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heh, Harry got this wrong in his Oni FAQ, the MW in SF was definitely in Jan. in 2000 (and in NY in July), and the announcement was made at E3 in May

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 It is not clear why Bungie did not at least include LAN play functionality, since visitors to Bungie's booths were able to play 4-8 player LAN games (pictured at right, video below) at the [[wikipedia:Electronic_Entertainment_Expo|E3]] of May 1999 in Los Angeles, the New York City [[wikipedia:Macworld_Conference_%26_Expo|Macworld Expo]] of July 1999 and the San Francisco Macworld Expo of January 2000. However, it is possible that multiplayer suffered from more issues than just latency, and that, without more time to develop this mode of gameplay, the developers decided to cut it rather than frustrate players with an incomplete netplay feature.
-For a period of time, starting from the announcement that MP had been cut (at the Macworld Expo of May 2000), until some months after Oni's release, it was hoped that Oni would be patched to add in multiplayer. However, as Bungie no longer owned the code, it would have fallen on Take Two to perform this work. Whether due to the difficulty of learning and building on Bungie's code, or some lack of motivation, no patches were made to Oni.
+For a period of time, starting from the announcement that MP had been cut (at the E3 of May 2000), until some months after Oni's release, it was hoped that Oni would be patched to add in multiplayer. However, as Bungie no longer owned the code, it would have fallen on Take Two to perform this work. Whether due to the difficulty of learning and building on Bungie's code, or some lack of motivation, no patches were made to Oni.
 Video evidence: