Game Informer confirms the MS and Bungie SPLIT..... OH BOY

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

what happened M$, i thought you are rich and can buy everything in the world :lol:

Bungie cant leave MS, Its is owned completly buy it.htekemerald

No but Microsoft can sell the shares back to to Bungie. How do you think Rare left Nintendo. Nintendo sold all interest back to Rare and then Rare sold themselves to Microsoft.

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

jedigemini

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

MS still retains first right to Bungie games and Bungie gets to use MS tech. Not much is different except that Bungie can make games besides Halo (Thank god, since I wanted Halo to end with a trilogy!).

EDIT: If this is true. I just realized you are being misleading in your topic. It is still very much in the rumor range.

[QUOTE="jedigemini"]

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

TBoogy

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

"From a source close to Bungie, Game Informer has learned this rumor has some merit."

Yes, that rumor with a new source... unless your saying Game Informer doest care about it's rep.

[QUOTE="TBoogy"][QUOTE="jedigemini"]

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

GundamGuy0

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

"From a source close to Bungie, Game Informer has learned this rumor has some merit."

Yes, that rumor with a new source... unless your saying Game Informer doest care about it's rep.

That still doesn't make it a confirmation, also a confirmation would have a headline without a question mark in it.

[QUOTE="TBoogy"][QUOTE="jedigemini"]

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

GundamGuy0

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

"From a source close to Bungie, Game Informer has learned this rumor has some merit."

Yes, that rumor with a new source... unless your saying Game Informer doest care about it's rep.

The key parts are the words rumor and some. It might be partly true, a half truth, completely true, etc, but it is still a rumor, and they only say it has some merit.

MS still retains first right to Bungie games and Bungie gets to use MS tech. Not much is different except that Bungie can make games besides Halo (Thank god, since I wanted Halo to end with a trilogy!).

EDIT: If this is true. I just realized you are being misleading in your topic. It is still very much in the rumor range.

SpruceCaboose

First right to Bungie games, or the First right to Bungie games on the Xbox brand... I mean Bungie could get other publishers but I doubt Microsoft would publish a game for the DS or Wii or PS3.

[QUOTE="GundamGuy0"][QUOTE="TBoogy"][QUOTE="jedigemini"]

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

SpruceCaboose

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

"From a source close to Bungie, Game Informer has learned this rumor has some merit."

Yes, that rumor with a new source... unless your saying Game Informer doest care about it's rep.

The key parts are the words rumor and some. It might be partly true, a half truth, completely true, etc, but it is still a rumor, and they only say it has some merit.

Which conversly means it's at least partly true...

Well in theory if Bungie, which I believe is a publicly traded company, gains the majority of the shares they can basically buy back ownership from Bungie.

Of course MS will still retain the rights to all future Halo games and get first dibs on publishing any Bungie made game.

Can't blame the team though. To Halo fans they can't get enough of the game, but to the devs, who miss out on family and friends because they are constantly locked down for 12 hr shifts thinking about a big green soldier with even bigger freakin guns, you can understand why Bungie may want to do something else.

Not to mention the chance to quiet the critics that claim Bungie is a one trick pony dev.

what happened M$, i thought you are rich and can buy everything in the world :lol:

Game13a13y

if the shareholders bought back the company that means MS accepted the bid :|

[QUOTE="SpruceCaboose"][QUOTE="GundamGuy0"][QUOTE="TBoogy"][QUOTE="jedigemini"]

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

GundamGuy0

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

"From a source close to Bungie, Game Informer has learned this rumor has some merit."

Yes, that rumor with a new source... unless your saying Game Informer doest care about it's rep.

The key parts are the words rumor and some. It might be partly true, a half truth, completely true, etc, but it is still a rumor, and they only say it has some merit.

Which conversly means it's at least partly true...

Being partly true is far from a confirmation. Key word. You call something a confirmation, it better be a confirmation.

what happened M$, i thought you are rich and can buy everything in the world :lol:

Game13a13y

If this is true MS will be publishing all of Bungies games. How is this any different?TOAO_Cyrus1

[QUOTE="Game13a13y"]

what happened M$, i thought you are rich and can buy everything in the world :lol:

supermechakirby

if the shareholders bought back the company that means MS accepted the bid :|

Which leads me to believe Bungie will still be making 360 exclusives and MS couldn't refuse a nice chunk of change. Since MS has first dibs on all future Bungie games you know they are not gonna let them be on any other console. If all this is true that is.

Hmmm so Microsoft sold their interest in Bungie back to them? Then if that's true Bungie no longer works for Microsoft.

Still, this doesn't change things much. Microsoft still retains rights to Halo and has the right to publish all of Bungie's future games, so the only thing this really changes is a change in ownership.

[QUOTE="TOAO_Cyrus1"]If this is true MS will be publishing all of Bungies games. How is this any different?SpruceCaboose

Why wouldnt MS let them do that anyway? Let your best devs make a new hit franchise while you have two other Halo games in development.

