While Bungie may be ending it’s Halo career later this month, that doesn’t mean they’re done for good. While not much is known about Bungie’s next big things, we do know it’s code named Destiny, and that it will be amazing. Other than that we’re out in the dark. For the past few years Bungie has offered a Bungie Pro service to all members, it would grant them extra fileshare space in their Halo games, as well as allow them to render videos from the fileshare; that all ends March 31st.
But – That doesn’t mean Bungie Pro is going away, oh no. Bungie worker SawNose has an open letter to all past and present Bungie Pro subscribers, and it just reeks of that joyous “rumored game teasing” smell we’ve come to know and love.
An open letter to Bungie Pro members, past and present:
As Bungie sunsets our involvement in the Halo universe, we wanted to take a moment to give extra thanks to our power users who signed up for the Bungie Pro add-on service. The last wave of Halo-generation Bungie Pro subscriptions will be expiring shortly, but rest assured that it’s only going into hibernation – when we’re ready, we’ll reveal a new suite of services, including ones we’ll proudly launch under the Bungie Pro banner. Bungie Pro has always been about providing a way to offer premium services that just can’t be free for everyone, like using Bungie machines to render gameplay footage to video. (You’ve created 10 Terabytes of Halo video clips on Bungie.net!)
At the same time, we will remain committed to keeping our core web offerings open to all of our users. At Bungie we’re proud of our long-term memory, and when the time comes for Bungie Pro to yawn, stretch, and blink its eyes in the light of a new morning, we’ll do something special for the people who gave it such a successful first run. Thanks for joining us for the ride so far.
See you starside!
He also has a more technical explanation for those interested:
Now for the tech details: On 3/31, Bungie.net will stop synchronizing with your Halo file share. Plan to use your render minutes before then. We can continue to host your screenshots and rendered videos created before the transition date, but as always, you should download these to your own computer because we don’t guarantee hosting them forever.
