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Add Halo Online feature after release...
Posted By: Drew	Date: 9/10/01 11:17 p.m.
I just thought i'd post something which got me thinking about Halo's online situation. If anyone's interested, here's the link to the XboxIGN article about Dead or Alive 3 and the inclusion of it's online feature AFTER it's Nov 8th US release... http://xbox.ign.com/news/38191.html Now I may be mistaken, but isn't this the first time any developer/MS offical who has un/offically announced the ability to add the online component to a game AFTER it's released by using the harddrive??? If this is the case, then Bungie would be rather cruel by choosing not to add the last link in the chain so to speak, just so they can focus immediately on another project considering how many people have followed the progress of this game over so many years. I'm the first to admit to knowing jack swat about coding and network issues etc. BUT if all the multiplayer content (which sounds like there is a lot of it) is so "awesome" and "cool" as Mat keeps reiterating, then won't it be possible to have a guy or two working on the net code after the US release then let everyone download it? and the euro/jap/second mass copies of the game can come with the net code intergrated onto the DVD? surely it isn't impossible. i mean Dead or Alive may be more simple to add net code BUT it was never it's main focus, where as Halo was gonna be the Tribes of the new century. Bungie even had to REMOVE existing net code that was previously in the pc version. Hell, even if Bungie feel like it's not worth it for the Xbox crowd then at least pass on the job to some people in another area of MS or SOMETHING and allow for this to happen. To simply ignore it for the sake of it is very bad. Before hand there was no code (until last week i think) and also no one really had any word of developers actually doing something like this til DoD3 developer. Please Bungie please! (I know I know, there's a pc/mac version coming out but jeez not everyone can afford upgrading all the time.)

Message Index

Add Halo Online feature after release...	Drew	9/10/01 11:17 p.m.
Re: Add Halo Online feature after release...	Max Payne	9/10/01 11:24 p.m.
Re: Add Halo Online feature after release...	John Denton	9/11/01 1:01 a.m.
Re: Add Halo Online feature after release...	Adam Daniel	9/11/01 8:47 a.m.