- The Tempun
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- Senior Heroic Member
Posted by: Johnrap
Some folks have replied to my post with statements such as, "Do something for the community, instead of crying over recon." What you don't realize is that I have contributed to the community.
1. I was part of a group that hosted a Team SWAT tournament when that playlist first existed. I gave out $400 of my own money in prizes. 256, 4 person teams played in this tournament.
2. I also backed a team in MLG 2007. I paid money towards their travel costs, so they can go to the MLG events and compete in Halo. The team was the Girls in Action, mabye you've heard of them, their pictures are on MLGPro.com.
3. I sent out several Best Buy gift cards for contests my website ran based on Halo. Contest included "halo 3 non-playable character dialogue contest," and "halo 3 weapon or vehicle contest." Maybe you were a contestant in one of these. We had several thousand entries in the NPC Line Contest.
4. I've written some intelligent articles on Halo and posted them around the web. Done some real quality research work on the articles.
5. I hosted a website called H3Forge.com for a number of months. We were offering $25 gift certificates for maps and games that users submit that made it into the site playlists. Unfortunately, the site had very little traffic, maybe half a dozen maps submit in 3 months and we folded. But we tried, H3forge.com wasn't a success, but we did try.
Conclusion, I have done a lot for the community. I am not claiming that I have done enough to earn recon. Plus, most of those things were done through a website which had several Admins and Mods, not just me. But I was the one supplying the funds for the site and the tourneys, constests, sponsorships, etc. Frankly, I'm not sure what is enough to earn recon. I can say that I don't draw, don't make music, don't make Youtube videos, or any of the things that I've seen recognized so far. But I do try to use the skills that I do have.
I'm not asking for recon. I don't want recon. As far as I'm concerned Bungie can shove its recon up its ass. I just don't want to have to read any more articles that say, "Nyah, nyah, I have recon and you don't." I'm just tired of it.
EDIT: Sorry, just one more important point to add. Which is that I've never actually checked my profile to see whether or not I do have recon. Presumably I do not. But whether I personaly do or not, is not the point. I'm putting myself into the shoes of one denied recon when I post, trying to understand how they feel. Whether or not that is actually the case for me, I don't know. It probably is, but again, I wouldn't know, because I've never checked. dude nice argument but these guys just haven't recognized all you've done for there crappy games... i really dont care about recon either but anyone who's done that much for this "community" really deserves that dumb amor. anyway just keep at and pretty soon you'll be rewarded for your good furtune.