1. If you think that Halo 2 has any measurable impact on the sell-thru of Vista or that Vista needs Halo 2 to succeed, you're insane. Halo 2 is only for Vista because we're using Live Anywhere, among other Vista-specific features. 2. In that same vein, the Xbox has not been supported with new content from Microsoft itself for nearly 18 months. All 1st party development shifted to the 360, for obvious reasons. So, your choice was either nothing for Halo 2 again, ever, or new maps (and everything that comes with that - work on emulation layer for Halo 2 on the 360, continued focus on improving the banhammer for Halo 2). You are, of course, welcome to do whatever you want with our games and are free to hold us in low regard. But nobody sits here and tries to think of ways to screw you over. In both the cases of Halo 2 Vista and the new Halo 2 maps, the alternative is to not release anything. I think we chose correctly - I'd certainly prefer having Halo 2 Vista and the new maps versus not having anything. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Namegoeshere I can't stand you, Bungie. The word "Sell-out" comes to mind everytime I read one of your supposedly "great" updates. Yea, whatever, Halo 3...It's coming, yea...we know. Peopl are impressed, I care less. I will never buy a 360. Period. First I read that you guys were making Halo 2 for Vista, and I knew Microsoft had you buy the "no-nos". Only reason that IT MUST COME OUT ON VISTA is so they can sell that OS. Plain and simple. Without you, Xbox would've died. So they look to you guys to make sure Vista won't bomb. It'll run on XP just fine, but you say it won't, when clearly when you were first programming the graphics and coding Halo 2 up years ago for Xbox, Vista wasn't out. Wasn't even called Vista. Longhorn was the name, and you guys most likely coded the game in XP, or heck, even 2000. Who knows...Therefore, H2V should really be H2XP, because the original was was made and tested on the older OS, and then coded to the Xbox version and encrypted and what-not. It worked then, it should work now. But I figure I'll just rip Vista somehow, just like my XP I have on my PC. I kinda got over it. But then to read that you guys are making maps for H2, which, lets remind everyone, and, hmm..lets remind you guys since you must've forgotten somehow...that Halo 2 was made for Xbox, and the last time you guys tried to do something that would work with 360...crapped out (I'm looking at you Backwash). You're doing the same thing with Microsoft again. Halo 3 is eventually coming out, but with the lack of sales that the 360 has, especially with two other competitors FINALLY stepping in, Microsoft is getting scared and wants, NO, NEEDS something from the only good company that has made anything worth playing, to suck more people into buying their system. I'm ashamed to know you guys. I regret buying your games now. I regret that I ever had faith in you, for everytime you guys try and "do something nice", you let down a good sized chunk of your fan base, and without us, you'd have died aloooong time ago. Thanks. I'm pawning, wait...no I think I'll just give away my copy of Halo 2. [/quote]