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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
I think you misunderstood the statement. My statement was to point out that we make games that we think are fun. That's not to say we design in a vacuum. We take what we've learned from previous efforts, and apply it to our new projects. For example, we have an amazing amount of data on the kinds of games played on Xbox Live of Halo 2, so it would be silly to ignore that data when making the multiplayer experience of Halo 3.
Saying the statement I made was "stupid" or "idiotic" is short sighted and probably indicates you place a much greater importance on the group think of Internet forums than disciplined game design (which is extremely dangerous). The minute we start designing games solely based on what "the Internet" says we should do, start worrying. Not always doing what people expect is good - most of the time, people want more of the same because they don't really know what they want. That's how the matchmaking system came about - and despite what some of you think, that system is responsible for keeping Halo 2 at the top of the Xbox Live charts for so long.
Posted by: alecs36
Yes i remember that, it's just a pretty stupid thing to say. While i'm confident with what bungie is doing with halo 3 or any of their games (so far they've done an amazing job) it's stupid to say that they'll make the game however they want it, and expect it to sell, without much concern on the customer / fan, since they're the ones who will be buying the game. If nobody buys it, you've just screwed yourself and lost your job. Just because you've been successful so far doesn't mean you can change somthing major to the games, such as taking out CTF or team slayer in multiplayer/online, just because you (the developers) feel it's better without it.. if the customers and or fans want it in there, and it's not, they will probably not buy the game. So yes, just a completely idiotic statement.