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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: General Heed
I don't think it was necessarily dismissed. Rather it was just never as popular as its Xbox counterparts. It is being dismissed when people like DeeJ say Halo 3 was the first time the Halo community was given the hammer and anvil. It is being dismissed when someone claims the first time Halo was officially played online was with Halo 2. It doesn't matter how popular it was or wasn't. They're talking about "first" and Halo PC was first for both. That isn't open for opinions. It's absolute fact.
Also, it seems most people think Halo PC wasn't popular. This isn't true at all. In fact, back in 2004, it was the top played game on Xfire. That's something. There used be a lot of stuff happening with Halo PC with a large community around it. Saying it wasn't popular enough to be noted as much as its Xbox counter parts isn't just.
You ought to look at this. There are 106 pages of Halo Custom Edition maps there. That's 2,109 custom maps on that website alone. The english version of Halo Custom Edition was downloaded 1,018,457 times from this one website. The copies of Halo: Combat Evolved PC are at least 10x greater than that as well. That may not be as popular but it's nothing to shrug at. That is still very popular.
Ah I see what you mean now. I still stand by the belief that awareness of the history of Halo 1 PC was due to a significant amount of marketing and hype by Microsoft. I don't think people intentionally dismiss Halo 1 PC. I think they're just simply not aware of what Halo 1 PC had to offer before the Xbox version.
In fact, we can bring Halo 2 Vista into this as well. Halo 2 Vista was the first Halo game to have Achievements and support HD resolutions and the new Xbox Live architecture which is why Halo 2 survived the shutdown of the original xbox live servers. You could say people dismiss Halo 2 Vista as well.
I'm very positive these dismissals are due to lack of awareness from the lack of marketing. In the past, whenever I signed onto Halo 2 PC, my Xbox Live friends would always send me messages asking me what Halo 2 PC was because they've never heard of it before. In fact, most of them weren't even aware of the existence of Games For Windows Live. They were even more surprised when they learned Xbox Live is free on the PC.
You can't really blame the people dismissing the PC versions of Halo. It's really Microsoft's fault for not investing more on marketing and increasing product awareness.