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- jacktalon, on 10/10/2007, -11/+86Bungie is too busy rolling around in their money to care right now.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+74Why do you sign your posts? Your posts are already labelled with your name.
- dunlop, on 10/16/2007, -29/+92OMFG...Calling Bungie lazy....Halo 3 currently has more features than ANY console FPS. The game has so much value for the money it's sick, the MP part of the game will still be going 5 years from now....But hey this is digg, let's all just have a bitch fest.
- Aleman360, on 10/16/2007, -18/+71God I'm getting sick of the internet. All people do is bitch, bitch, bitch. Cynics, pessimists, and fanboys are rampant. What a waste of time. Just go play Matchmaking, have some fun, and stop worrying so much about things that are so insignifcant in the grand scheme of things.
- telengard, on 10/10/2007, -9/+60Thread starts here
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=132 ...
Official response
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=132 ...
~telengard - Azimuth1, on 10/16/2007, -4/+54"Given Halo 2's performance with a similar system, I highly doubt that is the case."
That's like saying that because millions of people went online with Mario Kart DS when it first came out, that proves that the friend code system is a great system. No, it just shows that people want to play Mario Kart online and they will deal with a ***** system if they have to. I don't like not being able to choose what game I want to play in Halo, but I'll use the matchmaking system anyway because there's no alternative. - Bakkster, on 10/16/2007, -9/+53Bungie: "This is not something that can be "patched in" either, even if we wanted to do so."
I call Bull *****. You can ALWAYS patch a feature into a game. It might require some downtime and substantial coding, but it's possible. - DJAngelicSlayer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+46It was supposed to be in there as late as 11/06 when Bungie employees gave 1up an interview. Some how between then and now that feature was pulled. Would have been nice if IGN would have mentioned it in their review.
- Saberj, on 10/10/2007, -4/+44It was documented by 1up as being in the game. It even had a name, "XBL Public". And suddenly we are told the decision was made 3 years ago to not include this? What's up Bungie? Who is lying to us?
- zyl0x, on 10/16/2007, -9/+43People who are pleased with the game generally do not go to the forums to praise the developers. They're usually too busy playing the ***** game. Angry people are louder than happy people, so just because there are some angry people on those message boards, doesn't mean there's an uproar. Go check out ANY popular video game forum and look at how many complaints there are about everything.
News flash: People are whiny bitches. - RetroRufio, on 10/16/2007, -3/+36Why didn't you give us the big list?
- rrasco, on 10/16/2007, -1/+25Too bad custom games have nothing to do with rank or XP.....I know you are talking about the MM specifics, but I think people are mainly pissed about not being able to host public games they created in the forge.
- drewbe121212, on 10/16/2007, -18/+41I'm glad it wasn't introduced. Part of the problem with online ranking is that people would play only the games they liked and were good at, thus inflating there rank. With this you are forced to play the good and bad.
- JudgeMonkey, on 10/16/2007, -0/+22Then just don't allow it for ranked games. Same way they do other things.
- BossX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Wait for Halo 3 SP1, bitches.
- scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Benny Hill chase music.
- Maghook, on 10/10/2007, -6/+22How bizarre, how bizarre... doo doo doo... doo doo doo...
- Wailingcrab, on 10/18/2007, -10/+26If halo 3 had this feature it would and would stay the best game on the 360 for a very long time, but without it, the game gets boring very fast because i cant play the gametypes i would like to. It makes me a saaaaaad panda that bungie wont listen to us.
- Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21They're.
- LifeForce, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16It is amazing to me how pretentious people start to sound when they are rolling in the dough. If they came out and said, "It was a feature we were confident in placing in the game, but due to difficulties it didn't make it much farther than the planning stages", this to me would be manning up and there wouldn't be much room for "outrage" over it. But to have someone come out on a forum say the topic was closed before Halo 2 came out and try and squash what will probably be an ongoing forum whine spree, is a little ignortant. Especially if said representative doesn't have his facts straight and there apparently was a discussion of the matter in interviews. But alas, the fact that most of these complaint threads are filled with "Wahhhhh I hate you Bungie", means that organized internet petitions and complaints are far off from ever being taken seriously.
- iceperson, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15were you born stupid, or do you work at it?
- modifiedbears, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3155479
- modifiedbears, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155452
1UP: One of the menus we saw while we were at Bungie said XBL Public, it was described to us as a "Matchmaking for Custom Games." What is XBL Public bringing to the matchmaking space? Is there an XBL Private, as well for Halo 3 online play?
CN: The basic idea with our online play still begins with our party system. You can invite your buddies to the party and it's easy stay together and play whatever you want in the game. If you want to keep it private you can set the privacy so that only friends can join, or so that an invite is required in order for any player to join the party. On the other hand you might need more players to play the type of game you want to set up and that's where XBL public comes in handy. When you need more people you can just open your party to the public. It's the perfect way to create a custom game and find people to join you.
1UP: If I've created a game with my friends and don't have enough people for a good match, will there be a way for us to meet up with players that we don't know and have them join our game?
