No one plays FPS's the way they used to be says Bungie.

Oh dear, is that the way to convince people to buy the next Ecks-Bocks? Now I'm even more certain NOT TO.

EDIT: I propose a twitter rally, naturally, if there isn't one already. Judging by the comments at the original interview source, there probably is one.

EDIT2: Couldn't find Mr. Jones's own twitter, so twittered at Bungie's official one. Will report if I get a reply.

For fairness sake, this seems to be the case of "left hand doesn't know what the right is doing", as...

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/des...60-ps3-currently-720-ps4-pc-details-to-follow

Looks like someone's getting a whupping in the coming week, the only question is which one?

Well, probably that and a reflection of the lack of success they've had on the later halo ports to pc. Halo CE did wellish on PC but was right around when games like Call of Duty and Battlefield were starting to get console ports.

My understanding is Halo 2 didn't, and unfortunately that was in the age that Call of Duty and Battlefield had "evolved" past being primarily PC and games like Counter Strike and Doom no longer dominated the PC gaming landscape. Right now it's a dreadful place for much other than Strategy and Role Playing, in part because developers that focused shooters there have found better success on Xbox and Playstation.

Well that and Bungie started as a Mac company, then a PC company, then an Xbox company, and now a Multi-channel company. The whole purported goal here was to open up development options beyond a single console. While it is realistic that the era of PC shooters has passed that doesn't necessarily need to mean anything beyond it not being the priority.

That wasn't the reason why Halo fared so badly on PC. Not the main one, anyway. Halo CE came out when Halo 2 came out on the Box. Halo 2 came out on the box shortly before Halo 3 on the next Box. Halo CE was ported by Microsoft's own code monkeys which generally work on the principle of "out of sight, out of mind" (that said, they did do a decent job with MGS PC precisely for that reason, making it the best version of the game to have on any console short of the PS3 PSN version). Halo 2 was ported by I don't even know who. Halo 2 was MURDERED in sales by requiring Vista, being the flagship for (still horribly coded) GfWL, not actually using anything it needed Vista for, practically making the game scream "PIRATE ME" at the top of its lungs. And that's before we get into the shitty optimization, low-resolution textures and not being fully adapted to mouse-and-keys controls (it was hella hard to convince the game to stop displaying hotkey prompts in Xboxese, for example).

Every possible decision that could've boosted the piracy rate for it was done in the very very specific way that made it more piratable. And yet, somehow, it's the conservative nature of the PC market to blame. Hah.

There's a reason Halo Custom Edition is so popular while Halo 2's servers are in the process of being shut down. Why Halo Custom Edition now has graphics mods that make it comparable to Halo 4 while Halo 2 PC didn't get any texture mods at all. Because THAT one was made with the PC player in mind and fully adapted to our needs and wants.

Yeah, I didn't even want to get into the whole Games for Windows early days nonsense. . .