Frankie leaving Bungie, Bungie to stop making future Halo games

Frankie announced that he is leaving Bungie to "work more closely with Microsoft on the Halo franchise." He's saying that the reason he is leaving is to work more closely on future Halo games. This means that Bungie is moving away from developing Halo games. Bungie is moving on to make non Halo related games, while Microsoft will continue to breath like into the franchise. The legendary developer is moving on, and Microsoft is taking over.

At least some good news did come out of the update, 2 new maps are in the making for Halo 3 called "Purple Reign and Moonbase Alpha." We will eagerly be awaiting their release, and will probably be the last downloadable content for Halo 3. EVER! Savor the game, appreciate all that it is, for there will never be another game like it. A legendary ending to a mythical franchise.

Can you give us a reference?

also i have been waiting for those last two maps...

it will be interesting to see how microsoft messes up one of the most epic, and influencing series to ever exist. R.I.P. Halo you join the ranks of other dead but fun franchises such as Sonic, Tom Clancy games (all in general), and Quake to name a few.

but i am looking forward to Bungies next masterpiece *cough*MARATHON*cough*

Can you give us a reference?

FOSyay

Bungie.net.

Can you give us a reference?

also i have been waiting for those last two maps...

it will be interesting to see how microsoft messes up one of the most epic, and influencing series to ever exist. R.I.P. Halo you join the ranks of other dead but fun franchises such as Sonic, Tom Clancy games (all in general), and Quake to name a few.

but i am looking forward to Bungies next masterpiece *cough*MARATHON*cough*

FOSyay

please that doesnt necessarily mean that...at least they have frankie...and that doesnt mean that the last two maps are the last halo 3 will ever get...cmon they have frankie...

Who's Frankie?

Frankie announced that he is leaving Bungie to "work more closely with Microsoft on the Halo franchise." He's saying that the reason he is leaving is to work more closely on future Halo games. This means that Bungie is moving away from developing Halo games. Bungie is moving on to make non Halo related games, while Microsoft will continue to breath like into the franchise. The legendary developer is moving on, and Microsoft is taking over.

At least some good news did come out of the update, 2 new maps are in the making for Halo 3 called "Purple Reign and Moonbase Alpha." We will eagerly be awaiting their release, and will probably be the last downloadable content for Halo 3. EVER! Savor the game, appreciate all that it is, for there will never be another game like it. A legendary ending to a mythical franchise.

jrabbit99

Like many people you are taking things way out of context. First of all Bungie never claimed that Moon Base Alpha and Purple Reign are the last maps. Second, they never said that they will stop working with the Halo franchise. That's like saying that Valve doesn't care about the Half-Life franchise. Yes it is true that they will not be as involved in future Halo games as closely as they use to be, but they will still have a lot to say about something they orignally created; primarily the storyline considering the Halo Story Bible belongs to Bungie. It is true that Microsoft is assembling a team for future Halo games and it is true that Bungie is working on something that is totally unrelated to Halo (not marathon).

It's sad that Frankie left Bungie to work with Microsoft on Future Halo games. However, perhaps he can prevent Microsoft from tainting Halo into somethign really awful.

Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

Goku2639

This is why I don't have a sig.

Here's the refference

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13795

Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

Goku2639

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Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

1_Hit_Killer

True.

Bungie has been sucessful in other franchises like Marathon and Myth. It's to bad these games were Mac exlusive or else they would have had a greater popularity. Oni was a game that Bungie originally developed for the PlayStation 2 and it was a game designed by RockStar. Imagine that Bungie made a game for the PS2 and even developed a game for a company that made GTA IV. Also Myth belongs to Take Two but it was fully designed and develped by Bungie.

Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

Goku2639

2.4 million games in the last 24 hours with 804 thousand players in that same 24 hours............... thats pretty good if you ask me...........

good because halo is dead and gears of war is the new king in my opinonPacBoy23

[QUOTE="Goku2639"]

Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

1_Hit_Killer

I'm going to try to help this poor guy.He did not say 500,000.He said "500,00".I think his comma was in the wrong place and he meant 50,000.If this is true or not I do not know but I just wanted to point that out.

[QUOTE="1_Hit_Killer"][QUOTE="Goku2639"]

Legendary game??? WTF?

Appreciate what???

The game turned old and sour 2-3 weeks of its release.

The first week there were about 1.5-2 million people online.

Nowadays if you are lucky,you'll see 500,00 ppl online. The game was alright, but I wonder what Bungie will do now

Peter_Cheek

I'm going to try to help this poor guy.He did not say 500,000.He said "500,00".I think his comma was in the wrong place and he meant 50,000.If this is true or not I do not know but I just wanted to point that out.

You might be right that he was trying to say 50,000. But that totally false. I allways see between 100- 350,000. It's declined a bit since GTA4 came out.