Good marketing or just really stupid?

[Wyrm]

I still haven't even played Halo 1... Tried the demo and wasn't all that impressed with the visuals, sound, or the ever-so-popular assualt vehicles that made Halo famous (control and UI weren't anything all that special either). Was almost completely turned off by the craptacular idea that save games should go in the "My Documents" folder instead of the game directory, so I deleted it and haven't looked back since.

I'll take Doom and Doom 2 any day of the week over half the modern crap that's coming out.

I just don't see why Microsoft would do this.

Never underestimate corporate greed. Think about it. The game will either increase Vista sales and they'll get more money or it won't do so well and MS will have an excuse to fire the people who worked on Halo 2 (game didn't meet corporate standards after all) and pocket more money for themselves. That, and if memory serves correctly, MS got broken up in an anti-trust suit a while back into the Windows and XBox people (slightly more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea) and this is their way of bypassing the law.