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Subject: Who Wants Bungie To Bring Back The EVENTS Feature?
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Poll: Would you like to have the Event feature back for your 7th Column G...  [closed]
Yes:  94%
(17 Votes)
No:  6%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 18

In the old 7th Column, prior to Halo 2 - before all the changes, there was an Events feature in the right sidebar of each chapter/group that allowed members to post an Event, usually a LAN, for their group. It let you give the event a title, time and date, description of the event and a sign up sheet for the group's members. It was the most used function on this site for our group. We would post an Event nearly every weekend and it allowed members of the group to sign up as Attending ot Tentative. It was great. I usually hosted the LAN at my place and it allowed me to see who and how many were coming ahead of time. It is the one thing that kept a lot of guys coming back to the site on a weekly basis.

It would be great to have the Events feature back. With Halo 2 and Live, it would be nice to have it back with the option under the Event's creation to pick LAN or Live - so that it displayed LAN Event ot Live Event with the title. If you guys want it back let Bungie hear you by your vote and comments.

  • 04.06.2005 6:13 PM PDT

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Why not just post an announcement about it?

  • 04.06.2005 6:50 PM PDT

I would like that and the event update that was on the side of the main page.

  • 04.06.2005 7:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: snowmanaxt
Why not just post an announcement about it?
Because the feature was interactive. It allowed you to make the announcement of when, where and what, but it also allowed those who saw it to sign up and commit to the event. What good is making an announcement if you have no idea if anybody has seen it or is even interested? Those in my group would log on to the site early in the week to see if there was a Halo LAN planned for the coming weekend. If interested, they would sign up, thus showing their Bungie login name under the posted event. The event would gain momentum as the week went on. As people checked in during the week they would see who else was coming and what kind of turnout there would be.

They same could be done for an planned event on Live with Halo 2. Say you want to get a dozen friends from your clan or on your friend's list together on Live on a specific day at a specific time. Posting an Event ahead of time would save you the hassle of sending out messages on Live and waiting for responses, making phone calls, etc. You and eveyone else would know who was in or out by simply logging onto the site and clicking on the posted event as the time grew near. The chances for a better turnout would increase as friends saw others' commitment to the date and time.

With the absence of the Event's feature we now use our Group's Forum, which works, but just isn't the same. It's not as visible and as accessable. The Events use to post on the Group's front page - right sidebar, displaying the Event's title and date. It was quick and easy.

  • 04.06.2005 8:09 PM PDT

Events would be good, and they'd be just as useful for Live games as they were for LAN parties. But then so would a lot of stuff, like the Q&A database and the "members online" section.

  • 04.07.2005 3:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: impurity
Now that I think about it, the events feature was the main thing that kept my group active back in the day.

Exactly! Since it's removal, my group's activity has also taken a dive. I thought the whole idea of the 7th Column was to build a community of Bungie (Halo/Halo 2} fans? Why ditch the one feature that got heavy use and kept people coming back? ... the feature that allowed and promoted organized LAN events for groups within the Bungie community? ... the feature that would work great for organizing Live events?

[Edited on 4/7/2005]

  • 04.07.2005 4:53 PM PDT
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Now I think about it, the question really should be reworded to:

"Who Wants To Give Bungie The Bandwidth And Server Time To Host The EVENTS Feature?"

  • 04.07.2005 6:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sir Fragula
Now I think about it, the question really should be reworded to:

"Who Wants To Give Bungie The Bandwidth And Server Time To Host The EVENTS Feature?"
I don't think the feature would require much more from their server. Much less than what these Forums eat up and a lot of the stuff in here in here is pretty useless.

  • 04.10.2005 4:03 AM PDT

Posted by: Irvine
Posted by: Sir Fragula
Now I think about it, the question really should be reworded to:

"Who Wants To Give Bungie The Bandwidth And Server Time To Host The EVENTS Feature?"
I don't think the feature would require much more from their server. Much less than what these Forums eat up and a lot of the stuff in here in here is pretty useless.


Yeah, you can't really argue with that - events can't really take up much more bandwidth than, say, a news post. And if it did, it's not like Microsoft would exactly struggle to provide it.

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  • 04.10.2005 6:10 AM PDT
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Hah, bandwidth.

It'd be great if they brought a bunch of the old stuff back. Even the poll section. I know you can just make a poll in a thread, but a poll on the front page was great. Who knows maybe they will eventually. Until then, a group is just a private forum to me.

  • 04.10.2005 9:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Reiginko
Yeah, you can't really argue with that - events can't really take up much more bandwidth than, say, a news post. And if it did, it's not like Microsoft would exactly struggle to provide it.

- Reiginko



I guess... I remembered one of the reasons we were given for the section being removed in the first place was the issues of scalability for a community of ~ 1 million members. I honestly wouldn't know how much pressure it would put on the servers to handle a regularly viewed events section. But didn't Achronos mention recently that the servers were pretty much running into the red coping with something or the other?

  • 04.10.2005 12:11 PM PDT

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This feature would be nice to see. I wanted to have a feature like this but as it doesn't exist, i had to make a chapter which organised events.

There would be no real problems with it (that i can see), so i vote yes.

  • 04.10.2005 1:06 PM PDT