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Edited by Capt Explodabob:
11/29/2017 1:33:55 AM
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I wonder how Bungie's relationship is with RoosterTeeth these days.
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From what they say. Apparently they ignore them at rooster teeth now
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Why would they even give a damn? 343i is in charge of Halo and that's where their roots are. Besides, most of the original Bungie team have moved on.
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That's not entirely true. More than half of the "Grizzled Ancients" still work at Bungie, and a lot of the devs who joined during Halo still work there. It's one of the reasons why the current state of the studio is so disappointing.
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the bulk of the 7 founding members are either with 343i or left Bungie before the game even launched most notably Jason and Marty who quite frankly mattered the most IMO. They lost their main story guy and a musical legend. They still have Michael which is good, but the 2 of them made so much great work together.
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Out of the [i]two[/i] founding members of Bungie, Jason Jones and Alex Seropian, one still works at the company while the other recently founded a new studio. Seropian left in 2002, presumably due to Halo 2's chaotic development process. Jones is still the Bungie studio head. The only two Bungie employees at 343 are Frank O'connor and Vic Deleon. Both joined Bungie during Halo 2, thirteen years after Bungie was founded. Out of the four ex-Bungie staff members who've worked at 343 over the past seven years, none were original Bungie employers or employees. Marty and Joe both worked on Destiny. Marty was fired after protesting the fact that Harold Ryan and Activision were [b]f[/b]ucking with his music. He later sued after he was refused his rightful pay and won. Joe presumably left because Activision were [b]f[/b]ucking with his writing as well. The majority of the Bungie vets still work there. Yet despite this, the studio has been producing a sub par product for the past three years now. They've gone from consistently developing the best releases of the year to shoveling out recycled assets and ploys to get people to gamble. They were far better off with Microsoft. Or better yet, independent.
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^ I want to say that's what joining with Activision does to you, but really that only applies to CoD; Blizzard hasn't fallen into that trap at all despite being owned by them. But then that could also be because perhaps Activision realizes it's best if they just let Bliz do their thing. And it's made all the more sad by the fact that Bungie was smart enough to negotiate this in their contract; At the end of the day, Destiny belongs to Bungie, not Activision. It's Bungie's IP, and they're supposed to be free to make it how they want. And yet all we've seen is garbage and wasted opportunity. As for Marty and Jason, yeah Marty won his case but sadly part of the conditions was that he's never allowed to publicly release his Album Music of the Spheres, which is a crime as far as I'm concerned. We'll never get to hear the full 10-year compositions he made because Activision got butthurt. Jason more than likely left (despite Bungie's dubious claims otherwise) after Harold Rayan told him that his supercut was too convoluted (this is after 5 years of work keep in mind) and basically to start over. Yeah, because Rayan clearly knew better than the guy who wrote Halo and has had multiple #1 Bestellers on the NYT. Guess there wasn't time to explain why there wasn't time to explain.
