your post, that the API was a grand success. I wouldn't be surprised if it makes a comeback in their new IP.

  • 02.20.2012 11:59 AM PDT

Donuts > all other food

When will step 7 of world domination begin?

  • 02.20.2012 12:01 PM PDT

If you could put the Bungie logo on anything other than software, what would it be?

  • 02.20.2012 12:03 PM PDT
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I apologize in advance for all the crappy jokes I make.

What did the people at the studio think (speccially the writers) when they read the discussion in the forums about inconsistencies with the Halo canon?

Also, what is love?

  • 02.20.2012 12:04 PM PDT

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Cortana 5 is a carbon-based lifeform that frequently visits these forums, currently residing in the United States. Practically every male on the site responds to her posts.

The Joyeuse IP Formula

The pillow pit at the Kirkland studio will always hold a special place in my heart. Does the Bellevue studio have something to compensate for this loss?

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  • 02.20.2012 12:06 PM PDT

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If you place a small blue box with the words "move me" in the middle of the studio's lobby, where would the box end up?

  • 02.20.2012 12:09 PM PDT

Thesaurus.com

I need a good idea for a date, any suggestions?

The more out of the ordinary, the more extraordinary.

  • 02.20.2012 12:11 PM PDT
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Nothing to see here citizen.

How does it feel to be a Bungie Employee?

  • 02.20.2012 12:16 PM PDT

http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=342358
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Real life? What is that?
Graphics are good, gameplay sucks. Overhyped IMO.

Posted by: anonanon
I don't want to help you. I'm sorry. =(

You'll totally need a part time photographer in a few years, right? ;-)

  • 02.20.2012 12:18 PM PDT

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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.

Can we have a photo of Joe Staten doing what he does best?

Does Ryan Harold still go around the studio with ice cream in a shopping cart? If so, pics or it didn't happen.

  • 02.20.2012 12:22 PM PDT

I'm a stubborn guy. I love to argue my opinion, but unlike others, I'll try to see your side of the problem. I'm a triathlete, with a very heavy empephis on the swimming bit. Also, don't hate on the ~Quinton~ at the end of my posts. Why are you still reading this? #creeper #hashtagcashmoney for hashtaging on Bungie.net

So I see that Stosh as moved, and his apartment has lights that look like boob's. So now for my question. Is Stosh still working at Bungie but has just relocated close to Bungie studios or is he no long part of the family?

~Quinton~

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  • 02.20.2012 12:32 PM PDT

Do you have your toilet paper over or under?

  • 02.20.2012 12:33 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

Have you or do any other employees at Bungie get recognized by fans outside of work on the mean streets?

What is the strangest thing a fan has sent to Bungie?

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  • 02.20.2012 12:34 PM PDT
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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. " ~Gil Stern

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." ~Albert Einstein

"What did I just drink?"~Socrates

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Why don't you require actual letters to be sent?

  • 02.20.2012 12:37 PM PDT

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Well, my beard question got shot down three times, so time for a different question:

So, who came up with "Non facete nobis calcitrare vestrum perinæum" as your slogan? I'm just curious, because it is a pretty classy saying.

  • 02.20.2012 12:38 PM PDT

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What type of game platform is bungie desiging their next game for? (I would prefer XBOX exclusive).

  • 02.20.2012 12:41 PM PDT

ShawtyHullstineFilms CEO-Team MLG EXTREME

We haven't gotten a Blame Stosh in a while. Could you check in on Stosh for us, for old times sake?

  • 02.20.2012 12:42 PM PDT

A large man

Do any of you still play world of warcraft? I remember Urk did an update a long time ago and it sounded like you had a pretty dedicated team to vanquishing blizzard's latest.

  • 02.20.2012 12:53 PM PDT

"I don't care if it's God's own anti-Son of a -blam!- Machine or a giant hula-hoop!"

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Do any of you still play world of warcraft? I remember Urk did an update a long time ago and it sounded like you had a pretty dedicated team to vanquishing blizzard's latest.
Yoozel, do you still play?

  • 02.20.2012 12:55 PM PDT
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What percentage of Bungie employees are female?

  • 02.20.2012 12:56 PM PDT


Posted by: Phoenix2640
What type of game platform is bungie desiging their next game for? (I would prefer XBOX exclusive).
It isn't going to be Xbox exclusive, they started hiring for PS3 a while ago.

  • 02.20.2012 1:02 PM PDT