- AngelicLionheart
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- Exalted Legendary Member
You are not a mistake; God has never said "oops." Seek Him and you will find Him. Do not seek Him, and you will not find Him. He respectfully leaves the choice up to you.
Greetings, all.
I do not post that often. Only when things seem to get out of hand or I feel a word needs to be said do I venture into the forums. This is one of those times.
First off: For all of the hardest-of-the-hardcore fans out there that never had a doubt in their hearts what Bungie has at their best interest, way to go guys. This was a pretty disheartening turn of events. Some people lost faith, starting screaming that the sky was falling and that Bungie was a sellout company after all, and that greed motivates all people and it's what makes the world go round, that it was naive to believe that a group of people could actually care about their fans, and so on and so forth. There were a loud minority of people (not all of them represented on the forums, I'm sure) that started to come apart at the seams when it looked like all was going sour. Rather than wait, and see what Bungie (who've never let us down before) was going to do, they started making claims that Bungie had made some fatal mistake and that it had subjected it's fans to the evil nasty mega-corporations-that-be and that this was the beginning of a downward spiral.
*insert Gandalf's *THWAP* on the Steward of Gondor's head in the third film, after the steward cried out to abandon your posts and flee for your lives*
Bungie fans aren't these miniscule little naive gullible people that will fall into whatever corporate pothole that has the word Halo on it. We have enough common sense to know what a contest is and what the rules are and all that. (And some of us even know how to read the part that says "Yo, this is Bungie and MS, and uh, this Dew stuff ain't official Halo business, ya dig?") So enough with this "subjecting the fans to stuff" hoo-hah. It's balogna.
Second off: The silent majority of fans out there that sat there (the informed ones at least) with their fingers crossed, hoping that Bungie hadn't been taken advantage of, have no fear. Not only would Bungie not allow evil nastiness to get it's hand on the Halo franchise, but if someone did screw up along the way, and do some bogus crap like abuse it's fans, you'd better believe that Bungie would have the culprit's cajones in it's firm, insisting grasp persuading them that there should be recompense (and I have no doubt that Microsoft would be right there behind Bungie, backing them up if they needed it [for those who don't know, Microsoft is not what it once was, it's getting better]) . And if for whatever reason, their hands should be tied, they would personally make it up to the fans that were mistreated.
Third: Rip, man, what you've gone through really sucks. I hope it all works out to your satisfaction, and teaches you a hard-learned lesson about the dangers of "last minute promos" and such. Corps like Pepsi Co. really have no consideration for you past your monetary worth, ad or no ad. I'm sure the contact info will come through soon, but if not, have no fear, dude. Just.....chiiiiiill. You won't be gypped. And even if you are, Bungie will kiss it and make it all better, lol, they haven't forgotten their fans. So don't lose respect for Bungie, they haven't changed a bit. Still the same old Tijuana Mama (try the 300% hotter ones!) eatin', Covenant slayin', fan-pleasin' bunch that they have always been. Raft, that was a REALLY GREAT entry, but for whatever reason, whether we agree with it or not, it wasn't chosen. I'm really sorry to hear that, but there are reasons for things, perhaps they are sucky ones like "Hands popping out of TV's scare us...." but all you guys saying the contest was rigged because that entry didn't win compared to the other ones, should reconsider - anything left up to the opinion of "judges" that aren't from Bungie aren't going to have the same tastes that Bungie-derived ones would. I mean, who knows - maybe Rip's got a bad communication issue going on between him and this other dude, that is neither Rip's nor this other dude's fault. Don't makes assumptions and go on a rant about it.
Finally: Bungie rules. No doubt. They never screwed up. They have some mega awesome fans. This situation has shown that in spades. Even people that could've taken this in a bad direction didn't, and were sensible: loser shook hands with winner, vice versa, and then they helped each other out. Completely without malice or immature arguings or rivalry. This is a rare thing to see in a forum. Way to go guys. Also, this contest allowed us more "unambitious" (or perhaps just occupied) fans to see what the rest of the fan community was capable of, and it was really really cool. What's cooler is the fact that it isn't over yet, more people will end up submitting more stuff in days to come. Had I more $$$ (and time), my friends and I would've capitalized on a skydiving trip we're going to take, and would've been playing Halo and sipping Dew through Dew-er-ized Camel Backs, while plummeting towards the Earth - it was a small window of opportunity for a good high res photo, but hey, it would've been really cool. So thanks, all, for making these cool entries - sorry you didn't win, but thanks for making MY day and reminding me what an Elite Hardcore group of dudes I associate myself with when I say to other people "I'm a Bungie fan".
See y'all at Halo 50K3....
-Angel