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Posted by: Am41gama7er
Posted by: DEUCE MORELLI
Bungie was spun off from Microsoft. The deal was Bungie gets corporate independence and self-ownership of shares (less a small percentage Microsoft owns, IIRC), and Microsoft keeps Halo.
Bungie wasn't ousted, Bungie didn't "Sell Halo", as Microsoft owned the IP by virtue of owning Bungie.
Bungie was at one point in time it's own company before Halo, microsoft bought the company and the rights to Halo
as stated here: Billion Dollar Donut
Right, Bungie became a Microsoft subsidiary that owned Halo, and Bungie's responsibility was to develop the games and coordinate canon with other Halo products.
When Bungie won independence, Microsoft kept Halo and reorganized the umbrella division (Halo Products support tem, I think Achronos called it) into 343.
So it's incorrect to say Bungie sold something it didn't officially own since 1999-2000. I just wish these drunk highschoolers would read before posting so we stop having these types of threads every week here and in the Flood.