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: What doesn't add up is Bungie's hatred of Helljumpers. Come on, they
: incorporated ODSTs into the very next game and then wrote a game about
: them later. That doesn't sound like the writing team hated the concept. It
: sounds like whoever Trautmann was wrangling with was a complete asshole.
: Cross-reference Halo Wars. On the surface it was all buddy-buddy "Yeah,
: Ensemble Studios are a bunch of cool guys so we're just letting them do
: whatever", but an ES employee later confirmed that some (Not all)
: within Bungie thought that Halo Wars was a naked cash grab that cheapened
: the franchise.
: What really gets to me are the comics. The Halo Graphic Novel was Bungie's
: fifth comic tie-in, yeah? All the previous comics were done back when they
: were an independent studio publishing games for the Mac. In other words,
: they didn't have a publisher breathing down their neck for tie-in content,
: but it happened anyway. I honestly can't believe that they'd be that
: ignorant of the industry. "We're Microsoft, we can get whoever we
: want" sounds like the kind of guy who utterly wrecked the Halo movie
: project.
: Long story short: There's obviously some assholes working for Bungie, but I'm
: not going to take Trautmann's word as gospel.
I believe it was "the raping of our franchise" in regards to Halowars.