- SHADY K1LLAZ
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Posted by: Achronos
Too me, that sounds like I said "it takes a lot of time" not "a lot of work". There is a large difference there - I'm sorry, I should have been more specific about the time requirement. And I'm not being sarcastic or demeaning. I am trying to answer your complaints, point by point. I could very easily ignore you, but you seem like an intelligent guy who's not trying to be a jerk but rather someone who just wants answers. I think you deserve that kind of attention. Would you like me to stop attempting to answer your questions?
Thank you for your response - now it makes more sense. To me, it seems then that the act of actually "coding" a playlist isn't necessarily hard (a lot of work), there are just steps involved in the process that require a certain amount of time. That makes sense. I appreciate your explanation. And no, don't get me wrong, I appreciate your responses. I'm just trying to play the devil's advocate here in the situation because I felt the only complaints being stated were from people who didn't get the maps. I, from a logical standpoint, see the other side of it as Frankie put it "the majority of those that had issues should have them downloaded by now", so that tells me that a)a lot already have them downloaded and b)a lot that didn't have them do now. It just doesn't seem right to make the majority wait for a few, but hey that's my opinion and you guys will do what you feel is best.
I guess you're right - my preconceived notion of Bungie having professional employees that actually care about how they represent their company must be vastly jaded. I apologize for thinking that a business would want to have a good PR Image - it is fairly obvious from your posts that you could care less about your company's reputation and more about your own personal reputation. I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't appreciate knowing that a company they own doesn't care about their PR image.
Being honest and direct is one thing, but being outright rude and confrontational to prove a point is another. I'm not asking for you to sugar coat anything, but I sure as hell am not asking for you to try and make a fool out of me because I don't know your insider information. Why don't you share some of that information with us instead of holding it above us like a prized "golden ticket"?
I'm not really sure how to respond to this. You want a response, but when you don't like what I have to say, then you demand someone else to come tell you what you already know; i.e. "We're working on it, call support for details."
But this seems to be what you want from reading your posts. Now, you know and I know that it isn't what you want - you really want as much detail as possible. You want to be in the loop. But you need to understand that sometimes, because you don't have all the information, when you complain about something, there is the possibility that you will be corrected by someone who has more information than you do. That person is generally not out to make a fool of you, but rather they are simply trying to be helpful. I apologize if you don't think our conversation has been helpful. I remind you though... it would be very easy to ignore you. But that'd be rude, especially considering that you seem to have gone to great effort to construct your thoughts here.
I don't think support would even know where to begin if I were to call them about this. I'm sure I'd be on hold for at least 30 minutes while the guy from XBL tried to figure out what I meant by rank resets and matchmaking playlist updates. :) Really though, I appreciate your responses - I will be the first to admit that I threw that last part in for the spite factor, but it was just to prove a point. Really, I could see some frustration coming through on your end because you guys are having to deal with a huge pile of -blam- in your backyard. I think if you read the majority of my posts, you would understand that imy frustration is more than just the maps themselves, but the entire game community as a whole and the psychological aspect of the gamers knowing that their ranks will be reset and therefore abandoning the community until the updates have taken place. Ever since the announcement was made, (about 2-3 weeks now?), the game has really been put in a "hold" state. I for one was logging in at 2:00mst everyday this week until Frankie posted his update because I was so excited to finally play a decent game. I was one of the dudes who stood in line at 12:00am the day halo2 came out so I could purchase my collectors edition and start playing before everyone else. You have us hooked like little addicts here, so for those of us that do have the maps to hear you say "it might be another week" is like sticking a dagger into our hearts and than twisting it just a bit more.
But hey, you all are right, I can't complain because I downloaded the maps the day they came out on my 360 with no problems whatsoever. On a side note - don't know if this might be interesting to you folks at bungie, but like I said, I've downloaded the maps with no problem - when I go to start matchmaking and I am at the screen where i can choose quick, opti, create party , or content download, the icon showing that there is new download content (the circle with the down arrow) is still being displayed. When I go to the DLC area, the icon with the star in it (i've always thought that meant I needed to download the pack) is still being displayed. It does however say that I have purchased the map pack pack and there is a checkmark in the picture (and the maps are playable). I don't know if the icons are just displayed by default to show that there is a new map, but the first time I restarted my xbox after I downloaded the maps, I almost tried to download them again because I thought it was saying they hadn't been downloaded yet. I haven't actually tried to redownload them if it was already successful because I've heard from some that that might cause the same issue that people are having now, but I figured I'd share that with you anyways.
Again, thank you for your responses achronos - yes, i'm not just another jerk trying to be a -blam!-. To be quite honest, I am currently a student majoring in CIS and I'm in the process of launching my own website right now. I was ecstatic when I found out about XNA Game Studio Express and am currently studying up on Csharp to see what I can do. I understand the daily grind man, we appreciate all the work you guys do, just remember we are people too (and more importantly you're paying customers).