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Posted by: Geegs30
Posted by: Sanjeev
Posted by: Geegs30
Posted by: Sanjeev
A dedicated forum for people to post up threads looking for people. Or people who want to join a game can look there.
Sorry but I don't like your idea. If people are looking for others to play with, they can use the Forum that people have been using for years, The Classifieds. It's no different than looking for a couple people to play campaign with or for someone to help you in Team Slayer. You can post in The Classifieds and find your fellow Firefighters there.
But, my point is that, The Classifieds, in its current state is useless. Its practically impossible to find anyone using that (Painful Vidmaster: Annual experiences come to mind). People will just post in the Halo 3: ODST forums, which will subsequently get them locked and possibly banned.
The same thing happened with Vidmaster: Annual. It was a mess and this would be something people will do more often that.
Can you imagine an ODST Forum with its entire front page full of locked threads because everyone goes there to post for Firefight matches after getting nothing on Classifieds? I know I can.
I disagree. The classifieds serve their purpose in keeping other forums clean of spam of people looking for others to play with and such. I don't think that creating an entire new forum would be necessary. The people that post in the ODST forum will learn their lesson when they're banned for spam. The moderating team will make it known that the Classifieds are the place to look for playmates, whether it be in Halo 2, Halo 3 or in ODST.
Well, if you ask me, and not to offend anyone, they haven't done a good job in making that known.
Classifieds has always been a graveyard. What Nedus said earlier is a good point but even that isn't happening. The Classifieds is not a good place to find people to play Co-op, Custom games and in the future, Firefight. It has not worked well in the past and already has one hell of a reputation.
Its time to either revamp Classifieds, make it more focused (As in only for Custom Games, Co-op and Firefight), or just make this new forum.
Obviously, the ideal situation where everyone wins is to completely revamp it. And by revamp I mean give it a clean sweep. Tabula Rasa if you will. A Clean Slate. 0 threads.
Announce it in a weekly update. Make it known that you can use it for this, this, this and give examples of situations. And stricter moderation would be needed for that.
Let's say someone posts the example Nedus gave.
Anyone interested in some Firefight? Starting on Heroic difficulty, we have 2 in group already, send a message to (gamertag) for an invite, thanks!
Give this a One Day leeway. After One day, delete the thread. This prevents overcrowding and making the Classifieds seem like a complete 'cesspit' as Nedus put it.
Another case would be one like this:
Anyone interested in some Firefight. I want to have a session tomorrow at 1pm. We;ll start on Heroic difficulty. Send a message to {gamertag) for an invite. See you there! Thanks!
For cases, leave the thread open till 12 hours till the mentioned time. In this case, if Tomorrow was a Friday. Then the thread will be open from the time it was posted till...I guess...Saturday 1am. Then close it.
If Classifieds is to be reused, it needs to have stricter rules like this. To make it seem like its working. And the times I have suggested above should be more than enough time as if you don't get someone within a day when you say "Let's play right now!", chances are, you've given up a long time ago.
And of course, if Classifieds is to be reused, Bungie needs to make it known. Let people know. I believe that's part of the problem now with Classifieds.
I still prefer the Firefight forum idea but in the event if a compromise is needed, I feel this is a good solution as well.