We all have seen it by now, the acceptance video Bungie has posted in response to receiving EDGE's award for interactive innovation. For those of who have been living under a rock, the video features many of the game's designers and artists' avatars alongside NPC's from the campaign of Halo 3. They use the video to hint that they could not receive the award in person because they are working on something big. In addition, the webisode is used to show off maps within the multi-player half of Halo 3, NPC's, and the end of the video hints of a possible map editor that could be released soon.
However, in the latest reach around Weekly Update from Bungie, it is clearly stated that they have no plans to release an map maker, editor, or whatever for Halo 3. And accuse many of their hardcore base of suggesting that just because the video may have hinted at some form of editing elements with NPC's, Bots, yada yada; we were all just a bunch of a-holes spreading such a rumor like wildfire.
I really used to like the mind games that this company used to promote their software and by that I mean The CortanaLetters, i love bees, and IRIS. But this latest marketing ploy is just total bullshit. It's not funny, and worse it's not clever. It just may be the first real hint that the boys and gals at Bungie are losing it.
Add the aforementioned to Bungie's latest IP, codenamed Halo:Blue, being yanked last minute at E3 and something is rotten in Redmond. Though the dev claims that MS pulled the plug on their big reveal, it's starting to seem more plausible that the grandmaster's of cock teasing multi-player latency, are just pulling their old tricks with less and less fashion.
Let me put it this way if I show up at your house in black pants, a polo, and a poorly manufactured hat with a pizza; you're going to assume that it's meant to be delivered and dare I say eaten. What if I told you that i was just cruising I-5 and thought that I'd drop by and show you what a pizza looked like, or better yet had no intentions of letting anyone consume the pizza. Not only have I wasted your time, I've been a complete douche bag in the process. And perhaps that is what the inmates at Bungie have been all this time: a myriad of class clowns that had a few funny jokes, but can't graduate from the realms of destructive comedy, bad pranks, and fart jokes.
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