- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The one thing that has ticked me off is that both Microsoft and Bungie knew about this, yet did not say anything about it, and let those guys put three years of work into it. Now Microsoft and Bungie have changed their minds, and take away three years of work. Now, if they had done this earlier when they first knew about it, I would still be mad, but not nearly as much. It's just the fact that Bungie and Microsoft suddenly changed their minds.
To quote Carnage:
"Surely they (SSP)
could have sought permission, but being allowed to function for three
years with no more than a peep from the other party is a passive form of
permission. If MS felt that it was going to be a problem they should have
sniped this when it was starting up."
For all we know, Microsoft might start shutting down fan projects left and right. For all we know, they might shut down Marathon Source (Since they own Bungie, they are now the owners of Marathon's IP, right?). Probably very unlikely, but still possible.
The other thing here is that now other companies might start following suite. Valve might shut down Fortress Forever (if that happens, then that means the two mods I have been looking forward to the most, as much as commercial games, are done; I'll probably go insane.)Other companies might do the same. Microsoft might very well have just started a trend which could very well screw up the mod community.
Also, would anybody mind explaining why two direct remakes of Halo and Halo 2 for Source have not been shut down yet?
And with one using ripped models?
[Edited on 9/22/2006]