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Subject: Did I waste my money?

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So, a while back, the rendering system was put into effect alongside with Bungie Pro where you could purchase more render points on the side if you needed more than the five allotted per month.

Well, seeing how I had the money and the will to do so, I wanted to put together a video of a bunch of my clips into one. However, I had so many good clips I didn't want to leave behind that I decided I could just include them all.

I decided to drop serious cash too get 200 render points and render all my little heart desired. I figured my 150 unused render points would come in handy later down the road.

Dadeela deela, here we are and I'm pretty sure all those went down the drain. A good 30-40 bucks worth just GONE. So, my question: did I waste my money?

  • 06.28.2012 10:40 PM PDT
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Trying something once will increace your chances of success, because you tried it. Try someting twice, and your chances increase yet again - seeing as you've done it. Try something a few thousand times, and your chances of success is exponentially increased; this increase would likely provide success every time

I do believe the real question is, did you find value with your purchase?

Quiet obviously you did at the time of purchase, but it's apparent now that you are unsatisfied. Think of it like buying a new toy or stuffed animal for a child - or a pair of nice sunglasses for yourself; they love it at first and can't get enough of it, but in the end it will likely end up in a landfill.

The bright side? Since you had Bungie Pro you'll get something special for the new IP.

  • 06.28.2012 11:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: Rokit
I do believe the real question is, did you find value with your purchase?

Quiet obviously you did at the time of purchase, but it's apparent now that you are unsatisfied. Think of it like buying a new toy or stuffed animal for a child - or a pair of nice sunglasses for yourself; they love it at first and can't get enough of it, but in the end it will likely end up in a landfill.

The bright side? Since you had Bungie Pro you'll get something special for the new IP.


Nice analogy, I must say, but this (in my mind) is more comparable to buying a car. Whereas you typically buy it for more long term uses. I got the top of the line car here and used it for a good road trip as soon as I got it then let it sit in the garage to use at a later time. However, I feel like coming back and checking on the car in the garage and finding it empty due to it being stolen is kinda heartbreaking.

Now that metaphor might be going a little far there, but I still feel like all that money being spent and not getting the full use of the points when I thought I had all the time in the world to use them is like bait and switch on those who decided to spend the extra cash for a service that honestly couldn't have cost that much to run. They made it sound like it'd be there or as if it wouldn't be leaving us permanently and then did just that, and without anything in return. No refund, no continuing on the program in later games, and nothing in return for what we paid good money for.

This is sorta starting to sound like a rant now about how I, and many others, are at fault for not using what we had while we had it and that we were never guaranteed anything. Though that may be true, the customer shouldn't be punished for things he/she can't control. Bans on little kids boosting are controllable. Removing someone's recon or *insert armor piece here* because they just wanted to network manipulate just "once" to try it is controllable. However, the time you choose to use the render points you spent good (and for many others and myself, a lot of) money on, is NOT controllable.

We were promised a product that would allow us to render videos from either Halo 3 or Reach (that may be wrong, I don't honestly remember) for as long as we owned the game and upload the clips to our file share, and then it "expired".

I can understand where unexpected business situations can come into play with 343 now controlling everything Halo. The problem I have with it though is the failure to continue on the system put in place for paying customers in the new company. It's plain and simply bad business and horrible customer dealing.

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  • 06.28.2012 11:36 PM PDT

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Except that, sadly, bungie pro is not a method of transportation :(

  • 06.28.2012 11:47 PM PDT

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You should PM DeeJ about this, for more info.

  • 06.29.2012 12:29 AM PDT

Man of God. Fan of Bungie. Eater of many Jr. Bacon cheeseburgers.

Yeah. That's an actual problem that we can't actually help you with. PM Deej.

  • 06.29.2012 5:58 AM PDT

Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!

Pretty sure they shut down the rendering stuff a while back.

  • 06.29.2012 6:01 AM PDT

Man of God. Fan of Bungie. Eater of many Jr. Bacon cheeseburgers.

He should get his money back then if at all possible.

  • 06.29.2012 6:06 AM PDT


Posted by: SharkTooth__


Nope. He was warned.

  • 06.29.2012 6:17 AM PDT

Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!


Posted by: Mythical Wolf

Posted by: SharkTooth__


Nope. He was warned.
inb4 "but it hasn't been 20 years!"

  • 06.29.2012 6:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: Mythical Wolf

Posted by: SharkTooth__


Nope. He was warned.


Besides that, didn't they also warn us of Bungie Pro services being limited after the Halo transition.


Home Page News:
"Bungie will no longer be able to update game stats and player service records, to host new user generated content, or to operate the Bungie Pro service."

[Edited on 06.29.2012 6:33 AM PDT]

  • 06.29.2012 6:25 AM PDT

Man of God. Fan of Bungie. Eater of many Jr. Bacon cheeseburgers.

Oh. Well that sucks.

  • 06.29.2012 6:35 AM PDT

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

Get at me

I did the same thing dude. Nothing we can do about it now though.

  • 06.29.2012 6:08 PM PDT

Key

You spent money for nothing in return.

Unless you feel your 30 to 40 bucks is going to impact Bungie in any sort of way or are able to see it as a helpful donation, yes.

By definition, your money was wasted.

  • 06.29.2012 6:28 PM PDT