[quote]These are the people that were around for a time when you did actually listen to their complaints and adjust things accordingly[/quote]
There's nothing for them [i]to[/i] adjust. The only thing I can see adjusting is them focusing a bit more on the Xbox, yet we're still a while away from release, we don't know what they have planned for the future. We also don't know what's going on behind the scenes. We have the disadvantage of being in the dark, which isn't anything entirely new.
I can understand why you're upset, but I would give them a little time here to see what else happens down the road. I still feel like they care about the community, mostly based on their involvement with us despite the fact that we can be explosive at times. A lot of developers would disappear when their community would explode, yet DeeJ remained in the main topic to hand out beta codes. You could view that as a desperate attempt to calm people down, but whatever you view it as, the act of doing that represents some amount of care. Otherwise, they were with us through the entirety of being dark, and we get a lot more than most communities do.
[quote]And god damn it someone tell me why Joe Staten left![/quote]
We were told why, he wanted to move on to do something else. Anything beyond that isn't any of our business.
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Moving on isn't a good enough reason for me. Joe Staten was my role model and one of the main reasons I liked Bungie so much. I'm going to need to know more.
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You most likely never will know the full story, whether or not there is a bigger story behind it. That's between Joe and Bungie, even if Joe has been a big part of people's love for the company. Things change, life takes people to different places.
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Personally, the only other place I would see him go is 343i. That way he could join the writing team and make sure Halo is done justice.