Just to give you a little taste of traffic to Reclaimer this week, take a gander at this:
See that big spike right in the middle? That was a combination of traffic driven to the site via HBO and Bungie. You can also see about the day that the news item fell off the Bungie front page because the stats return to what is about normal for your standard working day around here. I have to say that I enjoyed the traffic spike while it lasted. Back to business as usual.
First of all, welcome to all you new readers who came over from Bungie’s link to Reclaimer yesterday. Sit down, make yourselves at home, catch up on the story, and take a few moments to check out the forum for additional goodies. I’m glad you could make it, and hope you’re enjoying the story so far. There’s so much more to come!
Secondly, I apologize for the several hours of downtime yesterday. I was pretty sure my webhost could handle all the traffic, but I wasn’t anticipating nearly 9000 hits in the space of 90 minutes. It was enough for my webhost to suspend my account until the link was removed from Bungie. I do appreciate the tenacity of folks to continue to search the web for Reclaimer, though, and still make your way here. Again, do make yourselves at home.
I’m on the hunt for a new webhost. It’s likely that in the next few days, I’ll be transferring my site to a dedicated server, something with a larger pipe that can handle all lot more traffic all at once than my current webhost. In the meantime, I’ve asked Luke to not link to Reclaimer so I don’t get my account suspended again. Once the transfer is complete, Reclaimer will once again appear in Bungie’s news queue.
I was all excited to see this thread over at the HBO forums this morning, only to be disappointed immediately when I discovered it was a fake. (Thanks to Wu for keeping tabs on these things for us.) I’ve been getting all geared up and excited to find out what Bungie’s been working on lately. They’ve been dropping hints for awhile now about a new project, and with E3 starting this next week, there’s anticipation about an impending announcement from Bungie. Personally, I hope it’s some sort of news on a Halo 4 title, with the Chief and Cortana possibly finding out about the mysterious planet at the end of Halo 3 – but I expect it’ll probably be something else entirely, a new title completely unrelated to the Halo franchise. I have never spent much time trying to figure these kinds of things out, since I know they will be revealed in due time, but one cannot help but to get a little bit excited about new things coming from Bungie.
You’ll notice that there’s no new comic today. The reason for this is threefold:
1) I opted to hold off on a comic in anticipation of the expected announcement from Bungie related to their new project. Needless to say, I’m disappointed that the announcement has been postponed indefinitely. Looks like we’re all just going to have to wait a little longer. 360sync reports that Microsoft has confirmed that Bungie is, indeed, working on a new Halo title that is unrelated to Halo Wars, but I hope you’ll pardon me if I take that news with a grain of salt until official word is actually passed down from the Bungie guys. It will be thrilling news if it is a new Halo title, but I don’t believe in counting my chickens before they’re hatched.
2) I wasn’t feeling particularly well yesterday, and so spent most of my day just resting. I had neither the energy nor the motivation to work on Reclaimer. I’m doing much better today, though, so expect updates to resume on Friday.
3) Related to 2) and to the Microsoft E3 announcement on Monday that NBC has been added as a media provider for the Xbox 360, I “discovered” the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica yesterday and spend most of the watching through the first season fof the show. I was pleased to find that the hype I’ve been hearing about the show is well-deserved. BSG has some of the best writing – Joss Whedon aside – I’ve seen in a show in recent years. I’m looking forward to working my way through the mini-series, the next three seasons, and the movie. Definitely good stuff.
I’m sure by now that a lot of you have probably seen this video. If not, then take a look. If these are things that Bungie is bringing down the Pike for Halo 3, then this is going to mean very, very good things for Reclaimer. I’ve wanted to be able to add some NPC-type characters to the comic for awhile now, and even be able to make custom maps – and it looks like we’ll be getting that opportunity soon. I can’t wait to see what all Bungie has up their sleeves for us!
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