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'''Bungie.net''' is the main official portal of [[Bungie|Bungie Studios]], the developer of [[Halo universe|Halo]], [[Wikipedia:Myth (series)|Myth]], [[Wikipedia:Oni (video game)|Oni]], and [[Marathon]], and the only site for interaction between company staff and the community surrounding Bungie's games.

Before Bungie was purchased by [[Microsoft]], Bungie.net was used to host and play the ''Myth'' series of games. In addition to being the main portal to all official information about Bungie and their games, Bungie.net also operated as a statistical database for the games ''[[Halo 2]]'', ''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' and ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. Bungie.net retrieved data directly from the Xbox and Xbox 360 LIVE servers and stored it in its databases. Every Xbox LIVE player that participated in a match of a ''Halo 2'', ''Halo 3'', ''Halo 3: ODST'' or ''Halo: Reach'' prior to April 1, 2012 had an account created on Bungie.net automatically. Bungie.net transferred all of its record-keeping responsibilities to [[Halo Waypoint]] on March 31, 2012.<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=32028 '''Bungie.net''': ''Final Transition for Bungie.net Halo Services'']</ref>

Bungie.net began life in 1996 as ''Bungie.com'', a community/business website covering ''Marathon'' and previous projects. Even in the beginning, classic pages such as ''"Letters to the Webmaster and Soapbox"'' existed, if in a somewhat graphically inferior manner to the later versions. A few layout and content updates ensued throughout 1997 until at the end of the year, consequent of the release of ''Myth'', Bungie.net was born, serving as a community, statistics and multiplayer metaserver. Bungie.com remained to cover the business side, while its sibling thrived. With the release of ''Myth II'' at the close of 1998, the site was further updated and now supported the multiplayer sides of both games.

On March 19, 2007, the website was given a new layout design and featured new accessibility features in preparation for the [[Halo 3 Beta]] and its launch. On July 14, 2008, the site became part of the [[Superintendent viral campaign|Halo 3: ODST viral campaign]] where the homepage shows a [[:File:Pardon Our Dust.jpg|false service suspension]]. By July 15, 2008, [[:File:Background Message.jpeg|an apology letter]] from the President of Bungie, Harold Ryan, announced that the announcement trailer of ''Halo 3: ODST'' would be postponed and the site's layout was reverted to its previous design. In order to coincide with the release of ''Halo 3: ODST'', the website experienced some layout updates such as a new front page which displayed a Flash-processed News Archive, a quick-access to players' personal stats and a ''Road To Recon'' list which showed the achievements the player earned; successfully obtaining all achievements unlocked the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI/R variant|Recon Armor]].

On March 31, 2012 Bungie.net transferred the last of its record-keeping responsibilities to Halo Waypoint. Although statistics and files collected prior to that date are retained, the information is no longer updated. Players are also no longer able to change their [[Nameplates]].

Bungie.net is an extremely successful and enjoyable online community, and that's mostly because of a member's ability to interact with the site and other members. Although there are different ways of doing this, the most widespread and popular is posting in the forums.

Inside these, any registered, non-blacklisted member may create or reply to a topic. Members cannot create new topics in the Voting Booth or The News unless their accounts have a certain level of security clearance.

#[http://www.bungie.net/Forums/topics.aspx?forumID=10 Off-Topic Forum: The Flood]— Formerly known as ''The Flood'' - Off-Topic forum; use at your own risk.

Users have the ability to create their own private groups (also known as Chapters) on Bungie.net. A private group consists of a private forum and is moderated by the members themselves. The group founder has the ability to accept and reject members and give other people moderator powers. Bungie also does a private group spotlight and gives one of the Bungie.net groups the ability to control Bungie Favorites for two weeks.

The moderators on Bungie.net are volunteers from the community who donate their time and patience to help maintain some peace and order on the forums. They primarily work to combat spammers and rule violators while also helping to answer questions and welcome new members. If a moderator sees a thread that doesn't belong in a forum, they will move it. If it's an inappropriate thread, they will lock it. The moderators also report members who violate Bungie's rules to the Bungie team so they can follow-up as appropriate.

*Bungie.net has a total of 3 million pageviews per day and accumulates over 300 GB of data a month of online game statistics from the almost 1 million online games played every day.<ref>[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978497.aspx '''Microsoft:''' ''Bungie.net Technical Case Study'']</ref>

*Occasionally, Bungie.net will have comical messages in the title bar such as ''"Satisfy Your Grunty Thirst"'', ''"Our Webmaster Wears a Gorilla Suit and a Jetpack"'' and ''"Don't use -[[blam!|blam]]-!"''.

*The "search" button for the search bar of the site is actually the Marathon symbol, tilted on its side to resemble a magnifying glass.

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File:MisterChiefMap.png|April Fools of 2008 on Bungie.net

File:Bungie.net.png|Bungie.net homepage in February 2010.

File:Bungie.net - 070910.png|Bungie.net homepage in September 2010.

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