- Will 043
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- Exalted Member
When he was younger, he was the one who always had the jokes and riddles that would keep the spirits of the Spartans high. Over the years however, his lifetime of combat had hardened him, as it had all of the Spartans. Within Will, John thought, something special had been lost.
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I'll admit that I RAGED after my bag order was canceled just as I was celebrating having been able to place the order. I RAGED, and I reverted childish behaviors of letting everyone I could know that I'd been cheated. 9:30 till 3 O'clock when I had to work, I was constantly trying to get one.
But one thing I did not do? I did not blame Bungie.
When you think about it, most people wanted these so bad for love of Bungie, to be able to say they're holding some special unique piece of Bungie's 20 years. For some they wanted that piece to feel like they were bigger fans for it to boost something self/ego related to say they are the only ones, or to say they are of the few. It was that promise of "limited" that got people going. Many see themselves as the only biggest fan. They feel they should be or need to be be set above all others, and having been denied the right to be counted among the few, people RAGED.
It's a self thing. And I can say at a point hours into this, I honestly didn't care about the charity. After all the whole point of this stuff is to be able to say that you are of the few, to say you were there, to show your love for this studio and the things it's accomplished. You can say the community was wrong, but that really was the whole hook behind this thing. In a capitalist society, the economy makes use of the most basic human behavior, self-interest, to accomplish something greater. The more self-interest people have to better themselves the more the economy thrives. In this case the fruit of that nature was a noble cause.
Maturity aside, you might just as well tell people not to want this stuff so badly. With the amount of investment people were putting into getting these things, it's really hard to be surprised. I am not defending the community's behavior, but I'm saying that when you capitalize on self, people inevitably behave this way. I too hate to see people behaving this way. There isn't anything anyone can do but to check themselves, and let people be people.