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Subject: How has the community changed while you were a member?

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Posted by: SonicJohn
The community has gained more collective weight.

Are you calling me fat?

  • 06.24.2011 2:03 AM PDT

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I seem to know more people here. And yet new faces appear daily!

Help.

  • 06.24.2011 2:05 AM PDT

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Uh... Okay. The Bungie Community to me is just like a story I know called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way." The world was changing, and the puppy was getting... bigger.
So, you see, the puppy was like The Bungie Community. In that, they were both lost in the woods. And nobody, especially the little boy - "Forum Members" - knew where to find 'em. Except that the puppy was a dog. But Bungie, my friends, that was a Community.
...... POTATOES ARE -blam!- AWESOME!!!

  • 06.24.2011 2:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Way back in '05 or so, the community was much smaller. The Flood could get away with trying to "attack" another forum on b.net and it was all fun and games. The mods would post in half the threads and it would feel like there'd be interaction between the community and Bungie. There were lots of popular people on the Flood, lot's of cliques that have come and gone, and that hasn't really changed. What's changed, IMO, is the sense of community.

Admittedly, with a larger community you need stricter rules, to keep the kiddies in line. Also, with a larger community you don't get the sense that Bungie cares about the community much. Sure, they may post just as much as they used too, but because of the volume of posts, it doesn't seem like much. Also, I miss the events that the community would gather around. The skull hunt in Halo 2, the amazing fan fictions of Halo 2, the glitching custom games, and the amazing theorists are probably what I miss most. So that sense of community attachment doesn't seem as strong.

I'm sure there's something similar going on now, but for me those were the awesome things going on that made me addicted to this site and kept me coming back. Now that I'm sort of an old coot here, I don't find it as interesting coming back here, and I find my interest in this place draining. Just a year ago I probably would've said "I don't imagine myself leaving b.net", but now, I find it very hard to come back every couple of months.

Maybe I'm just an old nostalgic cynic, but the years of '04-'06 were the best years of b.net ever. But I imagine the first couple years of everyone's membership were "the best b.net years ever", rose-tinted glasses, etc.

[Edited on 06.24.2011 2:14 AM PDT]

  • 06.24.2011 2:13 AM PDT

I remember lurking the Flood back in 07. It was defiantly very different back then. And, maybe it's just me, but overall the forums for the games just seemed to become a tad bit more hostile over time.

  • 06.24.2011 2:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: HeyBlade789
There is definitely a lot more worry within the community.


True.

I remember back in the days of Halo 2 when the only complaining was about the BR. (I was lurking back then)

Now it's everything.

I remeber when we had a red scare-esque movement with COD after it took over a good amount of Halo's fans.

Not a good time.

Overall, we're alot less laid back then we used to be.

Posted by: ODST27
Way back in '05 or so, the community was much smaller. The Flood could get away with trying to "attack" another forum on b.net and it was all fun and games. The mods would post in half the threads and it would feel like there'd be interaction between the community and Bungie. There were lots of popular people on the Flood, lot's of cliques that have come and gone, and that hasn't really changed. What's changed, IMO, is the sense of community.

Admittedly, with a larger community you need stricter rules, to keep the kiddies in line. Also, with a larger community you don't get the sense that Bungie cares about the community much. Sure, they may post just as much as they used too, but because of the volume of posts, it doesn't seem like much. Also, I miss the events that the community would gather around. The skull hunt in Halo 2, the amazing fan fictions of Halo 2, the glitching custom games, and the amazing theorists are probably what I miss most. So that sense of community attachment doesn't seem as strong.

I'm sure there's something similar going on now, but for me those were the awesome things going on that made me addicted to this site and kept me coming back. Now that I'm sort of an old coot here, I don't find it as interesting coming back here, and I find my interest in this place draining. Just a year ago I probably would've said "I don't imagine myself leaving b.net", but now, I find it very hard to come back every couple of months.

Maybe I'm just an old nostalgic cynic, but the years of '04-'06 were the best years of b.net ever. But I imagine the first couple years of everyone's membership were "the best b.net years ever", rose-tinted glasses, etc.


Agreed.

The custom games were the best.

The universe fourm still has the wacky thoeries down pat though, and theres a current easter egg hunt going on, PM me if you want details.

[Edited on 06.24.2011 3:54 AM PDT]

  • 06.24.2011 3:52 AM PDT

Pre-Halo 3 (and to an extent, ODST) the forums were all abuzz about what the story was going to be like. Pre-Reach it was all one big argument about what the gameplay should be like. (And still is, which is a shame considering I think Reach's multi is the best of the bunch.)

  • 06.24.2011 6:44 AM PDT