Saturday, March 17, 2007

In Debt

Search the Bungie.net forums for the term "new maps" and you'll come up with many entries in which a user either suggests that Bungie come out with new maps or wants to discuss the parameters of any pending maps.

What's funny is the predominantly immature 15-year-old opinion (noted, since their parents have no idea what they are playing and webbing for, associating with common research showing that parental monitoring leads to better child development) is that Bungie is developing Halo 3 and doesn't have to spend the time making any additional maps and the thread starter is an "idiot" for even stating so.

Oh? With Bungie's recent confession that they fucked up, in addition to the fact that they fail to realize 95% of what is wrong with their game, they don't need to develop anything else for Halo 2? Oh, contraire. They'd better.

I can understand giving up on some of the game design. That can't be changed. But what you really need to be doing, is looking for what is wrong with the game, beyond what you know already. Take a poll, call people who are registered. Listen to what they say. And use that for Halo 3 design. You don't know everything that is fucked up about your game and ignoring public opinion is going to get you in deeper trouble in the future.

AND come out with maps, to keep people interested in your series. You're slow as shit coming out with new Halo games, so you'd better keep people interested. Whatever your current rumored release date is, let's automatically add on about 15 months more. That sounds a little more realistic for your dumbass programmers.