Ways to fix this for future use?

heres a post i made about the game on another forum:

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Halo PC wasn't even that great of a port it's-self at the time, of course we think it is now because of the failed Halo 2. It was stripped down from the xbox variant, so it could run properly on average PC's 10 years ago. Now this resulted in a loss of some visual appeal (shaders, for example). When Halo 2 was released for PC, all textures had there resolution multiplied by twice the size. Anything different between xbox and PC was better on the PC. I had no problem with the Halo 2 game it's self, other then that excuse of an editing kit(and high system requirements). Although the porters themselves released a video with full editing kit demonstrations, Microsoft didn't like the idea of this (for who knows why), had the Kit stripped, and subsequently destroyed there own game. Otherwise, we'd all be on Halo 2 right now, and OS probably wouldn't exist. If it was totally up to the porters of Halo 2, we'd be set up big time. Hell, half of them joined up on h2vista.net for a while to support the game. They were a good team, and they actually helped me a lot personally when I was trying to make a good looking map.

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Wait, Hired Gun (pretty sure that's who ported it, right?) tried to help the modding community on h2v? I always heard they just ditched the game.

NitrousOxide and Bum has Knife both joined the forums for a good amount of time. However they both bailed for the same reason we all did. Hell, Nitrous went back to making maps for Halo 1.

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Originally Posted by Ryx

Wait, Hired Gun (pretty sure that's who ported it, right?) tried to help the modding community on h2v? I always heard they just ditched the game.

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Nitro in particular was on Hired Gun to give them insider info on not only what we wanted, but what we needed for the title to be successful. He did his job, but GFWL said otherwise. They didn't want to break the credibility of gamerscore and the very idea of custom/modded items was the bane of the ToU.

Here, I uploaded this old video of what the HEK was originally supposed to be. Look at the options in sapien, there is way more options than what we have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s26xyvZ4EM&feature=plcp

I had forgotten all about that. I remember the horribleness of the low quality. In retrospect, it should have been a huge red flag considering what was going on but none of us were prepared for that first look at the gold release of the kit.

Microsoft was just being too progressive with other stuff. The thing is that they needed to treat Halo 2 PC as a complete exception to their forward marketing because Halo 2 could carry it's own weight, unlike a great number of other games.