Everyone keeps saying that Bungie was really good at making halo games…and if they where so great why did they leave 343i? I just don’t understand. Can someone explain please?
Money…no wait…yeah money.
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> Everyone keeps saying that Bungie was really good at making halo games…and if they where so great why did they leave 343i? I just don’t understand. Can someone explain please?
Bungie didn’t leave 343.
343 was created after Bungie dropped Halo…
343’s main purpose was to keep Halo going…
They ditched Halo for money to sell the licence and so they could make destiny.
Something like that.
Destiny was calling, yet the funny thing about fate is that sometimes it does mean it’s a good thing to have one.
Bungie was tired of making Halo and was tired of selling their soul to Microsoft, so they decided to make another sci-fi shooter and sold their soul to Activision and Sony.
But guys…Destiny is great!!!111
They lost their desire to make halo games, so they fulfilled the agreement with Microsoft and then left to make destiny. They didn’t necessarily abandon it, I’d rather have a dedicated 343 making halo over a passionless bungie doing something they don’t want to do. Fans need to stop thinking bungie left halo to die off or whatever else they say, they just had no desire to continue it, so they showed 343 the ropes a bit with reach and 343 took over.
They wanted to go and make a groundbreaking MMO shooter. We’re still waiting…
They left since it was their Destiny.
The simple answer is they wanted to be able to sell the game they were making on both platforms…Microsoft said no we are keeping Halo exclusive to Xbox so bungie said fine we aren’t making it anymore. Bungie went on to make destiny and 343 was made to continue on with Halo.
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> But guys…Destiny is great!!!111
But halo is greater!!!
No but seriously I hate bungee for being money hungry pigs…
343 good job( with some issues).
They left because they didnt want to be shackled to a single series. They had plans for Destiny since before Reach came out. After they fulfilled their contract with MS, they started working independently. But clearly they needed some kind of support so they made a deal with Activsion.
343i was made as a support dev for the Halo enthusiast devs after Reach came out.
- Bungie left so that they could have more creative freedom and finally make the game they always wanted to make, so they partnered with Activision lost all creative freedom and gave birth to Halos younger brother Destiny. - They got bored.
Waiting for the eternal guy that will say that 343i is mostly composed of Bungie employees…
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> They left because they didnt want to be shackled to a single series. They had plans for Destiny since before Reach came out. After they fulfilled their contract with MS, they started working independently. But clearly they needed some kind of support so they made a deal with Activsion.
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> 343i was made as a support dev for the Halo enthusiast devs after Reach came out.
Some minor additions to this: Bungie was bought by MS around 2000 to bring Halo to the Xbox, back when Halo was a third person strategy type computer game. Under MS, Halo became an FPS and launched the Xbox. After the release of Halo 3 (I think, it was sometime around then), Bungie bought back their independence from MS and fulfilled their obligation to create the remaining Halo games (ODST, Reach). They were wanting to create a new universe that ended up being Destiny (the desire for independence and the Activision partnership just destroying that game is so sad).
343 Industries was a studio founded by Microsoft to develop Halo games and manage the franchise in all.
Because Bungie didn’t want to keep making Halo games. They wanted to do more, but under Microsoft, they were only allowed to work on Halo. So Bungie fulfilled their contract and left Microsoft. They didn’t abandon Halo or leave it. They just didn’t want to be forced to only make Halo. That’s it. 343 was then created in 2009 to take over the Halo franchise after Bungie left.
In my opinion, it was a bad decision for Microsoft to force Bungie to only do Halo. I imagine if Bungie had stayed and been allowed to explore different ideas, Microsoft would have two of the biggest fps franchises under its belt. Halo and Destiny. Halo would still be at the top properly competing with other games instead of being at the bottom of the barrel barely scraping by and Destiny probably wouldn’t have turned out the way it did, since Microsoft would be publishin it, not Activision.
Well to sum it up money 
and Bungie never liked Microsoft from the beginning when they bought Halo back in 98. There’s a video of them saying it on there YouTube page its like hour long.
Most of what every one has posted is correct on the situation. Money was a major player, making new games outside of halo, and etc. however while Bungie dropped making Halo and moved to activation a large chunk of the original Halo team from Bungie stayed behind and is as far as I remember still currently working as members of 343Indestries. Though it was the major players that moved over to activation AFTER there contract was completed with Reach being the last of the games.
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> Most of what every one has posted is correct on the situation. Money was a major player, making new games outside of halo, and etc. however while Bungie dropped making Halo and moved to activation a large chunk of the original Halo team from Bungie stayed behind and is as far as I remember still currently working as members of 343Indestries. Though it was the major players that moved over to activation AFTER there contract was completed with Reach being the last of the games.
Yes all 5 them. Even Frankie already has said that large chunk of bungie team did not join 343. Also I am pretty sure he is the only one left now.
I would move this to GD as it’s not really a Halo 5 topic, but it’s something that’s been convered in-depth pretty well over the years. I think most of what’s been said here covers it OP, feel free to search around Waypoint if you’d still like some more in-depth answers 