Bungie cant leave MS, Its is owned completly buy it.htekemerald

Hello - is there anyone in here with a brain? MS OWNS Bungie. There are no Bungie shares, only MS shares. Bungie is not a publically traded company - it is part of Microsoft, which is a publically traded company. Only Microsoft can decide what happens to them. You people are so gullible...EscobarPR_basic

Hello - is there anyone in here with a brain? MS OWNS Bungie. There are no Bungie shares, only MS shares. Bungie is not a publically traded company - it is part of Microsoft, which is a publically traded company. Only Microsoft can decide what happens to them. You people are so gullible...EscobarPR_basic

Yes, since Microsoft owns Bungie, they have the power and capacity to do whatever they want with it - including selling it to other owners if they wanted to. Who says they wouldn't do that? All they really care about is the the intellectual property rights which would be retained. It's not like Halo is going to Playstation.

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]Bungie cant leave MS, Its is owned completly buy it.Squall_Griver

Its just more rumors from an unnamed source. Nothing new. The fact that they reported that Bungie has shareholders proves there is something fishy.

[QUOTE="TBoogy"][QUOTE="jedigemini"]

Ms without Bungie is like Oreo without the white stuff...

"For an unstated, but significant amount of money, Bungie shareholders bought the studio name back from Microsoft. Our source also revealed that even though Microsoft will retain the rights to Halo, Microsoft also has "the right of first refusal on future games." This means that Microsoft has the first shot at publishing Bungie's future titles. How this will come into play if Bungie decides they want future game X to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Wii alongside an Xbox 360 release will make things quite interesting."

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200710/N07.1002.1438.22348.htm

GundamGuy0

This is not confirmation. This is them reporting on the same rumor that everyone else is.

"From a source close to Bungie, Game Informer has learned this rumor has some merit."

Yes, that rumor with a new source... unless your saying Game Informer doest care about it's rep.

Selective reading FTL

[QUOTE="EscobarPR_basic"]Hello - is there anyone in here with a brain? MS OWNS Bungie. There are no Bungie shares, only MS shares. Bungie is not a publically traded company - it is part of Microsoft, which is a publically traded company. Only Microsoft can decide what happens to them. You people are so gullible...Squall_Griver

Accept Bizzare was never ever owned in whole or in part by MS. They were an independent studio with MS as their publisher. Just like Valve and EA or Epic and Midway.

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]Bungie cant leave MS, Its is owned completly buy it.gmastersexay

No but Microsoft can sell the shares back to to Bungie. How do you think Rare left Nintendo. Nintendo sold all interest back to Rare and then Rare sold themselves to Microsoft.

This rumor is stupid. Bungie's name is worth just as much as the people who work there. MS would let everyone at Bungie quit before selling the company. Being able to slap the words "from the creators of Halo" is worth millions on its own.In a recent interview Bungie (not sure who at bungie) spoke abouthow they wereworking out a way toturn out multiple games at once instead of their standard1 game every 3 years, they also mentioned how they "still loveHalo".Also the idea of "right of first refusal" is just as stupid, because it would still mean MS owns the rights to Bungie's games. Finally, the sheer amount of money involved in buying Bungie from MS would be ludicrous, probably well over 1 billion dollars.

[QUOTE="Squall_Griver"][QUOTE="EscobarPR_basic"]Hello - is there anyone in here with a brain? MS OWNS Bungie. There are no Bungie shares, only MS shares. Bungie is not a publically traded company - it is part of Microsoft, which is a publically traded company. Only Microsoft can decide what happens to them. You people are so gullible...TOAO_Cyrus1

Accept Bizzare was never ever owned in whole or in part by MS. They were an independent studio with MS as their publisher. Just like Valve and EA or Epic and Midway.

heres something to further fuel the fire... http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/digitaljoystick/archives/122799.aspmarc2000

Thats the blog that started this junk.

Well in theory if Bungie, which I believe is a publicly traded company, gains the majority of the shares they can basically buy back ownership from Bungie.

Of course MS will still retain the rights to all future Halo games and get first dibs on publishing any Bungie made game.

Can't blame the team though. To Halo fans they can't get enough of the game, but to the devs, who miss out on family and friends because they are constantly locked down for 12 hr shifts thinking about a big green soldier with even bigger freakin guns, you can understand why Bungie may want to do something else.

Not to mention the chance to quiet the critics that claim Bungie is a one trick pony dev.

mentzer

anyone who calls Bungie a "one trick pony" hasn't played the Myth games.

Bungie already had a name for itself before Halo.

what happened M$, i thought you are rich and can buy everything in the world :lol:

Game13a13y

Considering that they still have the rights to Halo (if this rumor is actually true), they still have the part of Bungie they really want. And Bill Gates could personally purchase Bungie with his daily pocket change if he wanted to, so I doubt this was an issue of MS not having the money.

I don't know, I'm starting to think that this rumor is true.

MS would get what they really want out of the deal - the cash flow of selling all their shares in Bungie to whomever, plus the rights to the Halo franchise, as well as publishing rights to any games Bungie puts out in the future. Bungie, meanwhile, would have the benefit of more creative freedom and would probably make more money as an indepedent developer rather than one that works directly for another big company. Who knows. But I'm starting to think that this is indeed true.

Guess we'll find out for certain soon, eh.

Which conversly means it's at least partly true...

GundamGuy0

Incorrect. It means it's more likely to be true than your average rumor... otherwise it wouldn't be a rumor at all.