Excuse my ignorance, but is it true that 343i only have two or so Bungie members left?
343 was never comprised of mostly Bungie members. It was only ever a handful, but it became a widely-repeated myth throughout the community that most of the company was made up of the team who worked on Halo 1-3. I even remember an interview Frankie did while promoting Halo 4 where the interviewer stated as fact that there were a lot of former Bungie people at 343, and Frankie had to correct him and say it wasn’t true.
By my count, the only people at 343 who were full-time Bungie employees on any of Bungie’s Halo games are Frank O’Connor, Greg Snook and Glenn Israel. There used to be a few more, like Nathan Walpole, Chad Armstrong and Vic DeLeon, but they’ve all left. There’s also a handful of people who were contractors on one or more of Bungie’s Halo games who are now full-time 343 employees, like Donnie Taylor, Will Christiansen and Dan Phillips. To quote a different Frankie interview, “343 is almost entirely non-Bungie people”
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NO only satanists work there
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> NO only satanists work there
Hush now. Here have a seat and play CoD. There you go, everything will be ok. Ssshhhh.
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> 343 was never comprised of mostly Bungie members. It was only ever a handful, but it became a widely-repeated myth throughout the community that most of the company was made up of the team who worked on Halo 1-3. I even remember an interview Frankie did while promoting Halo 4 where the interviewer stated as fact that there were a lot of former Bungie people at 343, and Frankie had to correct him and say it wasn’t true.
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> By my count, the only people at 343 who were full-time Bungie employees on any of Bungie’s Halo games are Frank O’Connor, Greg Snook and Glenn Israel. There used to be a few more, like Nathan Walpole, Chad Armstrong and Vic DeLeon, but they’ve all left. There’s also a handful of people who were contractors on one or more of Bungie’s Halo games who are now full-time 343 employees, like Donnie Taylor, Will Christiansen and Dan Phillips. To quote a different Frankie interview, “343 is almost entirely non-Bungie people”
It’s such a widely perpetuated myth, it’s crazy. I don’t even know how it got started.
I’m reasonably sure there is a couple of people from Microsoft Game Studios that were support for Bungie on Halo 3 and Reach that are now at 343i too. I believe Josh Holmes is one of them.
The real question is, how many of the Bungie team that worked on Halo are even still at Bungie? Obviously the folks that BamSaidTheLady listed left Bungie, but guys like Joseph Staten, Martin O’Donnell and Marcus Lehto are also no longer with the company.