Today's Onion-esque story comes by way of humor tech site The BBSpot, which "reports" that Bungie has decided to do what most companies these days like to do when they want to do things better and cheaper - outsource the problem to another country. The company will be recruiting people all over the world to play Halo 3 instead of spending the money to get programmers to redesign the AI to their liking.

We'll have people from India, China, Bangladesh, just about everywhere there's poor people. We figure with eight million people working eighteen hour shifts, that we can satisfy our needs... One time the best enemy character you face may be controlled by Habibul Ashraful from Bangladesh, who only has three fingers, and the next time it may be Li Ming, who farms gold in World of Warcraft.

Yes, and soon Crecente will replace all of us with chain-smoking monkeys that have been handcuffed to a row of typewriters.
Bungie Dumps AI for Cheap Human Intelligence in Halo 3 [The BBSpot]

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