Tuesday, October 2nd 2007
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Rumor: Bungie Studios to Leave Microsoft?
According to someone who works in Bungie, as of yesterday, Bungie is no longer working for or with Microsoft. Their proof of this lies within Bungie's global address book. If you ask any employee of Bungie to find any Microsoft contacts in that address book, you will find nothing. If this is true, Microsoft will post the press release on October 6th, to avoid affecting quarterly results. Microsoft is also rumored to keep the entire Halo franchise. The same Bungie employee has this to say regarding why Microsoft and Halo may have split:
Source:
8BitJoystick
Apparently MS just wants Bungie to make Halo for the rest of their natural days, and Bungie doesn't like how MS is constantly trying to "handle" everything they do; the way they market their games, the way they interact with their fans (basically the fact that they do appreciate their fans), and how stingie they are with the profits (comparable to the rest of the industry). So as of today they are their own independent entity. They'll probably make Halo 4 for Microsoft, however hey are also free to create new intellectual properties for whatever system they want. (Even though they prefer the xbox platform)Neither company has confirmed or denied any of this. We will have to wait until October 6th to see anything official.
13 Comments on Rumor: Bungie Studios to Leave Microsoft?
Does no one remember that Halo was initially unveiled by Steve Jobs as a Mac-only title years ago, as an example of the upcoming greatness of the (IIRC) G3 macs? That prompted MS to buy up the whole company and turn them into a Xbos/PC only company.
Prior to Halo, Bungie did the Marathon series, a very good Mac-only FPS.
Don't forget this "blog" that someone "wrote" also wrote blogs about how much they hate microsoft and Halo and all that good stuff...
Now they won't make any money off of it because Microsoft still owns all the rights.
Maybe they were just using Microsoft to promote Halo 3 and now they want to start their company up again from scratch and create a new franchise..
here is your final answer from a real source not some dumbass who doesn't like Microsoft and is jealous cause they don't make halo for the sony systems...
enjoy.
Seriously Microsoft enough with halo we all love it but lets get on with new IP's with great new storylines.:rockout::rockout::rockout:
Bungie pretty much made XBOX what it is. I seriously hope this story is true, I'm so sick of the way microsoft treats Apple and I'm not even a fan of Apple!!! :twitch: