- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Milito
I don't know who makes the decisions on these things, but Microsoft and/or Bungie should be very careful about this. Have they forgotten the rich modding community that Bungie had with the Marathon series? Infiniti was built with the concept in mind, and as Half-life has clearly demonstrated, letting modders do as they wish is very good thing. I've only just now heard of Halogen through Slashdot.com, and it was looking to be a very professional and well done mod. They had better offer a clear explanation - I can see why if they had plans for an RTS Halo down the road, they might not want this out there. But we need an answer, because otherwise a very poor message is being sent to all the Halo fans out there. Get your stuff together, Bungie - don't alienate your base.
The difference is that this is almost a direct copy of Halo onto another companies game. You can't do that legaly without permission. You can't do it with half life, nor with marathon.
The timeing is probably because they WERE close to releasing a beta. There would have been no problem if the project had failed, or never got close to releasing.