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Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting
Posted By: Chappy <jchapman@ixl.com>	Date: 6/19/00 10:53 a.m.
In Response To: Not Dead, Just...Resting (Matt) > This is going to sound weird in light of all the free-floating > hostility... I have the freedom > to be as open and honest with our community as is humanly > possible. I have no interest in feeding a line to anyone. > Dishonesty will do nothing but hurt this community. I know this > as well as anyone. No offense to you, Matt, but dishonesty seems to be the rule at this point. Bungie is well aware of their dedicated fan community, but they have handled this in just about the poorest possible way. Silence may have been required up to this point for legal reasons, but to publicly announce the aquisition without having answers ready for the fans shows a lack of respect (IMHO). Bungie got as far as it did due to hard work AND we the fans (PC and Mac) who bought the games, and it seems that Bungie has abandoned us for the console market. Betrayal is a word that comes to mind. The respect that the fan community has earned from Bungie over the years seems to have disappeared with the stroke of a pen. Perhaps a new community will develop around the XBox and Bungie, but I don't see myself being a part of it. I have purchased Bungie games since PID, and followed Bungie from the Mac to the PC platform around the time of Myth. I have not been (and do not expect to be) a console gamer, and Microsoft's entry into this market doesn't interest me. $350 for Halo (console included) is ridiculous... Tribes 2 will have to be good enough for me. Cool PC games (Mac or PC) interest me, and this used to be what Bungie provided. I don't know what sort of questions you might be able to answer... the Bungie Software that I have followed for years is gone. The respect and loyalty that that organization earned from me is gone with it. In its place is a new division at Microsoft developing console games... with a clean slate and no track record. Good luck to the ex-Bungie employees; those who ended up at Microsoft and those who go elsewhere. Bungie's dead, long live the rest of the PC Game software development community. -Jon

Message Index

Not Dead, Just...Resting	Matt	6/19/00 9:54 a.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	Jaap	6/19/00 9:56 a.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	Matt	6/19/00 10:08 a.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	Arciere	6/19/00 10:42 a.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	Vexator	6/19/00 1:41 p.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	Smirnoff	6/19/00 12:00 p.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to produce Linux ports?	Nexus	6/19/00 12:13 p.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to produce Linux ports?	Matt	6/19/00 12:45 p.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to produce Linux ports?	Nexus	6/19/00 1:59 p.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	Chris Lepore	6/19/00 12:32 p.m.
Re: will M$ allow Bungi€ to use OpenGL?	phayd	6/19/00 1:26 p.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	Rufo Sanchez	6/19/00 10:07 a.m.
read the source at the mill......(n/t)	robinhood	6/19/00 10:19 a.m.
Re: read the source at the mill......(n/t)	Rufo Sanchez	6/19/00 10:33 a.m.
Re: read the source at the mill......(n/t)	rosignol	6/19/00 2:49 p.m.
The obvious questions...	Mark Levin	6/19/00 10:08 a.m.
Re: The obvious questions...	Matt	6/19/00 10:32 a.m.
What bothers me is...	Moose-Factory	6/19/00 11:44 a.m.
Thats it	Flat Earth	6/19/00 12:14 p.m.
You've got your work cut out for you for sure [nt]	Johnny Rotten	6/19/00 10:10 a.m.
Halo and Marathon	Billiam	6/19/00 10:12 a.m.
Hey Matt, mind if I handle this one?	Forensic	6/19/00 10:53 a.m.
Re: Hey Matt, mind if I handle this one?	khrome	6/19/00 12:01 p.m.
Sorry; I meant this tongue in cheek	Billiam	6/19/00 12:28 p.m.
Could I hear some kind of rationalization on this?	khrome	6/19/00 11:56 a.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	Forensic	6/19/00 10:22 a.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	Dan Rudolph	6/19/00 4:07 p.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	Chappy	6/19/00 10:53 a.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	Matt	6/19/00 11:02 a.m.
Goodbye Bungie...	Cory	6/19/00 12:07 p.m.
Uh I guess immitation is the best form of flattery	Flat Earth	6/19/00 12:19 p.m.
Re: Uh I guess immitation is the best form of flat	David Oosha	6/19/00 5:03 p.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	john zero	6/19/00 11:40 a.m.
Re: Not Dead, Just...Resting	Matt	6/19/00 12:03 p.m.
Re: Not Dead... Marathon Open-source	rosignol	6/19/00 2:34 p.m.