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What I am losing faith in is the B.net community.
The glass isn't half empty with them, no, the glass is full of radioactive goop from the factories of Microsoft.
I hear all this naysaying over how Halo should have stopped at Halo 1, how Halo 2 isn't true to Halo, how Bungie doesn't listen to their fans, blaw blaw blaw.
Does Bungie force you to play Halo 2 if you don't like it? No. Does Bungie force you to do anything? No.
Did Bungie make some sacrafices in the move to join Microsoft? Yes, they did it to survive as a company, and to better bring their product to the people.
Have they lost their roots? I don't see how, Bungie makes awsome games, always have, and though the employees may not post as much in the forums as they once did, they are busy people, and hiring speakerheads just to go around the forums answering questions won't make things better either, as people will either want more, or when they are forced to keep saying that they can't give more info, people will declair that Bungie is just jerking with them.
Has Bungie sold out? No, they just make products and expect people to pay for them. The Halo Portal? What kind of respectable person would spend time using such a thing? In my view if you want to use it, then hell ya your going to have to pay for it, and jump through whatever loops are in your way. You don't want to jump through the hoops, then don't.
Halo fans have been whining for a Halo movie, and a Halo RTS, and more Halo whatever, since Halo 1 came out. So now that Bungie is doing what is necessary to do these things, their selling out? To me it looks like they are giving the fans what they want. You personally don't want to play a Halo RTS? Then don't! Wait for somone to write up the story and then read that if you don't want to miss parts of the Haloverse, don't -blam!- because others will have having something that you don't want in the first place. That's like a kid who is allergic to penut butter whining that he can't have peanut butter but the kid at the other end of the table can.
The Halo Movie is being made by the best Bungie can get, and by "best" I mean people who get Halo almost as good as Bungie does, and have the tallent to bring it to life in a film. Do you not trust Bungie? Why not? What have then done to compromise your trust? Made Halo 2? Grow up, if Bungie wants to make Halo 2 then they will make Halo 2, if you knew anything about Bungie's contract with Microsoft you would know that Microsoft can't make Bungie make any particular game, let alone how to make it. Bungie knows what they are doing and if anything have proven they are the most protective of Halo out of anyone.
Halo Wars? Being made by the second best, if not best, RTS/RTT game makers in history, and according to the Bungie formula.
Those of no faith saw the trailer for Halo Wars and immediately sharpened your pitchforks and lit your torches over what you think are inconsistancies. Have you played the game? Do you know the history behind what you see? No, you don't. There are plenty of extremely logical explinations as to why we see Battle Rifles and Halo 2-esk armour, myself along with a number of others have stated them a few times now both here and over at the halowars.com forums. Do you own Halo? Are you writing the story? No, so how dare you delcare what is and is not canon? You selfish bastards think Halo belongs to you and that you have a say in how the story goes? It sickens me to hear moderators of all people act this way. Halo belongs to Bungie, not you, and if your not faithful enough or patient enough to wait and see what the explanation is for things you think are wrong or don't fit, then you are no more a Bungie fan than the 12 year olds that fill up the Halo 3 forums with spam about how they want to dual wield swords.
When Bungie screws up, then you can spew your doomsday speaches about how Bungie is losing quality or about how Bungie is a sellout and doesn't care about Halo or the fans and only the money and being Microsoft's -blam!-.
If you have expectations of ANYTHING that Bungie does aside from that it will be awsome, then you are a fool. And guess what, Bungie just might go and make a game that you don't like or enjoy as much as past games. You know what? That's life, just because you may not like it doesn't mean there arn't a thousand other people just as inteligent and dedicated to Bungie as you that think it's the best thing since pie, and can go and make great fan fictions and films and groups with deep and meaninfull discussions.
Am I an oldschool Bungie fan? Not in the sense of me actually having played Bungie games prior to the release of Halo, I hadn't even heard of them, but then again I didn't do much in the way of gaming either. But I am playing throug the Marathon games and intend on getting me an old Mac so that I can play the rest that haven't been ported to Windows yet.
But the fact that I have not been a member of this community as long as some doesn't mean I can't see what is happening, it is just sad that so many of the older member's here see Bungie's sucess, or perceved wrongdoings, as reasons to lose faith, when we have seen nothing but great things come from them.
Worries are one thing, outright declaring that Bungie has lost their way is another.