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LOL MATURE on 24 July 2008
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exindguy said:
LOL MATURE said:
exindguy said:

Um, the OP and the thread title (and most of the posts here) are specifically about the alleged laughter and whether Ryan did or whether Mattick made the whole thing up...right?

Yes. So why would someone express their dissapointment with a decision immediatly and then laugh about it later like it was no big deal and then say "no we never laughed we always thought it was shady"

What I'm saying is Bungie always stated their feelings and stuck by them. Then Mattrick said they laughed about it.

You expect me to believe Bungie is playing damage control?

 

Yes, based on the information in the Eurogamer article I do.

Here's what Mattrick said at E3:

"[Ryan] just laughed and he said, 'Boy, just a sign of growth inside the business, we agree'."

And here's what Ryan said to Eurogamer:

"Bungie is always concerned first and foremost with our fans. Whenever we are prevented from exceeding their positive expectations it is not a laughing matter." 

Nowhere does he state that "I didn't laugh"--he doesn't even address the comment by Mattrick directly--he just goes on to say that it's "no laughing matter." Which, based on the response by Halo fandom, it certainly wasn't.

Now, you can believe what you want about Bungie and how much they only have the best interests of their fans at heart (which is likely true), but I have a bit of a hard time getting, from these exchanges, that Mattrick has somehow been proven a liar or that he's even worse than originally suspected which means that, if he isn't a liar, that Ryan did, indeed, laugh and is, indeed, performing some damage control.

You need to get your eyes checked then

Bungie president Harold Ryan has denied "laughing" when Xbox boss Don Mattrick told him that the studio's latest Halo product would not be shown at E3.

Harold just didn't say one thing that was just what quote the journalist decided to put in. However, the journalist still reported that he denied laughing.

I have 2 choices. A. Believe someone who is talking for someone else who seems shady or B. believe the guy speaking for himself who has shown the same dissapointment since the incident

Also MS is now playing damage control

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=35188&start=0