You randomly got matched up with Bungie Employees while the people who got it via the achievements spent time and effort earning the Vidmasters.
That's pretty selfish thinking you deserve something more.
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You know what? I'm just going to quote part of an old post I made:
To start, I would like to comment on the idea of 'Recon becoming Hayabusa'.
Ahem... WHO CARES?!? Recon, near the date of ODST's release, is new for many people. OF COURSE many people are going to want to wear it and try hard to unlock it. Then many may, and do, use the permutation as their avatar on Bungie.net.
The problem with you people are are annoyed by this is... you are annoyed by this. Why should their choices be limited to what YOU want? It's their armor. They have the freedom to choose whatever THEY find visually appealing. The armor permutations have no effects that alter gameplay from one another. They're there purely for aesthetic purposes. So what does it matter if everyone uses it? It's their choice. It doesn't affect you in any way. And if you're attacking or insulting someone based on their choice of armor (recon or not)... grow up. Wearing Hayabusa doesn't mean you suck are you're 11/ another young age. Wearing Recon doesn't mean you're a jerk. Stereotypes like that serve no purpose but to attempt and assert your own superiority over another. And you fail to do so by that very act, so drop it.
Secondly, I would like to address the people saying how Recon has no meaning or has lost its value or the pre-vidmaster owners deserve something more:
You're all wrong. For starters, Recon never had a meaning or anything. And it never had much value in itself. It meant as much as my Mark V.
Before Recon was released, people began to see things in a light that said: Do something cool, your reward is Recon'. the problem is that that was always the wrong mindset. The POINT was never Recon. The point was that you did something that BUNGIE thought was worthy of notice. Recon was simply a way of expressing that. But the fact that you were recognized for doing something? THAT is what matters, and THAT can never decrease in value or be taken away from you.
As to pre-vidmaster people deserving something more... no. They still have their reward- they were noticed. They had their fun. And if they care enough that they think they should get something, then they disgust me and in my own opinion are not worthy of note in the first place.
In addition, Vidmasters are no different that earning it any other way. The vidmasters were FAR more time consuming and difficult than winning a random drawing (and a vast majority of pre-vidmaster owners got their Recon by pure chance). So why should they mean less anyways? Also, the vidmasters are STILL doing something Bungie considers 'worthy'. So what- just because it isn't complete luck or just because of the way you get it, via achievements, it means they don't deserve it as much? No. That's a selfish way of thinking to be frank.