CN: That's the perfect example of how XBL public works. In a party with 3 friends but that game you've created really needs 8 players to be fun? Set the maximum party size to "8" and open your party to the public. Public players will be able to find you and join, so you'll get the other 5 that you need for the game. - Bakkster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Thing is, you can make a party 'Public' on XBL to people other than your friends. What good does this do you if there's no way for those people to find you?
- dykast, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14I think some of the people commenting about people bitching don't understand the problem. The matchmaking system is great and very useful. The problem is this, when you are in the matchmaking system the game types are grouped and random, you have no choice.
Lets say you wanted to just play CTF and ONLY CTF. You can ONLY do that if you invite friends to join a game. You can't just find games through a game/server list that is CTF only. This is something that just about every freaking FPS on the planet will let you do. The Forge is essentially useless because it is not in the matchmaking system at all. - zeno60, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Stop your whining.
- MaynardJK, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Shaky my ass. "Just that public players can find you if you make your party public"
WTF do you think people are pissed about? They can't find you if you make your party public. - The_Wallbanger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10My problem is I save my friends list for actual friends. I don't want to page through 100s of names to see what my real-life friend is playing. Eliminating a public search devalues the friends list.
- jacktalon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11The Janitor is the one lying ^^
- ScionX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Good luck getting into any games in warhawk. I'm so tired of waiting like 30 min to get into a game.
:: oh, look theres only 15 or 32 in this room
wait.........
wait........
wait.........
Room full
Refresh list & see the same room on there w/ 15 of 32 playing.
rinse & repeat for each room you click on for a min of 15 min before it finally lets you in one. - kingofthisnight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Would that make you cynical for thinking everyones cynical?
- cbuddha42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Would be nice if Bungie gave a real response as to why it's not in there or listened to customer feedback on their forums and patched it in.
- telengard, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9What's amazing to me is that it wasn't in Halo 2 and a *lot* of gamers and game sites said it was a deficiency. So the fact that it's not in H3 is pretty surprising. Oh, and it was promised as a feature.
- zeno60, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Kinda hard to not buy it after you bought it and realized a featured that was supposed to be there...is not actually there...duuuur
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9No ***** the people at Bungie don't give a *****... They got your money now, bitches!
- zeno60, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8If this guy works at Bungie, does that now mean there is an open spot at Bungie?
- thewebguy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13what a joke, i can't believe there would ever be a game as anticipated and new as halo 3 without a feature like this.
i don't understand why console gamers put up with stuff like this. can you imagine if half-life on pc didn't have a game browser like this? - drewbe121212, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15Yeah; no one is ever happy. You can create your own frigging custom maps this time around, not to mention all the new 'stuff' they added to it. Be happy and play. Eat some pizza, drink some beer, have some fun.
- rowlodge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7they locked the thread too, like saying "talk to the coporate hand"
- nape, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8in my case, and i would imagine a lot of other people's cases, i dont like having a super long friends list, if i wanna invite a friend to a game, i dont wanna take 5 minutes scrolling thru a list to find his name. so i only add people who are actually my friends. and i did try to add tons of friends in halo2 so i could find custom games, but that doesnt even work well, even with a fairly large friends list, i always ended up with maybe 1 or 2 online at a time if i was lucky and they were always walking around looking for glitches all day long. and furthermore, being constantly forced into levels where people just hide and snipe when thats not the way you feel like playing, sucks. and it eventually made halo 2 get old for me, and probably 3 will now too. anyone who says bungie didn't say this is wrong, i remember seeing it and in fact i was hugely excited about this and it was a large factor in me buying 3 despite being sick to death of 2.
and finally, people who are defending bungie on this are missing a key point, BUNGIE is the ones that got us wound up on it in the first place. the fact of the matter is, people might be complaining a little, but there wouldn't be such an uproar if bungie themselves didn't run around touting it. so i dont think we are being unreasonable by being angry at bungie over this. - mangasm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Custom games could be unranked, just like other games.
Duh... - hoowahman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I wonder why it can't be patched in. The guy makes it sound like a dead end? Is this backend system of game searching hardcoded or something? yeah right.
- asadavis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8If everyone could find contentment then what the hell would jackasses have to talk about?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Nope, definitely Doom... Helluva lot of fun, too, you should give it a shot sometime.
- 1337Einstein, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8If you don't appreciate the game anymore, give it to someone who can.
To make such a big deal over this, its amazing they can play any games without whining that they all have too many imperfections - imikedaman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I don't think you understand how patches work. Yes, maps are just data files that are designed to work with code in the shipping version, but the part you got wrong is that those aren't patches. An example of a patch would be the Halo 2 bugfix release that actually changed part of the game's code.
Of course, Halo 2 partially ran off the Xbox's internal hard drive, but the 360 doesn't have a storage system that is guaranteed to be there. Maybe that's why it *might* be impossible to patch? - ravage386, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10"Uproar..."
No. - krasherspk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Friends, play matchmaking and instead of acting like a jackass(not implying you personally do) be nice and have fun and make some friends. Then you can play any game you want with people you actually might enjoy playing with.
- mangasm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5bungie says they wont ever implement it.
dugg up for joke @ sp1 though - Ibox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yakity Sax
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