[360] Help Bungie help Haiti~

I already got my points card, gonna buy all the map packs AGAIN, it's going to be so fucking ballin'.

Protip: Bungie doesn't own Halo anymore; even in the highly unlikely scenario this actually inspires anyone to buy map packs or the game (hahaha, really who the fuck would be stupid enough to think that), Bungie doesn't see any of that money. And there's been no press release or any pimpage of this at all from Microsoft, and they would be the people actually benefiting from all these phat copies of Halo 3 and ODST that people are going to start buying now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

No matter how you spin it, even with the tax thing Bungie (who again is an independent studio now, and not sitting on fat moneybags from MS anymore) is still donating money out of their own pocket at the end of the day, and creating awareness that hopefully encourages people to donate. For example, I donated through work (and my employer put out a press release, what a bunch of DICKS am I rite) but I also bought one of the Bungie shirts, and that's actual additional money I would not have donated otherwise. If you're thinking that people were going to donate money, but are just going to see this and decide to play Halo instead of donating directly, I think that's crazy. Again, this has ONLY been mentioned on one Bungie website post, so except for people spreading the word, anyone they would be "advertising" to already has all of the products in question.

I don't disagree with the general cynicism regarding companies and donations (again, my employer put out a Press Release -_-), but in this particular case I have no idea where all the sand in your vagina is coming from.

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Originally Posted by Cadillacs

WHAT.

Anyway, I'm probably as cynical or even moreso then you Shin, at least about certain things (I work in the healthcare industry for fucks sake), but in this particular case I'm not quite sure what the problem is. The people who are seeing this are the people who are going to buy Reach anyway, and anyone who wasn't won't remember this 8 months from now anyway. The emphasis seems to be on the shirt and store profits going to charity, so I don't know if the playing thing was to help support that or get people in the mood to buy that stuff maybe? In this particular case I just don't see any overt way in which Bungie "profits" from this situation, and again I personally know dudes over there and I don't get that impression from them either. I think the fact that they have to specify that anything on the Bungie store they don't directly own (i.e. MS products) don't have their profits donated speaks volumes as well.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'll try to get on in a bit. I have no clue what was up with my connection last night; almost every game we played I was lagging like shit and the only person red-barring. Tried resetting the router and anything, couldn't find any problems, and I got off and played two games of MW2 with full green bars and lag in sight. I've got open NAT and I've never had this problem with Halo before, so I don't know what the fuck.

It was still worth it, since at some point we determined that Tails is the black Prince of Thieves, and he only steals car stereos from rich white people.

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Man, you ARE fucking high aren't you?

I was speaking idiomatically.