makingmusic476 said:
goddog said:
makingmusic476 said:
thekitchensink said:
Reserved this spot for after I finish reading that epic post.
EDIT: Okay, I've read it now.
1. Bungie ain't first-party no more--haven't been for over a year.
2. That's a great read, and it's interesting when you lay all the facts out on the table like that. However, didn't they hire most of the Ensemble guys directly into their MS Game Studios team?
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I kind've lumped Bungie in as second party, though I suppose it's possible that after Halo 3 Recon they'll look for another publisher.
As for Ensemble, many were spread out amongst MGS, many split off to form a new studio, and many just outright left for other studios, or plan to leave after Halo Wars is finished. You can find out a bit more about what happened via the link in the article. The whole thing just kind've hit them by surprise, and they certainly weren't happy about it.
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bungie is a weird studio now, they have rules they must fallow when looking for a publisher, one of which requires them to give MS a chance to publish any titles, though i do not know if they can trun down an ms offer, really what bungie wanted was creative freedom to work on new games and they have that now, so i do expect to see new ip's it will be interesting to see if ms chooses to be publisher on any of them
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I originally thought that as well, until I saw this:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170768
However, given Bungie's relationship with Microsoft I don't think they'll look for another publisher, and they certainly won't get bought out by another larger publisher like BioWare or Bizarre, since they were specifically trying to get away from all that by leaving Microsoft.
They'll probably be Microsoft's Insomniac.
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that didnt change what i said, they are not tied to ms which means they can shop for one while pitching ms, most likely they will go for best offer, ms might have the option to match to keep it, but we dont know the true nature of the agreement
