Allow me to express my thoughts…
This post in many ways is a response to a post on a seperate forum, I believe in the multiplayer section. This weeks weekly is worth 30343 credits, which was a really nice gift. This forum noticed that 343 seemed to have their own number they would prefer to use.
This post doesn’t necessarily apply to just Halo 4, but future Halo products. Bungie was notorious for slipping the number 7 (which isn’t a Halo thing, this was in Marathon too) into random places: the 7 Halo Rings, 343, 2401, the Gravemind speaking in heptameter…this list goes on.
Naturally, I would assume Bungie to continue their 7 references into the future (i.e. the Seventh Column). But with 343 in the Halo universe, does that mean 7 will be repeatedly referenced by TWO different companies?
Of course, I don’t want to say only one company is ever allowed to reference a single number, especially 7 which appears in numerous real world texts over and over. Also, 343 holds a lot of ex-Bungie employees, they’ve been using 7 forever.
So, what are your thoughts. Should Bungie abandon the number 7, or should 343i find other numbers to reference? Or should Both companies continue what they are perfectly capable of doing: using 7 in their respective franchises over and over again?
TL;DR - This thread doesn’t imply only one company can do any given thing.