Bungie signs exclusive 10-year Activision deal on “next big action game universe” [Update]

@pat If they had a barge pole, would they touch the Wii with it?

oh, and 3D tech?

Have they tried using PS3 dev kits at all?

Did i just read that? Teaming up with Activision? Man..Bungie has just ruined EVERYTHING! After fucking up IW they are gonna screw with Bungie now…

Question:
The deal has been in the making for 9 months, but have recent events surrounding Infinity Ward made Bungie a little nervouse? Becuase to the outside world it looks like only Blizzard is allowed to be independand, everybody else needs to fall in line or risk closure.

I can’t understand how people think this is a bad thing. Bungie’s strong enough to choose who they want to sign with. Acti hasn’t stepped in here and said “we’re buying you, make our next 15 CoD games”, they’ve signed into a partnership to publish content, much like Valve/EA, Respawn/EA, Naughty Dog/Sony

Pat – can you ask them whether they’ll be staying true to their roots and do a Mac version for their new game?

@pat I dare you to ask them nothing about Reach

or, start the interview with “Is there anything you can tell us that we don’t already know about Reach?”

serious question: is story/narrative going to play a major part in your next IP?

That’s how Infinity Ward started out: a publishing deal on Call of Duty. Then later on buying more and more into studio untill Activission owned it completly and then destroyed it.

Obivously there’s more to it then that, and the people making these deals know way more then we ever will, but it looks weird.

One thing everyone forgetting is that IW was a start up with Activision, they left EA to join Acti and created IW. The main problem between Acti and IW is/was Treyarch and Acti so happy to let others develop IW’s COD franchise. In this case we have Bungie a huge developer having their games published by Acti, thats all, they will go into this knowing how to approach it. They won’t take others creating their franchise if they don’t want them to i’m fairly certain.

@Pat:

I’ll just echo DJ’s question as well:

Didn’t Microsoft have first refusal on their new IP/Game?

It would be nice if we got any clarification on that, although I doubt it’s accurate, because it nullifies this Acti/Bungie deal…

@ Pat: I’ve got a question!

Who do you think would win in a fight between Master Chief, Marcus Fenix and Captain Price, and why?

@62 – Genius. I’m asking that.

@61 – Yep, I’ll ask.

Pat – can you ask them if Bungie’s artists have ever created hentai machinima of Master Chief doing Cortana and Samus Aran at the same time? Can they also provide FTP details for where we can download it from?

Bungie will make a good game and Activision will turns it to shit and in 2020 Bungie sues Activision to get paid.

I have a question.

Their last comment that they gave a week or so ago; regading the fact that they might develop another Halo game in ‘ten years or so’, was ironically timed no?

Duplicated post. Please delete.

@66
And how would Acti affect their game in anyway? What are they going to do; print the discs badly? *rolls eyes*

Seriously speaking though, the biggest question I have for them is what challenges do they envision having to develop for multiple platforms in comparison to the single-console development that they have been accustomed to?

Going on from my previous question, given the fact that they are in engaged in multiplatform development, will they (like CryTek) pursue the aggressive development of a cross-platform engine to optimise results across all formats?

70 and 71 represent the real question that I wanted you guys to ask, not the pisstake that was 67

Your question in comment 67 seems worth asking to me.

Bungie is still independant right?
Just Acti will be publishing this new ip?

Sorta like Epic Games with MS holding the publishing side up.

Aaaaaaaaaand… There it is.

Fair enough if people still want to bang their little drums about Activision somehow being childmolesting slavetraders, but they definitely know how to turn a profit.

Even when they take a hit and lose the studio behind one of the best console shooters around, they just get right back up and grab another.

Somehow I doubt that either Bungie or the Dead Space devs are a bunch of lobotomized masochists that just want Activision to hurt them. Only on the internet or in a sewing circle would that kind of logic be valid. Activision most likely provides just fine for it’s partners as long as those partners don’t try to fuck them over.

Or, another possibility, the ugly law suites that followed after heavy handed intervention on the part of Activission has caused them to re-evaluate how they deal with thier studios, making a deal like this a posibility for Bungie.

bungie should just look at whats happening to infinityward to see how a “partnership” with activision will turn out

Interview’s in 25 mins.

@ Pat

If you can ask when can we expect details on thier new project and its E3 a legitmate possiblity?

Also have they ever heard of the phrase doing a deal with the devil because Bobby Kotick come on

Looks like Activision has found their new IW. Madness.

Ask them: Since their next IP will have to be a conceptual/fictional departure, do they think they could ever top the mainstream appeal, success and identity they spawned and nurtured with Halo.

Smply put… How or can you top Halo?

You’re to late PUD, to late!

Would be nice if the video would load

@76 Granted, withholding bonuses is going nuclear, but nothing they’ve done outside of that has been less than what’s expected when you find out your proteges are shopping around.

Either way, if their practices had been deemed unacceptable by the industry itself in any way, Bungie would hardly be signing anything. Not that they’re now an inhouse studio like Infinity Ward, but they just wouldn’t dream of it.

Fact is, gamers have become obsessed with the whole faustian myth of Activision and Bobby Kotick especially, even though it’s just a well run business, that has so far proven itself to be more than competent in its decisions.

Halo Party mini game collection?