- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Frankie, I am a bit taken aback by that statement. Mean spirited? Hardly. We had no intention of it causing such an issue for Bungie. Knowing that various Bungie employees on various websites (TeamXbox.com and Bungie.org namely), I personally thought this would have no legs. Bungie.org squashed it quickly, as I had imagined, and I even openly vouched for it's fallacy less than 3 hours after it's inception.
We had no intention of continuing the rumor for more than a day or two and once a certain Bungie employee asked it to be removed and recanted, and it was, I felt the best course of action was to give the reasons for the rumor. AEG has followed up asking us to remove the stories completely, and we did.
To come out and say that this was a deliberate attack on Bungie or MS is just outlandish. There was no malice or ill-will behind it. It was mearly to see just how quickly rumors spread and how easy it is to spread them. Sadly, it's all too easy.
And, just to clarify, I'm 19, no wife, no kids, and I sold my PS2 a long time ago, along with my GameCube, for RTCW, WSB2K3, and KotOR. :)