2nd October 2007, 3:52 PM
63 pages now...
Seriously though, whenever independent developers are bought by big companies, bad things almost inevitably eventually happen... I could list examples, but there are so many of them that it's not worth it. This does surprise me given how successful Bungie has been with MS, but if they don't want to just be "the Halo company" and MS does, I definitely could see that as being grounds for a split... developers often want to do more than their big corporate parents want them to. You'd think that with Bungie's level of success they'd have the freedom to do as they want no matter who owns them, Blizzard-style, but obviously not...

Seriously though, whenever independent developers are bought by big companies, bad things almost inevitably eventually happen... I could list examples, but there are so many of them that it's not worth it. This does surprise me given how successful Bungie has been with MS, but if they don't want to just be "the Halo company" and MS does, I definitely could see that as being grounds for a split... developers often want to do more than their big corporate parents want them to. You'd think that with Bungie's level of success they'd have the freedom to do as they want no matter who owns them, Blizzard-style, but obviously not...