Halogen dies - Conspiracy?

[Mirai Gen]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153524&did=1

This is the goddamn second time that an independent mod team works on a project for a long time, and then the company steps down from the high-horse long enough to squish them and return to king-of-the-hill status.

I was looking forward to Halogen, too.

The 1up article is an interesting read reguardless. Halo RTS? As it was supposed to be?

Sounds interesting.

[Dwarfburg citizen]

Its things like these that make me hope that the Starcraft 3d mod does not get shut down. What really ticks me off is that M$ let that side scrolling Halo game get released and yet we cant get our Halo RTS goodness!!!:stressed:

[bananarama]

According to this (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/13/ms-shuts-down-halogen-mod-why-now/), it is because Bungie seems to want to make a RTS game (maybe a Halo-fied RTS?)

[Living Bobbeh]

Why can't mod teams do something original? They have the freedom to do whatever they want as they aren't aiming to get a publisher to distribute them, but yet they still want to make Doom: Source or, in this case, a Halo RTS. Invent your own IP and give us something new to play, instead of a cut down version of something else.

[Chipper173]

According to this (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/13/ms-shuts-down-halogen-mod-why-now/), it is because Bungie seems to want to make a RTS game (maybe a Halo-fied RTS?)
Halo was originally going to be an RTS. It became a FPS early in development.

What really ticks me off is that M$ let that side scrolling Halo game get released and yet we cant get our Halo RTS goodness!!!
Respect minus a million.

[Jagos]

Either that or it'd make more sense to just absorb them into the team...

Worked for Unreal and Doom modders. Plus HL modders.

[BitVyper]

I'm still mad about Chrono Trigger Ressurection. DAMN YOU, SQUARE! KHAAAAN! KHAAAAAAAAN!

Seriously though: Aren't cease and desists mostly just scare/bullying tactics that companies use when they haven't got anything else?

[ZERO.]

Why can't mod teams do something original? They have the freedom to do whatever they want as they aren't aiming to get a publisher to distribute them, but yet they still want to make Doom: Source or, in this case, a Halo RTS. Invent your own IP and give us something new to play, instead of a cut down version of something else.

I dont think it's a matter of originalty, I think it is much more simple to just take some game character models and part of a story and build on that, rather than to just make a game from scratch.

It't not that there not original, it's more of a lazy thing going on.

[Jagos]

I'm still mad about Chrono Trigger Ressurection. DAMN YOU, SQUARE! KHAAAAN! KHAAAAAAAAN!

Seriously though: Aren't cease and desists mostly just scare/bullying tactics that companies use when they haven't got anything else?

Actually yes...

Who wants to go through lengthy litigation when your income is probably $12 bucks an hour versus Microsoft?

[Chipper173]

Ah, so that's why. (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6158816.html)

[Mirai Gen]

Told you!