Red vs. Blue: Difference between revisions

''Red vs Blue'' attracted interest immediately; the first episode had 20,000 downloads within a day.<ref name="Thompson1">Thompson, 1.</ref> Shortly after episode 2, Bungie Studios contacted Rooster Teeth. The crew had feared that any contact from Bungie would be to force an end to the project, but Bungie enjoyed the videos and was supportive;<ref name="Konow2">Konow, 2.</ref> one staff member called the production "kind of brilliant".<ref name="Thompson3">Thompson 3.</ref> A deal was arranged to ensure that the series could continue to use Bungie's game properties legally,<ref name="Delaney" /> without license fees<ref name="Thompson3" /> and without creative guidelines from Microsoft, Bungie's parent company, except for specifically commissioned videos.<ref name="Oliver" /> ''Red vs Blue'' continued to attract more attention, and, by April 2004, Kevin J. Delaney of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' estimated that weekly viewership was between 650,000 and 1,000,000.<ref name="Delaney" /> In a 2006 interview, [[Strange Company]] founder Hugh Hancock called the series probably "the most successful machinima productions" and estiumated that the it was generating almost [[United States dollar|US$]]200,000 annually.<ref name="MacGregor">MacGregor.</ref>