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Bungie is being torn down to reinstate FASA Studio and release maps, weapons, the ork race, and 250 more 'cheevo points.




oh and then I woke up

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no way Bungie is leavng...maybe some/all the talent, but not Bungie itself.

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8Bbit Joystick should do a X3F giveaway if they want more readers!

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Changing keypads is not a sign that someone is leaving. When someone leaves, you take away their keycards or change the keycode.

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I love me teh HaloS! I don't care either way if they leave. I'm sure they will still put out quality games even if they do. However, I just put in about a 9 hour marathon session of co-op and multiplayer yesterday so I'm def. taking a break from the game today. haha

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I wonder how much this guy has made the last few days from his Google Ads.

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I don't even understand the correlation between the locks and people leaving to begin with.

I mean, if that were true, every one would technically be fired in order for that to work out. We wouldn't have heard about that by now? That kind of just seems, you know, like changing the locks. Most people who have a house wind up doing it at some point and it doesn't mean they're kicking their kids out.

Still, I'd not be surprised if a lot of people were moving on. It seems to happen after any big release at a company.

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On the one hand, it wouldn't be a big shock to see Bungie incorporate as it's own company. This kind of thing happens all the time in business when a division not attached to the core of a company becomes highly successful.

On the other hand, Microsoft has traditionally kept multiple highly successful business units wrapped up in Redmond.

My final thought is that MS learned with the purchase of Rare that the intellectual property is far more valuable than the developers can be. Humans can quit, move on to other companies, where IP can't.

So it wouldn't surprise me too much if Bungie becomes a 2nd party devoloper for MS, still primarily working on Halo-themed games.

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Changing keypads isn't all that odd after you finish a big project- imaging how many extra people Bungie brought on to finish the fight- people that were brought on temp... My guess is a lot of them.

No matter how many RFID tags you take away etc, if you have that number of people that MIGHT have access to your super secret facility, you change the locks.

(from my Joystiq comment)
It doesn't have to be a matter of Microsoft "letting" Bungie go. Any number of perfectly legal things could happen that Microsoft would feel crummy about, but have little recourse. None of us (including Joystiq) know what the terms were back when Microsoft bought Bungie- but we do know that Bungie was an employee owned company and they all had to agree with the deal- a deal which might include any number of provisions for "7 years down the line"

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I read the entry..sounds like he's reassuring himself more than trying to convince everyone else that Bungie is leaving Microsoft. Keeps
repeating "my source this, my source that" and "trust me, I know what I'm saying, etc." Personally I don't believe Bungie is leaving Microsoft anyway. Bungie is to Microsoft what Zipper is to Sony.

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Why exactly would they change the locks. I'm sure they use ID card reader for access to the building. Like all other MS buildings that I have seen. You could just disable everyone's ID cards. I say bogus on this one

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Did anyone read the recent article about Bungie and Halo3 in WIRED (it was on the cover.) Bungie uses so many of MS's resources to test and develop their games that it seems to me it would be very difficult for them to go their own way and still put out a game with as much quality and playability as Halo 3. Bungie mad extensive use of Microsoft Game Studios' testing labs throughout the development of Halo. They marched people through on a weekly basis to test out every build, looking for imbalances, trouble spots, bugs, people's reactions, etc. It's pretty incredible, especially given the "get it out the door and we'll patch it later" mentality of other game developers.

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@schiavonir,

Bungie and MS could still work together like that if Bungie keeps it's current headquarters location and becomes a 2nd party developer for MS.

@everyone,
When was the last time the MS actually purchased a game developer?

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This is stupid. MS owns Bungie. This is like saying MTV or Comedy Central is leaving Viacom. Bungie is part of the company therefore it cannot "leave." You may have employees of Bungie leave to start their own company or projects but Bungie itself is not going anywhere unless MS decides to spin Bungie off as it's own separate entity. Also, having many people leave at the end of a monumental and long-term project is typical in this industry.

This is obviously a discussion created and maintained by a bunch of uninformed Internet idiots.

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"This is obviously a discussion created and maintained by a bunch of uninformed Internet idiots."

Pretty much sums it up.

1. Random Blogger posts dubious story from unnamed source.
2. People see said blog and get their panties all ruffled up
3. Fearmongers link to site because Halo 3 news is "teh hawt"
4. ????
5. Profit !!!

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I HIGHLY DOUBT this is true. Especially with what was mentioned in the X3F post...What about the Peter Jackson project? What about directing the Halo Wars project? What about the TONS of DLC Bungie has planned for Halo 3 and the 360?

The truth will come soon enough.

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I HIGHLY DOUBT this is true. Especially with what was mentioned in the X3F post...What about the Peter Jackson project? What about directing the Halo Wars project? What about the TONS of DLC Bungie has planned for Halo 3 and the 360?

The truth will come soon enough.

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I'm with Xeno on this one...I think this is complete bullshit and was just created to get everyone's panties in a bunch. Oh...and then there's the whole profit motivation thing...

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Like derek says above. Bungie is OWNED by Microsoft, only the employees can leave. Case closed.

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There is no way MS would let bungie go, if they for some insane reason tried to leave MS, MS would just shell out butt-loads of $$$$ to convince them to stay.

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