Are Martin O’Donnell and Joe Staten back?

Who else thinks this is suspect?

would be very cool to have both back

No. Highwire Games and Microsoft Studios are both in Washington state, not far from each other. Marty, Jen, and Joe have history. Can’t 3 old friends just plan to get coffee and chat without some major conspiracy behind it?

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> No. Highwire Games and Microsoft Studios are both in Washington state, not far from each other. Marty, Jen, and Joe have history. Can’t 3 old friends just plan to get coffee and chat without some major conspiracy behind it?

We are in the business of moderating forums, not ruining dreams. Let us see the Titans of Halo and have hope. :frowning:

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> > No. Highwire Games and Microsoft Studios are both in Washington state, not far from each other. Marty, Jen, and Joe have history. Can’t 3 old friends just plan to get coffee and chat without some major conspiracy behind it?
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> We are in the business of moderating forums, not ruining dreams. Let us see the Titans of Halo and have hope. :frowning:

For some of us, moderation is just a hobby, not our true calling.

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> > No. Highwire Games and Microsoft Studios are both in Washington state, not far from each other. Marty, Jen, and Joe have history. Can’t 3 old friends just plan to get coffee and chat without some major conspiracy behind it?
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> We are in the business of moderating forums, not ruining dreams. Let us see the Titans of Halo and have hope. :frowning:

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

I doubt it. Marty works at Highwire games and Joe Staten works at Microsoft Studios but has nothing to do with Halo or 343i.

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> No. Highwire Games and Microsoft Studios are both in Washington state, not far from each other. Marty, Jen, and Joe have history. Can’t 3 old friends just plan to get coffee and chat without some major conspiracy behind it?

99% sure that the conspiracy theory of Unggoy Farmer being developed was confirmed in HTT and that it’s been secretly paying Sony to send chocolates to hire both Marty and Joe to give each other huggles so they can give Unggoy Farmer :man_farmer: the best story and music a FarmVille game has ever experienced.

Highwire games has been sponsored by Tsavo Highway for years now.

okay I’m done being ridiculous…

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> I doubt it. Marty works at Highwire games and Joe Staten works at Microsoft Studios but has nothing to do with Halo or 343i.

He may own his company now but it is possible that his starter company would need to make some music for others to help them fund their new game since the funds would have to come from somewhere. A lot of companies do this all the time, 343i are known for outsourcing like when they hired Blur to make H2A cutscenes, the only difference for him now would be that he doesn’t work for them directly.

Would be awesome, if true. Doesn’t seem that unlikely based on where 343 wants to go with Infinite, and the Halo 3 music in the trailer indicates this as well. It would excite the -Yoink- out of the community, that’s for sure.

How dare you get my hopes up like this, I need to stop looking at these forums until we have more concrete news lol

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> How dare you get my hopes up like this, I need to stop looking at these forums until we have more concrete news lol

lol

It’s probably nothing but the “there was nothing random about our meeting” feels weirdly cryptic. He’s also tweeted at Steve Downes saying they missed him at the meeting which makes it seem more like a friendly meet up. I’m wondering if they’re planning some kind of collaboration for golem.

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> It’s probably nothing but the “there was nothing random about our meeting” feels weirdly cryptic.

I really wouldn’t read into it. It’s more likely he was just being funny and they had planned to meet up already. I’ve tweeted the same thing a few times before myself when I’ve met up with friends across the pond

Hopefully haha need marty