- AgentExeider
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- Exalted Legendary Member
"A. It's not hate, it's a different kind of love."
Yeah, Hate requires a form of attention to execute. this is more of a Neglectful, spiteful form of love. the kind were you leave somebody's fish to rot in the tank for a week without food only to come into work and find that the tech's ignored the fish and let it die. poor catfish, i liked him too.
The same can be said here. Elites have always gotten the short end of the stick, if they even get a piece of the stick to begin with. Look I don't like being angry, I don't like being "that" guy. But the fact is, Spartans always get the fat loot. the kind of thing where my friend is going "OooooooH DAAAAAAMN!!" or "This is the baddest BLAM! ever!".
FACTS: We didn't get a cool accessory for getting all the achievements, we didn't get a cool armor that we could earn. We didn't get the same number of armor pieces. And now your saying, We won't even be able to customize our elites the same way as Spartans.
We elite players have been waiting patiently and calmly, unlike some Spartan Players I've seen, who demanded Recon NOW NOW NOW! or were furious when they were mad that they didn't get their Security Helmet.
But the truth of the matter is while we strive to have the virtues of patients and calmness, I am still annoyed that we have been passed over again.
And while in the end what I say can fall on deaf ears and you can choose to ignore me, I'm hoping that you would have the candor of reading this with an open mind. I would request, not demand, request that consideration be made in the future for Elite content to be made available. Even going so far to suggest that If you decide to develop a expansion to Halo: Reach that it be made Elite centric! And before you ask, No I do not believe that is an over reaction, It would be fair. There have been 3 soon to be 4 games Spartan Centric, plus one expansion Human centric. So all I am asking is that the score be made a little more even instead of being a complete shutout. Humans 5, Elites 1? Something that would include the same level of customization that Spartans receive, some elite centric achievables like the Spartans have (Ex. Recon, Katana Sword, etc.) and even a Elite centric campaign. We have experienced a lot about The humans history and human role in the war, but we have experienced almost next to nothing of the Elite's side of the story, from THEIR point of view.
Now I know some are going to say "But Halo is ABOUT Spartans and Humanity, that's why its centered around them." In the begining, yes, but Halo itself is a large and expansive universe where many stories are created and told. To say its ONLY about Spartans and Humans is the mark of a closed world view. I say isn't there room enough for "That" side of the story?
This Schism has existed since Halo 2, now I'm not going to blame bungie for what happened because I know that they are perfectionists and there were a lot of things wrong and didn't want to release the game like that. So I am not assigning blame when I say this BUT it needs to be said. The Elite players have been playing with a marked dis advantage since Halo 2, yes the whole hit box thing. Again, not assigning blame. However we elite players lived with it in the hopes Bungie would fix the problem, and in Halo 3 they did. They Balanced the elite and brought him up to the level playing field the Spartan's were on. However, because of the aforementioned issues (Recon, Katana, Less number of Armor Pieces.). It was very clear from an early point that Elites were being regarded with a dismissive attitude, as if to say "Elites are not like us." And I would respectfully disagree, I believe we have contributed just as much as Spartans to the on going Campaign and Multi-player environments, we too are good players, bad players, team builders, team killers. I also believe that Elites have a rich history and a interesting story to tell, if only we open our eyes to see and open our ears to hear it.
In conclusion, I respectfully request that in the future Bungie give consideration to my words in the hopes of future inter-species relations to be a positive and open environment were peoples of all walks of life, be your purple blooded, split-chined alien death machine, or Cybernetically enhanced, AI powered Minister of death praying for war. Can live, work, play together and on occasion jointly be the likely source of rampant property destruction, dead police and the sudden rash of pregnancies that happened that one time on the east side of the city of that one planet we were on after the three night bender involving strippers, drugs and alcohol. But otherwise living in peace and harmony.
Thank you for your patience and consideration.
-AgentExeider
[Edited on 03.31.2010 8:46 PM PDT]