They never, ever, ever said it was going to be Mac-only. Never.
Fact: Halo development started on PC and stayed there exclusively for about a year, until Apple got their 3D shit together. No work was done on Mac Halo until about two weeks before that MacWorld Expo, when Bungie began porting their PC build to the Mac.
Matt (two t's, IMG) Soell here to hopefully clear the waters that people have thoughtfully muddied in my name.
There is NO ugly corporate pressure from MS demanding that we change our servers. None, zilch, zero, null.
There have been a few scattered individuals who've made comments to the effect that we might want to consider an MS server solution. This has never come from anyone in a position of authority and has never been more than a passing suggestion of that individual's own opinion. They are as entitled to their opinions as we are to ours. The decision is still ours to make. In other words, it was no big deal, and that's all I've ever said about it.
It's like me sending a letter to Inside Mac Games suggesting they fact-check their articles so they can avoid presenting biased inference as fact or at the very least spell people's names properly. They might feel a wee bit of annoyance at my suggestion but they'd still be free to ignore it completely. Know what I'm saying?:-)
No doubt some of the conspiracy theorists already think I'm typing this with a gun to my head, so there's probably no point in dragging this out because people are going to believe whatever they want to believe. But I'll say it again in a way that hopefully no one can misinterpret:
There is no interference from Microsoft in our choice of servers or anything else.
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They never, ever, ever said it was going to be Mac-only. Never.
Fact: Halo development started on PC and stayed there exclusively for about a year, until Apple got their 3D shit together. No work was done on Mac Halo until about two weeks before that MacWorld Expo, when Bungie began porting their PC build to the Mac.
-Matt
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Matt (two t's, IMG) Soell here to hopefully clear the waters that people have thoughtfully muddied in my name.
There is NO ugly corporate pressure from MS demanding that we change our servers. None, zilch, zero, null.
There have been a few scattered individuals who've made comments to the effect that we might want to consider an MS server solution. This has never come from anyone in a position of authority and has never been more than a passing suggestion of that individual's own opinion. They are as entitled to their opinions as we are to ours. The decision is still ours to make. In other words, it was no big deal, and that's all I've ever said about it.
It's like me sending a letter to Inside Mac Games suggesting they fact-check their articles so they can avoid presenting biased inference as fact or at the very least spell people's names properly. They might feel a wee bit of annoyance at my suggestion but they'd still be free to ignore it completely. Know what I'm saying?
No doubt some of the conspiracy theorists already think I'm typing this with a gun to my head, so there's probably no point in dragging this out because people are going to believe whatever they want to believe. But I'll say it again in a way that hopefully no one can misinterpret:
There is no interference from Microsoft in our choice of servers or anything else.
-Matt