- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well I’m back from my short absence, I’ve been viewing most forums, but not posting,
As I think about it more and more I realise that there is a major dilemma when it comes to The Maw, the Halo PC forum. Basically there is no real difference to it then Halo for the Xbox, other than the lack of co-op, I've visited the library numerous times, as well I've seen me15ter there as well, and really that forum is better off than ours, anyways back to my main point, when people come to The Maw they feel like they cannot talk about general Halo, either that or they don't find that it is the right place to make a thread concerning Halo campaign or Halo in general, fortunately Halo is not the kind of game where you get hundreds of posts concerning "omg!@! I'm stuck, someone tell me where to go/how to beat the level/where the secret switch is!!” I’ve visited other games forums; I used to be a regular over at Splinter Cells forums until the SC: Pandora Tomorrow disaster and this was what spam was like there.
However, to take the place of this in The Maw we find more and more people asking technical PC questions, mostly not concerning Halo PC, but computer tech. help. The rest of the threads are concerning lag, and other qualms about the online play. As well as the constant banter about a theoretical Halo 2 PC.
Basically the dilemma is that The Maw feels out of place, it seems as though it concerns Halo PC, but really how different is this game then Halo Xbox? Any threads about the campaign, storyline Halo general etc. are made in The Library, thus, leaving only boorish technical help Q & A to our quiet forum, yes, it might be what we have to deal with, like the countless Halo posts in The Underground. But it's hard to have to answer all these threads, but it seems we have to answer them to keep the forum alive .
From time to time I try and make the most relevant threads i can, the one on the secret code on the back of the Halo PC box was popular, as was the ones I've made on my Halo PC easter egg searches. I think in order to better our forum we need to make more posts about Halo , not just computer stuff, And if all the regulars, can do this maybe other people will get the idea.
Look Inspire don't blame the mods, it's really the nature of our forum that brings about these issues, I don't want The Maw to be removed, but there must be some way to help it find its own little niche on the bungie.net forums.
anyways i finally posted it, the site went down before i could post it before.