- Mcmax3000
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Posted by: cortana 5
The partnership with Activision is a little scary, yes. But I would highly recommend that people read those leaked court documents before freaking out.
The situation with Marathon is that Bungie could have kept doing Marathon games instead of moving on to Myth, Oni, and Halo. They had an established fanbase for Marathon and it would have likely done well. But now that Marathon has rested for a while, I don't believe that it would be a cardinal sin to bring it back in this new decade.
Comparing SWOTOR to Bungie's MMO-esque IP is a little silly. SWOTOR is set in an already established universe for a genre that's been beaten silly by WoW and its clones. If we're talking FPS, then it certainly won't be a 1,2,3,4 rotation that you're stuck with in WoW.
We need to remember that this universe has been in development since the end of Halo 3. Activision didn't force Mr. Jones to sign that contract. They were very clear about their terms with their publisher: You give us money to make a game, we keep the rights, you keep the publisher's cut.
Don't get me wrong, I totally understand where people are coming from when they say that Bungie is going to get swallowed by Activision. I'm scared, too! Out of that fear, I'm ready to tell Bungie what's up the moment they start treating their customers badly.
I called Bioware out on their -blam!- and I have no problem doing it to Bungie. I care enough for the company, the friends I have that work there, and the games they make to not mince words.
If you are a Bungie fan that cares, you will call Bungie out on their -blam!-.
We don't know what's happening quite yet. Right now, all we can do is voice our concerns about their publisher. We still don't know -blam!- about the game. I would highly suggest that we all calm down over this and approach it in a more mature manner, rather than crying out, "the end is nigh!" when we don't have a lot of context over the term "MMO" when it comes to Bungie-- a developer that's never made an MMO by any means.
*nods and waves*
I concur 100%.