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MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
Posted by: Langley
--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.
Posted by: Achronos
There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.
So...I click on the link that Recon provided in his post, and I read all 5 pages of very long (but well-written) posts, and this is what I gleaned from it....
ACHRONOS TOTALLY MADE FUN OF PENNY ARCADE!!!
Actually, no, but it does show that a lot of people who care about the community are still around. I mean that post is almost nearly 2 years old, and a lot of the people in that thread still post on the forums. Unfortunately, some do not.
I will say this though, and it is merely my opinion, but I do agree with some of what the OP of this thread said. I do feel that the "loud" members are often heard more than the more "quiet" ones. Most people know that I was/am a big fan of the playlists: Actionsack and Carnage because they offered more "laid-back" gametypes. However, they were scrapped for a couple reasons, but some of which people said were low user percentages. Well, from what I can tell and what I've gathered from that time, Team Hardcore had almost the exact same usage levels as either Actionsack or Carnage. However Team Hardcore got to stay while both Actionsack and Carnage were removed. I had a problem with that. So I joined the Optimatch 2.0 group and tried to get some insight into how the decision was made. I never once got an answer. Even if he (and you know who "he" is) would have said, "we kept Team Hardcore because we wanted to appease that demographic" I would have accepted it. Honestly, I couldn't really blame him because I wouldn't want to deal with the headache that would accompany axing THC.
But that was merely the beginning of how I think the "louder" members received far more influence over game decisions than what they should have. Honestly, I've seen the evolution (or actually de-evolution) of gameplay by switching from SMG starts to the majority being BR starts. It is my opinion again, that the only thing that having increased BR starts did was to increase the amount of people who cheat by using BXR or doubleshots. Increasing the ability of obtaining a BR (to 100% since you start with one) allows far more people the opportunity to cheat. Some do it because they want to, while others feel they have to do it to survive now that the "jungle" has been made more cut-throat. I feel that it has ruined the balance of the games.
But nothing gets said, and when it does, it is overwhelmed by the vast amount of people of the "loud" member variety. They come in droves and flame and get away with it. I agree with the OP, the people on B.net are inherently biased. The more "casual" gamer is not going to spend time on the forums, and even if they did, it would not be for extended amounts of time. So that naturally means that the majority of the people on B.net and NOT OF people who play Halo 2 are those of the "louder" variety. They flock here because their worlds revolve around playing Halo 2, and since they spend so much time playing the game, they naturally want to come to the website that is for it (or at least they think it is for it exclusively). They talk about how they want the game to evolve *this* way, and unfortunately it seems that their opinions often times sway.
Unfortunately...I am no James Madison, and this is certainly not Fed. 10, so I cannot address how to rectify this situation. But I do feel that it should be talked about because it seems that the "other side" is rather well represented. Regardless, I shall strive to console myself with the words of Dylan Thomas, and "do not go gently into that good night; rage, rage against the dying of the light".
~Publius
**edit: faulty links make me a sad panda **
[Edited on 04.23.2007 11:14 PM PDT]