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Microsoft initiaties action to protect Halo IP in the wake of ElDewrito (Halo Online Mod)
- Thread starter smart patrol
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Yes.
343i art design and campaigns do the Halo franchise no favors whatsoever.
I would pay $80-100 for a good PC port of Halo 1-3 +/- Reach with full online MP and co op in a heartbeat.
Shame that 343/Microsoft has demonstrated their complete inability to port those games re:MCC
Edit: was that 343i? I actually don't remember when the transition happened.
I will have to say this no matter how this version of Halo 3 was assembled: It seems to work better than the MCC and more people are playing it, too. Having a ton of fun with it.
A bit of an offtopic question: Which Halo-related youtube channels are highquality and recommended? I just bought an XBone again after the MCC and Halo 5 burned me out in 2015 and want to get up to speed again.
A bit of an offtopic question: Which Halo-related youtube channels are highquality and recommended? I just bought an XBone again after the MCC and Halo 5 burned me out in 2015 and want to get up to speed again.
It's hard to find the info since the old website looks like it's gone but I do recall them originally being on CryEngine 3 and the focus was to create a Tactical Campaign during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV and was going to try and depict the gameplay as accurate as possible to the books.
Seems when they went to Unreal Engine 4 they scrapped that and decided to just make a more traditional Halo MP experience instead.
People acting surprised and lashing out at MS is puzzling.
These projects follow a path that should be familiar.
They get worked on. Either develop momentum or die off. If it does take off, it gets shut down by the IP holder.
I hope that both parties can do something official.
These projects follow a path that should be familiar.
They get worked on. Either develop momentum or die off. If it does take off, it gets shut down by the IP holder.
I hope that both parties can do something official.
Actually it wasn't that as I previously thought. I was on the discord for Installation 01 and I brought up Contingency and was told by an artist on it that it was actually Venerance that was the single-player game set during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV. Seems it was basically shut down due to having not only too few of them working on it but that both of them got work from 343i.
They could just sell Halo Online with english textfiles for a few bucks, even though the original russian game was horrible, and let people enjoy ElDewrito... I would pay $20 for this crap just to get ElDewrito continued
I will continue to enjoy the classic Halo experience with the mod in 60fps, 90°FOV, custom viewmodels, etc. Who knows how long it will takes until we finally see any results of the MCC fixes they are promising...
I will continue to enjoy the classic Halo experience with the mod in 60fps, 90°FOV, custom viewmodels, etc. Who knows how long it will takes until we finally see any results of the MCC fixes they are promising...
Been playing it on and off now. Aside from slightly janky mouse controls it is sooooooooooo fucking good that its unreal.
Its the Halo 3 you always wanted if you were on the PC. All DLC, 1080p 60 FPS, server browser, social and ranked MM, decent controller support, improved Forge etc etc.
I dont know how this notice will work. The game is already out in the wild so the only thing they can do is stifle future changes (which isnt a big deal, the game is pretty good already) but they might be able to kill off official servers and such?
I get why MS did it. It just sucks ass that they did. This was the definitive Halo 3 MP experience. I would have actually paid 10-20$ for this happily.
Its the Halo 3 you always wanted if you were on the PC. All DLC, 1080p 60 FPS, server browser, social and ranked MM, decent controller support, improved Forge etc etc.
I dont know how this notice will work. The game is already out in the wild so the only thing they can do is stifle future changes (which isnt a big deal, the game is pretty good already) but they might be able to kill off official servers and such?
I get why MS did it. It just sucks ass that they did. This was the definitive Halo 3 MP experience. I would have actually paid 10-20$ for this happily.
Not that it matters, but not all of the base maps are present, let alone dlc. And there is no match making.
If you really think its morally reprehensible to torrent a mod for 10 year old game on a console thats no longer in production, as if it would have ANY financial repercussions on Microsoft, well then i suppose our moral compasses dont line up exactly
Halo 3 is on BC, still available to purchase via the Xbox Store AND is on the MCC too
The map variety is pretty rough, yeah. Once you are on a rotational server, it pretty much is matchmaking, though. You can stay on 1 server the whole day, if you want.
Halo 3 is available to purchase via 360 BC, the Xbox One MCC release and, in the near future, via the effectively announced via press release PC port of MCC.
Unfortunately this is all the result of copyright law. I don't think MS really cares but as was posted in the OP if they don't take action they can actually lose the protections they have on the IP.
Not sure specifically what you mean by work better, but Halo 3 MCC is much more faithful to the original than ElDewrito.
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360 being in production or not means nothing when the game is BC
So yeah your entire point falls flat
Also as expected it seems like they will scramble something together and re-release it officialy. wouldnt get my hopes up for PC MCC
I was under the impression that 's not the case, that isn't how copyright works, is it? The "Protect it or you loose it" applies to trademarks, but i don't recall anything about that being something with copyright as well.
My point falls flat if and when you can show that Eldewrito caused a massive drop off in sales of Halo 3
It can still potentially effect sales, that's the whole point. Doesn't matter if it's a drop in the bucket or not.
you said ANY financial repercussion. now its MASSIVE repercussion? don't change goalposts
i dont have sales numbers, neither do you, since they're not provided anymore. microsoft, however, does - so unless you want to call them liars, theres your answer.
This needs to be required reading for this thread:
http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/legal/Video_Games_law_Copyright_Trademark_Intellectual_Property
http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/legal/Video_Games_law_Copyright_Trademark_Intellectual_Property
The fuck? "Prove this statement that none of us can because we're not Microsoft, or I'm right." That kind of ultimatum is backwards-ass logic. Please stop.
Sad part is they never hit 1.0, whatever that was planned to be.
Why did Microsoft DMCA streamers, if they just want to protect their code.
How does one get the code from a stream?
How does one get the code from a stream?
Let ninja stream and see how fast 343 changes their tune.
oh ninja only plays not-dead games.
I mean it's already pretty clear by his messaging that Microsoft is the one blocking the streams so I'm not sure what 'tune' 343 needs to change here?
The same reason Call of Duty Online is Chinese exclusive?
Take advantage of a market that plays mostly F2P PC games and try to expand your brand. it was in beta phase and didn't go well, so it got canned.
So why is he not playing Halo 5 then? Because it has a bigger population than Eldewrito.
Everyone is on the F2P train now a days, and Halo as a brand is the strongest in the US so I just dont understand
You don't understand trying to expand markets back in 2015 when the Xbox was struggling? Like there's an entire world that isn't just the US.
Can't part of the PC issues blame be laid at the feet of the All Might Gabe since he was so active in his hate of MS and working against them years ago. Maybe Phil can mend the fences here and one day have the win10 store stuff merge with Steam, but this would require Windows 10 and I know plenty of MasterRace people still on Win7 simply to spite MS.
That doesn't explain how bad the platform is, how many problems do their games tend to have on PC (I see you there, Forza Horizon 3) or how bad UWP is. They need to do a lot of work to truly show how much they care about the PC market.
That still doesn't fix the main problem. The store sucks and UWP sucks as well. And Halo 5: Forge had a lot of problems on PC as well.