343 Industries announces Master Chief Collection on PC statement - Polidicks

[URL="http://kotaku.com/microsoft-explains-lack-of-halo-on-pc-1636527489"]http://kotaku.com/microsoft-explains-lack-of-halo-on-pc-1636527489[/URL] [QUOTE]We've definitely heard the questions about PC," said executive producer Dan Ayoub. "Right now we're a couple months out from the Xbox version's release, and that's our main focus right now. That's quite honestly where all our headspace is right now." Ayoub explained that while porting old games to new platforms and remastering them to varying degrees might not seem like the most labor intensive thing, the sheer scale of this project—four games, one of which is getting a complete graphical overhaul—would make it hard to churn out two versions at once. "From a technical standpoint, you look at the architecture of the Xbox One and there are some similarities to the architecture of a modern PC," he said. "That certainly makes that sort of cross-platform development easier. But beyond that the ease goes away. Master Chief Collection is massive. We have to coordinate four games, 100-plus maps, a lot of new cinematics, and Halo 2 Anniversary." And while it's not what a lot of PC players want to hear, this remaster is, in a lot of ways, about consoles. For them. Ayoub claimed that, given the amount of work the collection took, 343 had to make a choice. Xbox One won out. "We wanted to do a great job on console," Ayoub explained. "The anchor of Halo: Master Chief Collection is the ten-year anniversary of Halo 2 on console. So our approach was to focus primarily on console as a result of that." "That's one of the things I love about the PC community," said Ayoub. "You've got so many cool things going on [with fans]. And then you've got the breadth; PCs are everywhere all over the planet. Obviously as part of Microsoft PCs are part of our business. When you look at that market and community, there's almost limitless possibilities in terms of what we can do."[/QUOTE] They're not denying it

343n just had another heart attack.

Fuck off, you could have ported just Halo 3 and made thousands of people happy. No one was expecting you to port 4 games.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;46017105]343n just had another heart attack.[/QUOTE] he had a stroke this time

Fuckers are just trying to sell xbox's

[QUOTE=agentalexandre;46017123]Fuck off, you could have ported just Halo 3 and made thousands of people happy. No one was expecting you to port 4 games.[/QUOTE] They could have made thousands of people happy and instead they intend to make even more people happy.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;46017133]Fuckers are just trying to sell xbox's[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/MeySwgw.png[/img] They're owned by Microsoft. No shit they're trying to sell Xboxes.

yeah no this time the title is just shit.

[QUOTE=Starlight 456;46017153][img]http://i.imgur.com/MeySwgw.png[/img] They're owned by Microsoft. No shit they're trying to sell Xboxes.[/QUOTE] I understand this I'm just angry about it is all. Microsoft makes money off of standards, not products, regardless of whether or not their standard is good or accessible.

Fuck you guys they gave us a mouse what more could you want!! [editline]19th September 2014[/editline] 343 playing it bogart.

[quote][b]343 had to make a choice.[/b] Xbox One won out.[/quote] Why don't i believe that?

Not cool man. I mean, I didn't expect it to be true but still not cool :v:

Fuck your collection I just want 3 since its the last good halo game

jesus fucking christ i had a heart attack reading that, but then i noticed the key word "statement" :(

[QUOTE=endorphinsam;46017299]jesus fucking christ i had a heart attack reading that, but then i noticed the key word "statement" :([/QUOTE] It was too good to be true, but still, hope is the last thing we can lose at this point.

My guess is they'll try and make it either Windows 8/8.1/9 exclusive.

[QUOTE=Adarrek;46017224]Why don't i believe that?[/QUOTE] Microsoft: "You have a choice. Show off XB1's power with a popular franchise or you can pay your own way into getting it onto PC"

Probably use it as a bandwagon to get Windows 9 and get the extra cool new DirectX 12 features or you can just stick with Windows 7/8 and play the game without those features

[QUOTE=Megadave;46017321]My guess is they'll try and make it either Windows 8/8.1/9 exclusive.[/QUOTE] Pointless. Unless they make it dx12, people will find a way to make it work on win7 just like Halo 2 vista works on XP.

Do you ever wonder what it'd be like if Gaben had started steam while still working at Microsoft, and instead of ever making the Xbox Microsoft used their sway and power to get games exclusive to PC for once? [sp]I know Steam being a microsoft product would have its own share of problems, don't really need to point that out[/sp]

If Halo 3 doesn't cut it Can we at least get Reach? I love Halo 3, but I have to say Reach has the best modding community out of all Halo games

[QUOTE=Crash155;46017392]If Halo 3 doesn't cut it Can we at least get Reach? I love Halo 3, but I have to say Reach has the best modding community out of all Halo games[/QUOTE]But Reach is worse than 4

[QUOTE=Papytendo;46017516]But Reach is worse than 4[/QUOTE] ...what?

It would be cool if they would just say they're never going to do it, since at least then people would be able to stop holding onto the slimmest hope for it and move on. The bullshit about loving PCs and PCs are great and "we'd love to do this on PC (maybe three decades from now)" should just stop.

[QUOTE=Papytendo;46017516]But Reach is worse than 4[/QUOTE] Reach was like Halo 3, except they figured out how to make the powerup items work.

It'd be awesome if they do it. They're not saying that they're not doing it, just that they're not doing it right at this moment.

At least give us Steam versions of 1 and 2 and a port of 3.

[QUOTE=Papytendo;46017516]But Reach is worse than 4[/QUOTE] How can people actually think this

[QUOTE=Dirf;46017988]How can people actually think this[/QUOTE] Neither were traditional Halo multi and Reach's was the worse of the two.

[QUOTE=Adarrek;46017224]Why don't i believe that?[/QUOTE] Obviously they had a moral imperative to develope for the massively underserved PC market I couldn't type that with a straight face