H2Bot said:
We were calling to just talk to them about H2V and what we got was kind of what we expected, but we didn't think they would just go out and say it.
Basically they told us that this game was planned not to be supported from the start, and that they have completely dropped it(not a big surprise). Along with telling us that they did market modeling for selling Halo 4 with windows 8, but decided not to do it because it didn't look like a big enough profit would come out of it. When we got to the part about maybe having some avid programmer in the H2V Community fixing it up if he got the source code, they hung up.
Wow, so they actually considered Halo 4 for a PC release? They would have profited for sure. We should keep trying, keep ringing them up and trying to get that source code. The things we could do are endless, considering the amount of success you guys have had with your maps with only limited resources.
If they want a good profit out of PC releases, they need to fix up GFWL. It's so horrible right now. If they want an even greater profit from Halo 4 on the PC, they could make it compatible with Win7 and Win8. Forcing people to upgrade to the next OS is bad marketing. I seriously wonder who runs marketing over at Micro$oft.