Confetti. I felt so much glee as I hurried to GameStop to get the latest edition of Halo that it felt as if I had confetti swirling in my dome. Unfortunately, by the time I had slapped down my chunk of cash, my little snow globe burst.
Look at the photo below. From the left, you will see the previous two releases of Halo created by Bungie. On the far right, you will see today’s equivalently-priced release created by 343 Studios(aka Microsoft.) Note that these are the special editions — as opposed to the standard product. If you aren’t familiar with the saga, here is a summary of the corporate helldom that resulted in the tiny packet.
So disappointing … I would defect to Oracle/Java/Sun Microsystems/MySQL/ … or whoever they are this week but that probably would just be more of the same. Oh well, hopefully the actual game will still rock! 😀