You and me both.  Some of my highlights show up and others do not.  The one thing that I do know about their financials, is after Reach they are FAR from secure.  This being their last Halo game means no guaranteed income off their next game.  Them going multiplat also means a good deal more resources will have to be expended (lots more money) without the financial push they had from MS as their publisher (knowing they also had a big franchise coming out).  I am not saying they would go bankrupt, or that they could not fund this project on their own, but to carry on in the future, having this financial backing (as they did with MS) makes PERFECT sense.  Especially with their branching out to a/many new systems.

My opinion of them hasn't changed. I used to hate the fact that because of them, almost all recent FPS have used regenerating health, now I hate the fact that because of them, almost all recent FPS have used regenerating health.

Disclaimer - I'm not saying they're a bad developer. Most people love regenerating health so they were right to do it. I just don't enjoy such games as much.

Them signing with Activision is not a betrayal of MS, they're an independent company and can do what they want. It's not as if MS even has any particular right to consider Bungie 'theirs' - Halo 1 was meant to be Mac exclusive until MS moneyhatted.

I can't wait to play their next IP on PS3. I hope it's "Halo on steroids" like Sony said.

The Power of the PS3 + Bungie talent = Great games incoming !

well what i loved about bungie was all the online features they put in halo. Playlists customising, online stats, database of screenies, video, custom maps, variants and everything was kept online accessible by computer. Forge is my most favourite feature, I truely loved searching bungie.net for racetracks, puzzlemaps, social party games and downloading them with ease.

now coming back to the topic, i really dont think they can manage these features without being as close with microsoft anymore. I dont believe that its impossible, more so believe that microsoft aint ganna be their bitch and finds ways of implementing such features with ease.

I thought Microsoft did a fine job publishing the past games, i dont believe that Activision can match it.

If microsoft managed to sell an expansion for 60 bucks (ODST) expect Activision to sell the inital game at 120 bucks.

I dont hate bungie for signing up for Activision, but i believe Bungie *was* in the best position having microsoft as its bitch. Sure microsoft may put deadlines on the developers, but microsoft would of bent over backwards to help Bungie develop the game. You can prove this with all of the PC/360 exclusives, anything microsofts puts its name next to ends up being as good as any half assed exclusive.

gl Bungie, i hope you have Activision by the balls cos that is the only reason i see the success of their previous games matched.

I lost some respect for them. I dont really care that they went multi plat but they signed with the Devil. Bungie has the capital and namebrand to sell their games without funding from a mega publisher and should have stuck with their previous formula.

same as before, I dislike FPS so I don't really care if their game is on PS3 or not. Now if they make a TPS I will care......a lot

HAHAHA!!!

Never played WoW I see.

Acti-Blizzard devs will be able to teach these children a thing or two about online stats.

Honestly I don't care about Bungie much. Of course it would have been great if they had remained Xbox exclusive to strengthen our console, but personally it's not big a loss. It's possible their next game will be good though and it's fairly exciting to see what it will be. My bet is that it's a MMO in the action/shooter genre.

no change really. if anything the more I think about it the more I see it as a good thing they move onto new stuff instead of getting stuck in one franchise.

WoW is a pc based game already. Bungie.net is clearly unmatched on the console front.

Everyone knows how hard it is to distribute user created content on the 360, gl reproducing that.