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Posted by: Nessy
The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.
Man...people just don't get it still.
Halo was a MAC game first.
Bungie essentially sold out to Microsoft. MAC version was shelved and the game was developed for the xbox.
Fast forward about 3 years, MAC version and PC version are released. Immediately you must patch the game to 1.01 if you want to play online.
Hotfixes come and go over the course of about 2 years. The game stagnates at 1.07 for about a year, and remains at 1.07 to this day.
1.07 was the point at which Microsoft (Bungie doesn't really exist people) washed it's hands of the game.
Bottom line, Halo PC is not the Halo from 1999. The small handful of people who wrote the original MAC game are gone, rich as hell, but gone.
What people don't seem to get is that when you complain here to the moderators, it does nothing. They have no control over the game at all. They don't run the servers, they don't moderate the servers, none of that.
Halo PC at this point is 6 years removed from the original creators, those that would actually care.
Halo PC is about as important to Bungie/Microsoft as ReplayTV.
And lets not even get started with Gearbox, you can blame those guys, but this is Bungie's game, whatever that means anymore...
Now, before the powers at be get all bent out of shape over my post, let me say this: I don't blame anybody, this is just natural. Sure I would have liked to see this game supported more, but you must understand that in the eyes of Microsoft, console gaming is the focus.
It does bother me though that the name Bungie is still used. It gives people the false sense that Bungie is somehow independent of Microsoft and would be actively fixing the game. This of course couldn't be farther from the truth. Bungie does the work on M$ behalf, and I don't see M$ devoting any resources at all to "fixing" Halo PC any further.